FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 168, 20 July 1904, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

AN ANXIOLS EOOTBALL PUBLIC

.(i'er i'ress .Association.) WKLLLNIiTON, July 19. lilt) Aew Xealnu'd Kug'oy Lmon js endeavouring lo vuih the bunks lo have a local bank Jiolitla.s in each district where ii match wiwi ti\e iuiglisn team is lo bo played. Despite iho lact that. Os is being charged lor the stand here, over tuu seals were booKed half an Hour alter the plan was opened, and applications are still pouring 'in. Tl-IK DECJKAUING DOLLAIi. DI'NEDLN, July iy, 'llie local liugby Lmon a resolution conu'emning ihe reported willinguoss of tiio Aow £eaianu Kugby Lnion 10 aend men to uikc pan in a match in Sydney on terms gtvjnJ> u percentage of the gate money uk well as actual expense, us uerogutory to New Zeal aim iootbau unu uegrad,rig to sport. J? rewfin will play at halHOacit for laranaki to-day in tue match at Lawera against Wuugunui, iiumpnries having yustained an injury lo .in* knot l .

rt is distinctly unfortunate for Humphries that lie is not aoie lo play in the luaioti at iluwera Lo-day. ll s un ill wind that blaus jiaebouy guid, however, unit i-'rewin win have a chance of uhowing what ne cur, do in representative tiompany. As ho and Aiynott Jiavc playutl together tight through this season, the puir mould play a good game. A ItHFliliEK'S COMPLAINT. (To the EditorJ, ( Appended to the report of the 1 ukapa-Waimate match you mention tho fact that I was referee and dL-em it necessary to add "Blazer" in brackets. isow, I consider this a dirty insult, ami would never tiuvu

expected a paper of your supposed standing to have de.siK-ndul lo Hie level ol' gutter-snipes to distinguish an in'divioual with an insulting appellation. You quite recently wrote a leading article lamenting the decadence of football and the great danger that there is of the sport falling very low in the public estimation. It i 9 not very encouraging to anyone with any claim to decency to see himself thus referred to, and I would very much wooner be kicked by an opponent than be made an objeqt of ridicule by the press, though you have the "honour" of being the lirst newspaper to olYer me this insult. 1 don't write with the object of anything in the way of an apology in view but simply to ask that If X am not an ordinary respectable enough person to be referred to as Mr Wilson or plain Wilson, then do me t'he favour of leaving mo out. of your paper in future. The latter course I will biiit me nicely.—l U in, etc., HAMILTON" A. WILSON. Hawera, July J<J, XOU-I. (Mr Hamilton A, Wilson should re- I cognise jUuit the use Uk? soubriquet was not intended as an insult ; there are several Wilsons, and H was. "lily natural that the football scribe whou.d have distinguished this one as ie dtd, by using a name that our correspondent, «s u popular plaver, has been Jcnown by for years \\h Hamilton A. Wilson's letter appears Jo us to Im childish in the extreme Ld. Mew^.)