Macartney’s 16 Cricketers For English Tour
(Received noon). SYDNEY. This Day. The Australian cricket team for England will be selected at the end of the month and cricket writers are already indulging in speculation. C. G. Macartney’s sixteen, published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” today are;— D. G. Bradman (South Australia). S. J. McCabe (N.S.W.). W. J. O’Reilly (N.S.W.). J. H. Fingleton (N.S.W.). C. L. Badeock (South Australia). L. O’B. Fleetwood-Smith (Victoria). W. A. S. Oldfield (N.S.W.). R. G. Gregory (Victoria). A. G. Chipperfleld (N.S.W.). E. L. McCormick (Victoria). H. Cotton (South Australia). D. Tallon (Queensland). C. V. Grimmett (South Australia).
E. S. White (N.S.W.). V. Jackson (N.S.W.). R. H. Robinson (South Australia). Macartney remarks that the selectors’ task will be more difficult than ever, owing to so many young batsmen of quality offering. The first seven men on the list he regards as “certainties”—they pick themselves!
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 5
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