CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

TO THE EDITOR, ■Sir, —Your correspondent, Mr Williams, evidently lacks the finer traits that go towards making a sportsman of the true type. Ho insinuates that because Mr Ecldiold happens to be a workmate of a few of the Kaikorai players ho would allow that to influence his decisions. Perhaps Mr Williams talks more than he reads, which will account for the fact that he will not have noticed that the Kaikorai team lost Hie last match at which Mr Eckhold refereed for them. Mr Eckhold’e long service to Otago as a representative footballer and cricketer should be a guarantee to all 'true sportsmen that ho will always bo fair and just when controlling a game, .and he will not try to break a term's temper or spirit by blowing his whistle every live minutes to penalise it. I quite agree that we should have a change of referees at the Carisbrook. It is just possible if it camo to an argument a referee would be able to prove that every penalty imposed was justified j but there is a. big difference in toeing strict and more strict. It is good-bye to the team that a. referee decides to be more strict with, and this has been Kaikorai’« fate on more than one occasion at the Carisbrook Ground lately.—l am, etc., J. Black. July 28.