SUNDAY GOLF

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 111, 11 May 1916, Page 8

SUNDAY GOLF

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —lii justice to the worker, I trust that you will publish this letter. ' I trust the City Council will not act too hastily in coming to a decision re Sunday golf, as we are shortly presenting a petition to show there are 100 to 1 of the local Berhampore residents in favour of Sunday golf, and the majority of those signing are staunch regular churchgoers. / I work on six days a week, and on .■■&'.. Sunday my wife and I attend churchf and then play golf, which is our only spare time to ourselves. "Citizen's" letter is very misleading when, he said the links entice children to keep away from Sunday school. ■ Well, I can honestly state that those children who are seen on the links lately were frequently there before golf ever started ill this 'locality, and allow me to tell "Citizen" that the biggest majority of ■Sunday players at Berhampore are men who have fought for their country and a great number who are getting fit as they are waiting to ba called up. Does he object to the boys in uniform he must see frequently? Surely "Citizen" does not expect the City Council., to take. the opinion of Mr. Mills against the majority of the local residents. '..We do not ask Mr. Mills., or " Citizen" or Ins friends to play, so why should they ask us golfers to cease play on our own Town Belt, just to suit the views of a dozen objectors who want the run of the place? Does he not know the council have men hard at work all daj Sunday at the electric power station ■ purposely to supply " Citizen" and others with <i. comfortable light to read by and trams to ride in? I challenge "Citizen" to ' prove to me any sport that he can name that is quieter and more select than the . game of golf. Surely golf is no worse on Sunday than'the scenes on© will see on the local seaside beaches. What ex- ,' ■ ample is set there to the rising generation ? These people shout, race about the beaches, and use surf-boards at their pleasure. In conclusion,- I can assure "Citizen" I would sooner see my chil- ■' dren playing golf on Sundays than I would' see thsm roaming amongst the adult population who visit the seaside. —I am, etc., SPORTING CHURCHGOER. ■■■

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Some people wish to play golf on Sunday. Some wish to go to church. Some would not-do so on Saturday or Sunday. We always will have these differences. But. the peculiarity is that those who go to church want to interfere with the'actions of ..those .who.'dp not. Those who play golf never try to interfere with those who go to church. The interference is terribly lop-sided. I hold it as a firm, principle that, where a person's doings do not interfere with his .neighbours, his neighbours have no right to interfere with his doings. I live in 'the neighbourhood of the golf links., but do not play golf, and tho playing of golf on Sunday does not harm me, .so I have no right to interfere with, the players. The links are the property of the citizens, and no section of tho community lias the right to enfoixe its notions as to their use on a-nother section. —I am, etc., .

A GOOD CITIZEN. Berhampore, Bth May, 1916.