Excerpt from Handbook of Athletic Sports, Vol. 6: Practical Horsemanship and Riding for Ladies
In a sport-loving country like ours, it is needless to enlarge on the advantages to be derived from the encouragement of athletics. The love of enterprise and the restless physical vigour of the race, demanding an outlet, have long since made our love of athletic games a national characteristic. Both physically, as an antidote to the unnatural and sedentary lives which so many of us have to lead, and morally, as a means of cultivating the more manly qualities of endurance, pluck, and self-control, the pursuit of athletics must be acknowledged to be worthy of our encouragement, and there is probably no better safeguard for boys and young men against indulgence in vicious amusement than a healthy interest in outdoor games.
The appearance of a new series of handbooks on the most important of our national sports does not therefore seem to demand any apology. It is indeed a matter of no small wonder, considering their recognized importance as a means of education, that the literature on the subject has hitherto been so scanty. Except for one notable series - which, however, both from the treatment of the subjects and the price, appeals mostly to the veteran athlete and the moneyed class of readers - there has hitherto been no systematic attempt to supply any handbooks at all worthy of the subjects.
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