CANTERBURY PLAYERS LEAVE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20197, 27 March 1931, Page 17

CANTERBURY PLAYERS LEAVE.

CROWD AT STATION. ] » , T A crowd of relatives, friends, a'tidcricket'followers assembled at tho raiU station lasteveniUg to'bid-fare-* ' veil to" threeof the repre-' eenta'tivesin the Ne>v'Zealand team/ W; E., Merritt. K.\o, Talbot, ,and I. B. 'Gromb, and' the Ota go R. JC. ■Blunt, prior ~to their departure, fojf Wellington to rest of the .touring side.""' The 'men* wiere given threecheers as the ferry train- puJled;out: ; ,MrD. iteeso, president of the New •ZeglandCrioket/Council, and Messrs P; and, H. . M,* Taylor,- memWrs "of .the. Management Committee of the Council; also "left for Wellington, !to', be present, atthe team's departure, on, Saturday, afternoon, by -the Rangi-i tata.f > Mr D: Wankj.yn, of the Council, will leave this evening for Wellington. /The other Canterbury men in- the team, M. L. Page jand J. L. l£err, are already in the North Inland. CRICKET JOURNAL. PRACTICALLY A BRADMAN NUMBER.- , (VNITM) ..PEBSB . ASROCIiTIOIf—'KTiECTBIC —COPYBKJHT.) " , , March 26th, 5.5 T> ipO < • ' - -EONpON, March" 65. - "Plum" Warner'ssspring Annual, entitled is practicallya Bradman number. It includes an article by Don Bradman oa't?ie_. past in which, he* the fact-that five 'left-handed* bat»mea 'of ' great-\promise are being Jlield "in rff>. serve for the-next-' English "tour. * -- 1 'There' is also an appreciation of''Bradaian by B. A. Young, the wioketkeeper, •' ' t ' j"" 4 1 ' .MALVERN ASSOCIATION.\'\ ; • KimlWley, and . Shelfeld, equal 1 in v tEe Mftlvern Crickftt i«Aßßociatfon * i co'mptftition, Darfleld 5 * aud Kisiberjey have been drawn ,to, meet •Saturday, 1 _March'2Bth, to decide .-who will play off With , 'She/Held for* the - shield* . ,