PUTTING SPORT IN ITS PERSPECTIVE.
“The violent exercise that goes by the name of ‘sport’ does not suit some people at all. . Each of us has only a limited amount of force—electricity, energy, call it what you will—on which to drive the machine of mind and body. The ‘brainy’ or ‘artistic’ type of person, as a rule, tends to divert most of that force towards his mentality, while the sportslover instinctively uses it as bodypower. It i,s an undoubted fact that as a rule the sporting crowd, with a few notable exceptions, are a great deal less intelligent than the nonsporting. And if, therefore, a ‘brain’ tvoe is forced to try an/d divert some of his cherished energy towards a goal that interests him not at all, he is merely wasting his energy uselessly, since no amount of training will ever make him as good a performer in the world of sport as lie is in bis own line. Why waste tim e trying to do it? Why use a razor to cut firewood’—Miss Margery Lawrence, in the “Sunday Express.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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180PUTTING SPORT IN ITS PERSPECTIVE. Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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