Last Sunday was the first on. which games have been
allowed In the parks. Cricket was, as ever in England, the king game. The Times tells us that throe distinct kinds of matches were to be detected—those of no flannels or pads, those of some flannels and one pad, those of all flannels and two pads. These last were watched by large crowds, who attended every ball with scrupulous attention. Thus at a stroke the empty idleness of Sunday afternoon has been converted for some thousands of Londoners into what the day of rest must mean, if it means anything, a day of recreation in the old, full sense of the word. For true recreation can never be obtained by mental or physical inertia, but only by some complete change of interest on to some immediate objective, in which, for example, every mental and physical faculty is concentrated upon hitting a leather ball along the grass, so that the dreary complications of the daily task can be forgotten in the attempt to perform some physical action in the most efficient and therefore the most significant way.
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