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wheel, implies interplay. There must be give and take, or
dialogue, as between two or more persons and groups. This
quality can, however, be diminished or lost in any kind of
situation. Great teams often play practice games without any
audience at all. This is not sport in our sense, because much of
the quality of interplay, the very medium of interplay, as it
were, is the feeling of the audience. Rocket Richard, the
Canadian hockey player, used to comment on the poor
acoustics of some arenas. He felt that the puck off his stick
rode on the roar of the crowd. Sport, as a popular art form, is
not just self-expression but is deeply and necessarily a means
of interplay within an entire culture.
Art is not just play but an extension of human awareness
in contrived and conventional patterns. Sport as popular art is
a deep reaction to the typical action of the society. But high