GAMES AND RECREATION.
•‘When one read so much in the papers about the activities of those who really were very good at games one was rather liable to get the impression that the enjoyment of taking part in games was subordinated to the hope of satisfaction at defeating one’s opponents, and it became a really serious business,” said Mr. A. K. Charles worth in a speech reported in the Yorkshire Post. He instanced the case of a very serious golfer who, whether he was good, bad or indifferent, devoted about 30 out of 52 Saturday afternoons in the year to completely losing his temper, or hating everybody, or, in fact, spoiling the whole afternoon. It would be a good thingl for that type of serious player, he said, if someone referred to the game as outdoor tiddley-winks. It would give him a sense of proportion, because it was that sense of proportion which was lacking when games became so very serious. Games were fundamentally a recreation, and as soon as they were taken over-seriously they lost that essential and inherent quality which waf enjoyment and fun.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)
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