CRICKET IN CANADA
TEAM TO VISIT ENGLAND A cricket team from Canada is to tour England in July and August. Most of the players will come from the east, where of late cricket has spread, whereas the game still has only a limited following in British Columbia. The chief centres of cricket in Eastern Canada are at Toronto and Montreal. There is a League in Ottawa which has played in tho grounds of Government House since "W.G." toured Canada in 1871. At Montreal they are handicapped by matting wickets and the lack of a good ground. The Toronto Cricket Club, which supplies the backbone of the team that is going over, has a delightful ground at Armour Heights, and a fast, natural turf wicket. At Toronto, too, the clubs are fed by two schools where cricket is taught intelligently—Ridley College at St. Catharine's, and Upper Canda College. It was because these schools were unable to send any of their players that the Canadian schoolboys' side which played a number of English schools last summer was outclassed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 20
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