BOOK BY CRICKETER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 223, 16 August 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

BOOK BY CRICKETER.

MACARTNEY’S EFFORT. Mr C. G. Macartney’s book, “My Cricketing Days,” will be published shortly. The author’s earliest cricket recollection is of his grandfather, George Moore, who bowled green apples to him when he was five. His grandfather made him a cedarwood bat, which he still possesses. Mr Macartney mentions the game- in France during the war in which he and O’Connor, of Waverley, and the late Frank O’Keefe figured. They played to the accompaniment of the German’s shelling a captive balloon close by.. The match was finished, but he forgets the result. The author says he favours a threedav limit for test matches. Discussing the 1928-29 test series he says: “Bradman was somewhat crude in his aggression, while Jackson was more polished. Fairfax was a promising young all-rounder, of whom there was a lamentable scarcity.” He condemns the batsmen’s “slow motion”, methods. Mr Macartney says also that undue importance is attached to records. Referring to barracking-lie says: “I fail to see that the Australian barracking is partial. I cannot understand any Englishman being sensitive enough to allow remnrks by the crowd to prevent him from performing his work.”