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...beat at figures." Firpo has fought a number of low caliber performers, thereby gaining certain gate receipts. The press remarked that Firpo was " fond of his purse" and dubbed him " Business-Man Firpo." This criticism is evidently aimed at the young Argentinian on the grounds that he engages in sport and that a sportsman has no particular right to make a good living by hard work. Professional boxing is notoriously a sport for the onlookers, but business for the participants. The conduct of the last three world champions has not been such as to give the public any other impression...
...approved method of training for the medical profession. Special emphasis was placed on bedside instruction, conducted by the staff physicians of the hospitals. "Walking the hospitals," i. e., making the ward rounds, to which American students are introduced but sparingly until their interne years, became the favorite sport of British medical students. Laboratory and lecture work in the British schools was weak until recent years, but the great hospitals of Guy's, St. Mary's, Bart's and others have produced thousands of notable practitioners with the best clinical experience in the world. The current of progress...
...English Lawn Tennis Association is not opposed to .these exposures in the quiet privacy of five or ten thousand people around the courts at Wimbledon. It does object to circulation of the pictures, which " will bring the sport into disrepute" among the masses...
Nasal elevation at pictures of a healthy sport...
...have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other countries. How long will we remain the only civilized country which has no interest in anything but sport, the movies, the comics and the radio? Billboards are our only art and we want nothing else. There is more to be made of foreign art and old art, and we are only after the cash...