M.C.C. TOUR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1936, Page 6

M.C.C. TOUR

LOCAL GAME CANCELLED. PROSPECT OF LATER FIXTURE. Almost simultaneously with the arrival of the M.C.C. (England) cricket team in Palmerston North yesterday was the receipt of tlie news that His Majesty the King had passed i away. It was immediately decided i that there should be no play in At C C v Manawatu cricket match today. Mr E. R. T. Holmes captain |of the M.C.C. team, arrived m the city ill the evening, and lie was ot the opinion that the team membeus I should not be required to take the field under the circumstances although he was awartmg mstiuctions the New Zealand Council and from the M.C.C. Board in England, to whom lie had cabled. Ic i I The suggestion was then advanced that it might he possible to arrange a match with Manawatu at a. latex sta-e of the tour in view of the iact .that the game with Rangmkei finishes on Saturday, February 1, and the ! next—versus Hawke’s Bay—would not start till the following Inday.. Mr Holmes would not venture an opinion, but when interviewed later in the evening by Messrs R. A. Brace (secretary of the Manawatu Cricket Association) and W. E. Norris (the Manawatu captain), the English captain intimated that he would do his best to arrange a match with Manawatu later in the tour. . , , , The matter was carried further today bv Mr Twvneham, the represen- , tative* of the ' New Zealand Council I travelling with the team, and Mr A. |M Onglev, chairman of the Manawatu Cricket Association. Telephonic communication with Hawke’s Bay resulted :in the approval of that association being secured to tlie fitting in of a gsune here on February 4 and 5 piior to the team proceeding to Napier, but tlie permission of the New Zealand Council will, perforce, have to be obtained. „ , . , , Owing to the funeral of Ins late Majesty being set down for .Tuesday 11 ext another interruption will occur in the itinerary of the tourists and steps are now 7 being taken to arrange for the M.C.C. team to proceed to New 7 Plymouth by car next Sunday from Wanganui, where they 7 will be engaged on Friday and Saturday 7, instead of awaiting for the Monday 7 s train. This will thus permit of the match with Taranaki to be played on tlie Monday and Wednesday 7 instead 'of Tuesday aiul Wednesday. Out of respect to the late King all the members of the M.C.C. team are wearing black ties instead of the familiar M.C.C. club colours. HAWKE CUP GAME.

Poverty Bay, the next challengers for the Haw ke Cup, telephoned. the local association this morning requesting that they he allotted Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 30, 31 and February 1, as the dates for their game. Although Manawatu’s two inclusions in the Wellington Plunket Shield fixtures, D. A. It. Moloney and N. Galliehan, will not be returning to Wellington from Dunedin till the morning of the opening day, the request of the challengers has been acceded to. Confirmation of the amended dates is now awaited from the Poverty Bay Association.