AN UNBEATEN RECORD.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 4

AN UNBEATEN RECORD.

The X.S.W. cricketers have completed their New Zealand tour by another victor} 1 at Auckland, thus coming through with an tin beaten record. This is not unexpected, for it is an exceptionally strong combination—strong enough even to represent Australia abroad. It would probably go through England as successfully as it has gone through Now Zealand, so strong is it. Even in test matches in the Mother Country we believe Macartney's team would hold its own. For it contains a strong combination of young fellows, with the leaven of age and experiences So that Few Zealand, despite her defects, has not been disgraced, hut may look forward to extending future visitors. Some of the Aussies have said that the New Zealand cricket critics in the. newspapers have, been harshly unkind in their comments on local showings against visitors. This is an exaggeration probably built upon the reading of exceptional reviews in some of our city papers in the. South. Cricket reporting gets generous and sympathetic space in. New Zealand papers, so that the. man who makes a score with hat or hall is lionised as much over here as on the other side of the Taman. Sea. \\ T e are sure New Zealand’,s players will go on improving their individual and eluh play, so that when the next X.S.W. combine goes through our Dominion there will lie a better showing. The slogan for all New Zealand welders of the willow should he: Ruck up—don’t ho downhearted !