"GAME OF SAVAGES"
FRENCH VIEW OF RUGBY
SEQUEL TO FATALITY
OUTBURST IN PRESS
United Press Association—By Electric Tele-1 grapli—Copirlglit. . ' ' . PAKIS, 12th May. ■ A remarkable denunciation of English ' sport in the "Journal dcs Debats" is tlve outcome ol the recent death in a itugby match. Th'i "Journal" says: "If this game of savages is bauisheS from civilised countries the death of Uio vietin.s will v not be in vain. English fathers1, .'clergymen, and heads of institutions have protested for years against this •so-called sport, which is merely brutal-, ity." ;.■;. . The paper asks how, in view of the fact that English newspapers used to publish a Bugby death-roll, the game was ever allowed in France.1 "It is not generally,known in. France that the so-called popular sports in Eng-! land are no longer anything but spec-j tacles like cinema-and. other commercial enterprises. The only unprofcs-j sional sports in England aro fox hunting and yachting. Both football and cricket are played by professionals, all of whom gain guo/mous profits. It does j not matter whether the players are killed or maimed so.long as tli'ero are big profits." .' -/ .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 11
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"GAME OF SAVAGES"
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 11
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