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''British Sporting Spirit'' is an article published in the [[Daily Express]] on 11 december 1914.

== British Sporting Spirit ==
[[File:daily-express-1914-12-11-p5-british-sporting-spirit.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Daily Express]] (11 december 1914, p. 5)]]

[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir A. Conan Doyle]], discussing the proposals of the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps at the National Liberal Club, yesterday, said that in this country possibly half a million men could be collected who might be exceedingly useful at a crisis.

It was said that the Boers were a special race. He was patriotic enough to think that we were a special race, with big attributes. One was the sporting spirit, which we invented entirely.

It was a national expression of our own national nature, and he thought that the sporting spirit was an asset of enormous military importance.

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