CRICKET.
ENGLISH TOURING TEAM
SELECTION JUSTIFIED
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Received Sept 16, 11.45 a.m LONDON, Sept. *ls. Lord Harris, speaking at the Marylebone Club’s luncheon at the Oval to the Marylebone team going to Australia, said the public were entitled to know the lines upon which the team had been selected. “The Marylebone committee chose the side because Marylebone pays the piper, and it is entitled to call the tune. Many amateurs and professionals with Australian experience were consulted, and the fact that seventeen were selected was due to Hobbs’ inability, for health reasons, to accept his first invitation. When later he informed the Marylebone committee that he had been medically advised that he could go, we felt that the Australian public would be disappointed and the British public would not understand if he was not included.” Lord Harris emphatically contradicted the statement that Marylebone was departing from practice. It was;not finding passages for Mayers’ wives.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 September 1924, Page 9
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