CRICKET.
By “Looker-on.”
It has been well said that there is either a ion or a jackass in the path of all reform. In the wide domain of politics, as well as within the more limited bounds of Club*, you will always find narrow-minded and bigoted obstructionists, who, from selfish and ignoble motives, wish to go on year after year in the same humdrum style. When changes do occur, and they find themselves out in the cold, they howl most lamentably, and are ever extolling the past and mourning over the sadly altered ways 6f the present. Even the JDunedin Cricket Club can produce a few such “ croakers,” wHo are only happy
when loudly and ostentatiously descanting upon the decay of orioket in Dnuedin and the' utter incapacity of all cricketers who do not happen to belong to their clique. Their socalled ‘ plana and suggestions for improvmg {.) the game ” are as antiquated as the hills Nevertheless they persistently endeavorto convince ‘‘ignorant and sceptical outexders that their method of practice, oarned out under tbeir superv.sion, of course, would inaugurate quite a now and happy era u Dunedin. How grateful we should aU be for these antediluvian “ plans and suggestions The school-boy system would he at once adopted and a sapient skipper appointed, who would, as in days of yore, exclaim m self-sufficient tones, “I! I am Mr Oracle, let no dog bark. This is the sort of thing that is te take the place of the present regular aud systematic practice under an experienced professional, iniatiated and carried out by the committee this year. One of the features of the season just closed was the universal interest displayed by memh rs of the Dunedin Cricket Club in the practices i luring the early part of the season it was quite'a treat to see the Oval studded with enthusiasts playing the game under far more favorable circumstances than had ever been known before in Dunedin. All through the season more interest has been taken in cricket than during any previous year. Cricket has never been more popular or more largely patronised and supported than it is at present. Next year-there is every prospect of an improved state of things being brought about elsewhere than in the D.G.C. Competition, and|healthy rivalry among (dabs wUI work wonders in the way of improving cricket, and go far to infuse a better spirit into players generally. By the way I notice that yonr esteemed correspondent, an “Admirer of the Game,” considers my last artio e calculated to injure cricket. I regret that your correspondent takes that view of th« subject, and am sorry indeed to tamk that bad results will follow. I am inclined to think, however, that he must be mistaken, and that no very alarming injury will accrue.
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Evening Star, Issue 3786, 13 April 1875, Page 2
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