£150 MILLION ON SPORT
(Own Correspondent-
Britain's National Fitness Campaign
-By Air Mail.)
LONDON, May 16. Britain will spend approximately £150,000,000 this year on its greatest yet programme of summer sports. Millions more will join in games as the result of the encouragement and finaneial help given by the Government 's fitness campaign. Throughout the country municipalities and loeal authorities are preparing new tennis courts, bowling greens, atlilctic grounds, golf eourses and swimning pools. ' V ames have been - given a great incentive by the national fitness campaign," the Secretary of the F id eration of British Manufacturers of Sports and Games told a Sunday Chronicle reporter. Tennis still leads as Britain 's most popular summer sport, with nearly 3,000,000 devotees. At the end of last year, 2700 clubs wero affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association — and the number should be greatly inereased this year. There are now mofe than a million regulax golfers, about a quarter of whom are women. On an average they spend £30 to £60 a year on the garne. Britain is also beeoming a land of summer lidos. Municipal schemes for enclosed baths and swimming pools alone will cost some £1,500,000 this year.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 5
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