VARSITY CRICKETERS TO VISIT TARANAKI

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 8

VARSITY CRICKETERS TO VISIT TARANAKI

SELECTION OF DOMINION SIDE UNDER DISCUSSION. (Special to the ‘Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 25. The wisdom of encouraging junior players was stressed at the weekly meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association when it was unanimously agreed to make the customary grant of £3O towards the- expenses of junior representative matches. Mr J. S. Hanna reported that the following University team was prepared to visit Taranaki during the Christmas holidays and play matches at Hawera and New Plymouth:—Levs, Tindill, Greig, Dormer, Wilson, Kirkcaldie, Paetz, H. Osborn, R. Osborn and Bailej\ with another to be chosen. It was "decided to inform the Taranaki Association that this team was up to senior status and would tour under the auspices of the Wellington Association if the Taranaki Association was prepared to accept it. The chairman, Mr P. B. Broad, invited an expression of opinion upon the i advisability of holding trial matches in order to pick the team for England. 1 Mr Hanna sad that there woiild only be about four players to select after the certainties had been written down, and he considered that the selectors would be quite competent to complete the team without going to the expense of holding trial matches. The player who had done best in the trial match played before the last Australian team had left for England had been R. K. Oxenham, of Queensland, and yet he had not been chosen. Mr W. J. R. Christopherson thought that a North v. South Island trial match would be the best draw. It was decided to leave the matter over until the next meeting.