UNCAPPED PLAYERS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 19

UNCAPPED PLAYERS

Team Dress Criticised

Mr C. G. Hamilton, a member of the management committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association, said that cricket will be faced with golf as a rival summer sport if the standard of dress does not improve.

Speaking at last evening’s committee meeting, he said that when he was escorting P. B. Wight, the professional coach, around the cricket grounds during the last round, he encountered, at some games, no players with club caps. It is getting further out of hand, he said Cricket is a team game: some are playing it as individuals Mr Hamilton felt that the Hadlee trophy would offer a solution “Umpires could ‘dock’ a point for every nonclub cap,’’ he suggested “It’s all right if a plaver wears no can—some prefer not to—or a ‘lucky’ cap when he is batting, but a team should be wearing club caps when it is fie’dinc.”

M- Wight was not happy about it. he continued, and some of the boo’s looked as ‘hough they had not been cleaned for two or three years. Mr Hamilton sugg°sted sett’ng up a special sub-committee to look into the matter

Mr F F Dawson: It is simpler than Mr Hamilton thinks. My own club is one of the worst offenders: but ‘he manufacturer of the club’s | raps has gone out of business. However, othe” arrangements ■ha v" been made and “a [magnificent new cap’’ will I snnn bo available. i Mr Dwmn also mentioned ,‘be case where another club [had recently submitted a can for -on-oval Stons were alreadv being made in the rirht direction, he said It was decided that a rem ! nder to chibs about cricket dress be circularised