CRICKET.
« OTA GO ASSOCIATION'S FINANCES. (special to "toe rrass.") ■ . DUXEDIN, July 21. Ota-go cricket is not in a good way just now. At a meeting of the Association, the secretary submitted a statement showing the amount" of the overdraft to be £217 Oβ lOd, and as the guarantee was for £250, the position was, said the chairman, somewhat acuta. Some outspoken eomiMent. wae uia<lo regard-' ing the failure of those citizens who had promised to raiae JC2CO per annum for the co.gch fund, bet; had failed to do co. It wae largely in consequence of these promises of help, said one member, that the agreement with the coach had been entered into, and now that the help was not forthcoming the Asnociation were "in a hole." 'Tho donaiione for the first year at least ahould have be«n secured lonjr, ago. A committee of four was appointed to wait upon the members of the. Citizens' Committee who Tiad undertaken to raise the money> and'to place before thorn the eerious position of the Association's funds. A motion wae paened at the annual meetins that Mr F. C. Raphael be elected a life member of tie w Zealand Cricket Council.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15337, 22 July 1915, Page 10
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