GOOD MANNERS FOR SPORTSMEN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5730, 27 October 1905, Page 2

GOOD MANNERS FOR SPORTSMEN.

(To the Editor "N.Z. Timeo.”) , Sir, —How I should like to shako hand* with “Truo Sport" : for his timely lesson, in charitable criticism. I refer to the statement "Should Ping-pong or Marble* be the National game of England? ' While sub-leaders of this description and sentiment might naturally appeal to office boys’ and printers’ devils, surely they cannot bo the opinion of the aver*' age intelligent man? If on the other band such sentiments voice the people of. New Zealand, then I am sure every Englishman, or should I say gentleman, has, like “True Sport, a perfect right to resent such' remarks. While admitting the importance which both the Parliament and the people of New Zealand place on football, at the same time not forgetting that, youth, both in an individual and country likea to hear its own voice, it should never be allowed to cause either ill-feeling or dissension. As the Now Zealand team are so busily occupied in teaching the Home team the game of football, I think the very least we Englishmen here can do in return, is to oner our services to enlighten some of the New Zealand sportsmen here what we, both, as sportsmen, and gentlemen, consider good manners—l am, etc., , "ENGLISHMAN." October 25tb.