SPORTING PRIZES
AN INSIDIOUS EVIL. ' CHARACTER TYPE LOWERED. ] - .(Received 10.46 a.m ) " * LONDON, February 4. ; “The idea of sporting prizes is pen nieious, causing a spirit of oommercialism to creep insidiously in,” declared! Commander Coote, superintendent of the Duke of York’s summer camps. “Cricket, football and other games as at present conducted in public schools do not make a Christian type of character. Athletes today aim at record-* making; not earing whether they w!S by fair or foul means. It is easier for a boy to go astray when educated at a boarding school than when under his parents’, supervision. We should reform sports and make games a training , ground for\Christian principles.”—Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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111SPORTING PRIZES Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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