SPORTING WRITERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 3

SPORTING WRITERS.

' ■ i_:' ' i ‘ \T6tkeEditor. ; j SIB, —How is it that Dunedin, which has the beat race-mejetinz mtheCt>lohy, l ia so L > ily off' writers with, auy knaw.UdgttuiLthe subject on whlch they dilate? I feel constrained to ask this question since reading in yMterd»ya ‘ i aily rim s’a production te tned S’gßed, *f Merlin,?’• -whicp hO:es. aye nothing more or less than a lot of ignorantly or delbratelj strurg t- gather mis- - , and ,£lse arguments. The 'first untruth ,that King Philip was turning in Victoria, last sming, for , the'colt won the Maiden • late, at our spring meeting of 1874. llie has “never wen a race.” .It “ Merlin” knew what he was ■ tailing about he wbuldstate that Tattler won the Maiden Plate at Wellington easily, beating Pungajcerewere, Cocksure; Banker, Yoltairine, , and Lady Grey; and previous ,to this, at. Christchurch, he ran second to Koran in the Maiden Plate, .beating Follefarine and Cloth of Gold, the latt r npt bing placed. Wherein, then, does the “little eccentricity” of the hanmcnpp<;w lie because they make Tattler give «f Gold 4Um in the D..T.C. Handicap? ‘crammer” is that “ Temfleton has been extensively fired (in, the forelegs” since hi* • • ' Was last' bfff y nothing of the sort has been Merlins” bad arguments with, teg rd to tne imposts on Koraci and' Dai.iel O’Rourke; evide- th never- • •cwnSfaeiSp.iblio running If he were a Hahdi(,cappef popst of ..the handicap races at onr merting would be walked over fori. The best v # .ETPP* reasoning is that fojr MerPn.” ( «9mphdn» of his bad n ., uM ; ; ... n. a- », ~ Disgusted. Dunedm, March 4,1