There is a prevalent aesthetic or ethical predilection for the barbarian aptitudes, and the traits in question minister so effectively to this predilection that their serviceability in the aesthetic or ethical respect probably offsets any economic unserviceability which they may give.

But for the present purpose that is beside the point.

Therefore nothing is said here as to the desirability or advisability of sports on the whole, or as to their value on other than economic grounds.
In popular apprehension there is much that is admirable in the type of manhood which the life of sport fosters.

There is self-reliance and good-fellowship, so termed in the somewhat loose colloquial use of the words.

From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.