NEW CONSTITUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 219, 16 September 1938, Page 15

NEW CONSTITUTION.

RENAMED AQUILA. OPEN MEMBERSHIP. NOTED PLAYERS JOINING. The King's College Old Boys' Cricket Club had difficulty on a number of occasions last season in putting an eleven in the field. During the holidays a 16-year-old boy still at Mount Albert Grammar School filled a vacancy, and he improved the shining hour by skittling the etumps of the Plunket Shield captain (Alf Postles) and a world-record partnership holder (W. N. Carson) when King's met Eden. This was D. D. Taylor, who has further distinguished himself in Australia with the Xew Zealand Collegiate Soccer team.

Another recruit was the ex-Auckland Grammarian K. S. Arklnetall, whose slow bowling was useful on the Brabin Cup team's southern tour, and later for King's, for whom Don Cleverley also playetl and created a mild sensation at Devonport. j The restricted constitution, of t\e club has caused much reflection djttiug, the' off-season, and it was at firtt qqrife|i»' plated altering it to provide, for ship being open to past etudente c&ttfiy; secondary."scH"ool. -. At Wodneaday annual meeting,-' however, a mor<e.Jsi)|dieal: change eiill •sn»e<actuaHy,iaA?.«pted; i:^'; shß» was unrestricted. meaO?fer«hip, abd tee formation of a new chifr named Aquila, absorbing. the o.v-Kjng'e coUegiahe. ,-. ; ■* ■ That a strong oleveu can be placed in the field-i« evidenced from a scrutiny of the follpwing players P. Howden,- last year's Otago Plnnket Shield eleven; D. Blanc hfield, another senior! Dunedin club cricketer rPeter. WUirjfTns, Waikato 19*7- wicfcet-ke«^;

and batsman; Lcn Vivian. Eden. D. C. Cleverler and K. S. Arkinstall: and prom incut old hoys, of King's College in tlie person of "l'ai" Cnughey, Herbert Pearson. F. M. Andrews. L. M. and Steve Smith. Several other "outsiders" have j-.ined up with Aquila, or intend to do so. and there does not seem to be any r.*asrm why the Auckland . Cricket Association should not accept, the now club's 'senior eleven in lieu of.'lyiis'* OH Hoys; Officers elected at the annual meeting: — Patron. Mr. J. X. Peart: vice-patron. Mr. H. B. Lusk: prerftknt. Mr. T, H. C. Canghcy: secretary. Mr. TV\'S~.' Douglas; treasurer. Mr. T. A. MeArthur: assistant secretary-treasurer. Mr. H. Ban-Brown; club captain. Mr. F. M. Andrews: delepates to A.C.A.. Messrs. H. T. Pearson, G. Kerry and V. M. Abbott; committee. Messrs. D. C. Cleverley. ; F;<M. Abbott, and P Mowbray: selection committee,' Messrs. F. M. Andrews. H. T. Pearson. D. C. Cleverley, G. W. Coles and P. Mowbray.