CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 10 March 1885, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

, LEGrBEFGRE, . ■ : To the Editor. Sir,—Tliis letter, is written jij- hope. that a charge made by the Greytown urn- . pire against myself (the umpire for * terton) on Saturday may not take jritee » agajji. I copy the follpwijig from fl|wluWs. Cricketers' Aiiriijaf:'-" Ru]e2|. -If with any part of his person (i.e. the batter) he stops the ball, which m the . flljMw 9 f the umpire at the" hflvfjapj , w'icke{, qhal] Ijayq been, pitched in a straight line from jt.ftlje wicke);). to the striker'? iyickeVand would Ijaye l|j|. ;ifc, |he striker is .out.' 1 Tl)e fqllpwin'g - noteis added to this ruje :—" umpires should recollect that .with round a.rm bowling, it is, almost unpq" mule, fqr- a. Wmm tQ be qujj 'lqg.befqfqVif the • bowler is howling rqimd the wfeket," - Because I adhere to this reading-gf §&- rule, I was charged, with nqt knowlnj'the ■"' rules, qf tlie game, and. perjjaps this .aciju,, sation is made in nqt clearly understands ing the difference between a ball pitching between the wickets and pitching ins " straight line between the wioMs, ,- If "an : 'umpire cannot see the difference between these pitchlngs of a ball bowled by a. bowler who bowls round the wicket, it would be better not to appoint a maa to Umpirein a match, and thus unpleasant romarks and unpleasant foolings wouV npt take plaoe. My chief reason in d .ing you to publish this note is to prevo'r. A 1 in future any unpleasantness taking ljmW; '• about, the meaning of. rule 24. .Ifflp should be the case, no one will be more delighted than myself, who in a long career' of cricketing, never 'did? intentionally give a wrong decision'against anyone. 1 am, &c, W. F. Foud.