Various considerations combine, however, to suggest that sport is but a transitory phenomenon in human life.
Firstly, the applications of scientific method to its pursuit is tending to remove its distinctive character. And this tendency for economic reasons is likely to prove irresistible. The old-fashioned sportsman will protest against the newer methods. He may refuse to bring to the golf course wind gauge and slide rule; he may refuse to attend to the lessons of motion study, but in consequence of his stubbornness he will find himself too ridiculously outclassed to appear on the course at all. His will be the fate of the older militarists who protest on similar grounds against chemical warfare.
To those who play the newer game, sport will become a rigorous discipline and a scientific pursuit.
The general public, moreover, will increasingly enjoy its sport by proxy. The televisual cinema, which will then be stereoscopic, will provide a substitute for the football match; and the sporting spectacle will naturally form only an incident in the