CRICKET ORGANISATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5285, 4 March 1878, Page 2

CRICKET ORGANISATION.

. TO THE EDITOR’ OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. ; SIR,—AII cricketers in Wellington will be grateful to you for your timely article of the 28th ult, going as it does straight to the root of the evil which caused the recent disgraceful defeats, viz., the want of an effective organising association. The association is supposed to be made up of delegates whose clubs pay the annual subscription of three guineas, and who are supposed to be called together from time to time by circular to conduct the business, including, I presume, the approval of teams selected to represent the city. Now, sir, I beg to inform you as a fact I can prove, that in some cases the notices convening these meetings have been received by the delegates the morning after the meeting, and in a number of instance) at such short notices as to entirely preclude

the possibility of those who are not in Government situations arranging their work so as to be present, particularly as by some special arrangements these meetings are so arranged as to take place in work n- hours. The natural result of these hole-and-corner meetings of the autocracy of cricket is the s lection, as in the late intercolonial match, of a team consisting, as far as this city is con-, cerned, of the two favored clubs, viz,, the Star and Wellington, many of whom by their performances proved the error of their selection, and the total exclusion.of five clubs in whose , ranks are to be found the rising talent of the province, viz., Royal Oak, Telegraph, United, Kising Star, and College, all of whom’ have', duly paid their subscription, and, are ther.fore entitled to be represented. Now, sir, it is naturally a sore point with these five clubs that'they are persistently shut out from any participation in the government of the association, although they have the honor of participating to a large degree in its support, and they feel that they have a ricbt to demand an explanation of these anomalies in the interest of all admirers of the noble game of cricket.

To give practical expression to this feeling a resolution will be proposed at the next general meeting of the association with a view to the better management; and it is to be hoped that in the meantime those who feel themselves aggrieved by its action, will request their delegates to support it. —lam, &0., ‘ G.B.K. Feb. 28. ■