A WONDERFUL TIME
PLAYING FOR PLAY'S SAKE
(By rolenrnnh— I'ress Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"We had "a wonderful time in. Australia," said Miss, Betty A.rchdale, the captain of the English women's cricket team, which arrived this morning and opened their Dominion tour with a match against Auckland. . . , The captain is , a student of international law at London^ and several of the party of fifteen are' games- mistresses at various colleges. ■ The team was chosen by the English Women's Cricket Association from all parts of England, in which 'there" wero a hundred clubs, ■ and left. : England six months ago. I , ".'■' ■...-'... : Miss Arch dale said that in Australia the antipathy which; men are supposed to feel towards women cricketers-was noticeably..absent; ' "We do not play with men,";she, said, "or strive in any way to emulate them, but. they, .have helped us wonderfully in-every'possible way. Wo are not touring for the Ashes but. to ..play Test cricket. We are very fflucli against trophies of- any sort." The visitors, who are individually, bearing the expenses of tho tour|. will spend about a month in New Zealand.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 11
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181A WONDERFUL TIME Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 11
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