Athletics

20 ATHLETICS. how the love of athletics has spread over the English- speaking world, besides making its way in most European countries, an international athletic meeting in Sweden in May, 1891, being the latest move,and the knowledge that with so fearless, impartial, and competent a controlling body as theA.A.A. at its head, its future is in safe keeping. May athleticism, in its most comprehensivesense, continue to develop and prosperin the future, asit has done inthe past. CHAPTER II. THE PROMOTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEETINGS. ALTHOUGH athletics are very general in this country, there is still plenty of room for further expansion, and there are scores and scores of towns where sports have never been held, but where they would confer a benefit on the town by bringing a number of visitors, advertisingits name, and giving the youth of the place a taste for a more active existence, besidesopening up a new source of amusement to the inhabitants. In thisdirection Great Yarmouth takes the lead, and sets a worthy example to other towns. A splendid track has been laid out on the recreation ground at thetown's expense, andon the Town Council there is an "Amusements Committee," whose object it is to look after sportsand outdoor amusements generally, in order to make the townmore attractiveto visitors. If in a town where it seems desirable to promote sports there is not already a local athletic club one ought to be formed, or the sports "fathered" by the town cricket, football, or cycle clubs (the A.A.A. and N.C.U. both refuse to grant permits to races promoted for personal