The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-12-11 00:00:00

COUNTY CRICKET,

At the annual meeting of county secretaries hold on
Tuesday in the Pavilion at Lord's Ground to arrange
the principal fixtures for next year, Lord Harris
brought forward a motion to reduce the residential
qualification for a county cricketer from two years to
one. The question had excited a considerable amount
of interest in the cricket world, and there was a large
and representative attendance.
Lord Harris said the pritnaty object of fixing the
residential qualification at two years was to prevent
any man playing for two counties in one year. There
were several instances where the present qualifica-
tion had kept prominent amateurs out of county
cricket for an unnecessarily long period, notably
Mr. E. F. S. Tylecote and Mr. H. W. Bainbridge,
and if it was a hardship upon amateurs, it was doubly
so upon professionals, who gained their living from the
game. He thought there was a deal of false sentiment
about the birth qualification, a man generally feeling
an interest in his county because his home or his busi-
ness was there, and not because he was born in that
county. He did not think his motion, if carried, would
be to the serious detriment of county cricket which
was apprehended in some quarters.
Mr. J. Horner (Cneshire) seconded the motion.
Mr. I. D. Walker said .that the Middlesex Com-
mittee, which be represented, considered Lord Harris's
proposal most mischievous, and would destroy all the
interest in and esprit de corps of county cricket, and
that county matches would be like games between
scratch elevens. With regard to hardship existing in
certain cases, it must be remembered that they did
not legislate for individuals, but for the good of the
whole cricket community.
Mr. M. J. Ellison (President of the Yotkshire
County Club) also spoke in opposition to the motion.
Lord Harris briefly replied, and on the motion being
put 14 voted against it and three for it.

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