CAHN'S ELEVEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 210, 6 September 1938, Page 14

CAHN'S ELEVEN.

SIX INTERNATIONALS.

NINE GAMES ARRANGED. A COUPLE AT EDEN PARK. (By Telegraph.— Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Nine matches, including a Test, will be played in New Zealand during the coming cricket season by a team of well-known internationals from England under Sir Julien Cahn. Among the players likely to make the tour are Stuart Dem"pster and Roger Blunt, formerly of New Zealand; R. J. Crisp and Dennis Morkell, South Africans; lan Peebles and Walter Robins. England; C. R. Maxwell, the Notts wicket-keeper; Victor Jiickson, J. G. Lush, H. Mudge and J. E. Walsh, four'former New.South Wales colts of high promise, who have been in England for some time. .Of th , e »e players Dempster, Blunt, Crisp, Morkell, Peebles and Robins have played in official Test matches for their respecI tive countries. - Mudge, a slow leg-spin I bowler, took six for 42 and two for 86 ,when New South Wales beat England in their first meeting at Sydney in November, 1936, and Lush (medium) had the remarkable double of six for 43 and seven for 72 when G. O. B. Allen's Englishmen were again beaten in the return match, in February, 1937. * Details of the, itinerary were completed over the week-end, but it will be a few days before the exact personnel of the side can be known. The latest information from London was to the effect that the team would not be finally selected' before the completion of the present English season.

Sir Julien Calm, one of England's greatest cricket enthusiasts, is well known to New Zealand teams that have toured Great Britain, and he has been keen for some time to make a visit to the Dominion. Jn recent years the cricketers in his employ have toured South Africa, West Indies, South America, Ceylon and the "Malay States. He possesses at Nottingham a private ground which has been described as the best in the world. , Most of the men under him have been engaged to work in one'or other of his chain of department stores, which are spread throughout England. They play for the team when required and have not forfeited their amateur status. The itinerary is:— February 11 —v. Combined Colleges, at Auckland. February 14 and 15— v. South Auckland, at Hamilton. ' February 17 and 18—v. Taranaki, at New Plymouth. February 20 and 21—v. a Combined Minor Association XI, at Palmerston North. February 24, 25 and 27— v. Canterbury, at C'hristc-hurch. Marph 1 and 2—v. combined SoutW Island Colleges, at Oamaru. March 3, 4 and 6 —v. Otago, at Dunedii.. March 10, 11 and 13—v. New Zealand, at Wellington. March 17, 18 and 20—v. Auckland, at Auckland.