SELECTION COMMITTEE GORDON C.C.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 252, 24 October 1893, Page 2

SELECTION COMMITTEE GORDON C.C.

(To the Editor.) , Sir, —An inspection of the names ?of the team chosen to represent Gordon in their opening match against Auckland discloses evidence of something distinctly wrong. In selecting a team for an opening match of a season, a Committee has nothing bo guide them bub the previous season's averages and form ; x no play has as yet taken place from which any estimate worth anything can be made. Examined on the ground?, then, of last year's averages and records, what justification has the Selection Committoe for excluding Kenderdine from the team ? Here is his record for last year: Sixth place in beam in batting averages with 13*7 : fourth place in team in bowling with 10-58. Others as well a3 myself are curious. Kenderdine should be, without doubt among the first five to be, selected, yet he's nob in the team at all I The action of the Selection Committee has been strongly condemned, not only among Gordoii partisans, bub cricketer generally, and I maintain <.here is ground for condemnation.

Though not now a player, I yeb retain a warm interest for the Gordon Club, and would regret if any vitiating influence like favouribism should creep into the management. Yeb one cannot escape from either of two conclusions—incompetence or favouritism. If it's incompetence, ieb the Club demand the election of a new SeiecHon Committee at once; if it's " the other thing," then we may expect suicide by slow poison aa far as the Club is concerned, for no Club can live with this iv its constitution. Players' sympathies are alienated by sudi proceeding, and the public don'b look favourably on clubs who play fasb and loose wich their members.

I have only one desire in drawing attention to whab seems to me a wrong, oM would regret if th« Committee took up toe matter in any other ppirib than that in which it is written. "Fiat justitia ruM ceelum." —Yours, etc., F. W. Grimshaw.