CHIPPERFIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1934, Page 13

CHIPPERFIELD.

CRICKET TEAM SURPRISE. EXCITED CROWD ON BEACH. "Cliipperfield!" Like- an echo from thousands of loud speakers, thousands of hushed voices yesterday breathed that name, states the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of February 1, in telling the story of the announcement of the Australian cricket team for England.

And somewhere out in the third row of breakers at Tuggerah a tanned, athletic figure turned shorewards to see several pairs of arms waving frantically from the fringe of the water. ' That was the first intimation that Arthur Cliipperfield, once of Western Suburbs, more recently of Newcastle, and future Australian eleven tourist, had of his selection for the English trip. Perhaps comparatively few of the thousands who heard the news before him did not mark Cliipperfield down as the big surprise of the team, and, speaking from his holiday haunt, the player confessed that he was with the majority. "In future," he commented, "I'll believe everyth'ng about the uncertainty of cricket. "A few months ago I was not in the tour picture at all. Then I was picked for the State team. I thought I might have a chance. "On Saturday at the Cricket Ground, .when only nine, I flicked a ball from Ebcling into Barnett's safe hands. When I saw the ball swallowed by the 'keeper's gloves, I thought my chances of a trip went with it. Honestly it was a tremendous surmise to me." His selection, however, did not come as a shock to his family, and a handful of Tuggerah residents. While the cricketer whose name they waited for busied himself looking for "shoots," they hovered round a wireless set. And after the announcement, it was only a matter of seconds before Cliipperfield knew all that the excited crowd on the beach had to tell him. The choice of the Newcastle player is flavoured with surprise, because he only recently came into consideration. His fine all-round capabilities, however, made a deep impression, his' brilliance as a slip fieldsman doing perhaps more than anything else to influence the selectors. During one season with Western Suburbs he took 25 catches in the slips. And he has been doing that sort of thing ever since. He is a slow bowler and a useful batsman, in addition to being a brilliant field.