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SIR WILFRID LAURIER LOVED RACING Canadas young men, who love their sport for sports sake the games of Canadian dash and spirit Canadas sportsmen, who hayo seen their day of strenuous pastimes, but who adhere to less active sporting activities, all Canadians of both sexes and all ages, have lost a true fellow-sportsman in the death of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. It was but natural that sporting instinct should occupy a ulace in the life and character of Canadas most distinguished and revered statesman.. Sir Wilfrid was never of a rugged physique and was not permitted to indulge his sporting desires as lie would have liked. He admired the strength, courage, manliness and fair play of the sporting field as he admired the same attributes- in all vks of life. It was his expressed regret that he could not be an active participant in the sport of the virile, red-blooded typical young Canadian athletes of whom, throughout his whole busy and illustrious life, ho remained a warm friend and a keen admirer. In racing, and boxing especially, Sir Wilfrid took keen interest. He was often seen at the course of the Connaught Park Jockey Club at Ottawa, and at other courses, delighting in the tests of speed between thoroughbreds. Toronto Glolie.
