MADIGAN'S BENEFIT.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3469, 22 September 1894, Page 9

MADIGAN'S BENEFIT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-In reply to " Fairplay's" scurillojs effusion in your issue of the 20th inst., re football match, Hamilton v. Huntly, for the benefit; of Mr C. Madigan, he asks where could the match be played? Only at Hamilton; well no doubt in the opinion of of " Fairplay and his associates, nowhere else, for i 3 not. Hamilton the hub of universe ? They evidently think so, and wouldn't give even a side show to any other place if they could possibly help it. At Ngaruawahia, he says, it seems no charge can be mads, as instead of £2O or £3O at the last match, only £4 wa9 taken. Why was that so ? Simply from the iisual defective management of the Waikato Rugby Union, or the Ngaruawahia Town Board. Why was no one at the gate to collect the money, if that had been done the £2O or £3O would have been paid, and paid cheerfully, by all who entered the field. How could people give their sixpences when there was none to receive them.- Then he states if tho match comes off at Hamilton, the ground would be roped off and no spectators allowed inside, Well, Sir, in all the matches played there by Huntly, they have never found such to be tho case. The game has generally been stopped time after time until the ground has been cleared,; and I think in the last match played at Hamilton by Huntly, the game was stopped until the spectators, and they were chiefly men connected with the Union who were the offender*, were ordered off the ground by the mnpire. Then what treatment does Huntly receive when playing at Hamilton ? Nothing but hooting and yelling from beginiiig to finish of the game. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. With regard to tlie query whether the maroons are game to meet the blues ? Yes! most decidedly yes, at Ngaruawahia, and to make it a bettor benefit' for Madigan. if" Fairplay" will stake £2O on ,the same, Huntly is willing to cover it, the losers £2O and the gate money that shall be collected, to be given to Barlow. So,Fairplay," instead of Huntly being satisfied, to rest on their laurels, they are willing to risk them and twenty pounds in company. With respect to McMillan and Co, having retired to their native haunts, down with your dmt" Fairplay," and you will find McMillan, and more especially the Co., very much in evidence on the day of trial. lam sorry to find some of the Hamiltonians are taking their gruel so badly. It surely has given " Fairplay" a bilious attack' else he would never have written with such spleen against the Huntly workers. Not gentlemen, " Fairplay, don't play us so low down as that, we are content to leave that title wholly and solely to thejudes and jam tarts of Hamilton.—l am, etc., T. S. Huntly.