THE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 9, 11 January 1923, Page 7

THE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY.

The Jam Sahib of Nawansgar ("Ranji"), the chief guest at a "sports" dinner at the London Press Club, received a most enthusiastic welcome from a large company of members and friends. Replying to the toast of "The Sporting Spirit,"' proposed by the chairman (Mr. Percy Rudd), he said he,was glad to renew old frisnships, for no noe had be-BU kinder to him than his friends of the Press. Referring to the pressnes of Mr. C. B. Fry, he said he was not a pa:-ty politician. "I belong to the small-arr-ay of Indian politicians'" who have* no other politics than Imperial politics;" He had _not supported Mr. Fry because he was a> Liberal candidate, but~because he was an old friend, and he believed that Westminster was the poorer for his absence. He and his comrades of the cricket field had been described as "flannelled fools," but sometimes they ccald teach a lesson or two to those who had not been "flannelled fools" in the matter of national and Imperial service. During his cricketing career he had always endeavoured to do everything in a fair and sporting spirit. He had the privilege of donning at the country's call the King's uniform in the fjreat War, from which they had emerged victorious, because of the golden. rule of I fair play. (Applause.)