CRICKET COACH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 15

CRICKET COACH.

TOWNSEND FOR AUCKLAND. £100 STILL REQUIRED. Efforts to secure the Derbyshire professional cricketer. L. F. Townsend, who played for England against the West Indies and India last year, as a cricket coach for Auckland next summer appear likely to be successful. The sum required to finance the proposal is £550, and the Auckland Cricket Association's committee which has the matter in hand has secured donations aggregating £440. It is, however, imperative that the other £100 should be found to ensure the conclusion of negotiations. Townsend is regarded as one of the best all-round players in England. G«tting a place in the Derbyshire county eleven at the age of 19 years in 1922, he has been one of the team's regular mainstays, and last season he scored 2224 runs and took 100 wickets. He is a vigorous batsman, possessing a variety of strokes, and a right-hand bowler of medium pace, and specialises in the off-break. Townsend is in his 31st year, and in his 12 years of county cricket has been maturing steadily under the patronage of two old-time Derbyshire players, Arthur Morton and Sam Cadman, an experience which has not only brought him steady success in the field, but should have specially fitted him to pass on the benefits of the coaching which has taken him to the top.