28 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 11

[To THE EDITOR 01 TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — However much it is

to be desired that football-players and other athletes should go to the front, is it quite fair, when our system is, rightly or wrongly, a voluntary one, to make a dead set at one particular class ? If football is to be singled out, what about horse-racing ? And surely the extremity of unreason is reached by " X." when be advocates a refusal to accept donations of gate-money. Money is not equal to service at the front, but it, too, is useful and wanted, and may be accepted, if only on the principle of spoiling the Egyptians.