A writer in an American paper has some hard things to say with regard to American specialisation in sport. He says: "If Americans Would put sport in its proper place which is recreation, not avocation; if they would realise, as Brifon& do, that ‘it is the game that counts, not the results ’; if they would cultivate the habit of modesty in winning and generous gracefulness in defeat, there might not be so many Americans ‘world champions,’ but such champions as America might produce would be more cheerfully acclaimed by a world long since tired of Eagle-screaming. ’’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17907, 24 July 1926, Page 11
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