CRICKET FINANCES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 10

CRICKET FINANCES

LAX METHODS OF CONTROL CLUBS SHOULD PUT THEIR HOUSES IN ORDER The lax methods employed by some cricket clubs in conducting their financial affairs was referred to at the meotiw of the management committee of tiie Wellington Cricket Association last The lion, treasurer (Mr. W. J. Christopherson) reported that three members of a Midland junior team bad.complain, ed that they had had to pay the club £1 subscription having been promised that all they would’ be charged was ss. Tho club had posted eleven members of the team as deaulters, and although three of the defaulting players had since paid tbir subscriptions the club had not advised the association to this effect. The cfhairman (Mr. C. G. Wilson) said that players knew what subscription they had to pay as junior members of the Midland. Club, and they could not . expect to get their cricket for nothing. Mr Christopherson said that while this was so. it appeared that in tho case of this particular team it only consisted of about three members, who had to chase around every Saturday to get a team together. No attempt had been made br- the club to collect the subscriptions. . ' Mr D. McKenzie questioned whether the list of defaulters sent in by the clubs could be challenged by the association. Once players were black-listed it was a matter between them and their clubs. . Mr. H. J. Buck stated that he intended to challenge every list sent in by the clubs. There was far too much slipshod method adopted by clubs, and young fellows were often black-listed who had no right to be. Clubs had by-laws to the effect that no player could be elected a member unless at a meeting of the committee, and .vet some club committees never met from one year’s end to another. He intended in future to satisfy himself that all players sent in as defaulters wore bona-fide members. They should revert to the old system of making clubs supply a list of their members at the beginning of the season. The hon. secretary (Mr. A. Varney) said that a register of players in all grades was being prepared, but the trouble was to get club secretaries to send in the initials and addresses of their players. , ' , Mr. Buck: It is high time the clubs put their houses in order. Mr. Christopherson: If the Midland Club had got to work during the season they would be £l2 better off to-day, which would pay off the increased charges they complain about for facilities at the Basin Reserve, BOYS’ LEAGUEBoys’ League fixtures for Saturday United A v. United B, Prince of Wales Park; St. Patrick’s College A v. St. Patrick’s College B, Nairn Street; Oriental v. Trinity, Prince of Wales Park; Stop Out v. Karori. Karori Park. Intermediate. —Brooklyn v. Trinity, Wakefield Park; St Patrick’s College B v. Johnsonville, Newtown Park; Belmont v. Stop Out, Nairn Street; Khandallah v’; St. Patrick’s College A. Kilbirnie; Oriental v. Lyall Bay, Lyall Bay. ENGLISH TOUR SELECTORS APPOINTED. Dominion Special. Christchurch, November 15. Messrs. W. S. Brice (Wellington), W. R. Patrick (Christchurch), and S. Williams (Dunedin) were appointed by the New Zealand Cricket Council to-night ns selectors for the New Zealand cricket team to tour England. It was decided to circularise the minor associations as follows: ’’With a view to giving the minor associations a chance or representation in the tour to England it is proposed that a match be played nt Wellington on December 21 and 22 between Wellington and the combined minor associations’ representatives. Can vou nominate from your association players worthy of inclusion? Players chosenwill require to pay their own expenses.” The secretary of Neiv Zealand Cricket, Ltd., reported that tho applications for shares were very satisfactory, and the company hoped to go to allotment at an early date.