CRICKET CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 11

CRICKET CONTROL

Encouraging the Juniors ’VARSITY HOLIDAY TEAM The wisdom of encouraging junior players was stressed at the weekly meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Cricket Association last evening, when it was unanimously agreed to make the customary grant of £3O towards the expenses of junior representative matches. The Wairarapa Association wrote stating that it would have difficulty in getting a team to meet a team of Wellington colts at Masterton on Monday next. The chairman explained that he had approached Mr. E. C. Wiren with a request that he should organise a team to meet the Wellington colts on Monday next. The match will be played at the Basin Reserve. commencing at 10.30 a.m. Tour of Taranaki. Mr. I. S. Hanna reported that the following University team was prepared to visit Taranaki during the Christmas holidays, and play matches at Hawera and New Plymouth:—Leys, Tindill, Greig, Dormer, Wilson, Kirkcaldie, Paetz. H. Osborn, R. Osborn, and Bailey, with another to be chosen. It was decided to inform the Taranaki Association that this team was up to senior status, and would tour under the auspices of the Wellington Association, if the Taranaki Association was prepared to accept it. , Well Worth While. Mr. L. J. Brabin, chairman of the junior championship committee, applied for the usual grant of £3O towards the expenses of the junior representative teams entertaining the Canterbury junior team and proceeding to Auckland to play the annual maUli polntpd ol ,t ti, a t it bad taken a good deal of time and money to bring the Wellington junior representative team up to the standard it had reached. Tie considered both the time and the money had been well spent. Mr. M. C. W. Mason endorsed this view, pointing out that no fewer than live junior representative players—A. Hamilton, Warnes. Crook. Tindill. and Hepburnhad been selected to represent the Town against the Country in the annual match this week. . Mr. A. Konaldson also considered that junior representative matches provided good experience for young players. Finding the Team For England. The chairman (Mr. P. B. Broad) Invited an expression of opinion upon the advisability of holding trial matches in order to pick the New Zealand team for England. Mr. Hanna said that there would only tie about four players to select after the certainties had been written down, and he considered the selectors would be quite competent to complete the team without going to the expense of holding trial matches. The player who bad done best in the trial match played before the last Australian team had left for England bad been R. K. Oxenhani, of Queensland and yet he had not been chosen. Mr. W. J. R. Christopherson thought a North v. South Island trial match would be the best draw. It was decided to leave the matter over until the next meeting. Teaching Bowling. Mr. E. Heathcote Williams, of Napier, offered to supply copies of Grimmett’s and C. T. B. Turner's books on bowling on condition that they were banded out . Io junior bowlers to study. I It was decided to accept Mr. Williams s offer, and to thnnk him for the interest; iM> took in the young players.