WANTED A CRICKET CLUB.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1702, 17 January 1874, Page 3

WANTED A CRICKET CLUB.

[to the editor.] Snt — Having heard of and seeing in your papers of the existence of a cricket club in Greymoutb, last Saturday I thought I would wend my way down to your so-called cricket ground, to see what was going on. To my utter surprise, I found it deserted. To-day, I thought, being such a fine day some one must turn out. I again went down, yet again none of your willow wielders showed up. I suppose it is only on state occasions that the young men of Greymouth turn out to do the athletic. In Victoria, or, I may say}!: the whole of Australia, Saturday afternoons were given up for the express purpose of the young men taking exercise. Even there they have found that Saturday is not sufficient for them, for they use their spare hours, both before and after work, to practice in. I have no doubt but there are more young men in Greymouth than it would take to make a good cricket club, and on Saturdays they could easily pick two good elevens to do justice to the game of cricket, In a British Colony like this, it is a phame on the young men to let that noble game go so low as it is new — two beautiful Saturday afternoon's passed over the Greymouth Cricket Ground, and no play it. Do the young men here, Mr Editor, pass their Saturday afternoons in Bleep, or do they on that stated period do the literary ? or, have they come so low as to have become the frequenters of back parlors at an hotel with cards and frjend Bacchus 1 The season js only half over, surely, Mr Editor, you can stir the youth, or young gentlemen (if they so liked to be called) to do justice to that noble and manly sport. Look how the Victorians have gained their last victory. Why, when the Englishmen come out again, which they will do in due course of time, why, Sir Editor, should not New Zealand share their contests, and why, I say, should not Greymouth (she will be first city on the West Coast) lend her quota and share in the match? I have, in my time, seen pome of the finest cricket m the world, and, Mr Editor, there is nothing I enjoy so much as seeing a good keenly contested game of cricket, and still, Sir, though I am going down hill in life 1 would like to see our young men grow to enjoy exercise as much as I did, and, if young in years, would now. 1 hope, Mr Editor, that this will stir some one to make a fresh si art, and commence in earnest to make cricket the summer out-door occupation of the young men in Greymouth. After March, I hope some one will take an interest, and see about a football club. 1 am, &c, An Oid. One. January 11, 1874.