Wave!! Snipes At 'Time-Wasting' Cricket
LONDON, Sun.—Cricket wasted time and effort out of all proportion to its importance, said Field-Marshal Earl Wavell in a speech on sport which he gave when he was installed as chairman of Aberdeen University.
That 22 players, umpires and a scorer should spend, three four or even more days on a game and continue to do so for months on end seemed to an outsider the height of absurdity. The English, he said, claimed that their outstanding contribution was the team spirit inherent in cricket, but playing for one’s side was in accordance with the old Greek conception. Nowadays, however, Britain seemed to have fallen into the Roman professional style, with sport merely providing a spectacle for great crowds with a consequent waste of time, money and manpower. Lord Wavell himself is a golfer. His other recreations are hunting, ski-ing and shooting.
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Northern Advocate, 27 October 1947, Page 3
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