TO THE EDITOR.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1373, 15 December 1884, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — It would hardly be fair to myself to allow the production of the handicapper for tbe above sports, published m your last issue, to pass without some protest. I say " handicapper " adviredl >• , became although there were three appointed, the very crude attempt issued is almost entirely the woik of Mr Cowper, a gentleman wh >. if I am informed aright, knows nothing whatev r a out pedestritnism, except what he as sumes. lam paced at scratch m the 100 ya<ds and the | mile. In t!<e first distance I have only won oric^, and that was eight years ago, with seven yards' start. The other distance T have not tried, but I believe the" handicap is fouti ed on the fact that eight years ago I won a mile race with eighty yards start. H. Johnston, who has ] an establish© i. reputation as a mile runner, having won here as late- as last month, is actually placed on a level with me. If Mr Cowpet had the faintest idea of handcap* ping he would know that it is institutd to give everyone- 1 — good, tad, and indifferent — a fair chance of winning. „<Tbis he has not done, and untiL somebody gives him a few lessons m the art/he nover will do, arid the Committee could surely find someone less ignorant of handicapping- than the gentleman I have named. Feed. Pibani.