FAMOUS CRICKETER
VISIT TO GISBORNE HERBERT SUTCLIFFE The famous Yorkshire and English test cricketer, Herbert Sutcliffe, who has completed a business tour of Australia, is due to arrive in New Zealand this week and will be visiting friends in the Gisborne district about the middle of February. This will be Sutcliffe’s second visit to Poverty Bay, the first having been made in March, 1933. when he was a member of the English team which toured Australia and New Zealand. He then took part in a match between teams representing the Poverty Bay and Wairoa social clubs, playing for both sides and scoring 56 for Poverty Bay and 136 for Wairoa. Great interest was shown in the .visitor’s appearance at the Oval, and after he went out the majority of those present left, the ground almost emptying in a few minutes. On his return to England he wrote a book. “For England and Yorkshire," in which he made humorous reference to the only match in which he had ever played for each of the opposing teams.
Sutcliffe, who was born in 1894, served in the British army from the outbreak of war and held the rank of major when he was discharged about two years ago.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 6
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