SUNDAY HOCKEY AT MOUTOA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1089, 29 August 1912, Page 3

SUNDAY HOCKEY AT MOUTOA.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — I am delighted with “A Player’s” senseless letter, but why he should take “French before breakfast” in order to write such a common toned letter I don’t know. I am- sorry lhat “A Player” should mistake the truth contained in my letter for mud —or perhaps he has performed a miracle of turning the truth into mud. He also says that I am purely and simply a gull. That may be so, but he forgot to mention that, unlike him, I am not yet gulled to believe that I could worship God seven days in the week and disobey him at the same lime, and if I had called ‘‘A Player” a gull I would have insulted the gulls. The tact that “A Player” will not recognise me in the future concerns me very little. He still acts the moral coward bv concealing his identity. Anyone can hurl sneering and insulting remarks so long as they remain in darkness, but it takes a man to speak the truth and stand in the daylight. Because “A Player” has taken shelter under cover of ap assumed name he has not only qualified, but has also established nimself as a nonentity, that is so far as his opinion is concerned on this subject. So long as he continues to play hockey at Moutoa on the Sabbath day he is responsible for the creation of a public scandal, and he must not forget that it is only by the continual protests of some people which keeps the other ‘‘some” from abusing true sport, and Irom always side-stepping moral education which has done so much for the uplifting of humanity and ih. progress of the world. —I am, etc., A. H, Yatks. Whitauuui, Aug. 26th, 1912.