The philosophy of sport / by P. McBride.

  • Peter McBride
Date:
1932
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Credit: The philosophy of sport / by P. McBride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    opportunity of enjoying any real shooting. Of school games, I continued football after becoming a student, and at the University was fortunate enough to make friends in the athletic set. Thus I became imbued with the importance of keeping fit. There was a little rowing, but almost daily work at a gymnasium, and boxing. All this gave rise to an interest in athletics generally, and towards the conclusion of my studies I was privileged to sit on the Committee of the E.U.A.C., where I heard them intelligently discussed and occasionally took part in such discussions. Early in my medical career I was ordered to winter in a warm climate, and thus I was enabled to arrange a shooting trip to India, which, fortunately, from my point of view, coincided with a year of drought. While there I enjoyed much sport with gun and rifle, as well as on horseback. After my return and a course of study in Vienna, I settled down to practise as a specialist with the know- ledge that to avoid a relapse I must keep physically fit. I need not trouble the reader with details, but this was accomplished at first with difficulty and by the aid of golf and lawn tennis, with the addition of dumb-bells: physical culture was not then known. Later, when economy of money had not to be so much emphasised, I was able to devote one day a week to shooting, fish- ing, or hunting, the two former of which had previously been enjoyed during holidays. On the other days, however, there had to be economy of time, and I found that boxing, fencing, skipping, and, best of all, physical culture, followed by Indian clubs, before dinner served the double purpose of saving time and keeping fit.
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