COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 23, 27 September 1913, Page 5

COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS.

[To The Editor Stkatfori) Post..] Sir, —I read with interest in tin columns of your Just night's issue the correspondence of "Young Omar'' regarding the essay competitions t< l>e held concerning Bernard's Pictures and I think he is amply justified in asking for some definite condition with regard to the same. Seeing that he calls to mind an incident that hap pened a few weeks back, in which I myself am concerned, I think that • am in a very good position to give him enlightenment on the conditions o the singing competitions. The firsl week there were two competitors, aii( the prize was given and divided between them. J would here like to ask Mr Diamond why it was there was a competition that week:-' The 1 second occasion there were three, and on the last occasion which "Young Omar" referred to there were two and no prize given. This is explicit. that what ''Young Omar"" says is undeniable. Then, as to "how tin manager of the said pictures can in dulge in mental gymnastics," Mr Diamond puts it very nicely that lie explained to the competitors on the last occasion, there would be no competition, but, if they cared to go on.ano do their turn ho would give them fiv'< shillings each. So be it, this was never mentioned to me; if it was, I must huve been under a delusion, for f understood from Mr Diamond that the five shillings was i'or the "double turn" that was given that night, and ! naturally handed half of it to my partner, which, minus our admission in the show, left us with the stupendous balance of one and sixpence l to j our credit! I would like to ask Mr Diamond this question: If he went

in for nny competition, way, a race, and thorp woo six entries (as there wore f>ii the night in question, mid t'onr i-iil>;d to rui u up, leaving the two

to compete) and tlioy ran and one fell and had to give up, and he (Mr Diamond) got home, would he expect the prize? I say. Yes! emphatically Yes! nli-Rn-lmlly-lodtfy Yes! And T think anybody else with I heir mental faculties in thorough working order would, but, alas! Blessed is lie that expectetli for he must cliew the bone of content inn. I should also liko to -Tsk Mr Diamond "what constitutes his logical definition of n competition?" Thanking you for so much spare in your vnlualik paper.—l am, et<

PERT DAVI