The CALL of the OPEN : GOSSIP on POPULAR SPORTS,

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 6

The CALL of the OPEN : GOSSIP on POPULAR SPORTS,

A PRACTICAL MOVE Ail I'VE in dire :■ lion of getting something done to relieve tic shortage of playing are=r in the city and suburbs b-sen she by the Auckland Crl-ket Association. It pro- - : " - ti er n 3 at : ti ■ City Connell in a united body. g ’ v - ' • or twenty years that the population hat far outstripped the • • -‘hr fc. o-iiities for sport. The Auckland Rugby Union alone .".hers hewern three and tour thousai. i players, including ■ o' ‘boys, in the city and suburban area. room g! the g a . in the year or two has given an added complexity to the crying : for more playing area-. The leasing of the Renmera ■key ground to that intensely keen and enthusiastic body. tie J has only h .■ • fresh h'-ulties in its train, because the Hoc-key Association finds itself tv;-bout playing areas oh any description, and must now fall back on the City Council. It is easy enough to shelve responsibility on to the council. E t the City Council is not the only municipal body concerned, a d the need for grounds is too urgent for futile arguments about r.a ;ng the blame for the present shortage. The Parks Committee, under the chairmanship ox C-otmeillor en, ha rea - utations that have been made by the cricket authorities. If all ‘he sports bodies interested in the question of grounds get ■ gether and confer with representatives of the council as Mr. kb C. Snedden has proposed, there is more chance of getting .Ttr.ing done titan there is in a repetition of the wild scramble • : .t goo; on at the start of each winter and summer season for *1 e wholly inadequate number of grounds at present available.