TOO MUCH SPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17982, 29 March 1930, Page 9

TOO MUCH SPORT.

(To the Editor). Sir, —The recent comments of your Weekly contributor “Free Lance” regarding sport, will, I think, be widely endorsed. lam not a ’’wowser ; I recognise that there must be a place — a large place—for sport in our community life, but, admitting that, I am fully persuaded that we have reached the point where a halt should be called, and some retracement made. As “Free Lance” points out, .t° urila_ meats and competitions loom largely In our daily round; games and pastimes Which are excellent as recreations, are now permitted to become a business. Men spend weeks in going from centre others to administer.. Time was when a business man was satisfied with his week-end and evening game. That neriod has passed, however, and many have apparently adopted the slogan “When business interferes with pleasure cut out business.” It is setting a very bad example to assistants and juveniles; a slack boss means a slack staff-; a slack staff means had business, and bad business is a community loss. We have the example of Australia before our eyes: Slackness and extravagance have told their tale across the Tasman; the famine has followed the feast. * Let us be warned. —I am, etC *’ D.E.R.