A Squabble about Cricket,

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 920, 23 February 1881, Page 3

A Squabble about Cricket,

From Christchurch we learn that in answer to some very uncalled for remarks by the Dunedin Herald on the Canterbury cricketers, the Times publishes the following stinging rejoinder:—“The truth is that thisjjficketing tour has let loose a low class of beings—money-making Cockjfpys of the flippant order, or bawbee-loving Scotchmen of the baser sort —who give themselves airs throughout New Zealand, hectoring, swaggering, and using coarse language, behaving like blatant, ill-mannered, offensive boors, offering rudeness to the people of every town which they enter; conducting themselves, in short, in every way like the backers of the rowing man Trickett, whose behaviour in London has rendered the name of Australians perfectly hideous to all respectable Englishman.” This is understood to refer to the behaviour of a Dunedin man connected with the Australian team on the Christchurch cricket ground, where he made himself conspicuously offensive by his language and demeanour. It may be said with regard to the bad taste shown by the Dunedin cricketers and a section of their Press in this matter, that the Australians themselves remarked and commented upon it as evincing a great want of patriotism.