CHOOSING A CAPTAIN.
i ENGLAND'S SOLEMN TASK. BUT HOBBS IS PROFESSIONAL ! (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. "I know it is touching on delicate ground," says Bardsley in a fourth article in the "All Sports Weekly," "but the Australian system of choosing a captain on his merits is preferable to the English system of selecting an amateur, often at a cost of passing over a proved tactician like Hobbs. It seems to mc a rigid adherence to the idea that a professional must not lead England may one day cost England dear, as it has already done more than once to my knowledge. "Jack Hobbs, who knows Australia and Australian cricket as few living Englishmen do. would make a more formidable leader than any amateur who has been to Australia. Collins has Australia behind him, and, therefore, we shall be a happy band, and that is three-quarters of the battle." —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 7
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