OLD CRICKETER'S OFFER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 18

OLD CRICKETER'S OFFER.

DAN REESE AS COACH.

NET PRACTISE ESSENTIAL.

. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ,CHEiSTCHUECH, this day.

"If I can help to make more young players realise that cricket is not merely a matter of personal enjoyment but that they,i : bwe something to the game, to their: club, their province, and their country, in which ever sphere of cricket they play, then I feel sure I will have helped to lay the seed for better days, ahead in the game in this province," said Dan'■Reese, the well known Canterbury cricketer in making an offer to the effect that'll- Sydenham Club will put nets up he v is prepared to don flannels, and coach the first eleven every Monday night until; Christmas. He adds that if any, other senior club is prepared to have the whole of its first eleven at its grounds on Wednesday evenings he will do the same for them.

"Canterbury;> he added, would never produce Hickmotts and Blunts again from two nights practice per week. The remedy was to beat up enthusiasm, have enthusiastic captains to start with, and give h preference to young and keen players. One young New Zealand player had •had a trip to both Australia and England at tlie expense of the New Zealand Cricket-Council ' and now he would not practise. One must take out the whip to that type, and if they failed to respond to pass on to someone else.