DEAN INGE'S RECREATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 7

DEAN INGE'S RECREATIONS.

CRIQKET AND TENNIS WHEN ■ YOUNG. . (I*a6a ()dr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 10. Ihe Dean of St. Paul’s, when the guest of the evening at the annual dinner of the-Sylvan Debating Club, was challenged by Mr Cecil Hanusworth to reveal his recreation. Mr Harhisworth pointed out that the dean was the only one among tbe, 201000 celebrities in “ Who’s Who?” who did not say what was the nature of his recreation. He was referred to as the gloomy dean, but Mr Harmsworth thought of him rather as a witty humorous being, a theologian, a scholar! a mystic, and a trenchant journalist. Dean Inge replied: “I used to play both cricket and lawn tennis with .moderate success, but now-I am about to enter my seventieth year I am conhned to pottering along the Embankment. He said that the English were a _ truth-loving and honest people, and added; ~. We_owe our present predicament to this characteristic, that we are so simple-jnmdcd and honest. Ever since the war we have been doing our best to promote the. cause of peace in the world. We have even gone to the length of paying our debts, which nobodv else has thought of doing. In consequence we are ina very bad position as compared With our brilliant neighbours in I’ranee.” '