CRICKET AND DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19451, 26 October 1928, Page 13

CRICKET AND DAYLIGHT SAVING.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE PEESS. gj rj —The Committee of, the Canterbury Cricket Association have decided that, in order to take advantage of the extra half hour's daylight, competition matches in" the senior grades shall be continued on Saturdays until 7 p.m. In this I think the Committee have exceeded their powers, for the hours of play are laid down in the rules, and these can only be altered at general meeting*, at which. notice of the proposed alteration has been given. This, however, is by the way. There is a lot to be said against the proposed extension To the many young fellows who have engagements on Saturday evenings 7 o'clock is far too late. It means 7.30 or thereabouts before tliey can get home to the evening meal, and hundreds of others are thereby seriously inconvenienced. ; Daylight saving is an excellent thing to lengthen evening play on five days a.week, but why extend an already long afternoon on Saturdays to the annoyance of other members of cricketers families? If there is a sincere desire to cet half an hour's extra play on Saturdays it could be done by commencing half an hour, earlier. The present time ot starting was fixed many ..years ago, when nearly every one worked until one o'clock. Now most people leave off at 12, and hardly any are engaged at their occupations after i/.ou. -it would thus be an easy matter to start play at 1.45 instead of 2.10. I venture the opinion that, if a vote were taken of those who will be required to plav until 7, a majority would con-, sider "6.30 quite late enough After all, the players are the ones to decide such a point, and not seven or eight administrators, several of whom are not eV f)a-^iglit r saving undoubtedly benefits a large section of the community, if that section uses it, selfishly and to the annoyance of a much larger section, then the principle will undoubtedly lose favour. If the 7 o clock piogramme is persisted in it resentment, in many a family that contains cri^ters.-Yours^etc. !EßAT^> October 2otli, 1928. '