CRICKET CRITICISM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 8

CRICKET CRITICISM

"The very full and interesting report of the minor associations' meeting with the Wellington Cricket Association's representatives that appears in your issue of October 21 contains certain matter upon which I consider it advisable to comment," writes Mr. J. p. Quirk, chairman of the' Northern Division of the Taranaki Cricket Association. "I notice that Mr. A. M. Ongley, in remarks regarding matches between minor' sides and Plunket Shield teams, charged the Taranaki Association with being disloyal to the other minor associations and instanced the fact that-T&ramaki played a match against Otago last season' to the exclusion of the other centres."

Mr. Quirk explains that Taranaki did not play the match; it was arranged by the North Taranaki Division without reference to the Taranaki Association, and the team which met Otago, was drawn from the teams in the New Plymouth competitions. With regard to a suggestion by Mr. Ongley about "Taranaki's idea of grabbing for themselves," Mr. Quirk writes: "If readiness to undertake heavy financial risks and the ability to "take advantage of rare opportunities to match our players against experienced Shield sides constitute grabbing, then we of New Plymouth are certainly not ashamed to be called grabbers." The charges against Taranaki are, he states, unjust and ungenerous.