TOUR NEARLY OVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 13

TOUR NEARLY OVER

PLAYERS FEEL STRAIN

ROBERTS "THE TIRELESS"

(From the Special Correspondent of the United Press Association.)

GAINSBOROUGH,, Sept. 6.

The Gainsborough match has been another illustration of the severity of the- New Zealand cricket team's itinerary. 'Although the Folkestone gani.o^ was stopped two hours early to enable the players to catch the train, Gainsborough was not reached till after midnight, .Considering the inevitable •tiredness of the men," no.praise is too high for Saturday's accurate and inexpensive bowling of Roberts and Gal-' lichan. ■ Tindill, With his wife, is visiting Paris, and goes to Australia on the Orion. The main body follows a fortnight later by the Orontes. Dunning is unable to visit Australia and is returning via Panama by the Rahgitiki. PLAYERS' PERFORMANCES. Wallace has now passed Blunts firstclass aggregate ia 1927, and requires 235 to break Dempster's record in 1931. CoWie-needs two wickets to pass Merritt's record of' 107 ' in- first-class matches in 1927. Dunning has bowled a /record number of'overs for New/Zealand in firstclass matches in England, being we.U ahead of Merritfs figures for 1927. The strain, however, is now telling, and ho is not bowling with the same venom as earlier in the tour. .. ' Roberts, on the .other, hand, is in top form, bowling as well as ever; He has been christened "the tireless" by "Th■; Times.", : -../ ■'.-.: -...-.:: .- Vivian's,leg is again troublesome and he is receiving treatment In London. The Scarborough match on Wednesday promises heavy work. The opposirig'team is almost the.full strength of England.; It, w*ll ty? chosen - from Wyatt, Sellars, Maxwell, Brown, Hutton, Barnett, Hardstaff; Hammond,/ Paynter, Gimblett, Wellard, Nichols. j Goyer, Worthington; ..-.-■■■ . '