12 APRIL 1924, Page 14

CRUELTY IN SPORT.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

ST11,—With reference to your article on the above subject.! Some years ago I was fishing in the " Top Stream " of " The Rocks," at Newtown Stewart, Co. Tyrone. I hooked a salmon on the shrimp, and after playing him for a short time, he broke the link, which had become frayed against the rocks. I put on a new one, and at the second or third cast hooked and killed the same fish with my other hook and broken link in his mouth. I wonder are the " agonies of the damned " so endurable, not to say desirable, that if released they will voluntarily seek readmission into their " prison-house"