GAMES ON SUNDAY.

Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 13

GAMES ON SUNDAY.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —it is not surprising that protest is being made against the playing of games on Sunday, but it is an objection which is lacking a ease, to support it. Although “ 'Disgusted ” does not advance the purely religious objection to these actions, the fact remains that the only grond upon which such opposition rests is the religious one. There is absolutely no rational or modern reason why individuals should not indulge in any legitimate recreation they may favour. Wo have progressed from the sour and bigoted intolerance of past days, and no escape from that blight was anywhere won except by hard battle. It is a rearing of that head which seems to regard the pleasure of others, especially on these so-called sacred days, as legitimate excuse for interference which would bo absolutely intolerable on any secular subject. The tennis club’s action is in my opinion a move in the right direction, or, rather, is in keeping with the trend to-day in regard to these things. Furthermore, 1 am confident that the great majority of citizens will agree with me, although their acquiescence may be silent.—l am, etc., K.W.F. September 29.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, —A correspondent, writing in tonight's ' Star' in a most hypocritical milliner, wants to know if Sunday tennis is under the control of the City Council. The answer is that it is not—provided it is not played on council property. This correspondent, who signs himself " Disgusted," is evidently a real narrow-minded humbug, lie finds no harm in Sunday tennis provided you are not focused out, hut says that right thinking people will condemn you if you play within their sight or sound. Preserve us from this kind of right-thinking people. But what nonsense is this. If Sunday tennis is wrong in public it is wrong in private, and no one with any sense would say differently. But is it wrong? No one bub a narrow-minded bigot would say so. J ask "Disgusted" is there any more harm in people who are cooped up in shops and offices all the week playing tennis on Sunday than in motoring, swimming, hiking, or golfing on Sunday? On broad principals there is none. Ho says he is not a kill-joy. I think few who read his letter will believe him. He is evidently a twin brother to the man who said " Thank God 1 am not as other men."—l am, etc.. Service. September 28.