El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-01

ONDON, Eng, august 1-EuS ldHO
spends every year more money on
60 sport than for its army and navy,
its religion. its schools. or anything
excerpts its drink. An accepted author
ity on English sporting matters has
compiled statistics showing that the
40 odd million people OF Great Britain
spend 1925, 100000 annually for sport
besides having invested permanently
$235. 100000 in property devoted exclu-
shely to the use of spOrtsmen-
In no other nation in the whole world
is sport an essential factor in the life
of the people. Americans stand pa
tiently before the bulletin boards wait
ing to hear the score of a baseball
game, but few of them, after they
become men, actually play the game.
In some parts of the Union a few men
and women still ride to hounds,
but fox hunting in the United States
amounts to so little that the great ma
jority of the people know nothing
American form, is played only by the
school boys and college athletes
Racing is outlawed in nearly every
community, and TO be associated with
the turf is to forfeit social standing in
nearly all parts of America Americans
still delight to shoot and fish, but go
percent of them never have the oppor-
tunity to do either, except in the most
occasional way.
English Support of Games.
In England sport seems to be, after
food and drink, the chief end of the ex-
istence. Everybody has a half-holiday
and verybody devotes it to sport. y
crowd of 40, 900 at a professional foot
bail game is not unusual; America
highest college football record attend
ance does not reach this figure An Eng
lish boy is taught to play cricket, not by
other boys as theAmerican urchin learns
to play baseball, but by his father,
who had been in turn, taught the mys-
teries of the game by his father. This
instruction is not undertaken lightly,
but is as much part of the serious
business of life as any other feature
of child training. Not to have been
cricketer, or a game player Of some
kind, is not to have fulfilled the re-
quirements OF British education
Both Mr. Asquith and Mr.. Balfour, the
leaders of the two great political par
ties in Britain, fail to appeal fully to
the imaginations of Their followers be-
cause neither of them at college took
anv interest in sports. Their biOgraph-
ers always apologize for this short
coming.
Horse Racing Popular.
When George V assembled the throne
his people remembered with gratification
that as prince of Wales he had the repu-
tation of being a splendid shot One
of the first things the new King dld
was TO annouce that he would continue
the racing stables established by his
father, although it was generally
known that George had little vital in
tcrest in the turf When the Kings
horse, or the prime minister's entry
wins the Derby or some other great
classic of the English turf, the victory
Is an occasion for national rejoicing
II is impossible to imagine a president
of the United States, of even 4 prom
inent senator. attending race meeting
IS the proprietor Of a stable Some
times. even in England, a Puritan will
object to the patronage of the turf
on the part Of a great statesman \
CONGREGATIONAL minister once attack
ed Lord Roseberry, then Prime MiniSt-
er, because he was the owner OF
Derby winner. Lord RoseberTy IN re-
pIv said. in effect. that it was none
of the minister's business. and that
Christian charity should prevent the
criticism of any mans preferences
in sport. Without doubt the great
majority of Englishmen agreed with
Lord Roseberry
Deer Hunting.
Out of a territory Of less than
twenty-million acres in Scotland. almost
four million acres are devoted to deer
forests alone. Scotland has popula-
ton about equal 10 that of Ohio Can
any American imagine one-fifth OF the
territory of Ohio devoted to deer Tor
ests? The licenses for shooting game
bring to Great Britain a revenue Of
a million dollars year Men VINO
shoot or fish are compelled to rent
the property for that purpose, whetheF
they take il for a day, week, or a
wear. One single firm of land agents
i'm London holds property worth more
than fifty million dollars orf~its lists
to be rented for shooting and fishing
The annual expenditure for hunting,
shooting and fishing amounts to
hundred million dollars. while nearly
two hundred million dollars worth OF
property is held exclusively for the pur-
noses of these particular varieties Of
Rort.
While /aH classes of the people are
sportspien only football and cricket
are the free privileges of the lower
classes The game preserves are guard
ed carefully by armies of Keepers, ana
-poaching is severity punished by the
law. About twenty years ago par
lament gave tenant farmers the right,
DV eH2cIlnS the idICS anu
RI shoot fur" on the land which
they lease and cultivate But in many
parts of the country ii is dangerous
for a tenant to exercise this right,
Lost he fall under the displeasure OF
the squire" Even the possession OF
q fowIing-piece is sufficient TO bring
a tenant farmer under suspicion OF
peaching. There is an agitation In
favor of giving the actual holders or
land the right TO shoot feather, as
we'll as fur, but there is little like
lihood of such a radical piece of le-
gislation at this time And yet there
are few in the peasant class who are
not potential poacherS- In the last
political campaign LIOyd-George horrl-
fled the gentry and endeared himself
to the peasantry by cOnfessing that
he had, himself, violated the game
laws on a dark night
is This True Sport.
Just what sport there may be N
taking a seat on comfortable shooting
stool. attended by a battalion of gun
bearers and then pOtshoOting perfect