SPRINGBOK CRICKETERS.
AUSTRALIAN TOUR OPENING. The South African crickoters", who loft Capetown foV Western Australia on Friday last, will open their tour at Perth on October 22 playing; Thursday, Friday, and Saturday against Western Australia. They then journey by the transcontinental train to meet South Australia at' Adelaide, on October 30. D. P. 0. Morkel, who has left England to travel by the Suez route, joins the team at Fremantle. It will be . the iirst match at Pert 11 ever player) by the South Africans, who opened the 1920 tour against South Australia with a very handsome win by 281 runs. Dave Nourse, the left-hander, made 201 not, out m the second innings and R. 0. Schwarz, the famous googly bowler, captured six' for 66 and five for 64.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20997, 7 October 1931, Page 16
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