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DECISION HELD WISE
(By Telegraph.) •' (Special to "The Evening Post.") ' ■ ' CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Support to the decision of the Cricket Council to send only fourteen men was given by Mr. D. Reese, president pl^tlie Canterbury Association; at a cricketers farewell.: • " ', , . . "The first English team to Australia ( haci only twelve men,'' said Mr. Reese, and the next had thirteen. ' It was not until 1890 that there were fourteen, and it is of recent years that, the policy, of sending as many as sixteen . has been.- adopted. .Noble took teams of, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, and he says fourteen men are plenty. There is sound judgment behind the decision of the council." "The work has been enormous," said Mr. 'Donnelly;;.chairman .of, the ; council. '•"Tho-difficulties have been overcome-and there is no^ chance of the tour being such a financial failure as the^ast one was."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11
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144LIMIT TO TEAM Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11
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