SPORT AND COMPETITION

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20955, 8 September 1933, Page 17

SPORT AND COMPETITION

TO Tan BDITOS 01* TH3 PEE9B. Sir—ln your cross-country running ftoten this morning, mention is made by "Whipper-in" that certain runners and a certain club (unnamed) look only for the social side of the sport. There .are many runners who, like ■raapy tramp ers and mountaineers, take up the sport not for the pots "ley can win, but, as "Whipper-in" jays, for the fun they can get out of it, and while admitting that the social side of harriering is enjoyable, it does not mean to say that harriers and clubs who do not win the competitions af ® a pack of tea-drinkers. Whfin sport develops into one long, f a rd competition, it takes a great deal ■ the real interpretation of the word .creation" out of the game. Sport "day* in some field 3, instead of being #*roe, has developed into a hard, hogging business, where considerable of money are won or lost or winiitjr between individuals is and the whole spirit of the same destroyed. v* that this will not apply to , ar "i i take off my hat to a i*l * s not ashamed to admit nat tne majority of its members arc fi,I oyi P g running for the sake of the a 33 ft ' s a definite lead to original idea of the ort * game."—Yours, etc., . RUNNER. September 7, 193 a.