Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06

group Of plays, one dealing with Waterloo, with
Egyptian adventure, described in 4The Tragedy Of
the Korosko," and two dealing with Sherlock Holmes
THERE remain two other aspects of this remarkable
man to be considered his career sportsman
and who, outside of politics and all organized
machinery, has played no nconsiderable part in the
public life of England during the last decade
As sportsman Sir Arthur is distinguished by his all
round capacity. l not whether he has ever
played baseball should not like to assert that he has
not If not it has been from lack of opportunity rather
than lack Of capacity or desire. He has been lifelong
crcketer and has made his century at Lords, which
means that he has earned the blue ribbon of st-cass
amateur cricket. He has played football. He de-
voted boxing, and of the best descriptions in
his English stories concerned with the old life of the
ring He is good big game shot, and his pleasant
house overlooking the wead of Sussex is full Of trophies
of his gun As fisherman he has not been merely
tent with the trout and salmon, but in his affinity for
big things has successfully hooked the tarpon and har
pooned the whale. He plays billiards well, and golf
pretty well.
He has always been, in his expression "a second
rater and arounder in sport rather than who has
specialized to the point of emnence in any game
and yet should say that it is net much his around
devotion to games that is remarkable as his alround
excellence in them This feature Ct his character
Enthusiastically English may may not be of much
to those who chiefly interested in him
author Dut IL very essential OF nlHl-
self
Reading the lists of works have quoted might
easily imagine them to be the result of the activities Of
peering and specialized bookworm ndustrously driv-
ing pen from morning till night in the dusty atmos-
phere of library But you see now how far that is
from the truth. No meeting Sir Arthur would take
him at first glance for an author: indeed, what would
interest stranger at once about him would not be
what he does, but what he is Above all things he is
man, who has shown his capacity for manly strength
and straight manly outlook in every department of
life that he has touched. Until you know Conan Doyle
you may think of him chiefly the author of delightful
books; but once you have known him and grasped his
hand and looked into his eyes you think of him not
DOCTOR an author, cricketer a sportsman, but
simply
AND that brings me to the last and in ways the
greatest attribute of his character. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle in common with other people great and
small soldiers Sailors actors grocers bankers, poll
ticians, artists, ambassadors and Scholarships
ceved the accolade from the King of England and been
dubbed a Knight. And of all the men who bear that
title honestly know OF who entirely worthy
Of in its ancient chvarous significance; for Of all the
manly attributes of this big there is fine
his hatred of injustice, his Observation-Disclosures, his
valorous activity in the cause of what is clean and
right and against what is wrong and unjust
Fortunately or unfortunately, and | think the
whole fortunately has not the power writer of
fiction make the serious that he has most
heart the subject of his stories For these have
SEEM he has go into the realms of imagination But
with heart like his live his life and be
to take part in of the great affairs that
agitate his time; and Sir Arthur has been