HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 162, 12 April 1872, Page 6

HAMILTON.

( To the-Editor of the Mou:nt Ida Chiionicle.)

Sir, —It must be very satisfactory to the subscribers to tlie Sc.* Patrick's sports, and creditable also to the Committee; in publishing the clear balance sheet which appeared in your last issue. lam sorry the same cannot be said of our Hamilton managers of the Boxing Day sports.! ' The money collected for that- occasion, evidently being more than they could give ,away in prizes at the time, served them to get up something by the name of sports, on several occasions, by way of getting rid of the balance—which speaks volumes in favor of the liberality of the subscribers. But the; ingenious, some'would call it way they have of getting the thing up " a kind o' licks me," as the-Yank, would say. It was amusing at New Year's time to see the suspicion pictured in the countenances of those in authority, or' those that the programme pleased, at the sight of a'stranger, dreading he might spoil "the fun of " I'll lay down for you,- and : Tom will do so for me " style, miscalled Cornish wrestling. A paying thing no doubt, but shallow. Their conduct in objec ting to■ a poor schoolboy as a competitor unless he paid ss. to the fund and his. entrance fee, because lie was from the. Hogburn, I thought rich, especially as there were parties from here at Hogburn doing the " lay down " business,- where the entrance fee alone would entitle them:to go in and win anything fairly andhonestly. Of the sporting days since-of course only a few of the initiated knew there was anything on the t board, and so managed to have things to I their own liking. ■ The wind up of the [ affair oh Good Friday, caps all. After iseveral.races, &c., being still in funds, I games of crib, was proposed and carried, [ games, were played and prizes awarded • I the treasurer, finding himself still rich in funds, proposed " shouting" it out, and did so like a man. So ended the sporting tunds. JN r ow, if the Committee (I believe there was such a body elected) were to ask that; treasurer to make out a balance sheet, only L be "their duty," lie could as readily ,'give tliem tli.e philosopher's' stone. _ JN ow, other subscribers .than myself think that if the surplus-after- Boxing Day "sports had beeh.given to the; Hospital there would have been" some credit due to the parties concerned in thie matters. Such conduct will'only tend to do away with the gopd old custo»m-pf-siibrfs.^ ? ' r A The insertion'of the above may have the effect of teaching some'to be not Trore generous with other people's money than they wrould be with their'own!.—l am. &C., ' " " . -- StTBSCEIBEfi.