NEGLECTED JUNIORS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

NEGLECTED JUNIORS

gir—Owuig to my absence from this citv, I was unable to reply before to tho letter of Messrs. Hughes and Johnston, jun or delegates to the Cricket Association, hut' I now take the opportunity to do so. First and foremost, what junior team do they'play for? Nov.% they .invited mo to call a special meeting of the junior delegates to discuss hotter treatment for the junior cricketers of this city Is it beyoml their capability to do bo that they have to invito an outsider? But nl a later dato I most decidedly intend to call a mooting of junior delegates to form another outside association, for which I will see a shield is provided for competition. It also shows neglect or incapability 011 these delegates part for'tho winners of the junior chamr'oiiship have not yet received their scrap of paner to say that they ,ore the winners for last 'season. If this is how the bodv culled tlio Cricket Association manage a (Fairs, they run an ordinary peanut cart I quite a?ree with "Fair Fifty's letter. It is unite time for better selectixi, and not to place a man in the team because he is a. jolly good fellow, but to pick men on their cricketing merits. As it is no*, it Father Time or old use does not deplete the ranks of the AVelliugton rep. team n promising man never gets Ins chance. There are men 011 this association who have the name of fostering cricket. Why do not these men so est a young team, include juniors, anl take on a tour to 1 Hawke's Bay, as a team is to go up there. In conclusion, Sir, it is quite time the junior and third grade players woke up and demanded the sanio trip« and treatment that nro inet«l out to these senior players, or else form another assertion, which I intend to &.^aaaraßdP