SOLE SELECTOR.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 31 July 1928, Page 10

SOLE SELECTOR.

BOWLING CENTRE'S DECISION. A HARDY ANNUAL. One of tho hardy annuals that reappear year after year in most of the bowling centres in New Zealand is the system of selection—whether there shall be a sole selector, or more than one. The subject cropped up automatically at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Bowling Centre last night, when the election of office-bearers was in progress. Mr H. 13urson moved that there be a sole selector, and the motion was seconded bv Mr D. 15. Wood. The chairman (Mr F. J. Good) was just putting the resolution to the meeting when Mr E. L. Mclveon held him up, asking why the haste. He wished to move as an amendment that they elect three selectors.

"I am of the opinion that you caunot, with a sole selector over such a wide area, obtain the best results," ho said "I think it impossible for one man to get over all those greens frequently and gain an idea of the players' form. It may be said that selectors know the form of players, but when you have 1500 bowlers it seems quite impossible that any one man can do the job, and do it thoroughly. It citrinofc but be apparent that there are men year in and year out who are picked in representative teams. Consequently, it may look as if many of our younger players who are coming on cannot catch the eyo of the selector. It may bo all right in tho case of a club, because there he has oi>ly the one green, but where a man has to select 34, 6S, or whatever the case m.'iy bo out of 1500 he cannot get the best players. Tho younger generation are taking on the game, but rarely are they brought into prominence, because no selectors can cover the ground sufficiently. It is for this reason I advocate a Selection Committee of three, which can cover three times the. amount of the othere." The amendment was seconded by Mr H. Firman, who did not speak to it. The Selectors' Methods.

Mr W. Hefford, the selector, intimated that he vvislied to stand down this year, but he wanted to say that he still favoured the one selector system It hud been his experience that no three selectors' could come to an agreement. It was the job of the Selection Committee of the club to notify their best players. At the last minute there were always some bowlers who would, withdraw, and it was the hardest thing in the world to get the best results from three selectors in the circumstances. ITis procedure had been to ask every club to nominate what they considered the best players for a certain match. If a club did not nominate any player at all and he Knew of one in that club whom he thought should bo in the team, he "> would, of course, select him. Where a club nominated its best players, ho wcjuld naturally make his selection from them,, although he had the right to pass them by if he thought fit. The amendment was put and lost, only three voting for it. The motion was carried, and Mr Hefford, who was prevailed upon to reconsider his decision not to stand, was elected solo selector.