Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-11


From the senm-apes Who ranged
Indid's prehistoric clay;
Whose drep the longest 6oi1
Ran his brother dOtcn you knotc,
As ne run men do,On today.
~NE man, when he wishes to get
something, sits down and longs
for it. while the other fellow
mills his belt up a hole tighter and
goes out after it. And sport is like
life lust as life is like sport-it
doesn't do any good to long for things
unless YOU are willing to work hard
for them. too. Life isn't so two
sided that you can dodder along half
Eeartedly in sport and expect to be
changed in the twinklng of on eye
into some other kind of an individual,
with purpose and perseverance anc
pluck to work when it comes to the
serious side of making your way in
the world
So say, Beware of preaching the
theory to boys that they shouldn't
care WHO wins-just enjoy the game!
The victory is certainly not worth
winning if it is done by crooked
means or unfair play. but it is worth
all it costs if 1t comes through marc
work natence and training. Anu
when. after all these, you lose, there S
f. victory worth just as much if yod
car crush the disappointment down,
lever whine. but congratulate the
better man because he is the better
end has beaten you after you have
tried your Level best to beat him. 1t
Is a great deal more fun even to do
thing well than to do it badly. and
there's no sport that can be done well
really well-without hard work IN
me prepa ration and concentration or
purpose in the performance.
TIE Rev. Endicott Peabody, of Gro
ton School. one of the finest types or
headmaster in the country, 1t seems
10 me. must have been thinking OF
England 80 wears ago when at the
meeting of the Collegiate Association
lie criticised the American idea or
sport and contrasted 1t with the Eng
'tsh idea (Which he praised) in the
following langua ge:
The American idea of sport is t.
win The English idea is recreation.
Is this quite fair? Is 1t borne out
hy true facts? In this connection let
me quote letter of the Duke or
Westminster in his appeal to all Eng
land for co-operation toward the re-
establishment of that country as 4
leader in sport. and especially IN con-
rertion With the olympic Games:
How many of my countrymen and
women realize that Great Britain mas
lost during recent years in the va
rous fields of sport? Here is the list.
md the present holders:
Polo-America.
Observation-Disclosures Jack Sou
tar.
Yachting-America.
Lawn Tennis, (Singles)-New
Lawn Tennis Davis Cup
Indoor Tennis-America Gay
Could.
Piliards glish)-Australia.
Swimming Australia.
Rugby Foot oall-South Afri-
ca. New Zealand.
Lacrose-Canada.
Cvcling-France. Germany.
Trotting Horse-America.
Running Hors e-America.
Horse Jumping-France, Rus
sia.
F'enc.ng-Fr1nCe.
Shooting (King's Priz")-Can-
ada.
s-kat.Eg-Swouen
AthletiCs-1O0 Yards, America;
go Yards, America: 440 yards,
America: $50 yards, America;
100 yards, hurdles, America;
high Jump. America; pole Jump
America; shotput, America
hammer throw. America.
"A Tale of National Disaster
This is tale of national disas-
ter Is England to do nothing TO re-
cover her ancient supremacy as the
mother of sport? The King is both
man of business and a sportsman AS
Prince of Wales, on memoraoie DC
casion, his momentous wake up,
England electrified an empire anu
gave an immense stimulus 10 com
merce and industry. AS our SoVer
eisn h now bids Britain to wake up
in sport. and homes that every effort
Will be made to insure that the United
K ngdom is represented by its pest
athletes at the Olympic Games I'D
Berlin in 1916. We are in honor oounn
TO go forward and do our level pest
TO restore the lost prestige or srea'
sporting nation. But victory means
efficient organization and traihils'
and both cost money.
Il confidently appeal to my feiIoW-
sportsmen to help me in getting tne
$500 600 for which a national appeal
was made by Lord Grey, Lord Har-
ris. Lord Rothschild, Lord ROBERTS,
Lord Strathcona and myself as
quickly as possible"
TIE real truth lies deeper than Lr.
Peabody has delved. 1t was easy TOT
he Englishmen, when DR.. PEABODY
vas an English schoolboy and later
student at the University, to have that
rather bored air about anyone max
ing an especial effort, because IN
hose days he was an habitual ana
EASY winner
Now that others have surpassed
MN he Is Just as human as the male
or Other nations. At first, in his dis
gus. because others took pains 10
pHro1re themselves, he cried out that
raining savored Of professionalism
nu' now he is finding out that to DO a
ming really well means work and self
u'S.i0iine giving up that pipe ana
nose brandy and sodas for the sake
f victory. And, if | am not much
ms Hken the barring of the Rhodes
>nhu ars because they carried off all
me honors IN the oxford freshman
sports WI awaken n storm of pro-
test NJ oil ,l,, t. grad.