NO SURRENDER.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 513, 2 September 1875, Page 3

NO SURRENDER.

SrR, — Tn reference to the letter si^nad "No Snrten W in your issue 21st iiih£, tb/« Haunt t n l^io'bill Olub wif-h 10 maki no wmraent, nut, to 3©ajpe the public t > jurf^e of the mn<ter for thttnselves; imd in accordance with a re&olut'on passed at » special meeting, I fo» ward y-u all correspondence between tmst-lfund theOajtiin of the Cambridge Football Cjlu-b. — I am, 40, C. C Wood COPT OF LKTTEB FOKWAKDPD TO OAMBfcIDUB. HaJ4ILTO% August 23 r«1, 1875. —Sir -At a sppcia! meeting of the Hamilton Football Ciub re ' N > Surrender's" letter published in Waik*to TiME3 usue of iho 21ot nist,., the following reso-Juti-'ii was passed: — " Thafc the Secretary be ins'lucted to write to the Captain ol the Cambridge Team asking for *m explanation in tha matter referred to in " No fiurrender's" letter, us the Secretary of tho 1 Hamilton Football Olub has no knowledge of tho chal'enge received from tha Cambridoe Team." 1 fchall therefore fi-el by your favouring me at your earliest eonv*n ; enf;e wi h » copy of the challenge you t are «aid"to have ' sent" to th» Hainil'oii Club, With the alleged answer dec iuing the said c'laU^ngc. — lam, &c.C C Wood. To Sergfc. MacKintoih, Captain Cunb idge F. C. COPT OF KBPLT BICIIVBD. RoToßiwai, fi6ik \u£u«t, 1875. *ia,— The •t»tetnt»nt u untru« thU I «ent a chill«nge to tho H amiiton Club which w*s declined I have no further explanation to qi re re "No Surren•der'i" letter »• I t l^e no knowledge whatprer of the writer or fii* m'rti*^. ' Charles Taineb M^CKixroSH. To C. C. Wood, Eiq., Secy. HaitWlton Football Clab. [It ceH^inly does appear to ua that " No Surrender' disolajed un *ue haste in utteaapting to fix a stigmft uoon tae Hamilton Club. He appear< to tmve leat a toa wilh-g or to tome milchietous informant, and then rushed into print without taking the trouble io inquire into the alleged, facts. On th.«* other nan 1, tne Hamilton Club have dwpUyerf a degree of moderation and courtesy which, un^er the -circumstance*, does them great credit. We trust, now that tne rnat'er has been satisfactorily e'eared up, the two Cluis will' display th* same friendly emulation a« rh>y erhibitei prior to tuii Mitre-temps, md will wa k ti>*etne»" to fo3ter the m.mly gama of f jotbalL— Ed. \V. T.]