PRINCE OF WALES’ BIRTHDAY SPORTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5171, 18 October 1877, Page 2

PRINCE OF WALES’ BIRTHDAY SPORTS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sin, - In reference to the letter of “ Sussex,” in your issue of to-day, I beg to state that to my certain knowledge an application was made by the Sports Committee to the trustees for the Basin Reserve, and accepted, before the cricket match was either proposed or thought of. If “ Sussex " imagines that the reserve should be entirely devoted to cricket, and that other athletic sports should be barred from being held there, in order to save the newly-laid turf, &c., he had better recommend the cricketers to “ fresh fields and pastures new,” where their enormous!?) outlay will not be wasted. It is a rather good idea of the cricketers expecting to receive pecuniary assistance from the Athletic Club or Caledonian Society. I should say the reverse would be nearer the mark. To my thinking the description of sport likely to be most appreciated on the birthday would be -.the walking match for the championship of New Zealand and the Birthday Handicap, which are likely to prove more interesting to the public generally than would the proposed in no way extraordinary cricket match.—l am. &c., Anti-Monopolist. Wellington, October 17.