SUNDAY SPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 9

SUNDAY SPORT.

(To the Editor.) gj ri —“Zumite,” in your issue of Wednesday, has a tilt at the “nonconformist conscience” in relation to Sunday sport. I think “Zumite’ and > others will have cause for regret ere , many years are passed that the thins he professes to despise is not a little more articulate and displaying more backbone. The preservation of Sunday, as a day of rest is a vital question, and those who would Lreat it as an ordinary day are playing with lire. The encroachments made upon it in the last ten years have been appalling, and ere 1 another decade has elapsed the fight will not be for its preservation but for its restoration. It will he valued when 1 it has been sacrificed, and the sacrifice is fast approaching completion, thanks largely to those who should be its custodians proving traitors to thentrust. The day is being more and more devoted to sport; the wedge is being 1 rapidly driven home; organised games and competitions are already being in--1 dulged in; and with this development 1 more and more are being pressed into 1 business in order to minister to the , pleasure of others. : i know protests are futile. The 1 masses will not deign to listen to ’ counsel; they prefer to learn by experience, and their experience will be , bitter.—l am, etc., MACK. Te Awamutu, December 27, 1934.