DISTINCTION ABOLISHED

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 9

DISTINCTION ABOLISHED

AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL WILL USE SAME ROOMS. Australian and N Z. Cabin Association. * LONDON, May 23. Tho “Daily Expr«s3” welcomes the breaking down of a cricket barrier by tho decision that amateurs and professionals shall use the same dressingrooms at Lord’s during the second Test match. The writer points out that the joint dressing-room arrangement will bo in operation at all Tests, and says that everyone will welcome the death of nn old social distinction, reully only interesting at Lord’s, because Marylcbonc’.s constitution lip.s always provided a rigid line. Lord’s is the only ground in Britain where amateurs and professionals use different gates. Auother progressive arrangement is that for hotel accommodation of Test players. There will be no repetition of tho blunder which occurred during tho last Australian tour, when the professionals, arriving late at night oil the evo of a Tost, had to search in back streets for lodgings.

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