CRICKET RULES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 15

CRICKET RULES.

AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. SEVEN SENIOR CLUBS. :'A meeting of the 'Wellington .CrickAt •'Association was held iu tlio Chamber of Commerce Hall last evening, for tho.purpeso of boiisidering tho .adoption of. : tho'new rules and district boundaries out to the clubs. - Mr. :Martin-'Luckio:.'ivas in 'tlio oliair, and .about forty delesate?/attended. Hip pro.poiod. rules, I: ;.dratfh' up'"by-"ilio Maiiagemont Committee, were considered serifltim, and discussed at length. - _ , •- When'clubs to fdrm th6 ; assQdiatioßj\vas':beroro tlio meeting,. ton. Collcge Old Bbys' ClubV'slio'uld Ho included a3 a''separate: district",'' Ho,'pointed out that his clul). was. iiot very old, and it was . oxolusivo, because players''"'•■cbiild- bo taken from only onb institution. - If tlio blub were not allowed to'affiliate- with; tho elation as.a district, the result would probably be that players who' had wielded the bat m tho past for Old. Boys would, -irop out .of local cricket. - The club, ho said, had. dono good service, iii : senior.. cfiokct. - Tho ohairmajn remarked, that; tlio'adbption. of "district cricket, meant ;tlib severance, of: old assofiiatio.ns,. .but .his club- (Wellington) arid others 6f,■ lone';standing; .were prepared up m order to improve local cricket' by. the method...-'■Vhi.ch ' ; ; t l)b'd . been adopted in other parts of the Dominion and in {•Australia. > Aftei: r ' furtlib-rr: (liecuSSion, - the motion to include tha Old' fioys' Club was lost by 8 votes t0"21... The rule as approved declares that tho as'sopiation; shall'.consist-.'*of the' follnwing district olubs;—Hutt, Petono, . Wellington North,_ Wellington, Central, .Wellington East,' Victoria Celloge, and Wellington South (senior districts), Karori, Johnsonville, Wellington College,! and St. Patrick's Collqpo (junior districts), and -sucllt otter district clubs and associations as may bo accepted and' affiliated, .' : • . Tho qualifications for tho Victoria College Club; Avas.confinod,/m the draft rule, to bona fide utidergraduutcs and- gr'adyatei-attonding Icctures. - 'Ail, arijendtnent' : waa .carried extending tho qualifications-, to :■(l)iMembers of-tho Profossorml Board; or-College Council; (2) graduates whc';-\aro memliers ; of. - t-jio, Students' Association; ■ (3) undergraduates or graduates attending.. lccturcs;.- (4) under-' graduates who aro on .tho books of t-ho coliogo, whether, exomptod - by- -the College Council or not, or who . are .'keeping, terms and undergoing, a course: of lcotures Tvjth a view, to: obtaining a degree; • and- (5) matriculntcd students who liurpbso attending' tho .oollcgo at its'; then next opening session :with a view to obtaining a degree, o.r unmatneulatcd students ajttendii'S two-thirds; of the ioctures;;in tho.f.'purpose of- obtaining a degreo-.j; . ■' i With tho excoption of.; Victoria v.Co'kge, Wellington College, and $t. Patrick's College Clubs, only membej'3' of olul>3 who have resided witliin,.- tho liouii'daries.'sof- :thcir district not. less'-than ! throb months, immcdi-. atel'y prior to .October. IV jrf ..'each year, ■ sliall bo .qualified ■'td : "pldyl'i.-for " ; sucli-,' : districts.. '..Power is ; given' Management ' Committee to grant: pe'rm.ission ! to any ' such member who has changed his "rcsidenoe: after Julv V, -to play , for .thb- district into ,wh ; ch he fia.3 removed, on being satisfied^— (lj .That he has bona, fido'.chaiiKefl, his resi'dciicc; and (2)' that' tjie ■ .two"'; district, clubs;;'concerned consent to'-'tlio:phAngo,.}.!Any-'playoR f arfiving ,in WoHin};tpn"'aftef:-July;-!. may'Cbb'allpwed. to play: for tho district in -Avhioh.ho/-jssrosid-, ini» upon-i satisfying «tho Managdment-' Committee thatvhe • intends-io - bccomc. ai bona fide resident/;-:/'-. : '■ ; .'J All championship .matchea 1 played on the Basin Reeervo or 011 .tlior-Wellingtoh.- College ground phall bejjm not later than 2pm, all other -championshipmatchcs witliin tho city,. 2.15 p.m. ; outside tl)o. cjty, 2.30 p.m. ! Thero shall bb':no"practicb on Saturdaj.- aftor-i noons drawn' for -association matches. . . : ''' " '~ :J "' Tho Management Committee is given power to ■' allow-'-tcauis ■to cntef . 'frorrt -institutions. „which:-conduct 'a' reclaiming misGibn among tho youth of 'tlio city from benevolent or charitablo''ptjj®o||o|i« or - 1 The" • ll o^l^* 1011 at. its annual meeting. A WANGANUI .MOVEMENT - (By Tclcgraph.-tl'rcas ABfeocl(itlon»U:. w • 1 Wanganul, .July 30. ■■ -A "'meeting of cricket -ehthusiaste iwas bold tliib ''evening'' t<>~ coifsidcr'"'the ''proposal"''of the New. Zealan<l Cricket Council re financing a visit to-Wangamn-b.v tho Australian team. It ~>yas-dicidiftli to solicit to securo a match. Twenty-four, pounds woro pubscrjbed-in. tho room. •. : '"