NOVEL IDEA SUGGESTED TO SAVE COUNTIES
Cup Competition For Cricket.
CONSIDERATION ASKED FOR
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A Challenge Cup competition on the knock-out principle-is the main proposal of a scheme, which has been submitted to several leading authorities in the game, for the salvation of county cricket, says Reuter. The desperate plight of many of the counties makes it im- perative that every serious pro- posal should be considered "with care and judged on its merits..
Briefly the scheme is that a Cup competition should be run in ad-
dition to the championship to be as in the inaugurated in 1939,
1938 season the Australians will be in England.
The gate receipts should be pool- ed and then shared. Each county would leave six dates in its fixture list open for Cup matches, actual- ly only four would be needed, but allowances must be made for wet weather preventing even a result on the first innings.
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ON IST INNINGS Cup matches should be decided on the first innings if the match not completed. One game would have to be played early in -the season to eliminate the Seven
teenth county. Then, the first round would be played early in June, semi-finals late in July and final in August.
In addition to this competition, it is proposed that the champion- ship should revert to the points sys- tem, each club playing the same number of games. There is much to commend the scheme and county clubs faced with huge bank_over- drafts would be advised to give it their earnest consideration.
A Challenge Cup competition, in addition to a league, has been run in Northern Ireland for many years, and the crowds have always been greatly enlarged by these Cup competitions. The M.C.C. have-al- ways been against Cup competi- tions, but the need for increased public interest in county cricket is so great that something drastic must be done.
BLUE ENSIGN
FOR NAVAL YACHTSMEN
TEAM FOR KIEL RACES
London, February 13. The Royal Navy Sailing Associa- tion has been granted the privi- lege of applying for warrants to fly the Blue Ensign of the Fleet: in yachts belonging to its members. Admiralty Fleet Orders make this announcement.
For the second year in suCCES- sion the association proposes to send a team representing the Royal Navy for the International Naval Cup Races to be held at Kiel from June 14 to 19. The races, open to all navies, are sailed in star-class yachts, and the event is run by the Marine-Regatta-Vetsin, the sailing
ssociation of the German Navy
The competing team will be chosen from a series of eliminating races, which will be held at Parts- mouth in April and at Burnham-on- Crouch in May
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