Bredin on Running & Training

THE GOVERNING BODY. Ill willing enough to toil and practise to gain honour alone "-which is a remark certainly open to question, and might have been more in accordance with fact had he added, " except some of those men whose private incomes are unfortunately insufficient to allow them to devote so great a portion of their time to following sport without pecuniary aid, direct or in– direct "-but there is a wide difference between contests in which a. team competes collectively for their own or club's honour, and those pastimes in which men indi– vidually pit themselves against each other. In fact, is there a single sport, that spectators pay to witness, in which men compete for their own pleasure and personal honour, that prizes are not given as a reward for prowess? The word "amateur" has come to be used in sport with reference to those of its followers who refuse-the majority actually, and a smaller portion openly-to accept money in return for their active enjoyment, which, however, is a misapplication. For a man who obtains his livelihood through playing cricket, for instance, may be as fond of the game as any amateur. The fact of giving a silver cup instead of a bank-note as a prize for foot-races, or as a reward for any success in sport, is a distinction without a difference. The former can be transferred into coin of the realm whenever its owner wishes to do so, and the possessor of the latter can as readily purchase a memento of his success should he prefer to spend his money in that way. The greatest lover of running, in all probability, that it has been my lot to meet, was a Canadian who had run for money prizes in Ontario, and was then stationed at Calgary, some fourteen years ago. We were both at that time