Athletics and Football (extract)

' t I · '-··· -·- - ... ~ 386 PAPER-CHA.SING no way in touch with the real wants and feelings of genuine athletes. The snobbery, too, of touting for the use of the names of local celebrities, M.P's. and so on (who neither know any- thing of, nor care anythil'g for, the sport), as presidents, vice- presidents, and so on, and the degradation of accepting challenge cups from the publicans at whose houses the clubs meet, have greatly tended to bring the sport into disrepute. 1.: I·'