SELECTING REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2184, 24 June 1914, Page 8

SELECTING REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS.

Sir,- I notice m tile Wellington representative tcair., -which:-. appeared ill ymtr paper, to play against Tarannki, ■t'lfe name of ,1 player who, I '.nulc:staml, was picked as seswvd. enierpeney for t'ho team that played attains!. Wai- : rarapa »n Saturday, while the name. 01 a player, who was selected p.nd played ' for his province on Saturday, appears in tlif eiifergeney list'. This seems to be. rather peculiar, when one takes into consideration tbo fart' that neither player has f'akoii part ..'in a gaiiie .since the team to meet Wsitarnps was published. It is certainly not- enc.oiira'gi.i*K {i a player to got- into a ffi'prese.iilft. five team o'ile week and ho.dropped for the team the following Week, Before die has a chance of proving his worth, and for 110 apparent rerison. But the se- ■. vorest out is tlw fact that the player re--P'laeiiig him is only ah emergency far the team for which the. dropped one played. «S\ich, however, a.ppears 'to ■lie tlje uositidin, ■ Pcrlrhos it is. a method. ■•neSiitiSr. to, Wclliiifttou selector.'., for finding the Vest players. Howover. ■ I draw attention is ■ Ui'e matter, for it is lidfc altogether 'Mr i'lie. pood of tlio came, and needs .putting straight. — 1 am, cte.i T J COLLERTON. Seatotin, .Time 22, 1..5 M.