CRICKET AVERAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 7237, 13 June 1887, Page 1

CRICKET AVERAGES.

TO THE KDXTOB, ' Sib, —Seeing that two months have elapsed since the close of the cricket season, I, like a good many more, would like to know who were the winners of the prizes offered to the best batting and bowling averages offered through the Awnmatfon j expect time will go on, and there will he-no more about them by the proper patties. No wonder there is so little interest taken in cricket in Dunedin by the public, for the Association themselves hardly bother their heads about It. Interest should begin athome,Why last year there were prizes offered to festb»l|3s| and as soon as the season was over the-winhers’ names appeared in print. AH our senior feet-‘ ball matches have long reports in the papers, but when a cricket match is played thepubli# get a paragraph er se. People' ask why is 'the interest dying away. I think it is because the “to** 4 not-begin at the proper place. With a-little better management our interest m the game would soon bp revived.—l am, etc., ' „ , Old Cbickbt. Oaversham, June 10, [The secretaries of clubs are entirely to bhune. •—Ed 4 E,B,J