CRICKET.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3096, 20 January 1879, Page 2

CRICKET.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sißrr-Can you or any of your readers inform me if it is the intention of ■ the Thames Cricket Club to play a match with Auckland or any of the clubs in or about Auckland on 29th inst., Regatta Day. I understand there would be no difficulty in the way of a town team coming, as, they have expressed a< ifML to come down, but only waiting an invitation. It seems, to me, Mr Editor, all th* life has been thrashed; or beaten out of the old T.C.C. by Coromandel, not to speak of the beating they received from the Taranaki (the latter of course they must have ex* peoted as they were too superior)" by the manner, in which they have been shaping ■ol lftte^, About three or fou^—saj||ft|e— of the Club deserve cjreditf for *the way they persevere by; walking out every evening to practice, and they «c the only one's that make or t have made V stf nd against foreign teams^ The balance"of the Club, that only gooutaow. arifcthen— say once; a f fortnight^make" tnl.%hole thing seem a regular farce in-the^yeSjOf the public that go there, to see «t game of ' cricket!' Those members^ 'too, have often been heard ito complain; th^t'they iretleft out in the cold, when a young, deserving member (that attends practice regularly) is chosen in the local team instead of them; but what can they expect P It is only yrha.t,ii£ey^&eserie\'~s6w/''stt I think I have trespassed tod far oil, (his .occasion, but you will hear from me a^ain on,this subject. Beforei'eridmg, I, would advise the old veterans to go in and practice constantly. lam certain the Thames will come, out second to none, as, it before. Apologising^ for, troubling jpu so" much, I am, &c, •-»" , Lka Stpmp.-