GAMES ON SUNDAY.

Evening Star, Issue 21219, 28 September 1932, Page 10

GAMES ON SUNDAY.

TO TUB IDITOE. Sir, —I understand that it is the intention of a certain tennis club to open its season on Sunday afternoon. This tennis court is right on the main thoroughfare. Is this allowed 011 Sundays without pel-mission of the City Council? Perhaps you may be able to enlighten us on this question. Surely the club could open its tennis season on Saturday afternoon, which to all right-thinking people is the right and proper day for such an occasion. No one has any objection to private games amongst, friends on a Sunday, provided they are away from the main street, but to hold a general opening day on Sunday is to my mind a grave breach of observance of the Sabbath. If this is allowed I think the Ota so Cricket Association should hold a gala day on Carisbrook, with a band in attendance, and a collection taken up and handed to the mayor’s fund. I would further suggest, seeing it is considered proper to go to church on Sunday morning and then to open tenpis courts in the afternoon, that a move be started to hold all oilr games on Sunday afternoons, as they do in most of the countries of Europe, and do away with our peaceful Sunday. To my mind, if it is permissible for for one sports body to open its season on Sunday afternoon, the same should apply to cricket, football, hockey, golf, etc. I am no killjoy, but I consider this a grave desecration of the Sunday.—-I am, etc., Disgusted. ■ September 27. [The council cannot legally stop Sunday play, but if the club is affiliated to the Otago Lawn Tennis Association it would be required to take note of a. resolution on the books that the association does not countenance Sunday play.—Ed. E.S.]