"CRICKET POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 9

"CRICKET POLITICS.

MANAGER FOR N.Z. TEAM

CHAXGE OF HEADQUARTERS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

DUXEDIX, this day

Opinions of Otago administrators and players in regard to the suggestion that a. player-manager should be appointed for the Xew Zealand cricket team on the English tour vary somewhat, but [ the general view seems to be that such an appointment is not altogether desirable. A prominent local administrator had decided views on the subject when he was approached. "If a, playermanager is to be appointed I think there are others just as fitted as Lowry to occupy the position," he stated. He put. forward the claims of'Allcott, of Auckland, who wae a member of the last team and who was rather a. different type from Lowry, and in his opinion had better "qualifications than the captain of the last team. This same committeeman, however, did not express entire approval of the player-manager suggestion, and said that the men had quite enough to do to manage the team without being called upon to play. "It should not be difficult to get a man with the necessary qualifications to fill the position," he remarked, and he mentioned two well-known admii'V tratore who might well ' considered for the managership, either Mr.. Donnelly or Mr. Dan Reese, each of Christ-: churchi

When the question of a change of headquarters from Christchurch to "Wellington was put before them divergent view's were expressed by local cri" , — j!, it men, but the general opinon was that the suggestion was not a new one,-and that nothing had come of similar proposals in the past. "I think that there ar.e men in Christchurch more fitted to cdntrol the game than those who might be appointed in Wellington," said a well-known player when asked for his opinion on the subject. He added that the Xew Zealand Council at the present time was composed of men, one of whom was at the top of his own particular profession, and the fact that the game had been making "-eh marked, progress was surely a strik'i"f illustration of their ability as administrators.