Righteous Indignation

I have been asked by members of the Third Grade Cricket team to reply to your doubtful joke re our results this year.

It would appear fairly obvious the sports writer has had no experience of the difficulties under which the Third Grade team play.

One one occasion only this season have we been sent out with a full team of members of the Cricket Club, and we have played with as few as seven men. Our gear is in a shocking condition, although of late we have been supplied with four pads which are each all in one piece. I am instructed to take the material to Messrs. Witcombe and Caldwell to be repaired. I have done this and been informed by that firm that the material is not worth repairing. My efforts to obtain a bat have been greeted with faint smiles and I am told that there is no money as the subscription are outstanding.

We definitely feel that we are not getting a fair go and are rather disappointed in the attitude that "anything is good enough for the Thirds," which the Cricket Club Committee apparently holds. We have thirty-two championship points and it is entirely due to the apathy of the Committee that .we have been "done" for two eight-point wins. The Third Grade is a good source of points for the Club Championship, and it is very galling to me and to the other members of the team who have stuck to Third Grade cricket with a view to building something up, not to receive any support from the Committee.

In conclusion, might I suggest that if we are to receive no help from the club, we should at least not suffer as the butt of rather ill-considered humour.