SPORT AND THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 21 October 1916, Page 2

SPORT AND THE WAR.

Affiliated tennis clubs were asked to send in the .names of their members who had offered their services for enlistment. The response to the appeal in Canterbury was very good, and th.c returns showed that from that province alone over 700 players offered. The following members of New Plymouth Tennis Club enlisted for. active service (two of whom, Reg. Quilliam and V. J.. B. Hall, have made the supreme sacrifice): N. AYden, Dr. Rex Brewster,, E. Outfield, H. Davies, G. Deighton, Dr. Geo. Home, J. Hurst^ house, Elliot King. F. Moore, Allan Matthews, J. C. Nicholson, \iin Pott, G. Pott, S. Paul, C. W. Quilliam, H. V\ Searle, H. L.' Simpson, ,H. Seldon, A. C. Thompson, C. H. Weston and C. B. Webster. -

Writing from' the front of the ]ate Lieut. R,. G. Hickmott, his orderly says: "He was a good sport at home, but he is an even better one out here. All'the men think the world1 of him."

Writhing in "Golfing," Watt, the Wellington Club's professional, says:— "Golfers throughout New Zealand have responded well to the call of the khaki, and the professionals can prove that they can, shoulder a rifle as well as they can swing a golf club. Up to the present date six members of the thirteen who form the Professional Golfer's Association are with the colors."

Eton College has 6000 old boys bearing arms for the Empire. "Old Boy," writing in the Australasian on the war as it affects public schools, makes some interesting remarks. After showing how well the schools have done, he says: — "Had the response of the rest of the community b.een equal to that of the public schools, the voluntary system of enlistment Avould not have been declared a failure, and the word "conscription" would have been unknown in Australia, or even in th.c, Empire." It was said of them^at the beginning of the war that the question each asked was not "Shall I enlist?" but "What regiment shall I join?" ,