A GOOD RUGBY PLAYER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 154, 15 June 1920, Page 3

A GOOD RUGBY PLAYER.

[To the Editor.] Sir, —In your issue of Saturday night ■ a correspondent signing himself “One | Vein, Knows, ’ endeavours to take I "Rugby’’ to task for his criticisms of ! IK Castro of the Hastings senior teqm. It is not a difficult matter to prove how little “One Who Knows" ready know.-. Firstly, I have admitted tha'. ' De Castro is of great assistance to the s Hastings team, and is a brilliant indi- ■ vidnal player. Secondly, I have ahso- ■ luteiy nothing whatever to do with whht> appears in your Monday- evening • issue.-, and Cn no occasion have 1 res ferred to De Ca.-tro's selection as a representative player, nor to his capacity ns Captain. 1 admit 1 am, on account I of tny advancing years, a looker on. , and one who really does know how in--1 judicious it would lie for me to critii c-i-e a piayer if 1 was a p ayer myself. i It is ft recognised fact, however, that I onlookers see usoK of the game. As Ito the duties of a captain. 1 was a captain of a senior team when Rugby football was at its zenith in Hawke's Bay, and in those day s would not have liven honoured with that job as “One Who Knows" terms it. if not. qualifies to carry out and understand the duties pertaining thereto, and I have noCTor•mtten them tceday. What De Castro • lid for Rugby football at the trout i- well known to me, and I clo not give wav even to “Ono Who Knows," in appreciation of De Castro’s services. To repeat one of “On.* Who Knows” own sentence 4 , Hawke s Bay is fortunate to secure such a player as Do Castro, and if he* trusts his üble fellow players a little more and refrains from usurping their positions on die fieid to the detriment of the game, tor which I have criticised him in my weekly note:-, it. i will soon be iurtlicr proved how fortunate it is for Hawke s Bay-to have st I plaver of De Castro - individual abilii ties' in the district, ft is also pleasing I' to learn that De Castro is such a sterlI ing sportsman as to be able to take ais | criticisms with a smile an attribute | which pnibably “One W [io Know s does not, possess.—l am, etc.. RUGBi ■