CRICKET COMPETITIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 6

CRICKET COMPETITIONS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— Being a keen follower of tho third grade cricket competition and knowing tho facts of tho case quoted by “Keep Them Interested” in to-night’s issue, I would like to bring them before your readers. Tho Grange 0 team baa played St. Kilda twice in tho first round having won tho first, which put them in tho lend. Tho second match was played because- St. Kilda had a bvo and tho Northeast Valley 13 team had withdrawn from the competition thereby giving Grange, who were drawn to play them a win by default.. To save both teams having a Saturday off tho Match Committee drew these teams to play each oilier with tho result as stated by “Keep Them 1 uteres bed.” This is how St., Kilda is now 1 point In the load (Grange having drawn one match with Anderson Bay). I think if either team has been badly treated to date it la tho Grange, not St. Kilda. The first round lias now been completed, with three or four teams very near tho lop, and I think tint the Match Committee could not do anything else but play off the top teams during tho remaining three Saturdays of the season, and not put thorn against weak teams, as your correspondent would like. As In tho assertion that the St. Kilda team is composed of young players, ray opinion is that they arc the oldest players in tho third garde, and I am certain older than tho Grange team, I hope that this will explain tiro other side of tno qnonion, and that “Keep Them Interested” will realise that tho competition is not won till it is finished, —I am, etc., Audi Alteram Pakteii. March 36,