The month of June is to be given up to
a concerted endeavour to popularise " the Playing Fields Movement and to collect money. The movement is not uninteresting historically. It has a double origin. Very good work was done for many years before the War by the London Playing Fields Associa- tion, on which, among others, Mr. J. G. Mordaunt (one of the best men in the outfield ever at Lord's) was beneficently active. Brigadier-General -Kentish worked also before the War on a scheme of multiplying playing fields for the Army ; and finally, after the War, he gave up all his military work in order to start and organize a national movement for civilian Playing grounds, believing that space and opportunity for Playing games were a cardinal remedy for many of the evils Of the industrial revolution, and, indeed, of "the old Adam." The poor at any rate play not too many but too few games, Whether in town or country.
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