TEN TEAMS MEET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 226, 23 September 1936, Page 9

TEN TEAMS MEET.

WOMEN'S CRICKET. PROGRESS IN ENGLAND. i WELCOME FOR AUSTRALIANS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, August 29. Ten teams of women cricketers will meet throughout next week in the picturesque village of Colwall, Herefordshire, to celebrate the formation there ten years ago of the Women's Cricket Association. Many of the players will be games mistresses from famous girls' schools, while in the star event of the week—an England versus Scotland "international" —such stars as s ® Marjoi'ie Pollard and Miss A. Bull will appear. Xlle village of Colwall is expecting ■ an influx of thousands of spectators during the week, for women s ciickfit has long since ceased being regarded as a joke even by the most sceptical of male dieliards. .Fathers and brothers are to be found at any big match watchin" their daughters and sisters play Certainly the" prestige of women cricketers has risen considerably since the first official tour of an invincible English team to Australia last year. Supporters are eagerly anticipating i the it-turn visit next year T>f an Australian teant which is to play three threej day matches —the first at Northampton I from June 12 to June 15, the second at I Blackpool from June 26 to June 29, ! and the last as the former stronghold ! of masculine supremacy in cricket, tba j Oval, from July 10 to July 13. ; Ten years ago, before the formation ;of the Women's Cricket Association, ° such "Test" matches would have evoked ■ nothing but scorn from men enthusiasts of the great sport. But to-day the j vague, rather unorganised sort of game ' that used to Ik? women's cricket has I been transformed into as keen and sk' 1 i fill a sport as even the most critic i stalwarts of Lord's and the Oval coiii. ' wish, to see.