GIRL GUIDE RALLY IN DOMAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20112, 24 November 1928, Page 16

GIRL GUIDE RALLY IN DOMAIN.

Sir, —I think yonr correspondent, Dr. E. M. Turkington, misses the issue. The cricket ground was primarily for cricket and in summer the main upkeep of the ground falls upon tho cricketers, who have to pay ground fees every week. My association contributes approximately £lO every Saturday. The contribution therefore made by the Girl Guides—itself an admirable movement —is insignificant toward the upkeep of the ground. The Girl Guides make one effort every year, but the boys are contributing to the upkeep of the ground every Saturday. What my association suggests, in view of the fact that the pirls now have a ground of their own, is that tho Girl Guides might utilise that ground instead of depriving four or five hundred boJ'S of a game, on Saturday, particularly as tho girls, by obtaining the Remuera ground, already prevent every Saturday 220 boys playing cricket. Although the Reserves Committee of the Auckland City Council is doing magnificent work in trying to cope with the shortage of grounds, yet my association, because of its not being able to obtain sufficient grounds this season, has been unable to allow 350 boys to play cricket every Saturday, some of our grades being; entirely disbanded, and similar remarks applying to the A.C.A. We suggest that the Girl Guides might have obtained Blandford Park or Carlaw Park, or even at a pinch used their own ground. The advancing tide of femininism in competition with masculinism in the world of sport is such that one would almost hazard a suggestion that, if this competition continues, then, in view of tho shortage of grounds in Auckland, it will mean that many of the spectators at gills' cricket matches, etc., will be men and boys, who wo humbly think should bo playing, but who would become, as bank sitters and spectators, admirers of their more masculine sisters. J. F. W. Dickson*, Chairman, Auckland C. and S. Cricket Assn.