Havilah badcock biography of nancy

As Lanz points out, Babcock felt football and baseball were not sports but games because they were confined to circumscribed and static playing fields. Conversely, Babcock reasoned that in true sports, a person is forced to be alert to the totality of changing complex surroundings.

True sports would not hinge on a one-point loss that would cast gloom over an entire week as if a person’s closest friend had died. From true sports, Babcock declared that a participant bags the scene and participation in the natural world as the biggest trophies of all, regardless of whether or not the hunter got his prey.

Neuffer, who often accompanied ’Vilah on hunts, reported that he never took a rifle.

Havilah badcock biography of nancy

The walk and talk in nature with his friend were the rewards.

And, on the subject of trophies, Babcock critiqued the mad scene of big game hunters flying all over the world in search of the big and biggest animal or of killing something massive and exotic.

His 1958 classic