SUNDAY BOWLING

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1080, 27 March 1913, Page 3

SUNDAY BOWLING

(To the Editor.)

■ Sir. —I was astonished to read a paragraph in your paper that your Bowling Club bad decided to permit Sunday play. Such a decision, in view of the fact that a number of members are strongly opposed to the decision, is unwise, and hardly shows that tolerance and broadmindedness that all true sports are supposed to possess. Let me relate what happened ic a sister club on this coast when a similar proposal was under disV cussion. A few members desired to indulge in Sunday play and after debating the question, a motion favourable to the project was carried. From that time to the present—and I speak with authority as I am a member of the Club-—not a bowl has been rolled on the green on Sunday. Those who wanted Sunday play gener-

ously stated that they would respect the feelings of those who opposed it, and in doing so they proved themselves to be tolerant sportsmen, anxious to preserve unanimity and harmony in their Club. While not wishing to interfere in the affairs of a Club in which I have no connection, still, as a bowler I have , watched the grdwth and progress of the Foxton institution with interest, and perhaps on reflection those gentlemen who are engaging in Sunday play will realise that six days in the week provide ample play for any bowler and that there was no need to wound the feelings of other players by “rolling up” on the Sabbath. It io, to say the least of itj a bad example* I hope that wiser counsels will prevail, and that Sunday players will restore unanimity by following the example of the men in our Club, who were sufficiently generous not take advantage of a resolution which some objected to. —Yours etc.,

Bowler. Palmerston N., March 26, 1912.

(To the Editor.)

Sir. —Allow me once again to

reply to E. G. Martin. I see this 1 would-be “big gun” is very angry with me and like air men who have a poor case commences to wobble and, states that I have stigmatised his character. Sir, who is E. G. Martin that he claims my statements to be incorrect and says I am ashamed to give my opinions openly. Unlike E-'G- Martin I am not after the limelight and refuse to put my name to any sort of twaddle, if by doing so, I can see it in print. E. G. Martin is better able to utter contempt than he is to write common sense. Now, sir, I will leave him and his utterances to the.opinion of your readers, for he is hopelessly at sea with his “solid truths” as he calls them. I think the arguments at issue have been ventilated quite enough, as it is useless to try to convince him that he is in the wrong. I might have known that this individual would beat about the bush, instead of keeping to my argument, but by his letters he has proved he has' been “blown out,” in spite of his dodging. He is beaten like his type of men at Waihi were. Evidently E. G, Martin thinks that he is a great scribe, but he is the sort oi individual in this com- . munity that needs educating in more ways than one. Take my advise E. G. Martin, study your letters before publishing them as some ot the statements made by you are ridiculous and no doubt amusing to those who have read them. Now, sir, I thank you for allowing me through your columns to express my opinions, and I hope that next time this great panjamdrum rushes into print he will have

enough common sense to keep to ' the points and not bray. Thanking you once again for trespassing v on your space.—l am, etc., Worker.

[This correspondence is now closed. —Ed.H.]