FOOTBALL y. CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 4136, 30 May 1876, Page 4

FOOTBALL y. CRICKET.

.• ■ To Hh&‘ Editor. v.Slify—Referring to lbtter signed “ Mark,” \^ch ; appesredin your issue of Saturday; I beg to say I* consider the action taken by Mr C, 0. Kettle 'to' be. the only course of procedure that was left £ open ■ Ruder the circumstances. For there is RP .doubt Mr Rose, the originator of the/rocas, had, perhaps, uninn iof de,s> epeak/lenibntlyjdnbreaking open the cricketers’ pavilion in his capacity as ■ member of tEh) Football Club. ' He 'had not *>■ of a light td_ do s6,and rendered himself an exCeismvely'ludicrous spectacle ■ after such anexhibitiondf hia ‘{feethinidng powers, he launched forth his apathemaa and. declared hia intention of ! \ the. aid of the . law ! “Mark*” eviis s as there*is iR spark of gentlfentoßly feeling in our^rospgrQßs.. <so. long, fVfjll the.break- ‘ revive contempt it 'stoats; -Tain, &c., ' - V ; LINDUM. , Dunedin, May 29. , To the Editor. Sir,—Yonr correspondent “Mark” has had "his say for the Football dub. Kindly allow me to have mine for the Cricket Club. There are two matters in dispute between the clubs; l,is : The"footballers demand the use of the oricketera’ pavilion on the Southern Oval. The cricketers, having erected the pavilion many years ago at their own expense,, naturally decline. ~The footballers, therefore, break’m the : dobr of the payilion and use it in spite, of the cricketers, jthey give for this uaman- , herly ‘ .Mndnct; is! only 'that the pavUionf is c and their sole.exouse, that they .have among them some members rfAhe pricket Club. Now, the Cricket "Club,' established in 1869, numbers eightyof- whom seventy-one do not ' play football; and the. Football Club, estabt .Wlhed’in 1871; numbers thirty-five, meinbers, of whom only, thirteen are also cricketers. , Evidently : the' Cricket Club is justified in its deterihihatidh'to keep its pavilion for itself. ■Dispute No. 2 is tide, j The: footballers finding a' well-turfed oval (with a Svilion handy] lying at the south end of e town, and marked on the map“ recrea tion ground,”)' say, “we have as good a right on this ground as anybody, and we will ploy our game here and nowhere eke.” The r Oricketers answer, “ Not so?' Yon- have not ' an equal right vrith ns. The Oval was a bog .when got permission seventeen years ago it. *' We haye since 'then, drained, *fenced ifc at . ah expense'‘of . add it .costs us LICK) a. year to maintherefore, we have a priority of i; occupation of the Oval/; It is absurd to suppope that thelaw-of force and hot the law of priority is to regulate; such mattery* Besides, we do not olaim the exclusive \,, occupation of the Oval, only that- pq use be ' made of it which wjlj spoil it for cricket. Now yonr game does in fact score and tear up the turf. This matters; little as regards the out-field; ; a few pounda would put.that to rights in September, at the end of the football season. But as regards the wicket of the Oval; it. is quite ‘Higher afiaif. On that the thff must be ( Bmbidth and? firm for 60 yards by‘so yards, Or cricket becomes dangerous or impossible; and everyone knows that turf renewed in spring cannot be fit for r wicket that season.” To this the footballers rejoin: “ But we have no’other ground to play on;” and the cricketersreply, “Again, not so. You have a choice or several mounds if you will imitate ns ahd subscribe for your game. For instance, .the Town Belt at Mohteceillo is ' hearer'tohm : than the Oval, and is sounder ground than it in'winter. . L2O (nbt L 2.000) spent on that beautiful, plateau wciuld make it perfect for football; and as forjlressingroom, there are cottages oh the 1 spot to arrange with, or you may. plant a' tent of your own.” In thia dispute also it seems to me the Cricket Club has all the equities, as well as common sense, on its side; and I would faih hOpe; Sir the credit of the youth of that the footballers will yet - -pluckßp a manlier spirit and relianch” for their motto.—l aiin, &c., Cover Pon&. Dunedin, May 29. 3~:!.