CRICKET

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1932, Page 7

CRICKET

WOMEN TAKING TO IT. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, February 17. For the first time in history, women cricketers will invade a County cricket ground when a match will be played at Edgbaston on July 15. Norman Kiluer and Leu Bates have been running a winter school of cricket for girls. The results so impressed the authorities, that the girls have been offered a fixture on the County ground. One of the teams is likely to be captained by Connie Edge, who has scored many centuries, and is a demon bowler, with the hat trick to her credit. R. V. Ryder, the Warwickshire secretary, says that cricket among girls in the Midlands js a serious rival lo tennis. WELLINGTON, February 18. Butler (Otago) and Forester (Canterbury) have been appointed to stand as umpires in the first test cricket match between South Africa and New Zealand at Christchurch, commencing Saturday wees. WELLINGTON, February 17. The notice of the Wellington Cricket Association having bee n drawn to a. report regarding Dempster’s reason for . proceeding to Dunedin ahead of other members of the Wellington team. Mr Broad, the chariman, to-day made the following statement: —“The Wellington Cricket Association was in no way responsible for the Press Association message referred to (stating that Dempster wished to get used to the pace of the wicket). It does not know whence it originated, and expressly dissociate” itself from the views expressed. Demp* ster applied to the Association for leave to travel to Dunedin early for business reasons, and it i,s understood he is now in Dunedin with his partuer, Mr Price. It is, of course, well known that Dempster, apart from coaching, is interested in a business firm. Further, more, the Association points out that the message is in any case quite absurd. Dempster would not need to acquaint himself with the Carisbrook wicket, on which he has played frequently, nor the Otago bowlers, against, all of whom he has played. Moreover, the weather is always a factor which alters the state of the wicket. The Wellington Association regrets that a message so misleading and ridiculous should have been broadcast.”

CHRISTCHURCH, February 17. The Wellington team to play Otago i n the tinal match for the Plunket Shield, beginning on Friday, passed through Christchurch this morning. The team is:—T. C. Lowry (captain), C. 8. Dempster. K. C. James, H. M. McGirr, IL N. Lambert, R Crook, J. Newman, W. Hepburn, W. Dustin. T. P. Heaney, R. Morgan and J. R. Lamason. The Otago team is:—J. A. Dunning (captain), R. C. Blunt, F. T. Badcoek C. Elmos, D. Smith, W. Hawkesworth, D. A. R. Moloney. G. R. Dickinson. R W. Coupland, R. Cherry and A. Knight. As the competition stands at present, Canterbury has 18 points and Wellington 12. Unless Wellington got an outright win, Canterbury will retain the shield.