GIRLS' CRICKET CLUBS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 13

GIRLS' CRICKET CLUBS

Cricket as a summer sport for girls may now bo said to have reached maturity in Auckland, says tho "New Zealand Herald." Nothing could havo been quieter or more informal than tho opening of the first season at the girls' sports grounds at Komuera on Saturday, but if the grand old gamo grows in feminine favour as it has dono in England tho event will yet bo looked back upon as ono of historic signillcaiieo. Cricket has been played for years past in tho girls' secondary schools, but this is. tho first time it has been seriously taken up by n group of clubs outsido tho schools. Theso clubs have formed thcmsolvcs into the Auckland Girls' Crickot Association.

Those who aro wont tv tako the attitude that cricket is a somewhat rough and violent gamo for girls would have found nothing to alarm tho most timid soul in tho matches on Saturday. As tho game speeds up with continued practice the players will all the time bo learning how to protect themselves better, and so tho difficulty will right itself. Qf course, it must bo understood tho.game is good old-fashioned, fullbloodod M.C.C. cricket without any concessions to any alleged woakness or shortcomings of tho sox. Undoubtedly the lithe, sun-tanned, frco-limbed ath-letic-looking girls that took thoir part in the games on Saturday would have scorned any suggestion of a shortor pitch ov a softor ball or even a lighter bat. Thoy wanted to phiy cricket and they playod it. Thore is every probability that before long some of them will play it woll.

This is believed to bo tho first thno that cridkot lias been established on a. firm footing among girls in tho .Dominion, and its future will be watched with sympathetic interest both by friends of crickot and of young womanhood. Tho sport is costing tho girls as much ns £100 a year in rent, but they aro enthusiastic about it and aro confident, with tho hblp of friends, of seeing it through successfully.

Tf tlicro is any difficulty in turning out a hot pudding, wrap a cloth round it tlint lias been wrung out in cold wafcor for a minute or .two, and the pudding will slip out quite easily. .For jollies and cold puddings lot the cloth bo wrung out in hot water.