SUNDAY SPORTS AT FEILDING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 12, 11 December 1878, Page 2

SUNDAY SPORTS AT FEILDING.

— O THB EDITOB." V . Srß,-^-In a letter published m yonr issue, of the 4th instant, and headed " The Sun-, day Cricket Club m Feilding," the question is asked, "If it is true that Mr' Hulcombel has presented the above Club with £1, and if m doing so he said he hoped it would be, the. means of keeping the. young men out of the. public-house ?" Now, Sir, m the first place 1 ara not aware that there is m Feild/. ing a Club colled, the V'_>Udi|ng\ Sunday Cricket Club :" so I have not pre-,' sented such a. (^ub ( with £l^or.'any othep, mm. The. circumstances wbich gave rise, probably to your eorrgsppn^ent's lejtter dre^ at follows :— On Sunday' afternoon, a.fortmght'agq,'a number of young mm. were, playing cricket m front of my! house, and on] my going on to the ground, I found, a -very, irregular gatpp going oft aeeqnjnanied with , much noise tand : language. ' a spoke, to.; several of the. young meji, present, expnitu*' lated against the noke and the bad language, and at the same time said' that _-sa~.no harm m a quiet game of* cricket c\n 'Sunday 'afternoon. I suggested to them that it*. would be a good thing ta form, d Cricket Club, m order to get prppsj?. materials for, the game, and by. combination to'give; iheni« :selve.3 the power of keeping order and ex-' eluding any whose conduct was hot decent ;. and as an additional reason for desiring to jsea an interest taken m the' gameAFexpressed my opinion' that the practice;;' of t ". . cricket, football, or any other game helped to keep young men out of. ths public- hpiiae. Acting on this suggestion, -soma,' o& . (jhej young men I spoke, to. hove, made .the en-_ deavor to form, a. Cricket^Clubj which- ".'lj-, hope your correspondent," bemgr'";bnJß.q£ the^ ! young men of Feilding," will join, and* givaj me' his assistance 1 toAmake.the/prflie)iice;'ot the game the quiet, harmless, manly amusement which it'shduld. bje,'*' 1 certainly' do not advocate the formation of a Cricket ' Club solely for. the purpose, of providing an i amjUseinent f o.r Sun.dgy, but I can.! see no, possible harm m a number of young.- nien so' i amusing theaiselves on a Sunday afternoon. The proverb that " Satan finds, some mischief for idle hands to do "is as applicable t to Sunday as any other day m the'week j' and, there can, be no doubt on. the, mind of! any sensible arid practical _ian^hat by proi viding young men, with, a harmless recreation such as cricket for a -few hours on a 1 Sunday morning, they would be, kept. from, such mischief as their; hands if idle would* probably find to do".— l am, &c., ...... -r . .. Jo^LBIT HAMOiIBB.