IV
GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS
The two designations, Gentlemen and Players, ought to need no description or definition, but as a matter of fact they do. A gentleman we should naturally understand to be a man who plays the game for the love of it, receiving neither fee, reward, nor expenses. If he played for a county he would try and play as often as he could, partly for keenness of the game, partly from a patriotic desire to do his county a good turn. He would play for the enjoyment of the thing, would not care for his average, would follow no table of statistics, and, if an old University man, would refuse to play anywhere on the day of the University match.
The professional, on the other hand, having to make his living by the game, would wish
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