SIR JULIEN CAHN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 182, 4 July 1931, Page 16 (Supplement)

SIR JULIEN CAHN

GREAT CRICKET PATRON. POAYER IN NOTTS COUNTY. The final match of the New Zealand cricket team in England will be against Sir Julien Calm’s team at Nottingham. Sir Julien, a wealthy Hebrew, is a great patron of cricket and hunting, a member of the Notts County Cricket Club Committee, and a generous giver to public institutions in Nottingham. He maintains well-appointed private cricket grounds hotlr at his home in AVest Bridgford, Nottingham (where the match against the New Zealanders will be played) and at his countrv house, Stanford Hall, Loughborough', and regularly includes outstanding professional players in his cricket teams. This season his team has a programme of 39 matches throughout England and Scotland, the final being that against New Zealand, which is hilled as a match, the proceeds of which are for the AVliysall benefit fund.

Sir Julien Calm in 1929 captained a cricket team to Jamaica. Air W. Maltby. an Auckland umpire, who was formerly in Sir Julien’s employ at Nottingham, states that Sir Julien is not by any means an outstanding, player, hut he is so generous a patron of the game that he is universally, popular. Last year, says Air Maltby, Sir Julien drew one of tire Calcutta Sweep prizes, running into many thousands of pounds.