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Show - . The True Sportsman. The true, the ideal sportsman has no environment, no center of distribution, no accurately defined geographic range. He lives in Balham or Belgravia. He is of the peerage or the proletariat. He is a general officer on the active list or a retired sergeant. He prescribes drugs in a rural dispensary or he soothes malades imaginaires in his consulting room in Harley street. He. preaches in the village church, or in the cathedral. His hat hangs in. the hall of the castle or in the cottage porch. His income is fifty thousand a ,year or nothing. He rides a cob or-a thoroughbred, shoots with his grandfather's hammer gun or with the newest of hammerless ejectors,, ejec-tors,, fishes with a hazel rod cut at the waterside or with the latest thing in split cane, sails the summer seas in a half rater or In a Sunbeam; Sportsmanship, Sports-manship, in short, is an instinct, a birthright, not-a "commodity. . Any one may buy its appurtenances. Xo one can buy its temperament. F. G. Afialo in Fortnightly Review. |