But we didn't let croquet become the national game! You ask what this nation of ours will become, and in reply I ask you what will you make of your boys?
Statisticians tell us that 90 per cent.

of the men who go into business fail.

Do you want your boy to fold his hands and say that because the chances are against him he will not try at all?
Are you going to let him get such a maximum of old man's caution that he reduces to a minimum the young man's courage?
Make him strong and well, just as you wish the nation to be strong and sound.

There will always be plenty of middle-aged failures to preach caution.
Teach your boy fair play and may the best man win.
Teach him that the true sportsman "boasts little, crows gently when in luck, puts up, pays up, and shuts up when beaten"; that he should be strong in order to protect his country.

A boy may over-emphasize his sports, but he will get over that.