REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 17, 20 July 1893, Page 4

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL. TO THE EDITOR.

), Sir — My argument has been misundere stood. I will repeat in simple form what I y maintained, aud still maintain, to be a a correct view of tbe position. The Maori >, and English teams, with 25 aud 24 members it respectively, played many matches (the exact if number ia^not merely a detail, but Cn imo material one), and the present New Zealand c -team, comprising 23 men, has played few c matches. I therefore maintain that if this t New Zealand team, afterplayingfewmatohes, > is in urgent need of assistance, it is oertainly y much inferior in stamina to the Maori and d English teams, who played many matches, 5 under conditions as hard, againstopponentsas c tough, and yet required no extra assistance. a Taking the figures supplud by Mr. Hoben, c I find that tho Maori team played 74 matojieß t in 182 days, or at tbe rate of one match every i- 2t days. The New Zealand team, after the 4 second contest with the New South Wales d team, had played five matches in 10 days, 0 or one match every two days. If one team a can play 74 matches at the rate of one in 6 overy 2J days, how much superier in stamina >• must it be to a team whioh can play only i- five matohes at the rate of one in every c two days ? Perhaps Mr. Hoben will get some k schoolboy to work out the problem for him. i- due allowance to be made for the slight 1 difference in the numerical strength of the c teams. The conditions cannot, in any appren oiable degree, be more adverse to the New - Zealand team than to the others. Mr. J Hoben insinnates that the hard grounds are » responsible. 'A gentleman lately in New - South Wales tells me that tho Beason there f has been very wet, and lam quite satisfied r that the New South Wales footballers would - not, for their own Bakeß, play on grounds as - hard as Newtown Park, and even that, at • tbe present time, is soft enough for anything. 5 If the urgent necessity for reinforcements i exists, it ib plain, therefore, that the present a New Zealand team is inferior in stamina. In ■ that oase, by all means send reinforcements. » It would be exceedingly unfortunate if any 1 New Zealand combination were at the 9 present moment to fail to meet its engage3 menta in Australia. An this, in the case of t ! the N.Z. team, is what Mr. Hoben serionsly - foars. If, however, the N.Z. team is not r inferior in stamina, there is no necessity for b reinforcements, and the desire for assißtanoe • is not sincere, and probably arose out of the f mixed feelings engendered in the team by ■ its decisive and unexpected defeat. r I am, *0., " Lucien. r 19th July, 1893. " [Wo fail to see the utility of instituting ' comparisons between the present and for- ' mer representative teams. The thing now is ' to put a team into tho field to beat the New ; South Wales team. This correspondence , is closed.— Ed. E.P.]

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