SPORT IN SYDNEY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1930, Page 7

SPORT IN SYDNEY

.NO SIGN OF HARD TIMES.

Sydney, Alay 1.

The amazing thing about Sydney just now—and it was strikingly manifest over Easter week—is the huge sum of money that seems to be available for sport and amusement when everybody is assumed to be hard lip, by existing economic standards. Someone must be going short; perhaps the butcher and’ the baker, and so on. There has been a slump in business in the shops. Big establishments stocking brand new cars are having a thin time, and their position is not likely to be improved with the new tariff, which dealers in cheap, but good-quality, sec-, ond-hand cars look upon as a God-send. Others are also unquestionably feeling the pinch; bu't go to the races—an almost daily occurrence in and round •Sydney —or to the pictures, or the boxing, or any other shows, and one might imagine Sydney was a new Eldorado. The Easter Show and the racing carnival at Randwick, of course, attracted big holiday caowds from the country and from the other States, and not a few New Zealanders, but the point !is that well-attended sports such as the “ponies,” and the “dogs,” and boxing, for instance t rely, not upon visitors, but upon the local community, and, for the most part, wage-earners. . No doubt there is a day of reckoning. It seem® difficult to convince quite a lot of people in Sydney that there is anything wrong. .Nor would one think there was anything wrong if he saw the crowds jostling with one' another at Randwiek in the betting ring and almost pleading with the “books”, to take their, money. '