Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — SPORT FOR SPORT’S SAKE, OUIMET’S MOTTO [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORT FOR SPORT’S SAKE, OUIMET’S MOTTO

Francis Oiiimet. the American amateur gold champion, more fully expressed the spirit of real amateurism and good sportsmanship following his defeat in tfie recent open championship, says a writer in an exchange. When he finished, clearly beaten, with a broad smile and a hearty handshake for his great rival and the winner, Jerome Travers, Ouimet was asked whether he was not sadly disappointed and disgruntled over his failure. t “When I begin to put winning a championship above having a lot of fun at golf,” he said, “then I hope I’ll never win another.” What better illustration of the sentiment, “sport for sport’s sake,” could have been asked. We have been only too severely, yet properly, condemned In recent years because we place the victory too high, and do not give -enough regard to the pleasures of the sport itself. It may be that the placing of so much stress upon victory has resulted in the wonderful development of skill in all lines of athletics in this country, far ahead of that in any other nation in the world, but it also has surely taken much of the pleasure and zest from the sports themselves.

OUIMET PLAYING WINTER GOLF ON HOTEL ROOF.