WHAT IS SPORT?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 140, 2 March 1918, Page 8

WHAT IS SPORT?

Sir.—ln normal times every healthy, broad-minded man enjoys sports or every kind, more particularly racingAt the present moment, however, with! the terrible times we are passing through, none but those calloused hearts, .ind a thorough indifference to the sorrows of others, could attend *' racecourse meeting. There is not art* hour in the dav hut some brave boys meet their death or suffer injury on the , field of battle fighting for our liberties and the privileges we enjoy. ' \\ha« would these noble young feiiows think if by some occult power they could see their fathers, mothers, wives, sisters,, and brothers in the full enjoyment.of; racecourse excitement, quite indifferent). to their hardships and sufferine.' An* what w-oiild 'tiie butterfly and heartless throng on the course think if smnil- . taneously they could see the battlefield with all its horrors. Earing, during this present crisis cannot admit of any justification whatever. And as it has been raiwd by Mr. Brandon's friends as anis-,ue\in the recent , election, it is quite time that the public and the >.v tional Government took a 'hand end either curtailed it drastically, or v-hab would he better still aborted it, until the end of the war. In England they hove restricted it to very ' narrow limits: whv not in New Zealand, esoeeially when'it is used st election times in "a shameless attempt to divert the people from the only path which leads HIS COUNTRY.