THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
In Defence of Sport. "Alodern sport is civilisation’s substitute for barbarous pleasures. The idea that the games and the watching and study of games ale a horrible accompaniment of the factory system is quite unfair to the men and women ot to-day. The happy craftsmen of past time, did not find sweet content simply by mixing art with their labour. They, too, liked their fun. and they liked it bloody. The lowliest supporter of a local team is something of a moral example to the mediaeval connoisseurs of pleasure. A little ecstasy over goals is surely preferable to glee over the gibbeted felon and the burning witch. It to stand and stare he n disease, then it is endemic, not epidemic, and its symptoms are far less vicious than ot old.”—The •' Manchester Guardian.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1927, Page 2
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137THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1927, Page 2
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