ATHLETICS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14586, 8 February 1921, Page 7

ATHLETICS

AMATEURB IN CRICKET PLAYERS AND REPORTING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, February 6. Lord Harris, presiding at the Kent Cricket Club annual meeting, expressed the opinion that it was always well to have an effective, amateur backing in teams. It would have been better for England tiad more amateurs been selected to go to Australia. Mr Jackson, speaking at the London and Southern Counties' Cricket Conference, approved of Lord Hawke'S remarks upon cricketers as journalists. He said it. would be much heller if that kind of thing were not done. "I have," he said, "seen it done by many eminent players, and think they carried it out with great success, but I always fell that to do my job properly in these very importanl matches took up all my attention. I do not know if it is possible or desirable to lay clown a hard and fast rule that anyone, writing for the papers should be excluded from a match. Personally, I think it enough that the authorities should express a strong wish that this kind of thing should not take place, and cricketers would quickly fall into line." STANDARD GOLF BALL. (Australian aim in./.. Garde Assn.) LONDON, February 6. J. H. Taylor states that the standard golf ball has failed in its object ol checking the orgy of long driving. He suggests a standard of 27 pennyweights. UPHOLDING THE UMPIRES. LONDON, February 6. The Football Association threatens In withdraw the registration of players disobeying the prohibition against writing to the press comments upon the umpires' decisions in matches in which thev are engaged.