TO CONTINUE--

In regard to the discussion of intercollegiate athletic contests, particularly football, the editorial from the "London Morning Post", which we print in part below, is both apropos and interesting.

"We must congratulate the Headmaster of Kugby on his stand against the suggestion of creating new inter-Public School athletic competitions to be held in public, and the Headmasters' Conference in supporting him in the rejection of the scheme by 36 votes to 10. It is satisfactory to know that there are some persons of consequence in this country who are making a stand against the gradual tendency of sport in this country, and in America also, to be practiced not for the sake of the sport itself, but for the sake of public renown and advertisement. The development of sport on these lines can be clearly traced in the histories both of ancient Greece and Rome, and the parallel produced ad absurdum ends in the gladiatorial show. . . . It cannot be denied that the way to produce the best athlete and the best player is to encourage the professional if only to create and maintain a standard by which all who go in for sport may measure their own performance. But to attempt to put all sport on a professional footing and make the lure the prize won and public applause, and not the sport itself, would be a national disaster. There has been too much of it already.

"The senseless rhapsodies into which the sensation-mongering Press are impelled by the annual approach of the Inter-University Boat Race, form already a danger sign to which it would be well to pay heed. Let these be relegated to our professional sportsmen and those amateurs who have devoted themselves to the maintenance and improvement of the national standard. The Universities and Public Schools can do well without these storms of public advertisement . . . . No; the tradition of Public School sport is that it is a recreation and not a profession, and as long as this tradition remains the better will it be both for the Public Schools and for sport".