CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4361, 6 March 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

"Where!Oh Where." [To the Eniioa W, D. Times,] Sir.—Whore are our cricketers ? licho answers, "Wheto?" The season which opened with such promiso (four clubs I believe were actually seen on tho Oval at the same tirno) seems during the last few weeks to havo almost complotoly collapsed. Why is this i Fancy a team of cricketers (?) having the utter cheek to meet tho crack Waira> rapa Club without so much as an hours' practice together. Without doubt there is the nucleus of as good a team to bo found hero as anywhere in the Wairarapa. What aro the men doing ? Football will bliow that there is no want of somo kind of pluck amongst them, yet it appears an impossibility lo get an eleven to practico" together joinedin cricket's manly toil." Always a pie-dusty promise, or, as wo read of in olden time, one is going it journey and prays to be excused, anothor because he is attending to stock, or maybe stocks, another has married a wife, and yet others prefer the effeminate lawn tennis and general "mooching" about, It is perfectly sickening to know that a good team could bo go', together, yet the cricketers (?) are so indolent, selfish, or egotistical that they will not roll up for practice either for their own benefit or even the good of their town. lam very much afraid, Sir, (hat the true cricketer in Mastorton, with one or two exceptions, is as extinct as the moa, lam, etc., " Willow."