COURSING
Sir, —In many a Canterbury school playground, some 60 years back, when the infrequent squabble occurred, infringement of sporting tactics unfailingly and immediately met with yells of “Two to one ain’t fair,’’ “Pick on one your own size,” or “Big bully’’— spontaneous and apparently satisfactory expressions of the innate British Sense of justice. Can attacks made by powerful hounds, false starts, and escapes to death some other day for the timid, defenceless hare be called sporting? Can th£ disregard of comparative size, strength, or numbers be linked by a spark of sympathy to Christian concern for the weak? What example can there remain for children who instinctively love creatures and prefer fair game or fight?—Yours, HARE BRAIN. August 30, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 11
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