Stephen Potter

STEPHEN POTTER has published in the Atlantic some of his most instructive articles on Gamesmanship or, The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating. New that the season is at its height, tee have asked him to apply his research to that special group of fanatics who muddy up every mealtime with their talk of pools, dry flies, and the speckled beauties which got away. This essay is a chapter in Mr. Potter’s forthcoming book, which will also contain his account of It inesrnanship, Rockmanship, and Clubmanship. More later.

In his honk Gamesmanship or, The Art of II inning Games II ithout Actually Cheating, STEPHEN POTTER scored one of the most laughable triumphs in dead-pan writing, ihe Editor of the Ytlantie teas one of the many who urged the author on to further research, and as a result Mr. Potter wrote Lifemanship or, Hoic To Get Atcav If ith It Without Being An Absolute Plonk.which Holt will publish next month. In his conversational way,he rererds those methods by which the awkward amateur can take the field successfully against the highly jdaced expert.

In his book Gamesmanship or, The Art of Winning Gomes Without Actually Cheating, STEPHEN POTTERscored one of the most laughable triumphs in dead-pan writing. The Editor of the Atlantic was one of the many who urged the author on to further research. and as a result Mr. Totter brought together his notes on courting or, as he calls it, Woomanship. In his conversational way, he reveals those methods by which the awkward amateur can take the field successfully against the highly placed expert. His illustrations are all. of course, drawn from life.

In his book Gamesmanship and in his article “Golfmanship,”which the Atlantic published last September. STEPHEN POTTER disclosed the new technique by which the dub, or crock, can win various games of skill from a superior opponent. He now lays down a conversational method by which the full-blown ignoramus can take the field successfully against highly placed experts in typography, military affairs, travel, art, and literature.

A writer now on the staff of the BBC, STEPHEN POTTERhas recently published what we regard as the shrewdest, funniest book on sportsmanship ever written — Gamesmanship: The Art of Winning Gaines Without Actually Cheating. It contains full details of winning procedures in tennis, golf, croquet, bridge, snooker, chess, and so forth. In this paper Mr. Potter has enlarged on his golfing philosophy, and in a subsequent series of articles he will discuss the Art of Intimidating the Experts, the thesis of his new book on Lifemanship.