MORE MORAL COURAGE.
CLERGYMAN O'N GAMBLING MANIA,
Dean Harper, speaking at the Christchurch Cathedral on "Public Opinion and Gambling,'" said gambling had an evil effect on'■sport. He knew something .about racing though he had never betted sixpence in his life and he knew there was a good lot of what was known as "pulling" and unrighteous riding. When he was a student he took a keen interest in rowing, and he remembered that when the Harvard crew went to England to row Oxford the Americans insisted that someone should be appointed to look after their food —a ; thought which never entered the minds of the Oxford men. This showed how the betting evil, which was then beginning to make itself felt, degraded sport. What was needed was more moral courage.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 3
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130MORE MORAL COURAGE. Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 3
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