"A CRICKET FARCE."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18680, 9 April 1924, Page 6

"A CRICKET FARCE."

THE AUSTRALIANS' TOUR. COMMENTS OP VISITORS. LOCAL SELECTORS CEITICTSED. fjreoK era owar coßiussroOTENT.] SYDNEY. April 8. New Zealanders in pydney, as will the people of the Dominion who did so much to entertain them, resent the disparaging references to their tour, which the Australian cricketers, who returned to Sydney on Tuesday by the Maknra, are making. , " The tour was probably one of the greatest cricketing farces ever perpetrated. Throughout, the standard of play was nearer third grade than first-class—and as for the 'Tests/ calling thorn such was carrying the farce to the extreme." Such was the opinion expressed by one of the members of the team, printed in a Sydney newspaper. It was endorsed by other players. With the exception of a few colts who showed promise but lacked finish, New Zealand was lamentably weak in every department of the game, they then the New Zealand selectors did not make the best of a Most of the promising young players ™ not given, a chance in the so-called tests. The few youn K players in the New South Wales team, instead of improving their play, did the reverse by taking liberties with the loose bowling likely to affect their game when they come to play Si cricket again. As a guide to> form for selecting teams to meet the visiting fcng£B22* next season, the trip, according to the players, proved a wasted effort, that ooald never be considered seriously. The keen interest displayed by the New Zealanders in the one-sided games, enabled the tour ledger to balance £1000 on the right side, as against the £1000 loss sustained by McLaren's team m the Do- | minion. __________