GAMES ON SUNDAYS.
LONDON PARK SCENES. CRICKET, BOWLS,, TENNIS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Becd. 4.45 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 19. The London County Council's decision permitting gtunee to be played in tho parks on Sunday afternoons has produced a striking social change. On most Sundays since the decision the weather has been wet or threatening, but on fine days games are going at full swing from two o'clock till !nine. Over 500 tennis courts and ficores of bowling greens are continuously occupied and thousands of boys and • youths play cricket. The scenes are entirely changed from' the ,time when the parks were soTely populated by promenaders and open-air orators and preachers. Sundays now are indistinguishable from Saturdays. ' : Church people continue to utter vigorous protests in ' the -newspapers and aie planning elaborate; campaigns in provincial towns and cities, none of which yet has followed London's example.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18174, 21 August 1922, Page 7
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