Mr Arthur Henderson: ...the very great difficulty of differentiating between the different types of sports, and I find that he said: If, for example, one is simply going to move down football and cricket, one then leaves hockey, lacrosse, tennis and baseball in the higher scale. How is one to differentiate between one of these sports and another? Can one try and lay down some, shall we say, artistic test. …?...
Mr Hugh Gaitskell: ...this year, but if there is always to be this massing of all sports together and if no distinction is to be drawn, what is to happen next year? Is this a faint hope which is offered to cricket clubs? I see that the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Ashton) is becoming very interested in this part of the argument. Is it a faint hope which they are offered and nothing more? What position will...
Mr Philip Noel-Baker: ...apology for adding certain detailed information to the many details hon. Members have given so admirably already. In fact, the general case depends on details—the detailed finances of individual clubs and sports. I want to speak of four sports, not because I care less about Rugby football, or lawn tennis, or swimming or other things, but because I think I have important and authentic...
Miss Elaine Burton: ...North (Wing Commander Bullus), who said that he had done training on a ground at night when he was a young man and had trained by himself, but that when the ground was floodlit every member of his club came along and made use of it. I should like to ask the Minister whether, in view of the shortage of accommodation—both playing fields and playgrounds—he will press the local authorities...
Mr Eric Bullus: ...was one of very few who trained at night. When we installed floodlighting, at a quite nominal cost, I found that the attendance for training purposes represented almost the entire membership of the club. It is possible to play games by floodlight and I have enjoyed many such games in the evening. I hope that this possibility will be well noted. The general conflict is between more playing...
Mr Roland Robinson: ...it, he should give his undertaking that he will stay there and try to make it the success it should be. I support my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. G. Ward) on the subject of flying clubs which are a valuable source of training. Hon. Members have always had great enthusiasm for them and, if they can be helped, it would be wise to do so. I understand that the Minister has been...
Mr Henry Hynd: ...there are proposals that it should be extended We recently read in the Press about a record crowd at Hamilton Park, Glasgow, for a mid-week meeting. Lord Rosebery, the senior steward of the Jockey Club, suggested at Doncaster that horse race meetings might be considered in midweek if it would assist in encouraging local production. There is proof that that kind of thing would encourage...
Mr Simon Digby: ...from the court, is the net. The first three Amendments also deal with the question of nets. The effect of the Bill, as it stands at present, is to provide a reduced rate for football, cricket, and hockey requisites. It sets out the requisites for these games with the rather surprising omission of netting. I should perhaps explain that my constituency has a very special interest in this...
Mr Niall Macpherson: I wish to point out to the hon. Lady the Member for Epping (Mrs. Manning) that netball is not wholly a girls' game, but is played in many boys' clubs. There is a strong argument for its inclusion. I think that possibly there is a little Southern bias in the types of games specified. For example, we have hockey, but not lacrosse, which is very much played in the Midlands. To go further North,...
Mr James Ede: ...before, that this is the one pastime that is regulated by legislation. I met the football people, both Association and Rugby, together; I met the greyhound racing people with the speedway and ice hockey people, who very largely come into the same category, apart from this question of legislation; and I met the other interests whom I interviewed separately from them. The greyhound racing...
Mr Aneurin Bevan: ..., Socialists, Conservatives of various shades and Independents; and, frankly, the Government must decide what their motif is to be, what melody they are going to play. It is no good bringing a hockey team, an Association football team and a cricket team together and asking them to play water polo. The Government have to decide in what direction they will go. I submit to the Committee that...
Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter: ... their men. We found in the early days of the Royal Naval Air Service that swimming was one of the best things we could put the men to, water-polo, and, of course, Association and Rugby football, hockey and other games. I notice that an officer who has just come across with the Canadian Force is introducing a new game called "Softball." It is like baseball, but is played with a soft ball....
Sir Douglas Hacking: ...of friends, it has now been possible, with the same help, to lease for two years a suitable ground at Eden Park, Beckenham. This ground includes one Rugby ground, two Association grounds, one hockey ground, two cricket pitches, a miniature golf course and four tennis courts. Now that Hendon Country Club has been acquired for the Police College, and the new Peel House, an athletic ground is...
Messrs. Jowitt and Casson.—These members of the Halifax Hockey Club were detained for one day at Emmerich on a charge of insulting behaviour of a political nature (misuse of Nazi emblems). They were released after His Majesty's Consul-General at Cologne had communicated with the local authorities.
Sir James Millar: ...grounds. It is all very well to suggest that this is a class matter, but it is nothing of the kind. An immense number of workers and artisans are closely identified with the various sports clubs that we desire to have exempted. We desire that all cases of private clubs or associations who hold land for bona fide purposes of sports and recreation should be covered. I have received a number...
Sir Frank Merriman: ...grant or otherwise, was £1,900, and out of that there has been provided 16 recreation grounds which are in continual use throughout the year as football pitches, cricket pitches and ladies' hockey pitches; and it is done in this way. I have no doubt this is commonplace to many hon. Members present but they will forgive me if I am a little trite on this subject. It has been done by using...
...Playing Fields Society—but it is supported—and this is very important—by all the national athletic associations which control field sports and pastimes, including the Marylebone Cricket Club, the Rugby Football Union, the Hockey Association—[An HON.MEMBER: "Speak up!"]—It is very difficult to speak up when everybody else is speaking up at the same time. I was saying that the Bill...
Mr Percy Alden: ..., and it is very strongly and warmly supported by the British Olympic Sports Council, by the London County Council, by the two big football associations, and by the National Association for Hockey, Tennis, and Lacrosse, so that practically all the athletic societies of the country are behind this rather simple and non-controversial Measure. I suppose it is within the knowledge of everybody...
