Papyrus was beaten by Zev last Saturday. We are beginning
to take our defeats in the -world of sport with a certain resignation. Indeed, we must, for as long as America is a larger and richer country than we are, she is certain to continue to produce horses that can gallop faster, men who can hit balls further or harder, yachts that sail better, etc., etc. The difficulty is, of course, to remember the unimportance of the whole thing. If indeed America was producing fitter, keener, better men than this country, then there would be cause enough for alarm. But her athletic preponderance is largely a question of her methods of specialization in sport, by which an athlete once he has developed abnormal capabilities in some given activity devotes himself wholly to it. As long as we in this country continue to be old-fashioned enough to consider athletic pastimes as primarily designed to give pleasure, so long shall we fail in the main to compete with America. And long may that be so. * * *
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