3 AUGUST 1929, Page 17

CRUELTY IN SPORT

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion with the recent discussion in your columns on cruelty in sport, it appears to me that the persecution of any living thing for the sake of amusement must, on moral grounds, be wrong. If this proposition is accepted, then discussion upon the comparative degrees of cruelty involved in different sports becomes superfluous. They are immoral and ought not to be indulged in.—I am, Sir; &c.,