It is a truism to say that, with pretty well every branch of sport, the man entered to it in early youth will possess a lifetime advantage over another whose first essay was made in it at a later age, and in fact so true is this dictum that it may almost be taken as the basis for a definition between a game and a sport, for, although a man may first take to a game in middle age and attain such proficiency therein that he can hold his own with, and often beat, younger men, he will not be able to do so with a sport as stated above.