SUNDAY GAMES AT DHVONPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 6

SUNDAY GAMES AT DHVONPORT.

(To tlie Editor.) Sir.- 1 was surprised' to re;ul the acpounl in the "Star" re Sunday games O-α ihr Devoivport Domain. A*» onv personaUy concernvd' in the mat-tor. J .beg tn voice an emphatic protest against ;he action of the Rev. !.. (J. H. Mann. ]\v BUtrs (according to your report! that I wmty-iour yoiiUte were engaged playing football Uust Sundlay. I was on :hv ticld! us play at the lime and counted twelve onJy. Of this n«uil>pr, tiix lieloiii; to my <.'lnb. nnd tho othflrb wore mere Ij4 of thirteen to fif'tcen y<-ars of ago. The 'ball tiipy were using was provided by mc, ami consequejitly I consider nueoif iiieliiAKi in the rev. gmlleman'is indictmcjit. Them was very little shouting: 'I ran voueli for tliat, and wrta-iirly no ibaxl language, and what possible reason the Rev. 'Mann can have had for interfering 1 c.xnnot till, particularly a« reeid'cme in the virinity have never omplarnied. or regarilfd , these youthful patjtimce in anyiliinjr but the right spirit. Councillor IJany'i rpTuarkt. in the Devonport C'ountnl were, very miu-h to t!ie point, lor. aftpr all, the golfers are permitted til play unmolested on the -Sabba,tli. and wlhv not a few innocent lioy.i?—f am, etc.. E. L. BYRE, lion. Sec. Xorth Shore District Football Club.