Getting sporting priorities right
PUBLISHED : Monday, 08 February, 1993, 12:00am
UPDATED : Monday, 08 February, 1993, 12:00am
I WRITE in reply to the letter from Joanne Haines (South China Morning Post, February 4).
She posed the question, ''Are the second and third days of a five-day Test [cricket] match, more important than the finals of the first Grand Slam [tennis] event of the year?'' In a word YES! MIKE QUINN Lamma
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