NZ. CRICKET REP. ON FINAL LEAVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 56, 8 March 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)

NZ. CRICKET REP. ON FINAL LEAVE.

wicket-keeper in Auckland since the days of R. Rowntrec, J. A. jR. Blandford was in town on final leave this week. He is a lance-corporal in the Medical Corps. Of the regular batsmen up to Christmas (when he played for Auckland at Basin Reserve) Jack was second in the club batting averages. In seven club innings lie had compiled 374 runs, Averaging 03. Besides his century against Grafton lie topped tlio hundred in tho Training College jraine. and hit, up !»0 when facing the attack of r.M.( .A., the present leader. 1! land ford was liorn in Dunedin on January 31, 1313, but was taken to Australia when eight years old and played for Melbourne Grammar School liefore returning to New Zealand in the 102S-2!) season. He immediately became openin!! batsman and wicket-keeper for Victoria College. With K. C. James nnd K. W. I iiulill on deck, he had no chance of making the Wellington rep. team as 'keeper. At New \ear, 1033. however, he was sent to ( hris-tchurch and Auckland as a batsman. The glorious uncertainty of cricket was never better exemplified when at Eden Tark that summer he a pair of spectacles while Tindill and James hit centuries' Jack s high water mark was in the 1935-36 season, when lie represented New Zealand in the Basin and Eden Park Tests agajnst K. R. T. Holmes' Englishmen Besides keeping well, he shared 100 runs partnerships with V no *nt c'l'iigton and C. Elmes at Auckland. Elmes was dismissed at JJ, tlie first and last time a Xew Zealand representative had boon dismissed wanting only a single for the century.