England does not mind using Colonial cricketers and footballers to help tai ber supremacy and it comes bad grace to find legislators trying to prevent a man doing duty for his ative place, That Tarrant played for Victoria, against the M. C. C., now in Australia, fairly upset certain people and at the meeting at Lord's on Monday the following was proposed:-—"A cricketer may not play for more than one county within the calendar year, tinder penalty of disqualification for two years, a British Colony, Depen-|h dency or State, to be regarded as a county." It is to be hoped the M.(*.C. will reject such small-minded pro~ posal which would impose a grave injustice to a man. No cricketer shoald ever forfeit his birth right and should always be eligible to represent his native county, State or olorly. We have bad "Ranji" play for England on the cricket field and S. M. J. Woods of Australia st Rugby football and plenty of "other Colonials have also done so, It is right and proper to wake a Colonial: put in " certain length of time before being qualified by residence to play for a county, but to deprive him "of his qualifications be cause he represented his own Colony or State, will strike most sportsmen as rank injustice.
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