No Basking.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 1 (Supplement)

No Basking.

New Zealand Cricketers Single-Wicket -in | Rji.;{

Talk about the terrific tjifatlofi, Fiji during December and. January; making cricket in the Islands at;-that, ; time no game for white folk.'appears;;..* o be strongly discounted by.the experience,of the Maoriland team at. present'in-'Fiji. Writing to an Auckland friend,!; Mr. E. G. Sutherland, manager, of £the,i£eam, states .that a craze for single-wicket matches has broken out among:the;members of the teain. At, the;mome,nt of writing, some days ago, a match l. was in progress,-"he reported, between Walters and Vipond: \ "Ifrthere is a keener cricketer, than NpeLtVipond I have yet to see comments-the writer. He goes on-to : report''that .in the . single-wicket game -under;-notice Vipond was first to bat 'on a;.perfect wicket and had Walters running f.round for about two hours, during ■which- 1 time Vipond made 325 runs'. Walterst occupied the batting crease 'for? minutes before stumps were drawn'and', had 30 runs to his credit; remainin'g:to',carry on the following day. -Excitementnuns high among the members of -the.team over the match and an epidemicjof';Simi. lar "ames has occurred, RenshaV.having challenged Sutherland, while two are going to play. / " \:; Apparently the heat at- : Suva-,is no deterrent to cricket there .by New.-Zea-landcrs, who seem to prefer activity to basking in the sun—or the shade.