CRICKET COACH

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1927, Page 9

CRICKET COACH

NEW PLYMOUTH PROPOSAL. SUPPORT FROM FITZROY' SCHOOL. Sympathy of a substantial kind towards the proposal to secure a cricket coach for New Plymouth has been offered by the Fitzroy School Committee in the shape of a promised donation of £5 ss. At the last meeting of the committee Mr. T. H. Bates, president of the Taranaki Cricket Association, waited on the committee with reference to the employment of a professional cricket coach, who would devote the whole of his time up to 4.30 p.m. each school day to coaching primary and secondary schools. Although the main monetary support for the venture would come from the association and elsewhere, said Mr. Bates, the schools might be able to do something to assist the project. Any money received from the schools would be paid into a trust fund apart from the Cricket Association. Mr. Bates stressed the importance of good coaching to primary- schools, as it was from the primary schools that the cricketers of to-morrow would come. After Mr. Bates had retired the matter was discussed. Mr. Lyall, the headmaster, said he was very much in favour of the employment of a good cricket coach. T’ e only difficulty that he could see was that of fitting in the time so that the school work was not interfered with, but that was a detail that no doubt could be arranged. Several members of the committee spoke in support of the project, and it was resolved that the sum of five guineas be guaranteed towards the support of a cricket coach was carried. An amendment to set up a sub-committee to consider the matter was lost. It was resolved that it be a suggestion to the Headmasters' Association from the committee, that one of their number should be appointed to the Cricket Association as a representative of the primary schools, and also suggested that it should be a proviso that not less than two hours each week should be devoted to each school by the cricket coach.