□ACRE’S SUCCESS
BRILLIANT BATTING FOR HIS CLUB (SpeciAi, to the ‘ Stxs.’J AUCKLAND, August 21. C. C. Dacre, last year’s skipper of the North Shore Cricket Club, and now qualifying for the Gloucester County team, lias clearly made good in Bristol as a cricketer of distinction, for the newspaper clippings from Bristol state that as a club player for the Bohemians be is one of strongest attractions that cricket has in Bristol, and the All-England selectors have asked him to appear for tho Flayers m tho next Gentlemen v. Players’ mulch.
Playing for Gloucester against Oxford be knocked up 63 runs iu lOmin by what is described as the most attractive cricket of the match, marked by some of the cleanest hitting ever seen on the Oxford Ground. Playing for iho club and ground team against mid-Glouccstcr, after the latter had made 191 in four hours, he and Dipper put on 84 in 35min for the first wicket; while ho and _ Hammond added 103 in another lOniin. Dacre in that time made 89, which included live sixes and ton fours, and the report of the match, states that though Hammond made 100 iu 70min, hitting five sixes and eleven fours, the New Zealander was surer iu Jiis timing than was Hammond.
Playing for tho Bohemians against the Old Bristolians, he knocked up 127, hitting with Jessopian fury and bringing off some of _the mightiest hits seen on .the historic old Bristolian Ground, which is overlooked by a house in which W. G. lived for many years. “Anoi her century by Daerc ’ is the newspaper prelude to a report of the Bohemians v. Taunton game, in which tho New Zealander made 131, just six runs short of the Taunton total. With the mail which brought this news of Daw's cricket successes, camo also advice that bo will bo able to go in for football in the winter, playing for Bristol City in the second division of Soccer, lie had been offered a school coaching job in England tor the off season, bm preferred the lootball variation in living tied all the rear to cricket.
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Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 4
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352□ACRE’S SUCCESS Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 4
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