CLASS WAS MISSING

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 16

CLASS WAS MISSING

Jhwnand Country Games Want f Organization & ' _______ '|Froiiii.' ( N.Z. Truth's' 7 Special "Wellington Representative). ; ; Another country day has come and g-one and the Wellington Cricket Assbciation is none the richer — or wiser— by the event. The Town side won even with its comparatively weak side.

'T'HE idea of an annual town and 1 country . . match is quite good, but as arranged by the Wellington Association ,m co-operation with the sub-associations the thing seems all wrong. Fqf-linstance, Wellington fielded what jnustThave been a poor second eleven, while;, the country ■; team was without RupejWorker and' the Wanganui and Taraiiaki cracks, • Bill Bernau, Ches. Holland, Bob Coupland, young Glesen, Clarke, Wilson, Kingston and Lusk, just ,to mention a f ew. The arranging of the town . and country match has been a sor.e point with -the sub-associations,; but ' the Wellington Association" cannot '\ be blamed. It has always, done the best possible for the county, players. ' ''Truth would like, the Welling-, ton Association, to .; consider a country i.week on the lines of •'country ji, y/eek" m Sydney ifand 'opiQo^:.:: r .. : ' : ' : '- ■■ ' . „.-,. 3< ■'• • In' tliosef .'two centres representative aidek a|e • iitiited ,",.tp' ).the ; city tp niee\ town, sides, and -as many .as four games of Uyo days .are piayed:;at once. In . th.c 'ranks of Wellingtorti, senior' cricket four very* wellrbalariced, sides couia b^; picked to combined side^' from' Wanganui and Taranaki,, Hawjtes .Bay and, ... Wairarapa, Rangitikei;; and and Nelson and Marlborough. ; • The responsibility, of selection of the country teams would be taken out of the hands of three ..men and arranged between associations. v : „.r , ' lAt the same time. the Wellington selector, would have a greater variety of players from. which to pick' out likely new blood. L.ast week's match conveyed nothing except the fact that Tom Lowry would be captain of th« Wellington side if availablevi.

What chance have any of the Other country players got of gaining a place with Wellington side? Mostly it. looks like Buckley's. :. .-.-' " Norm. Gallichan shaped rather nicely with the bat, but lie. could, only be considered a, possibility if some of the selected players were dropped, For years the country asaociationa have hankered after representation m the Plunket Shield fixtures as a side. When one looks through the available talent there seems justification for the hankering^ , A run through the names of some of the available talent calls to mind Lowry, Worker, We'lson (the, Taranaki pro.), Galliohan,v< Lama- ; son', Kingston, Bernau and Holland. ' ■ , .■:''■'■■■' .Reverting to last week's match, things' Ayere not as bright as was expepted, valthough town piled up over 40<) runes' in, their first knock.. Whyte gaLve a fine display for his 94 runs] , his leg shots being nearly perfe'ct.^ If he. were able, to move over quickly to the off for shots there would be- little fault to' find "with his Browne went for the bowling- m whole-hearted fashion to .put on a centm*y, but some of his strokes were just '&.' little crude. ' ' . .' :' v , MpKenzie a very correct innings for his' runs. Perhaps he could be just a little more aggressive, but that will come- with experience. ■ Some of the batting m country's first innings was just a little crude. Any amount of defence was shown,, but scoring strokes m most cases were at a discount. . . Cousins, to be ia ; real representative bowler, wants to ! send ■ them down about three yards faster. His length was good throughout and he was as keen as mustard, but he juat lacked the necessary sting.