OTAGO CRICKET ASSOCIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14643, 1 October 1909, Page 2

OTAGO CRICKET ASSOCIATION

C. WORDSWORTH RE-ENGAGED AS COACH. A special adjourned meeting of the cominitt.'v t.f the Otago Cricket Association was hi'!-' last evening, to consider the question of the appointment of a coach for the tomin:; season. Those piessnt were Messrs •J .1. Clark (chairman),. C. G. Wlsoii, J. Hupp, V. Goucli, T. Ritch.c, J. Clarke, A. N(-!v t; f and G. Wycherley. At ,( meeting of the committee, held on the ii,' l: vious night, riie applications' 10coiv;ij fyom Australia !for the position of ulvjli. the number of ovev a dozen, wero fOtiaiibrad, asd reduced to live, and these "■■ere fu it tic r dealt with lust evening in ronumUee, The outcome of the meeting's oeliberat'.ons is that Mr C. Wordsworth, wliu j'-teti as the association's coach in Dunp:lin 'Ml season, lias been ie-appointcd to tno posiqjon on the satne tonus as for/;n r]y--nu'iii*ly, £3 [or week and passage raid t'.' Now Zealand.. Mr Wordsworth is a', present, residing in iSydney, and in his application to the association staled that ho ha.l quite recovered in health. His ap-ptjit>tii!.-:«t last evening was made subjoct to ooii'.innjitioii of his completo recovery in in alth. Tne motion for (he appointment of iV!r Wnrdsivorth was carried by live votes ibwe, those voting against it being Ms-vr* Clark, Nelson, and Wycherley. With the arrangements that liavo been .'i .nli; Mr C. li. Smith at Heme with [i. famous cricketer, whoso name cannot yet M imulo known, and who will take up liis ifsidom e vn Dunedin about December next, ! : r al cnckoters should be well catered for taring the coining season. OPENING OF THE SEASON. It was decided that First and Second CJ rade matches commence on Saturday, _ ■Jvtober 16,. and Third and Fourth Grade pj ".■itdi33 a week later. 'Entries of the teams J •etiuiro to. be lodged 10 days before the sea- ~ ion ojitas. d