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Actually "Dick" Vidmer, Herald Tribune sportswriter, had reported how 34 U. S. sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic...
...sportsmen's statement, and the Buchmanites' editing of Sportswriter Vidmer's comment, were egregious examples of an Oxford Group technique which has slowly matured during the years Dr. Buchman has been at work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly...
When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million...
...seal, the otter is fast as a dog on land, much faster in water. In the U. S., otter hunting has never become a formalized sport. If it did, it would probably be acclimatized into something different, as was indicated last week at Manhattan's Fourth Annual National Sportsmen's Show. There Emil Liers, Minnesota trapper, proudly exhibited his pack of twelve otters, only ones ever bred, raised and trained in captivity. He has taught them to do practically anything otter-hunting dogs can do. The heavy (average: 24 Ibs.), healthy animals perform tricks, follow a scent, retrieve...
...London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "?70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games...