New Ulm review., 1922-03-15

community and should not be: LETT to
the chance decision of individuals who
may or may not have the best IN IN.
terests of their fellow citizens at heart.
"A TIN From The English Schools.
"A group of us was watching a cricket
match at the old Winchester School IN N
England. In the course of play, the
ball ran out of bounds and one OF the
party picked it up A fielder nearest
us approached, took the ball, gave
thanks, and resumed play. The inn
preston of that Winchester boy has
strangely stayed in the mind, one OF
the sharpest and most persistent, from
a summer in the British Isles. The
recollection lasts perhaps because 50
pleasing. He was the typical public
school boy clean, viirile, 1.-the, shock
haired and wind-tanned; whose manner
was most pleasing as he said IN quiet
English tones, 81 thank you, Sir
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Here was something that came pretty
close to ideal.
The Englishman's love. OF sport IS
known, of course, the world over.
More than love, with many 1t IS
definite philosophy Of life. They be-
lieve in it as check against effeminacy,
old age, and decay. With the great
war breaking over England, Mr.. Brit
ling and the family, it is recalled IN IN
sisted on their Sunday hockey. Eng
lish Secondary Schools reflect this
view. Elton has long found need not
for single athletic ground, but for
seven great fields, each separately
named, Upper Club, Middle Club,
Lower Club, Upper sixpenny, Six
penny, Jordan and Mesopotamia.
These fields occupy forty-two acres,
and provide some twenty odd cricket
pitches. Approximately five hundred hundred
boys can thus play cricket at Elton at
once. And this only accounts Tor the
s.dry-gobs.' Meanwhile the wet
bobs'' swarm the Brocas, as the neigh
borhood Of the boat houses is called,
and engage in the most diversified
aquatic sports passing, pulling, single
sculing, Junior sculling, and 50 on.
At Harrow similar conditions prevail.
On. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur-
days during the summer term, Mr..
Martenaeu tells US, between the
hours Of two and six, seven cricket
games are commonly in progress On
the Upper and Lower grounds. On
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
between six and eight-thirty, COM
pulsory house games are played,
from which boy can only be released
by formal excuse from the house
captain. No Harrow boy goes through
the school who cannot swim, except
for physical reasons, at least seventy
yards. At Rugby besides the football,
the cricket, the racquetss the fves, the
hard ball and soft ball, the shooting,
and the tennis, there is the compulsory
running. The courses have been ira
ditionally fixed for years, and lead
through fields, along lanes, into woods,
over foot-paths, across brooks. Lees
Knowles in his account Of the Rugby
games tells Of a Steeple Chase that had
in the course of mile and a half, ter
hedge jumps and fourteen water
jumps. Perhaps the Crick' is the
most famous school run in the world
About 2 O'clock on day in the first
week Of December, says Mr.. Knowles
every Rugby boy heads for the Quad
Gates" "A couple Of boys with bags
strapped to their sides are released as
hares. Ten minutes later off go the
hounds, and the whole field rurs to
Crick village, and back, distarce oi
some ten or twelve miles. ss
Nor is this universal participation il
sport common to the great public
schools only. There is, for example,
the Brampton House School at Horn
sea near Hull, with which I am in
directly acquainted. Bramptoll House
/ is the typical middle class boarding
school. From $50 to 9and from 1880
to I, FIVE days in the week, the boys are
hard at soccer, ban or cricket boobie.
Ats4 o'clock the compulsory sport o1
the day begins. Every boy in the
school must get into soccer or cricket
ltogs and jog off to an oval q half mile
laway. Masters accompany the boys
with rolls and tick off absentees. Very
often they coach, participate, and, as
my inf nformant added with recollections
far from uniformly pleasant, force every