CRICKETERS' SIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23100, 27 July 1938, Page 24

CRICKETERS' SIGHT

BESPECTACLED PLAYERS The selection of P. A. Gibb, a young bespectacled w icketkeeper-bats-man, in England's team for tlio third test raises the question: Does wearing jihisses on the field a fleet a cricketer's play; - ' Judging by the sueeess of several crcketers, Ihe answer is that, if a player who wears glasses has cricket ability, be can play as well as men with normal sight, stales an Australian u i iter. The most recent examples of outstanding bespectacled cricketers are W. Mow es, the big Yorkshire last bowler, and T. B .Mitchell, the Derby--shire slow bowler. Roth toured Australia in .lardine's test team in JfM'J-.'W. and are still going strong in county cricket. hour ol the New Zealand test, team which loured England and Australia last vear wore spectacles on the field, which must be a record. They were I'arsloe, lladlee, Kerr and Moloney. Arthur Kichanlson, South Australian and test all-rounder, found glasses no disability in getting wickets and scoring runs. In' t lie pre-war era, .1. X. Craw ford, w ho played in glasses, was a great all-rounder lor kngland and. later, South Australia. A wicket-keeper who appeared in tests with glasses was R. A. Young, England, who caught six in his two tests in Australia in 1907-8.