“SPECTATORS COME SECOND IN SPORT,” SAYS REV E. C. CROSSE.
.“During my seven years here it has been my ill-fortune to become involved in several controversies about games,” said the Rev E. C. Crosse, head master of Christ’s College at the prizegiving at the college last night. These were, fortunately, mostly past history, but there was still much room for deal thinking on the subject.
“The question is not whether games should be played in an amateur or pro fessional spirit,” said Mr Crosse. “There is fortunately very little love of professionalism in New Zealand, but I think that in many ways the interest of the spectators is given more weight than that of the players and I remain unalterably wedded to the doctrine that the spectators, particularly in boils’ games, are of secondary importance, and that the main thing is for boys to play the game for its own sake and enjoy it. Moreover, I believe that it is a great mistake to encourage special training, which means limiting a boy’s normal diet, or to put on an exalted pedestal those few athletes who happen to excel. “ The greater part of a boy’s time at school is, after all, occupied not with games, but with work. New Zealand boys have excellent brains and it is a head master’s first duty to make them use them to the full.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18339, 16 December 1927, Page 13
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