SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.
GENEROUS PRAISE OF AUSTRALIA
TRUMPER AND HORDERN EX-
TOLLED.
(Received April 11, 8.32 a.m.)
DURBAN, April 10,
Mr Fitzgerald, manager of the South African cricket team, interviewed, said that the tour of Australia had been a success socially and financially. The team had learned much that would prove valuable in the triangular contests.
Trumper was the' finest bat in the world. Sherwell's wicket-keeping was a revelation; no one in Australia could touch him.
Zulch considered that the Australians, on their present form, would win the triangular tests. He added that Hordern was the greatest living googlie bowler;
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Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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