THE FOOTBALL MATCH.

Evening Star, Issue 3923, 20 September 1875, Page 3

THE FOOTBALL MATCH.

To the Editor.

.dIR, —I was heartily amused on Saturday evening while perusing your paper to see the remarks on the forthcoming lootball match which appeared, aigned|hy an ‘‘ Admirer of the Game.” The gentleman who penned those lines must either he entirely ignorant of the eame and of the players, or else have been suffering from an attack of mental aberration when he thus dated to expose his ignorance in a public newspaper. The remarks as to the captain and other players call for very little comment, especially .-a it is stat.-d that the two half lacks are only average pl-yi-rs, when it is well known that they are cuidc players who have gained laurels in several matches in England. Another ridiculous assertion is that M‘Kinnon was for two years captain of the Lerwick Football Club—one of the beat in the

United Kingdom. If that ia really the case, M'Kitmon has heard something about himself that he never knew before. As to the poor form of the forward players, I rnuy s iy that if “ Admirer” had been in two or three of the scrimmages on Saturday, he would have come out of them a sorer and a wiser man, and with his opinions decidedly changed. Let an “Ad mirer of the Game” cool his fevered brow and think over the matter carefully ; then, and not till then, wifi he ace what a woeful exhibition he has made of himself. In conclusion, let me hope that the splenetic ravings of probably a n<«n-cho«en player may not mislead idle L uncdin public in •••.gard to the for,booming struggle. - I am, &0., SCUD, Dunedin, September 20,

To the Editor.

Sir,—l will try to reply to the writer in Saturday night’s issue of the Stab, who signed himself “ An Admirer of the Game Ist, Although there are two clubs in Dunedin. the challenge from the Aucklanders came to the l.uncdin Club; and no other club or person outside the Dunedin Club has had a. voice in the preliminary arrangements for this match, therefore I do not think it strange that no men of the Union Club were asked to serve on the co nmitte-.

2nd. With regard to the suggestion that the names of the best players in the Union Club should be substituted for Park, Lambert, and M ‘Lean, I have no doubt that “Admirer” is not only an admirer of the game, but also of his own piowess, and fancies that ho might thus get a plmc for Ifimself. 3rd. He is quite correct in asserting that the team is a representative one of the Dunedin Club, and this fact I think explains why A. K. Smith is in the team, without entering into the question of bis play at all. i can understand members of the Union Club feeling rather hurt at being left out in tho cold ; still I maintain that they have no right to complain of the action taken by the Dunedin Club, but rather that the Aucklanders did not address them in the first instance, instead of the club which they consider only second rate. —I am, &c,, E, Johnson. Dunedin, September 20.