CRICKET.
I VO THK KDH'OU. Sin,—Willi your permission, I would like at the close of the present cricket si'aMin, to say a few words, as an old W.iikato cricketer, on the condition into which the game soems to me to have drifted in this district- All will agree, 1 think, that a spirit of friendly rivalry among the different clubs is much to lu desired, as calculated to induce members to practise and thereby become more proficient cricketers, but what must be deplored is, that there should seem to have arisen in the decision of some matches now-a days, a certain amount of personal ill feeling. lam sure that all old cricketcrs will join with me iti saying that there is not the slightest necessity for any such manifestations in the decision of a game of cricket, which should be fought out on the lines of friendly rivalry, not on the win, tie. or wrangle principle. Further with regard to the umpiring—which is perhaps at the bottom of the evil—it should be remembered by both sides that the urupiro's decision should be without question, but it is always open for the captain whose side may feel aggrieved or feel a want of confidence in the umpire to ask for his removal—but there need be no wrangling over the matter, for nothing tends to lower the tone of the game more than to have the umpire's decisions openly questioned, and the respective elevens arguing the point in the field. There will always do a number of sympathisers with one or both sides, whose remarks at times are very trying to those against whom they are directed, but as the offenders in these cases are generally of the larrikin order, what they may say in their wisdom (?} should not be set down as emanating from either side, and should bo treated with contempt. In making the foregoing remarks, I wish it distinctly understood that they are intended to apply to tha mode of playing the game of cricket and not as directed ngi'kist any particular club or clubs. —I am, &c., K B. Cox. Taupiri, March 4th, 18S0.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2597, 5 March 1889, Page 2
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356CRICKET. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2597, 5 March 1889, Page 2
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