THE JUNIOR CRICKET CLUB.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 24, 5 November 1898, Page 6

THE JUNIOR CRICKET CLUB.

'{yOTHE EDITOR.) 'Sib,— l believe your correspondent ' lf pid iStyle " will prove a false prophet. The ■junior Cricket Club still survives, and is i likely to do so, in spite of -such croakers. > These people *re never Jound helping any .-good work along, .and no notice should ba taken of them. The fact that the movement^ jor th&junior club originated with the juniors themselves is * guarantee of its stability- I a1«o know something of the Social Club, ijirst and last, the lads worked hard for that Institution. By their.efforts of one kind and another, they raised, outside of their annual seubkcpption, funds amounting to considerably towr $100. They .found the Library

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occupying two small rooms. In a short time they had, m addition, a well appointed billiard room and gymnasium. They purchased a piano for the hall, and to anyone who liked to see the young, enjoy themselves in a rational manner, it was pleasure to Sea the lads in the rooms. It is a thousand pities that matteis wholly unconnected with the good work should have been allowed to interfere with it. While the management was in the hands of those interested in the young men, there was no cause of complaint, •but when things were allowed to slide disorganisation followed. Our Waimate boys aie not worse, indeed I think that as a rule, they are better behaved than those of towns of a similar siae elsewhere. Certainly they are not milksops, bat it does not follow they are not gentlemen. I have been in the hall at the Club when 40 or more were amusing themselves yarning, smoking, listening to some one singing, or, perhaps, dancing (one of their number playing on the piano), when a membei-icamein with some lady friends to see the roomi. In an instant, a* if by instinct, off went hats and caps, pipes were jput away, and the talking dropped to the moit ordinal y tone of voice- Such lads are woith ■encouiaging, and I have no doubt the membeis of the Junior Cnck«t •Club are just of such stuff, and will piove a credit to those who take them in hand. — I am, etc., 1 New Sntijs-