THE RULES OF THE GAME
SERMON OF A OBICKETER. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Oct. 17. The cricketer, the Rev. F. If. Gillingham, preaching at Christchurch, East Sheen, quoted a prayer, a copy of which hangs in the private rooms at Sandringham, Be said His Majesty re* cently expressed the opinion that it might well be placed in the hands of every public schoolboy. The prayer runs: “Teach uio to be obedient to the rules of the game; teach me neither to cry for the moon, nor over spilt milk; help me to distil;■ •guish between sentiment and sentimen tality, cleaving to the one aud despising the other. Help n:o neither to proll’cr nor to receive cheap praise. If I am called upon to sufl’er let mo bo like the wcll-brctl beast, who goes away and. suffers in silence. Teach mo to win when I may; if f may not win, then above all 1 pray make mo a gooj loser.'’
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1927, Page 5
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