CANADIAN CRICKETERS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVIII, Issue 66, 20 August 1937, Page 8

CANADIAN CRICKETERS

SCHOOLBOY TEAM TOURS

ENGLAND.

(From The Guardian's Special Corres-

pondent—By Air Mail)

LONDON, July 17

The twelve Canadian schoolboys now on a cricket tour of Britain have come to watch as well as play. They hope to see the New Zealanders in action and to witness some county matches.

They are delighted to find that cricket is not being ousted by baseball here. "We see so many pictures of baseball being played in England in our papers that we thought baseball was being played everywhere ni England;" said one.

Mr Dewar, a young schoolmaster who is in charge of the team, said whilst cricket is so much encouraged at the Canadian public schools that turf wickets have been laid down, there is no cricket at the universities.

What impressed the visitors most at Cambridge was the wonderful turf everywhere, not only on the sports grounds, but in the college courts.

"I wish we had turf like that," said six-feet-four J. W. F. Peacock, from Quebec. "This turf must have been here for hundreds of years. Our grass does not grow a bit like this. It is very coarse and hard to cut. This grass is wonderful. We just sit and look at it. Have you got grass like this all over England?"

Matches have been arranged in Edinburgh, York and Eastbourne.