ENGLISH SPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 8

ENGLISH SPORT.

FRENCH PAPER’S DENUNCIATION. PARIS, May 13. A remarkable denunciation of English sport in the Journal des Debats is the outcome of the recent death in a Rugby match. The Journal declares: “if this game of savages is banished from civilised countries the death of the victims will not be in vain. English fathers, clergymen and heads of institutions have protested for years against this so-called sport, which is merely brutality.” The paper asks how, in view of the fact that English newspapers used to publish a Rugby death-roll, the game was ever allowed in France. “It is not generally known in France that the so-calied ..popular sports in England aro no longer anything but spectacles like cinema and other commercial enterprises,” adds the Journal des Debats. “The only unprofessional sports in England are fix-hunting and yachting. Both football and cricket are piayed by professionals, all of whom gain enormous profits, it does not matter whether the players aro killed or maimed so long as there are big profits.”