GENEROUS PRESS TRIBUTES TO N.Z. CRICKETERS
LONDON, August 17 (Rec. 10 a.m.). —Generous tributes to the New Zealand cricket team are paid by English newspapers • reviewing the test series. Both The Times and the Daily Telegraph gave leading articles.
The Times says: “No visitors are more welcome for the mastery and gaiety with which they play the game than the New. Zealanders. A friendly spirit—consistent with total warfare in' hitting boundaries and holding catches —pervades even a test when the New Zealanders take the field. Field glasses show a laugh and a word or two of what is no doubt chaff exchanged between balls by batsmen and fielders. Such a point is not trivial and its force carries into the pavilion and on to the popular stands. These visitors, without shaking our loyalty to our older opponents from Australia, South Africa, and the West Indies, and to newer ones (judged by test status) from India, have earned a special corner to themselves in the hearts of their hosts.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1949, Page 5
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