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LACROSSE.
(Notes by "Lally.")
If the thoroughly representative at
tcndance and keen inlerest shown in lthe
proceedings at the annual general meet
ing may be taken as a criterion, the
prosnects for the incoming season are par
ticularly encouraging. The stimulant, me
doubt, is the approaching visit of the
Canadian team, which is now assured.
Naturally, discussion on this subject oc
ccupied a good portion of the meeting's
time, and it way disclosed that Western
Australia would be visited during the
early portion of September. The sum of
.1: ,500 has been guaranteed by. the vari
ous associations throughout Australia,
made up of the iollowing amounts:-
South Australian, Victorian. and West,
ern Australian Lacrosse Associations
£.1E0 each. .1:100 by Queensland Lacrosseo
Association, and South Australian Cricket
Association and Melbourne Cricket Club
.r250 cach. It will be noticed that'the
New South Wales Association is not in
cluded amongst the guarantors. This
body found it impossible to assist the
venture, as the date on which the team
arrives in Sydney clashes with the visit
of the New Zealand Rugby football team.
A committee has been appointed by the
New South Wales Lacrosse Association to
confer with the Rugby authorities, with
a view of making some mutually satisfac
tory arrangement, and it is to be hoped
that ,the desired object is gained. At
the worst, it will mean that the New
Wales fixture will be played on a week
day, and this probably is what will hap
pen. The engagements arranged to date
are as follow:-Arrive Brisbane July
14th, play Queensland 16th, play New,
South Wales at Sydney July 20, Com
bined Australia at Melbourne July 27,
again at Adel'aide August 3, play a
South Australian team at Adelaide on
August 10, revisit Mlelbourne on Aug
ust 17 to meet Victoriani team, then hack
to Adelaide, where the third test
matlch will lie played on Aug
iust 21. Western Australia will thouen be
visited. the team arriving here prolmbly.
about Seplember 1.
'liihe tour in this Stale will be opened on
September 4, when the visitors will meet
a combined Fremantle team on the Fre
mantle (Ival. (tn September 7 a match,
Canadian tearm versus Western Australia,
will be played at the W\.A.C.A. Oval.
Perth. A .'mliatcl againsd it combined
Perth team on September 11 follows, then
the goldfields will be visited. The ar
rangements there are in the hands of the
locail Association. but the programme will
most likely consist of two matches, one
against a combined fields team on the
14th, and against the premier team on
the 18th. The Australian tour will close
with a match Western Australia
versus Canada, which will be played on
tihe Fremantle Oval on September 21, af
ter which the visitors will proceed home
via England. There is a slight possibil
ity of one or two extra matches being
played in the East, but it is not likely
that this would alter the date of arrival
here to any extent.
The call for guarantees has been liber.
ally met by the Ideal players and sup
porters. and of the full amount required,
only .235 has yet to be raised. This auc
cess should be (ratifying to the Associa
tion, and affords ai striking example of
the healthy interest the players take in
the advancement of the game.
An attempt was made at the annual
guneral meeting to have the rules relat
ing to the transfer of players from senior
to junior teams made more binding. How
ever, as such alteration required notice
of motion, the matter was deferred to a
subsequent meeting. The clubs moving
in the matter were the Claremont and
Iroquois. who have no senior teams to
draw upon, iand they contended that
when an important junior match was be
ing played1 in which they figured, their
epponent.e drew on their senior teams for
assistance The complainants suggest as
a remedy that a player who has taken
part in three senior matches during a
season shall not be eligible during that
season for a game in the junior competi
tion. If the proposed alteration be made,
there is little doubt tlot as far as the
clubs generally are concerned, the rome,.
dy will be worse than the alleged defect.
Just. one example of the way such al
feratiom would operate may he given. A
junior has been advanced to the sen:or
team of his club. and is given three
trials. Then having been founmd wanting
in some respect. he is not chosen for any
more senior games during that season.
Under the proposed new rule he won;d
not be eligible for a game with the jun
ior team from which he had been promot
ccld. and for the remainder of the season
would be a looker-on, with the probable
rrsult that next year he weould be an ab
sentee fronm the game. iEven should the
club. so as not to lose his services, de
ride to keep him in the senior loam for
the remainder of the season. what incen
tive would the juniors connected with the
club harv' to quali'y for a game in the
higher grade, when they saw the senior
team choked with players. perhaps infer
ior to themselves, who were not permitted
by tlie rules to hdrop back and give the
;ronmising ones an opportunity to proel
their worth? It must be clear to one who
studies the matter from an Association,
and not a h club, standpoint, that if the
-resent rules on the subject are defective,
tIe remiedy is not contained in the alter
tion suggested.
That the particular club complained of
should have good men left for the junior
train after registering ten permanent
enIIorI' is not a matter for condemnation,
hut for congratulation, and is their duo
reward for encouraging t he members to
that extent. It is strange. too, that
thecomplaint should have comne from un
attached junior clubs, as under the ex
isting rules they are the hoest treated of
all. A club entering a team in both
senior and junior divisions is now coOm
pelledL to registor 10 of the 12 senior mien,
whio shall lie lixtures in the hIigher
grade teami. andl tlhecir junior team mll:;t
be drawn fronl thie remainder, whereas
a clli affliliated with the Association as
I junior clui only has the whole ol its
memhers to dI1rw on. The troulle, no
cldouit. was brought about by the fact
that last year thle Swan Clb had about
1i men who were remarkalily equal in
ability. After registerinig thIe 10 seniors.
there were still five pliye.rs, any two of
whomn were fit to be chosen to completo
the team, and were ceich given a few
seniior guames. But they were all the pre
vious year's juniors, anld had become oc.
clasional senior players only on ciecount of
the policy of encouragnement lotlowcd by
the Swan Club. and which has undoubt.
edly been tile cause of their success. It
ie this incentive to try juniors out in
tl1e senior ranks that is the best part of
thei existing rules, and any alteration
dcstioying this incentive would not he
for the general good.
A change has heen made in the secre-
taryship of the South Australian Asso
ciation. Mr. L. Jones retiring in favour of
Mr. Rodney Cockburn.. Mr. Cockburn is
better known to "crossers" as "Canadia"
of the "Adelaide Register." Mr. Jones,
doubtless. has given up the Association
secretaryship to enable him to devote
more time to the business of the Cana-
dian team's tour, to which venture also
he has been acting as secretary.
The various training grounds have
beeu well a.ttended now for the past three
weeks, and the start of the playing son
sobn should find the teams in very fair f'et.
tle. So ftr no now players have been
noticed. and apparently the teams wilt
he. constituted much the same as last
year.
Pt'rths have lost Sands, who is on
the goldfields, and there is some talk of
Tredgold not stIripping. However, the
latteerpliaer's presence in the team when
the matches start would not cause mutch,
surprise. Swans have lost McGutffie and
Archer. although it is sa11 that Archer
has improved in hea.lth sufficiently to
raise hopcs of his returning and again
st ripping for his club. Kave and Lilly.
too. have signified their intention of
strinniag again. so that Swan's prospects
are somewhat bright.
Jlanks appear to have profited most
by the recess changes, as two old and
able members in the persons of Cusseat
andt Naukervis will again !ton the mar
ocn- 'T'his change is a tortunate one
for the Association, as well is the club.
as the players mentioned pertormed well
against the South Australian team which
visited . Western Atlstralia a few years
ago. Should they strike form this year
thev are fairly certain to he included in
the team to represent the State against
the ('anadians. The club will suffer
through the departure of their last year's
stcretary. %Mr. Giray. who is about to
iake up his residence in the South-West.
-Srmiingly the only crhalige in the North'
c!',rths will he the loss of Baxter. who is

spoken of as joining the Perth team, al
though one is at a loss to account fora
player deserting a weak team to join an
already strong one.
East Fremantle may be relied upon to
give a good account of themselves. Be
sides last year's team. they will have back
Tickell and "Lu" Bateman. Len Bolton,
too, had intended to again don the"blue
and black," hut unfortunately is now in
capacitated through an injury to a rib,
which has already made two operations
necessary. Crossers will wish him a
sptedy recovery.
Fremantle, who last year gained the
wooden spoon, give promise of being a
considerably stronger side during the pre
sent season. They have transferred
training operations to the Fremantle Ov
al, and the regular attendanlce there of
the members augurs well for the prospects
for the near future. McDonnell will again
strip for the club.
NORTH PERTH CLUB.
The following have been selected to
play in the match to.day on the Espla
nadeo:-"A" team: 'Phomson, Goodwin,
Robertson. Collett, Johnson, Fry, Rill
stone. Adamson, Simpson, Wheatley,
Flegalstaib and Bickford. "B" team:
Maloney, Salier, Wright, Henderson.
D)awe, bonstable, P. Ingleton, Thomsett,
Ewers, J. Rogers, MeLarty, and Rhead.

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