DACRE EULOGISED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 10

DACRE EULOGISED

COMMENT ON NEW ZEALAND' CRICKETERS

(Sydney Sun Cable.) (Received 14th May, 2.30 p.m.) °~r a <<t, •, , r LONI)O>r, 13th May.' A "Daily Mail" cricket writer, eulogising Dacre's brilliance, says it is reminiscent of "Ranji" and Trumper ile commends Lowry's pace and Blunts sound style, and asks how long will it be before New Zealand is playinz Tests against Australia and England • v CT, has the cricket season opened in England with sucb. .terrific scores no fewer than forty-three -centuries being attained, in a fortnight- Evervwis! aPPeara t0 be making them. Hobbs, Newman, and Bates, have already knocked up over one hundred in each innings of one match. - The smaller bill, which was dc'signed to aid the overworked bowler, appears to have reacted against him Contrariwise, experts declare that the phenomenal scores are not duo to the bowler or ball, but to drought and sunbaked pitches. All over the country ivarm, ramlcss days have given perfect Australian wickets. >*„ Scores of 150" are common. " The Sinnhji <»W> a? d Du^P