CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11195, 2 May 1930, Page 7

CRICKET.

REDPATH CUP. AGAIN (AWARDED TO DEMPSTER. (Press ABBooiatioaJ CHB.ISTCH.UBCH, May 1. The Redpath Cup, awarded annually to the batsman with the best record in representative and test matches, has this year been awarded to C. S. Dempster, who also won the cup for 'the 1927-28 season. Dempster played HI innings—S no-ainst the M.C.C. team and with four- not outs averaged 93.06 runs por innings. Jits highest score was Ml not out) and his aggregate in representative cricket, 662 runs N.Z. ORTOKET ASSOCIATION. DEMPSTER STILL ELIGIBLE FOR ENGLISH TOUR. (Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH. Ma v 1: . At a meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Cricket Association last night,." tho conimittee endorsed tho chairman’s , nil-, inn- that Dempster’s appointment as a,'professional coach to the ’Wellington Cricket Association would not affect his ; eligibility for the New Zealand team to tour England. Dr. E. Wanklyn (lion.' treasurer); reported that he, had received advice that the New South M ales Government had agreed to remit their share of taxation charges on the receipts of the NEC Ci match 'in' Sydney. - . . . .. The Federal authorities were still considering the matter. The total taxation' levied was • £3Bl «ind npproxiiriatclv half comprised the New South Wales’ share. NOTES AND NEWS. In his book, besides giving advice to young Cricketers. especially bowlers, Gri'mmctt tells the story; of his cricketing career. He relates how as a boy in New Zealand, lie wanted to be a fast bowler,. and how xnost reluctantly ho obeyed his schoolmaster’s orders to bowl -slowly ; how he used a/ dog as a . fieldsman, : and practised j.vij:h a ball suspended from the ceiling.