DISTRICT CRICKET.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12852, 10 July 1907, Page 8

DISTRICT CRICKET.

+ TO THK KDITOR OF "THE TRESS " Sir, —One reads with interest the letters of D. 11. Thomson and others doing honest buttle to retain tlie present system of district cricket until a fair trial lias been given. The position takon up by Wigley, Jameson, an<l Co. at the meeting was simply ridiculous, and not in the interest of cricket at all, but a direct move to reconstruct the Unite;! CC. for sn-.-ial reasons. There are a lot of goo;l fellows in vise I.C.C, and lirst-rate spjrts who always play tho g;iir.c, come "hat may; but yet one fituis al-o a "heap of rctters" who deem it infra dig. to play cricket nightly -with nun who earn their bread by honest toil.

At tho annual mooting of the Christ's College Old Hoys' A-μ ciatiim on sports night two treasons ago, Wigl«-y hold tho floor, and turning eiii'ivet lie re-in;irktHt about I'reakin.j; up their only -social club lor tolkgo ol.j beys, -aiui' advoeattxl a move then to esublisli another I'niteil CC.— I pro sumo tor social purposes. Tins, you sue, eir, whs long "go- Fort inuioly. Mr A 10. (i. Khode-s sat on Wigley. co to speak, and ucteiuio;! tho Ui-tiat cricket niovo and advtK-«tcd giving it a fatr trial. .Several ex-ine,i;ln rs of trie United have done their be.-t to cripple senior cricket m tiio Sc. Allans Cluo hy I'oiuinually absenting iiiemsolves front practice during mc mo seaeons. Men of tho calibre n.oiitiouixl are not sports in tiitrue een«> cf tho vorii. but would bo better termed >"v>aul Cricko:er.s. Jt they uoukl rt.c«,it a hint iii:r. mo. 1 would .si;_gt.'~t u:at tlicy qi:i'ji<ly acijuire part <it the Lxiiibitions b:nl .irg.in Xonh Park uiut ml t:u< nvnt lawiis and torm a "rouiKivrs club. ' wiieic thoir tribo might uur-ort UioiiiAc-ivw and drink tea a<l nb. "Ltt us iniprov our cricket und m.;k i!i*> ji.otives so apparcut a;:.ong the i<v. — io;;.e, ttc . OLD CUKiol\= Ci.i.i:(.f; HOY.