NO PLAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 58, 10 March 1939, Page 8

NO PLAY.

TEST CRICKET. N.Z. V. GAHN'S ELEVEX RAINING THIS MORNING || SOUTH. MOLONEY WIKS THE TOf*. (B.v Tel<>CTaph.—Spwial io "Star.") WELLINGTON". :his d^. to a fhowery imnim.- there irjj no ;.l.i.v before lunch in the ]V>t critist maJ<!i iK-taeen Sii Juliei. dim"* Herta and New Zealand. The <ondit!«n* »<ic f*ii v imi the m. lirtl in«|KH'U>d liij v. ,< iet at Jβ minutes liej'iic tiie a<i\e-riinvl time rf sl-uliiv. 11.30 ~m . and I in- -a icket «ad ontli<-!«l, .ilUioujih dam]<, wu- ia £&* order. Li-lit rain had been in'.hn; for oearlr three horns, an! it dex lied to eafe another iiv-j»rx ti'.ri ;,; i.-von. At ihat slajtliero wrfs still no profi«>. lof an inj3 <l;ate sUrl. and a; 12.39 p.o it. n.is rfiinoiiiiced th.it no play jilace before |«.Di., w'upo a JurtW inspection of the pitch no 11 id take j^j^ New Zealan.l won the toss. a B< J inspecting Jli<- nitket the oaptaiag &. <ide.i to st.irt .it "J. 15 or as soon tie» alter a* possible. The te.inu= are: — XI. —<;. F. Hr:.ni-. <antain. J HanisUiff and i. R. Mjxrri! (Notts) C. 8. Dempster and .1. K. <Lei«i«!; shire), A. H. Dyson iClamorfanl, \ oh. field awl \V. K. 1 V. K. Jackson (New South WaJas), £ 1 , . B. Smith (Essexj and K \ \Tkb> (Siirrey t. m The players omitte.] are Sir J:uW" Cahn and (.'. C. Goodway (Notts). Lush and H. (Nt-->\ South Wai«L New Zealand.—D. A. R. Moloney, i.Tiii lOtapo), J , . K. WTiiteiair, jT Wallace, W. X. (ars-.n and J. CoS (Auckland). R. K. -I. .Menzies and >L > Donnelly (Canterbury)- E. W. Tinifi" •F. A. Ongley. T. L. Ptiichard and Jn Ashenden (Wellinston). * **•

W. G. Rainbird {Wellington) is tretfti man. -