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The Standardization of Sport
December 4, 1902 issue

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Probably sport has never been more free from this formalizing tendency than society at large. As for yachting, the dispute between U.S. financier T.W. Lawson and the New York Yacht Club is still a malodorous memory, and a signal instance of the dangers that attend the standardizing of manly sport. In fishing, shooting, and golf the individual still makes a certain, stand against the game. An unwritten law tells him what is sportsmanlike, and for the rest--clothes, tackle, and minor matters of deportment--he does as he lists. In bespeaking this wholesome irregularity for the game of golf, British prime minister Arthur James Balfour has shown himself no less a sportsman than a philosopher.

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SPORTS; STANDARDIZATION; HEADS of state; BALFOUR, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930; LAWSON, T. W.; RECREATION
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