THE LAWN TENNIS AGE
[To the Editor of the Sp-Ec-rxroa.]
am one of the older type of Public School master. As such I would like to point out to " X " that in his enthu- siasm for lawn tennis he forgets that in our schools we have two main duties to perform. One is to spread " Doctrina," the other is to inculcate " Virtus." Manliness is the finest of all the old Roman virtues and the most difficult to acquire. It certainly cannot be gained by courses of lawn tennis, golf, croquet, ping-pong, or games of similar kind. Though I am glad that these games have their devotees, I do not rejoice to see writers on sport advocating the introduction of any of them as school games. Our boys have their time well filled with work and games and need no more.
In cricket and football we have two of the finest games ever known. If fewer of our athletic young men played golf and lawn tennis and more cricket and football the nation would be the better for it, and we might regain the supremacy that we lost in the passage of ages of golf, tennis, croquet and the
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