REGRETTABLE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 5

REGRETTABLE.

DEVELOPMENT IN CRICKET,

Some astonishment lias been expressed this week at the .announcement that the Central senior teain will not fulfil theit engagement "to-day- in the dtawirigs for the senior flxtnresi ' l'rom tliß mere point of view of grade honours .this iiieaiis that Petone will win on a forfeit froifl tine of tho strongest, if not the strongest, team iit the senior competition. It is understand, further, that the Central Club propose) to withdraw; from senior' cricket as it; .is noV arranged. . . The reasons advanced lire several, bub principal nmtihg them .seehis to bo that tfejr are displeased with' the action of the control in sending them for two successive matches to Hiitt and then ti> Petons. With Sqhie show of reason they argue that, when nien have already beguii to look dilt their-football gisar, only the leading teams Jhould bo_ matched.

, In Soine'past yerirs it sefctns to have beeft • tho practice to pick olit the foilf leading teams and oppose them for this fitinl matches of the seaionj nnd it would have been much more.interesting for Central, for iiistahcp. to/meet East A and North instead of Huttand ketone. Another i'onson for Central's action to-day was thilt two leading members of the team were away from town, and two others had to.go to Trenthsirii frir'class firing. The Rev. E. 0. Blamires, one of tho vice-presidents of the club, stated to a reporter last night that lie wits exceedingly sorry that ahytliihg of .the kind .had happened, and he would like to see the team go to Petone. He was also of opinion that the decision, and the formulation of reasons therefor, had not been dono by tli© committee of tho cltlb.