BLOW v. PLUCK.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 508, 21 August 1875, Page 2

BLOW v. PLUCK.

Sir, — A few weeks since the Hamilton Football Club challenge i a Cambridge team, promising them-ehe-i, no (l ( )ubr,, an easy victory over the scrubbers ? The challenge w.is acoe >ted and the m itch c itno dil", the if iiiaitom m-j not a -oring % win. lhe. other day the Captain ot' the Cambridge team, sent ll'iui.lton a challenge to play a roiuni match, but whether the Uaiailton Club was satisfied with what it had already got, and dad th- fear of a beating be/ore its eyes, I knosr not, but certain it u tint sotting nsiio a 1 cu-ttomor prt-ec Jeut, the challenge was declined, — not only a most discourteous action on the part of the Hamilton Club, but npprodiini» pretty nearly to a deliberate insult to Cd-mbn.lge. It would be ba I enough for any club to be'iave in a tiimlar manner, but it i omes with even AOrse grice from the Hamilton Club, they having actually put it out of their power to decline any proper challenge, by adopting that most striking insignia the " Skull and Cro 33 3 3 Bone-s," every "No Surrender' cub engaging to pl-vy all com ts or give up the b tcl^». I suppose ilu liaimltu)! kickiais aiupt ili.it de\ioe lor the eaoie reason that " Cinneso lir>nea" paint horrible pictures upon their shields, m the hope of s.-aiing t le enemy and prevent th^ necessity of tickling him, Juost as.^-ure lly funking it they do havo to light, 1 hear the lJa-uiltoiuau« talk ab .ut kicking agiiiidt Auckland, let them stop at home until they can beat a scratch team, g)t up at half an hour's notice, or at any rate until they have h arat the ordiaary rales of football aud courtesy. No Scjßai2TC>Sß# Oambril fc 'c, lo.h August, IS7o.