“SPECTATORITIS”
ITS GROWTH CAUSES CONCERN SUGGESTION TO COPE WITH IT Sports spectators ought to play the games they watch. This is the view of Capt. F. J. C. Marshall, physical education organiser at Bradford, England, expressed at the Public Health Congress in London. Captain Marshall is so averse to wholesale “spectating” that he has coined a new word to cover the “call of the ball game”—“spectatoritis.” He believes that the capitalisation of sport has robbed many young persons of both the time an desire to play games themselves. Captain Marshall proposes an ideal training centre which would have “the atmosphere of a good club.” Not merely would gymnastics be taught, but all sorts of games would be played and training given in football, hockey, cricket and even dancing. It is Captain Marshall’s opinion that such a scheme would do much to stop spectators from being merely spectators, apparently under the delusion that they also serve who only stand and shout.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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