WORSHIP OF SPORT
AN ENGLISH OPINION. “I am not presuming to disparage either cricket or cricketers,” writes Miss Mabel Constanduros, in an English publication. ‘‘A great deal of. hard work, abstinence and selfdenial must go to the making or famous cricketer, just as it goes to the making of a famous writer, politician or film star. “But the fact that almost any schoolboy would rather have the autograph of Mr Bradman, or Mr Hobbs, than the Prime Minister of England, for instance, or the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs—even if he knew the names of the < latter gentlemen—seems to me to be wrong. , “The fact that most schoolboys spend hours learning to play a game which most of them will find useless in after-life seems unwise, and the fact that, judging by the newspaper space devoted to if, the subject of cricket and cricketers, though less peculiar than the craze for crooners or the fad for film favourites, pervades our lives to so extraordinary a degree, leads, me to the reluctant conclusion that in our worship of sport and athletics, sportsmen and ;. athletes, we are slightly unbalanced.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 7
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188WORSHIP OF SPORT Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 7
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