BROADSIDING TEST MATCH.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 19

BROADSIDING TEST MATCH.

Sb site sfrifcoib or tffcfe pftls&S. Sir,—t info* from this ,morning's paper that the broadsiding teat match Set dbWn to be held at -Moilica Park on Saturday night has been definitely cancelled. The reason given in your paper liltats at & last triihiite di&pttte between riders and promoters. Surely in. view of the international nature ot this advertised for weeks Eafct, ,»aith with the publio shbuld ave been kept. It seems soarcely probable that the additional cost-Would not have been offset by the increased attendance which would naturally havfe beep attracted by such an important GVent. The braiiibters Wotlld be duly sefVihg theif: dWti ends to stage si meeting extraordinary oil ofccasifliis to. detain the public interest in the sport. It sepms strange that this lastminute . dispute : yhbUld lik ve arisen. Ode Would think that whfeh international febtttefctß Wfere being Considered tlitt very sthallefet of fiMhci&l details \Vould nave bedn carefully gohe into. Since bt-oadsiding is' a commercial enterprise, surely some undertaking binding tb both sides jroilld liaVe been entered intb before the tests \Hte commented .AS a regular, broad-1 siding suppofi?e« i ffefel deeply • disap- I pointed that Ghristoburch will be de- i prived of an international contest. — Yours, etc., DISAPPOINTED. February 20th, 1931.