THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY’S SPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3703, 5 January 1875, Page 2

THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY’S SPORTS.

To the Editor. Sin, —In your issue of Saturday evening, in commenting on these sports, you say you “do not see why the system of incurring a penalty for winning a race should not be introduced, Ac. The same thing applies to dancing contests, in which year after year the same competitors carry off the same prizes, thus preventing those who are less proficient from entering. ” Those whom you term ‘‘less proficient," pf whom five have stood a;oof thm year; are all prepared-td contest the dancing go seon as the Society appoints competent and impartial judges': judggs who themselves can dance, or at least who know the points —I am, Ac. £| Onb OB THE LESS pROEICIENT, Dunedin, January 5.

_ To the Editor. tn *? e ‘ trough yOHP ColumUß, to give the most unqualified denial to the rumor mentioned in to-night’s Star— vin. 5S SW ■s 41 h 4 «S3- S: Becond V the * in both !JT* ? ftVe ,£. lfche f rt ? independently, * . wto walkm g fairly and bonfestlyl I«ve

the public to judge. With regard to mj jostling Jacobsen, 3 our reporter cannot havobserved Jacobsen jostle me, and Macgregor calling Mr Dowse’s (who chose not to see it) attention to the circumstance. After tb s, when Jacobsen was passing Stuart, and there was sufficient room for me to pass b.tvv en them, I was just fied in doing what your reporter has considered jostling. Hoping the above will put the case in its true light, I am, &c., John Campbell. Union street, Dunedin, January 2.