THREE AMATEURS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 9

THREE AMATEURS

TO PICK ENGLAND’S TEAM.

WITH HELP OF TWO “PROS.”

PREPARING FOR THE AUSTRALIANS.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb; 25, 1.25 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. P. F. Warner (chairman) P. A. Perrin and A. E. R. Giliigaii, have been appointed rhe test match selection committee. They will co-opfc two professionals, probably Hobbs and Rhodes.

CAPTAIN ALSO A SELECTOR

PROFESSIONALS HAVE FULL POWERS.

Received Feb. 25, 2.25 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. The test selectors will first choose the captain, who will then be a member of the selection committee and have a casting vote. The professionals will have full powers.

“CUT AND DRIED PLANS.”

M.C.C. SECRETARY’S DENIAL

Received Feb. 25, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. That he did not believe a word of it, and thought it calculated to stir up feeling, and that it was mischievous, were the comments of Mr F. E. Lacey, secretary of the M.C.C., when he was shown a sensational evening paper article purporting to disclose cut and dried plans for tomorrow’s M.C.C. meeting, at whjch tbe five test selectors and the captain will be appointed. The article criticised the authorities, first for the fact that, if the proposed nlans were carried, Gilligan would b e the only member of the committee with Australian experience; secondly, because not one of the great English professionals would have a place, the strings having been pulled against the co-option of Hobbs and Rhodes; and. thirdly, because several amateurs with vast experience would he passed over. Mr Lacey added that he would surely have known if any such arrangement had been made. He could not believe it had been done without his knowledge. He understood one member of the Board of Control would like to pronose the name of a very famous professional.