CRICKET.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 14

CRICKET.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(FISK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 8. Mr Ivo Bligh, the well-known cricketer, in a letter to the Sportsman, says the result of the season's play does not prove that English cricket is superior to Auatraiian, and he believes that if a really representative Australian Eleven visited England it would prove vietorious over the best English Eleven.

The cricket season will be formally opened to morrow, when a match will be played between the representative eleven which defeated Ha wires Bay last season and fifteen all-comers. The eleven was as follow :—Dr Collins, Motley, Gere, Boddington, Kirker, Nicholls, McGirr, Heenan, Hewat, Dryden, and Moorhouse. The only absentee is Dryden (who is at present in Melbourne), and someone will be selected to take his place. The fifteen has not yet been selected. The Senior Cup contests will commence on the following Saturday. - The adjourned annual meeting of the Cricketers’ Association was held at the Post Office Hotel last Friday night. There was a good attendance of delegates, and Mr C. A. Knapp occupied the chair. The first business was the election of a secretary, to which office Mr P. P. Mclntyre was elected. Mr S. Alpe, having stated that he would stand again for the office of treasurer, was unanimously re-elected to that position. Mr A T. Bate moved that Cup rule 12 should be altered as follows: - “Except in the case of a transfer of a player from the first eleven to the second eleven of his club, provided formal application is made to the Match Committee, who shall satisfy themselves before granting permission that the transfer is a bona fide one, made for the purpose of strengthening the second eleven.” This was seconded by Mr A. R. Meek, and after some discussion was carried. Mr Bate proposed, seconded by Mr Collins, that Cup rule 13 be altered to read as follows : be allowed to play for either of the Cups who is not a bonk fide member of the Club for which he is playing, and a resident within a radius of 20 miles of Wellington. After some discussion this was lost on the casting vote of the Chairman. Mr Bate intimated that he would bring the matter up again. The question of providing a practice pitch for the Albert Club was referred to the Ground Committee. Mr Littlejohn was elected auditor in place of Mr P. P. Mclntyre, who had resigned the position in consequence of his election as secretary. Mr F. Moriee gave notice of a motion to the effect that the colours of the Association should be altered to “ broad olaret and gold stripes.”