Show our sporting blood gets too warm wann Is 13 there nit a certain detect defect of gaiety gayety in III contemporary benoit we americans Amo seem in nowadays ow to take ours oura excessively hard we take some of our soberer matters very easily we giggle over heresy trials and have endless patience tor for the shortcomings ot of politicians tic ians but we hold our breath over the reports ot of football games and yacht races and lose our sleep over cles alc s la in tho the management ot of those events we worried nearly as much last september over the international yacht races as our fathers did a generation ago over mason and slidell and the affair aff 0 f the tient let us common people who do not claim the lofty title of 0 sportsmen endeavor to look on at sport port somewhat more equanimity and take lake it easier in ili all its forms it if Is Is not enjoyable let us ua try to ignore it and amuse ourselves with croquet anil and one old cat and simple diversions that ive w can under understand sard it if sport cannot take care ot of itself atac itac it so far as it concerns us let us let it go to the dogs until it Is it fit for better company they say we spoiled the 3 latch atch ra races ces because we would persist in crowal crowding ng in to bee them they pay bay we have injured football by precipitate curiosity of 0 the same sort cort it la 14 A pity to subject ourselves to such complaints tl there are la 18 a disease that Is vulgarly very aulgar ly IX known an am the bighead big head I 1 it f the great mass ot of us puy pay too much attention to sport it seems straightway to get the big acad players and contestants tc te of various sorts swell overnight into representatives ot of the american people sportsmen oc t recognized standing lower it up p so h ash all that mere statesmen are dwarfed beside them when that sort of thing happens sport gets eels empty and runs to I 1 het orle and newspaper interviews and ar glI aument Tu ment find and gets evla to be a burden ind and an annoyance comes to that iett us put it out ot of our minds and go about our other buo business ireSs prom the point of 0 view few in the november nellt ners |