By Crosby S. Noyes, Foreign Correspondent of The Star

PARlS.—After a number of years of more or less serious spectating, we have finally discovered what we consider the ideal spectator sport.

The Tour de France rates, we are given to believe, as a national sporting event in France almost in the same way as the World Series rates in the United States. But there’s one great difference between the great annual bicycle classic and most other national sports.