A FEW THOUGHTS ON CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 5590, 7 February 1881, Page 2

A FEW THOUGHTS ON CRICKET.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir,—l content myself with saying that the remarks of "Cover-point" in your Saturday's supplement affecting, not to say insulting, me are absolutely false. I entirely deprecate the suggestion that cricketers with grievances against com* mittees should rush into print. I hold strongly that nearly all the troubles in our sports here are engendered and fostered by the Insinuating inuendoes and malicious attacks of guasi-edltoiial paragraphs and letters on'e? noms deplume published as, I think, with too' little discrimination by the Dunedin Press. I oannot conclude this letter without exposing my great regret that "Cjverpojnt" should have so effusively indulged his joy at the defeat of our Canterbury brethren in your columns. I have good reason to doubt the correctness of some of the statements, as, for instance, "that the proposal was for a time seriously debated of playing the Australians on level terms," The attaok on the 80-oalled "clique who control matters cricket in the capital (Christchuroh)," Is, from a Dunedin pen, at least out of plaoe, If not in aotual bad taste.—l am, etc, Henhy Rose, Captain Carisbrook Crioket Club, Dunedin, February 7.