COSMOPOLITAN FLAVOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 19

COSMOPOLITAN FLAVOUR.

GAME KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES.

_ The most striking fact about the per-' sonnej at Eden Park for the great game between Auckland and Wellington was tie origin of many of the players and others connected with the match. Four of the Wellingtonians were drawn from Hawke Cup districts: D. A. R. Moloney and. N. Galliehan (Manawatu), M.' P. Donnelly (Taranaki) and. M. A. O'Brien (Hawke'g Bay). The first-named was originally in the Otago Plunket Shield eleven, and after playing in Wellington city a couple of seasons ago there was a mild sensation when lie was* chosen to take "the field, for-.South against North 'at Basin Reserve exactly two years ago.

South got 315 to win for four wickets. 1 [ W. N. Carson (Eden), the find of the. year, hails from Poverty Bay, while L. i R. Spring is another Palmerston North Hipli School product, who played in Canterbury before coming back North j to join Grafton. One of the umpires, Mr. C. E. Guiney, | was a former Canterbury representative cricketer and Rugby back. And three ' leading members of the Auckland Cricket Association's executive hailed from the South—Messrs. W. R. Fee (chairman), E. E. Nalder (past chairman) and Hugh Duncan —one of the happy selectors with Messrs. N. C. Snedden and Alf Postles. Mr. Duncan, by the way, was a member of the Otago 1924-25 eleven, when, under the captaincy of Rev. E. O. Blamires, it first won the Plunket Shield. And last, but by no means least, the man who prepared that grand wicket which meant so much to Auckland yesterday, was Mr.VHarold Watson. He ! represented Otago against Auckland in , * Plunket Shield game here oyer a quarter of a century" ago, and after the war also played for Canterbury in chal- ( lenges for the trophy. The scorers were Messrs. G. T. fee 1 and W. Dinnison. t