NELSON REPRESENTATIVE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 14 January 1938, Page 4

NELSON REPRESENTATIVE

IN NEW ZEALAND LADIES’ CRICKET TEAM MISS J FOWLER GOING TO SYDNEY Miss Joan Fowler, of Nelson, who has been selected in the New Zealand Ladies’ cricket team to visit Sydney, will leave Nelson by boat next Monday. The team will leave New Zealand by the Wanganelia on the 20th January, and arrive in Sydney on the 24th January. A one day match will be played at Sydney against a combined country team on the 31st January. On Ist February and 2nd February a two day match will be played against New South Wales. On 4th February a one day match will be played agaist a combined metropolitan team, and the visitors will leave on the return to New Zealand on the 7th February. Miss Fowler, who is nineteen years of age. comes from one of Nelson’s outstanding cricket families. In the 193536 season in local competition she scored 304 runs at an average of 17.88. Against Wellington in a representative match her wicket-keeping was of a high order, only 8 byes being allowed in an innings of 226 runs. Miss Fowler made 37 out of a total of 55 for Nelson against Canterbury, and her picketkeeping wa: again of a high standard. During the 1936-37 season she reached the peak of her form, her average for six innings being 72 runs. Her batting was a model of consistency, her successive scores being 42, 19. 30, 59 not out, 61, 20 not out. 16, 74 not out, 102 not out and 9. giving a total of 432 for six completed innings.

A farewell dance to Miss Fowler will be held in the Fire Brigade Hali on Saturday evening