POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 3

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Commenting on the League football match between Canterbury and France and replying to ‘•Union," “Victory Park” suggests that “Union” should “transfer some of the sympathy he feels for last Saturday’s crowd to those who saw the recent match. All Blacks v Auckland. He quotes an Auckland daily paper reporter as writing that it was “a match almost completely devoid of life, colour and imagination.”

On the same subject Patrick A. Smith chides “The Press” for printing “Union’s” letter. “I have a nominee with the reauisite brain power to engage ‘Union’ in a wordy battle on an equal basis,” he writes, “but unfortunately the little chap has not yet learned to write (being still at the pot-hook stage), which of course debars him from the contest.”

“Rugby League” writes: “Start the League off in the secondary schools, allow it to use some good grounds, and in a few years we shall be in a better position to judge whether Rugby is still to be our national game.” “In reply to ‘Union’s’ letter,” writes Another Union Supporter,” “I maintain that at least 6000 of the 7000 present at the France v. Canterbury League match agree with your reporter; and I feel sure they tender their deepest sympathy to r Union.’”

. t “ L £? gue for the T °P” thinks that the France v. Canterbury game was one of the best seen in New Zealand. “If Rugby League cafi produce the kind of football seen last Saturday every Saturday right throughout New Zealand Rugby Union will soon be displaced as the national game, as it has been in Australia.” he writes. M. J. McNally would like to see a Marist v. Country Rugby Union football’ match. “I feel that if played on Lancaster Park this match would draw a large gate and give the Rugby fans in the country a chance to see the champion team of Christchurch in action again't something new and yet good enough to make it a great game,” he writes.