ALLEGATIONS OF BLUNDERING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 7

ALLEGATIONS OF BLUNDERING

APPOINTMENT OF SELECTOBS AND MANAGER.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In a letter to the "Star," Mr. D. E. Parton, a member of the New Zealand Cricket Council, states: —"Mistakes, more or less avoidable and certainly lamentable, continue to be made in connection with the arrangements for the forthcoming visit of the New Zealand cricket team to England! One supposes that, as long as % the enthusiasm necessary to finalise such things is left to impetuous youth or hoary heads, we must expect indiscretions and the subsequent heartburnings. One of the gravest errors already committed has to do with the appointment of the Selection Committee, and must be laid at the door of the executive. Whether the' committee sees the error of its ways or not, it is generally thought that the council, and not the executive, should have accepted the responsibility of considering the qualifications of all the aspirants for the position of selector. The procedure adopted failed to obviate the second oversight, that of ignoring an Auckland representative, and led to an irreparable blunder being committed. Even- if it is confined to the realms of diplomacy, Canterbury could vpry well have been asked to accept the position now occupied philosophically by Auckland. . "The next matter that does not appear to be treated as seriously and as judiciously as it might be is the appointment of a manager. If that position goes to a local man our prestige as fair-minded administrators is , doomed. The executive may not be" wrong in its secretiveness, except that it has allowed rumours to be broadcasted that certain members of that august body have already been asked if they can accompany the team as manager. I do not think for one moment that the chairman has made even one false move, but others are not as far-seeing. The published message from Dunerlin is disconcerting, and the telegraphed resolution passed by the Wellington Association is more in the nature of a threat than anything else. It all points to propaganda work, and will have .a considerable bearing on the . difficulty of financing the tour."