TOO MUCH SPORT

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 6

TOO MUCH SPORT

Australian’s Opinion

(B.i Telegraph.—Press As.su. I 'opy right.) (Special Australian Correspondent.l SYDNEY, October 12.

Criticism’ of the public “uttitmle <-f unreality” toward the war lias been made in Australia. It was a disgrace after Mr. Curtin’s austerity appeal to see 71.000 people tit the Randwiek races on Saturday, said Arthur Mailey, the internatimuil cricketer. The money spent at Randwick would lune bought 50 planes.

Organized sport in wartime should be confined to schoolboys, declared Mr. Mailey. The nation should forget every game "which took manpower and money from die war effort. Sport, however, should be encouraged among the troops, and every available ground should be turned over to the fighting services. A bombing raid or two on the Australian capitals might be n blessing in disguise said Mr. 11. J. Timperley, adviser to the Chinese National Government Board of Information. Comparing the Australians’ attitude to the war with the stubborn heroism of the Chinese, Mr. Timperley, himself an Australian, said tli.it when he heard his well-fed countrymen complaining of the shortage of luxuries lie thought, of the millions in China living on f-.llf* of jcL'irv’p i »nn.