COACHING FEES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 13

COACHING FEES

EXPENSIVE CRICKET ITEM

-At the way the coaching system _is working at present, the coach is costing US aa much as £1 or 30s for each hours work we get. out of him," said Mr. W. JK. Chris tophei'sen,. honorary treasurer ol the Wellington Cricket Association at the weekly meeting of the Management ComSittee laTriiglit. Mr. Gbristophersen nig. g^d that, in order that the burden Ort the association should be made lighter and the' charges met by those who derived thl •«io S tgbWeCrfrom -tKfflT alleges and indtitutijbos employing the coach should pay aWtfe rate of 7s fid per^ player, and thft cottsSbeing coached should pay at the rate of Is 6d per week per play«r. .Ine colleges*; he said, were well organised, and «h<nJ<bif able to meet the: charge, and arrangements could be made to collect, from the^clubs the amounts due lor, any players they had coached. • We chairman, Mr. W. P. Br6ad, thought that the1 same charges as last season might] well be fixed. In reply to Mr. K. A. Whyt«,^bo asked if the clubs did not support tae coaching scheme, lie siid that the amdunt of money promised had not been forthcoming. The income under the coaching scheme last season was <about: Mr. L. J. Brabin referred to the fact that some clubs arranged for their players to be coached by prominent player*. Mr. A. Ronaldson favoured the charge: being made for the colleges and institutions, but he did not think the amount likely to be realised, from levying a-charge on the colte would be worth the trouble of collecting. After all, the coaching was a matter for the association and not for the clubs. After several further suggestions had been made, Mr. Christophersen's . suggestion, in the form of a motion, ivas split into two sections, and the part relating to the colleges was carried, but the charge for colts being coached was voted out.