British Sporting Spirit
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
British Sporting Spirit is an article published in the Daily Express on 11 december 1914.
British Sporting Spirit
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.
