CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 3

CRICKET.

■ Sir, —Your remarks regarding tho dangers which beset cricketers who are Holding 'on No. 3 widiot Basin Reservo will, I am sure, appeal to many a player who, lias recollections of halls whizzing past his ears. As. you truly state, boy cricketers literally swarm on tho fountain sido of tho rosorve on Saturday afternoons, and cricket balls are flying about in all directions. We go on year after yoar remarking how marvellously few accidents occur, but nothing is ever done by way of lessening the danger. Why not tacklo this question before someono is killed? It seoms to me tho City Council (or its Reserves Committee) should loso no time evolving ordor out of chaos by laying down certain lines for the guidance of cricket on tho fountain side of tho drain.. ' Tho number of matches should he limited and defined, and recognised wickets should be so laid out as to practically abolish tho present great danger to life and limb. Unless something of tho kind is done some small boy (likely as not the only son of a widow) will sooner or later bo killed, and then? By limiting matches to two days tho W.C.A. (wisely, it seems to mo) encouraged batsmen of the hard-hitting order. This typo is deservedly popular, and their f>no play should not ho cramped by the' possibility of causing a funeral.—l im, ot0; , FEDOR K. KELLING. Wellington, November 7, 1907.