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[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1919]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1919]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1919]
Sunday Games. Date: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1919 Publication: The Times (London, England) SUNDAY GAMES.,I INNOVATION FFAVOURED BY ..,DEMOBILIZED MEN.,One legacy which the war is likely to leave us is a much v ider indulgence in Sunday athletics. Sunday baseball-matches on public grounds became a popular feature in London when American troopis began to arrive on this side of the Atlantic. Now we are getting tennis matches betwween 31anchester and Queen's Club played on Sunday.,is demobilization. of the armies proceeds and more men-come home from France the demand for Sundav games will increase. That, at any rate, is the belief of many' officers, and it is shared by chaplains who have been at the front. Sundav has been the regular day foi football matchesanmong the troops; and English clergy have not only refereed- the games, but have taken. part in them as players with downright good will and enthusiasm. Thousands -of men who are now coming out of the Army are finding Sumday dull at home. They have learned that attendance at Church service in the morning has fitted in very well with football in the afternoon, and perhaps a " singsong " intlhe evening, and some of them are not incined to return to a programme which might or might not include attendance at a place of worship, but othervise consisted of eating, sleeping, and loafing about.,Simday. play, of course, has been. general in certain games for years, and is on the increase. It is common knowledge that the golf courses around London are more'erowded on Sunday than on any other day of the week. Tennis on private lawus, too, is played in eveiy suburb. . About the marshes north and east of Londbn' there is :whippet 'rcing- on Sundays. The question now being asked is whether Sunday sports are to be put on,a proper footing, and what attitude-will the Churches take towards any movement-to enable the young men who-wish to do so to take part in games or to watch others play them. Labour opinion favours rational recreation on Sunday if it does not involve a seven-days working,week for anyone enganed in providing the recreationf. 1919-02-25-sunday-games-Times-29feb1929.png