WIVES ON TOUR
M.C.C. team wants more (N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright) LONDON. Plans for “cricket wives” to join the M.C.C. touring party in Australia and New Zealand are still arousing controversy in Britain. Some members of the M.C.C. party have expressed annoyance privately that wives will be allowed to spend only three weeks in the same hotel as their husbands during the five months tour. But one leading journalist has declared that even this period is too generous. Writing in the London “Evening News," Laurie Mumford said the British Lions had banned wives .during their Rugby Union tour of South Africa and returned unbeaten. But when wives joined the M.C.C. cricketers in the West Indies, their visit coincided with the players’ worst result of the tour.
On the eve of the team’s departure on October 21, the M.C.C. will hold a moraleboosting dinner for the tourists to which the press has not been invited. This is part of a confidence-raising campaign to prepare for the Australian challenge.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33655, 3 October 1974, Page 28
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