IN MANY LANDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 3

IN MANY LANDS.

Cricket in many lands is the subject ] of an informative interview by thej Lyttelton Times with B. J. Kortlang, i j the Australian cricketer, who is visit- j < ing the Dominion. Mr. Kortlang, says ! i the interviewer, intends settling in j < Christchurch, and will in all probabil- ; i ity play for one of the clubs in that ; city this season. Speaking of his ex- : tensive travels, >he says that there are eight first-grade cricket clubs in Buenos Aires, and the cricket week at Hurlingham is one of. the fashionable \ events of Argentine society life. The j. game is also played in Chile and Brazil, : though not up to the same standard. Cricket was the national game of the West Indies, and the natives took a wonderful interest in it. * In the Ber- i mudas cricket is played all the year round. _ The best wickets in the world were in Philadelphia, where Dr. H. V., Hordern, the well-known Australian "Bosey" bowler, still follows the1 game,; and there was a good deal of : cricket in New York and on the East j Coast. In Hong-Kong, Shanghai, and other British possessions in the East, there was also good cricket, but the oppressive heat was against a high standard in the game. An amusing experience of cricket played on skates in Alaska concludes an interesting cricket travelogue. . j