CORRESPPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3572, 28 July 1890, Page 3

CORRESPPONDENCE.

Football, [totiibkcitoji] Sib,—Allow mo to pass n fow remarks on tho fair and impartial innnnor in which tho Management Oommitloe of tlio Wairurupa Football Union conducts its business, more especially as regards the treatment of the Mastorton Club. Tho old, and by the Union delegates finally settled protect against tho Masterton Club lias been revived by the Cummitteo, and Carterton scores a win in spi'to of a good lickiug. No doubt tho Committee thought they could well afford to let the latter club scoro a victory now, considering their chances for the cup aro hopeless and the threatened protest to tho English Union might complicate matters, .But how can the committco justify their action with regard to Mastorton protest re Polling. Surely tho law is explicit enough ou the poiut that a member of ono club cannot play in cup matches for two different clubs, even as a substitute. If that plea is valid any tcain might travel minus one or two of its weaker members, •

and play Belter men from another club as substitutes. Of couiso the composition of Iho Management Committee is tho only justification for those erratic decisions, tho representatives of tho Grey town and Star club forming tho judges in a protest in which either or botli of them are guilty of a breach of the byo laws. I dare say tho Greytown and Star clubs wish to get a closer look at that conveted cup, and wrest tho championship by fair menus or otherwise from tho Masterton Club, which lias given both of them many a fair and square beating during the last few years. 1 hopo though tho Masterton Club will not submit tamely to such treatment, but refer thoir protest, if necessary, to the decision of the English Bugby Union. I am, etc, * "Fiat Jusiitia,"