SPORT
“ The outspoken Euripides had a violent tirade against any athletes in his satiric drama ‘ Antolycus.’ ‘lt is folly,’ he says, ‘for the Greeks to make a great gathering to see useless eieatures like these, whose god is in the v belly. What good does a man do to his city by winning a prize for wrestling of speed or quoit-heaving or jaw-smiting? Willi they fight the enemy with quoits? Will they drive l he enemy out of their country without spears by kicking? Garlands .. . should be for fh/e wise and good, for the just and sober statesman who guides his city best, for the man who with words avert evil deeds, keeping battle and civil strife away. Those /a,re the real boons for every city and alj the Greeks.’ Twenty-three centuries a i'e between this and ‘ The flannelled fool at the wicket, the muddied oaf at the goal.’ I fear that Euripides got no more attention than did Mr Kipl ng.”—The late Mr J. G. Stobart.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3506, 16 August 1934, Page 3
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167SPORT Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3506, 16 August 1934, Page 3
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