THE CALEDONIAN CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 1926, 15 January 1891, Page 29

THE CALEDONIAN CLUB.

TO THE BOWLING EDITOB OTAGO WITNESS.

Sib,— What I should like to know is what is wrong with the Caledonian Club this y3ar ? I have noticed that they have not won a single interclub match that they have played, but on the contrary have been shamefully, nay disgracefully, beaten in each. Tho result stands thus :— Koslyn match lost by ... 39 Taieri „ „ ... 15 Duuedin „ „ ... 22 Walton Park „ ... 15 Green Island „ ... 23 They played four rinks in all of these matches, with the exception of the Dunadin one, and in that they played bi'x rinks. They have only one more interolub match to play with the local clubs— that against Kaituna, and as that club is, although a young one, composed of rather good playera, I would not be at all surprised to Bee the Caledonians defeated there also. This time last year the boot was on the other foot. At the commencement of the eeascn the Caledonians, if I remember aright, bad an unbroken record of victories ; but, alas ! alas ! what a falling off is there now, my friends. That the club can play if they choose to put good men into their rinks, and experienced skip 3to direct them, there can be no doubt, or they would not have won that hotly contested match with the Boslyn Club for Miss Gebbie's prize, and why the same policy should not be carried out in every match, no matter who it is with, is one of those things past my humble comprehension. If athingis worth doing at all it is worth doing well, and I am certain that the old experienced officers who are at the head, of affairs in the club know that if every Tom, Dick, and Harry who joins the club is to be allowed to play on its behalf in its matches with the other clubs, nothing but defeat will be experienced. Five interolub matches have been already played by them this season. Now the total number of points they have been defeated by is 114, or an. average of almost 23 points per match, A melancholy record indeed. I might point out the loss the club is sustaining, and the eclat it is missing through this unbroken string of defeats. If it continues any longer the very name of the Caledonians will become a byword, and their status as a playing club will be at the very bottom of the ladder, instead of their continuing to occupy the proud position they have always in the past been noted for— viz., that of being near the top of the tree, The committee and members of the club had better see to it at once ere it is too late,— l am, &0,, An Old Gaiedonian.