Cricket Tour Of South Africa
Sir, —One of the main points of the game of cricket is the spirit of fair play. This makes it a grand game to take part in or watch. In recent years the game has become so popular that nations with skins not so white as Europeans have started playing it. Thus we see the success of the West Indians in Australia. India and Pakistan are at present playing a match. There is only one country in the world where coloured people ' are prevented from taking part in the sport, and to that country New Zealand is sending a team. Let us bow our heads in shame that our cricket leaders are so bereft of the true spirit of cricket that they have sunk to this level. If the Sbuth Africans want racial discrimination, let them simmer in their own juice.— Yours, etc., • P. J. ALLEY. Feb. 9, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 3
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