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Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 352, 15 August 1874, Page 2

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(To the Editor ot the Waikato Times.) Sin. — In this day's issue I observe a report of a meeting of cneketera hold at Hamilton. The meeting itself, and the proceedings thereat seem to be so extraoidmary in their character that one cannot help expressing astonishment at the cool audacity of those gentlemen who composed the meeting in question. No notice of this meeting was sent to miy of the cricketers in Waikato, except those chosen, nor was there any announcement in the public prints that such a meeting was contemplated. A few self-sufficient gentlemen meet at Hamilton, form a Cricket Club, and appoint themselves, (with one or two exceptions) a committee to manage the affairs of such club, and mirahile dicld, dub themselves the '■ Waikato Cricket Club." This, I think, is the most monstrous and unheard of proceeding that, I daresay, either I or any other cricketer has ever heard of, (and tj crown the absurdity), these few self-elected gentlemen passed the following resolution :— " That any person who wishes lo join the club should be proposed and beconded by members, and b illotod for bj- tbo club -one in thrco to Oi-elude." If a meeting of the whole of the cricketers of Waikato had been convened, and those, or any other gentlemen had Leen ap, omted a committee, and the general meeting had passed the above resolution, then no one could have disputed its propriety. As it is, I trust that every cricketer in Waikato will keep aloof from a club such as this which has been got up in a" hole in the corner " fashion ant 1 the affairs of which none of the members who are to b& invited to join, (and who would be the real strength of the club), aro to have a voice in the management of. Every cricketer in Waikato well knows that several of the selfelected team who went to Auckland last year as " Waikato ..Representatives " were, at the best, only second-rate playen, \and that if a really representative team, chosen from the best cricketers in the various districts had done battle for Waikato, the result would have been different. It is easy to prophesy that a club such as this which, in its present form, can receive no support, will, if it attempts to play matches with other district clubs, only bring about a repetition of the defeats of last year, mayhap in an aggravated form. Trusting that a club worthy of the nain« of the Waikato Cricket Club may bo formed out of the Waiktto players. — I am, &c. - it ' A JTOEMER PIAYEB. Ngaruawahia, August 13, 1874.