SUNDAY TENNIS,

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17181, 26 October 1923, Page 1

SUNDAY TENNIS,

RT SINBAD. A worthy man from Avonside came up to me to-day; and when his visage T espied, 1 said to me “I’ll go and hide, for trouble’s on the way. ’ My efforts at escape w ere vain—he seized me by the arm ; “This Sunday tennis gives mo pain,” he said, “and it is all too plain that it must lead to harm. On week days 1 can bear the sight of girls in dainty frocks, and fellows garbed in flannels white, all playing tennis w-ith delight; hut Sunday tennis shocks. We’re getting just like Babylon, before that city fell; respectability is gone — the Continental Sunday’s on —I like it not too well. If Avonside should still permit this Sabbath breaking game. misfortune in great chunks we’ll hit—our land is sure to fall by it, and perish in her shame.” I said “I am not one of those smali-nunded men and mean, who mild enjoyment would oppose—the hai'sli, uhcliari table foes of recreation clean. .1 hold, in an unyielding way, intolerance a curse; and as for those young fellows gay who tennis on a Sunday play, they could —and might—do worse.”