CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 3780, 6 April 1875, Page 3

CRICKET.

To Vie Editor. Sib,— Having read yonr article in yesterday’s issue on cricket by “ Looker-on,” I desire to state that “Looker-on,” in his remarks, has grossly—but, I believe, unknowingly—given you a misrepresentation of what he asks your readers to accept as facts. I shall hereafter, when the season is closed, refer at length to “Looker-on.” In the meantime, I may state that the uncharitable references are uncalled for, and that the article is calculated to do a deal of injury to cricket. The Canterbury men, to my knowledge, laugh at the Dunedin Cricket Club’s method of practice. I overheard Turton and Fowler conversing on the day after the late match, and the latter agreed, in toto, with our old player in }his plans and suggestions for improving the game as now attempted to be played here. I also know that “the” authority in. Christchurch on points connected with the game gave an immediate and emphatic opinion in favor of Collinson for (under the circumstaraces) withdrawing the legal team from the Cup ma tches. I need scarcely add that in . Christchurch cricket is understood, and it is played, and, more, it is suppoxted. Until it is played here how can we expect the public to help us? lam not a memb»r of any club, but I contribute occasionally according to ray means, and lam an admirer of the game. The public, however, in mv opinion, should not assist the cricketers until a proper system of practice is initiated and our players .'earn to be more charitable to one another in their remarks and actions. As I have referred to Messrs Turton and Collinson, I beg to say I have nothing to do with either gentlemen, but “Looker-on” aims so clearly at them that I thought it only right that people outside the D.C.C. should know what Canterbury players think of them and their actions. —I am, &c., An Admibbb of the Game. Dunedin, April 6.