Nation Topics - Sports | The Nation

Television has not yet completely taken over sports-although it is calling the rules for some of them but already it has left deep scars, and the concern has become so great that a Senate committee recently took a brief look at the intertwining of sports and national television. Thomas W. Moore, president of the American Broadcasting Co., proposed that the two major baseball leagues trim their 162-game schedule to sixty games, and play these only on weekends, this drastic tampering with the national pastime being in the interests of a tidier package for national television.

The article presents an American surgeon's observations regarding the situation of war in France and Belgium and his suggestions on how the tendency towards war may be lessened in the future. In the first impact of war many men in all of the armies underwent nervous breakdown, many became insane but the great majority became seasoned and maintained a state of good health. One sees men who have worn the same clothes for months and have hot seen a bath. Their clothes are stiff with mud and reek with filth. Brutal treatment results in creating in the brains of the children the strongest action-patterns of opposition and of hatred. The conquering enemy can never supplant the influence of the hating mother who plants action-patterns in the brains of her children when the shades are drawn.

The prodigal expenditure of native princes and crack British cavalry regiments has largely influenced the quality of the polo mount, yet nowhere is found a more heterogeneous pony. It is a far cry from that eventful first match in England between two cavalry teams in 1871, where hockey sticks and a billiard ball helped to make history, or from the first American game five years later. But the history of modern polo may be said really to date from the international matches, where the finest players of two nations have created and developed a game that will influence play throughout the polo world.