UMPIRES.
To the Editor of the Eveninq Star. Sir,— l cannot allow Cap aiu Thomas Pledger’s (of th« Citizens’ Cricket Club) remark- in your issue of last evening to pass without comm nt. In the fir-t place he throws out tic hint that tie is aware o; the n hub of the writer <f the letter signed “A Lover of Cricket.” I have not the alightes doubt - d it, especially as I did not w sh to keep 3"cn t the authorship of the s me. Mv r-aaon for not pla ing my name at the foot was simply that I h-d no wish to blazon it forth to the world and that I hold a position of honor in the club (which in Captain Pledgor’s case is a very peculiar one).
I am sorry to have hurt his feelings by my remarks of jealousy existing on the part ot some members of the D.C.G. against the Citizens’, a feeling I am in a position to prove, having had the honor of being one of a few who defeated the opposition put in the wav of erecting the Citizens’ pavillion, tcc. Personally he says he does not believe there are any grounds for mv remarks He also says he is sum that the maj rity of the C.C.C. coincide with him. Has he consulted them? Judging by his remarks— No. Had he done so, he would have found the majority were of the same opinion as myself I should like Captain Phdg r to read mv fitter again, and he will find that I did not put myself forward as the expositor of the feelings of the members of the C.C. Club, my remarks were that “it seem-d to me that a feeling of jealousy existed. I shad now conclude with an apology to the majority of the members of the Dunedin Club, as an i lea seems to have gone abroad that my remarks applied to the whole ; such was not my intention, I can ass to them, as I only intended it for one or two, A Lovbr of Cricket. Nov. 13, 1869. [We insert the above, as the letter of yesterday contains some reflections upon the writer of “A Lover of Cricket’s” last communication. With this explanation we must decline to allow the subject to be further discussed in our columns. —Eb. E.S. ]
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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2036, 13 November 1869, Page 2
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396UMPIRES. Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2036, 13 November 1869, Page 2
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