CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 16

CRICKET.

SHEITIELD SHIELD. McCABE COMPILES A CENTURY. KKIKBAN'K, November 8. In the Shetheld Shield cricket mat<h against to-day JSew So.ith Wiilee in the h'.wt innings made L'.">7 runs (McCabe 119. Barnen 68). Unvan took thteo wickets tor .19, and Dixon two for 41. Queeimland in the first innings had made 39 for two wickets when play was stopped early owinjj to the had liijht. HAMMOND TURNS AMATEUR ! ELIGIBLE FOR TEST C.M'TAINCY. LONDON", November 8. i The "Daily Herald" states that Walter Hammond, tin- well-known Gloucestershire cricketer, will lieroine an amateiii in order to We able to devote mole time to his new bii.-iuens appointni.'iit. He will be eligible a* caplain of Kiikl.iiid in the next Te.it matches. Hammond stated: "1 am up cricket an a profession and joining tlur directorate of .: company. This will in no way interfere uilh my .1 icket next Hcasoii. 1 cannot comment, on the *tatemt'iit that I will become captain of Knulalid, lint I am available for the Tests against Australia."

When R. W. V. Robins retired from the Held witli a eplit tinner in one of the Testa auiiinst New Zealand, Hammond took over the leadership temporarily. At Manohenter, in .Inly. lIWO. a [irolVssmnal wan in charge of the Knulish fourth Test team iiKuiii«t Australia for practically the whole course. A. \V. Carr who i.ad led his men on to the field on Saturday I when play wan restricted by rain to only ten oveisl, found himself on Monday iiioniinn suffering from tonsiliti* and was unable to take any further pal* in the name. In the absence of the ollicial "aptain. the leadership ilev ilveil upon Hobbs. although there was one other amateur player in tho eleven (i. T. S. Stevens- (.Middlesex).