INTERVIEW WITH THE MANAGER.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 370, 22 May 1889, Page 6

INTERVIEW WITH THE MANAGER.

After the match at Ley ton yesterday our representative interviewed Mr Scott, the couiteousj manager of the team, on the subject of the tour. That gentleman natuially felt not a little hurt at the attitude of the chief officials of the Union, conj sidering that the game had practically been I " boycotted " in the matter of players and referee. This he did not think should have occurred, abtheapologymadeaftcrtheoccurrence at Blackheath was a most abject one and framed in accordance with the wishes of the Union, and he imagined that the matter would end heie and the past be forgotten. He did not excu&e in any way the behaviour at the Rectory JTield, but a side picked from such a wide sphere was difficult to manage, and in the majority of instances the games had been very pleasantly fought ; indeed, he had received letters to that effect from the Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the United Services, Portsmouth. In reply to a query as to what he thought i of the results of the tour (which are appended), he said they were highly pleased, though 'they were &orry that they had failed to score a fiftieth win by securing the Hull match last week (which ended in a draw, a result mainly due to the hospitality of the Yorkshire town). *'To win forty-nine gamee out of seventy-four, or two-thirds of the games, is not a mean performance,'' added Mr Scott, " more especially when you consider the amount of travelling we have undergone, thinking nothing of spending several hours per diem in railway trials, in addition to taking part in four games in the course of a week. What would the Australian cricketers have thought of this?" " Has the trip been a financial success?" " Well, I can scarcely say it has ; though we have paid our expenses, if we have no margin to speak of.* Some of our gates were poor, notably in North Shields, New- > castle, and Carlisle, while the results of the Midland Counties fixtures were also disappointing in a financial sense. Yorkshire and Lancashire were our great hunting grounds, while I was agreeably > surprised at tho result of the western tour, which I thought would end disastrously, whereas it paid well, especially the fixture at Gloucester. 51 s

" What are your future movements ?" " To-morrow (Thursday) will be spent in leave-taking 1 , and Friday, at 10 a.m., will see us leave Fenchurch-sfcreeb for GraveFend, where we embark on board v.he Orient s.s. Oroya for Australia, Here we remain for a couple of months, and then spend a month or so touring in New Zealand before disbanding." " Shall I see you again ?" " Yes ; I hope in a year or two to bring over another team, excluding' the Maori element. We have much better talent than was included in the present combination, and if able to obtain anything like a representative side could doubtless, secure a still better record. There has been some talk of a visit next season, but I think it would be better to wait till another year."