WAIKAIO CRICKET ASSOCIATION

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2952, 16 June 1891, Page 2

WAIKAIO CRICKET ASSOCIATION

i-1 rn !■' r.i I >;l l!i iv ;:i *.'1 if y.in will allow me to !ii ■ ■ :i [>'\v in reply .Mr M< I'.irlane.- nth' r i- mi.'.l attack that, appeared in y »ur i».»psM' ' .»-day. J u tlie liivt cise. Mr Mc n)!'. - i" ; . "As In Ij i s charge of C'r.v.ir'ii'::' not know what it i.-.' ? I wi*l :.-ive Iwu m-Hnee-< of what I j w.s i' 1 i c-•- and . 1111 >\v uthets to indge ; — !. I f u club pi;iy : j foi only h-av hoars, and llji le is :-till i>ll(s and a half hums tfood lujhf, and they i efnse to play longer its they •ii'-' almost cor!.mi to 10-e the match if it is play. (3 out". J. I f they will nil have a disputed match sett'od by ai bit rati m, or )»lay auoih'-.TI) decide il. Mt MeL'arlaue atl!o iho l' l 'lit"iif< of Mr Richdalo's letter in nvery particular, yet ho i> |»tuved to bo wrong wlii'ii ha states that the captain of t!n» iinJ'i idue C.C. c.mfirin> their contention tint the lime fi\o "1 by Ii»o Association for drawing the stumps w.<s mx o'clock, whereas the captain of the Cambridge C.C. informed :he .Secretary of th»i Waikatn Ci icket Ah- >ci aion u that he knew of no ition rule to that effect and Mr Kiehd de alrw-t ites that the Secretary of the Association made a statement which that u'entleman altogether denies Mr McFirlaue .-tates that we kept his team waiting for nearly half-an-hour before starting the match on J.tun try Mtd, (Mo* lie forpet that lin asked me to put his club in first, a« his men had not all rolled up 'i I ain sorry to hear tha'- had " a poor scratch team." J have often noticed that when a tc un do-.-s u'.i d ) quite a.-, veil as it is «\. pect'?il t.>, th it they have always the e\cu->u of a wale to ;:n to tali b.iclc upon. 1 can und-island it heint» called a scratch team, a- I ht-v h i 1 "iie o| fhe be -t plav-*r> in the 0a 11 o!! a to a.-H-t tlieui. Mr McKalliJe'-; statements ate, for tin' iilo-t part. 1 't dly me u r<'ct, and in oth- r instances ho has twisted niy words - » that t!u-y ha\o an en!indy diti'i.rent meaning from what was inti'ii if 1, s i that 1 do not m 'he least, wonder that Mr McK.riaue himself Is "almie-t in despair of (his statement-! h aceej ted a«i trut.ii/' On the "tiler in nd, 1 ha\e put my vi;r.- iou before the pubbe with a clear conscience, and without tin- fear of hiring thought nutiuthfnl iu the ui.<tter Cunle-s it is by Mr Mcl'ai 1 ■ ;in 1 ), however much one may dilier iu opinion from Mie. .VIJow me to a f»?w w ei! - in answer to Mr M<as V letter, Jam to say that, though with us iu one <n two matter.-, he e.\pn.)-e.s his opinieuis in u coin teous and nnuiu'r. I cannot understand what Mr Me us means when lie siys " we did not feel called upon to play with live or »i\- men to n :iit Tuhi-kar.un-'a's c an''enienee." As we wou» able and willing to m-et t >haup<» t.'.L". oil almost any S «turJay atter December I,'Jth, with thd exception of the two Sit.urdav-* on which we played and as Lhev played a match with a club not to the .V-ocijtion alter that date, J think that it would ha\e been better if they had made every ell'ort to finish the Association matches ti.>t-. —I am, Arc., K. \V. La.\'«;. Tulnkiramea, .)une Dtli, 1 .