CRUELTY IN SPORT

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 10

CRUELTY IN SPORT

HUNTING CONDEMNED

SURVIVAL OF SAVAGE AGE

i’ress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, ‘May o. At a monster meeting under the auspices of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel SporCj there was strong denunciation of cruelty under the guise of sport. •* The Dean of Hereford said: “We must denounce with whole-hearted horror certain aspects of fox hunting, which are disgusting and brutalising.’ The Archdeacon of Westminster said the morbid desire to destroy life for the sake of sport was an unconscious survival of the savage ago. Coursing, deer hunting, and hare hunting were barbaric.

Mr Bernard Shaw, in a letter stated: “There is dissension in the Royal Family. Prince Henry says that every artist should be a sportsman. The Prince of Wales promptly countered this by refusing to attend a bull fight. Certainly the artist who paints a bird in living colors and stalks the rhinoceros with a movie camera is a better sportsman than the malignant idiot who shoots them and gets photographed squatting on the corpse.” The Bishop of Salisbury stated that on tho whole shooting, hunting, and fishing did more harm than good.