Rugby Union Entertainment.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6007, 25 November 1890, Page 2

Rugby Union Entertainment.

[to tub uditob.]

Sm,—lll reference to the above, I soo that tho prices of admission to tho Theatre on Thursday night next have been fixed at 3s, 2s, and Is. Now I would gladly take myself and family (Aye altogether) into the 2s seats, but I am not justified in spending los on any entertainment. I am, however, forced either to spend the sum I caunot properly ai.ord, or keep away from the Theatre altogether, for I will not submit u'.lin to be insulted by the larrikins in tho pit by taking tickets for the stdls. If the l.m'by Union can guarantee me and initio from insulting language, I will spend ten shillings in the purehaso of tickets: if that '■uaniuteo cannot bo given I shall keep ,-iwriv and so will many others.—l am, Sec, '' ' A Parbnt.

gi X) _ « Rugby," unless ho bo very voting, fcbould kuow that veiled insinuations iind am attempt to discover tho identity 01 a correspondent aro unpardonable urns in newspaper controversy. For hie lniormation i may say my communication oti Saturday was the first I ever addressed to you on football. It if "Itugby" who epotiks o> charity ; 1 did not. Tho heavy expenses *noko.i of uh all paid for by tho public, who coutributo so liberally at tho gate. This season thoro was a nporte meeting, a ball, good gate* at tho notches nnd a concert proposed, all in '«d of the funds of tho Kuv'bv Union, ami when a toam visitod hero from another district: on tha morniug ot tho match mibsoription shoots were fly in- round town asking for donations, while in the afternoon thero was a good gate. Members of fouttwU clubs have only to pay five shillings for tho season, while our cricketers have to lioutributo a guinea, and get littlo or jio Mipport from tho publio. If tho coilors of thi) Rugby Union are not overllowitig thin boasou it must bo because they have introduced that detestable thing, professionalism, either directly or indirectly paying players, which is certainly demoralising and not in the interests of— TIiUK Si'OET.