AUSTRALIAN TOUR ASSURED.

NZ Truth, Issue 935, 27 October 1923, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN TOUR ASSURED.

Latest News From Sydney. Tho visit of flhe M.C.C. team made last season memorable, and gave our leading cricketers big, game experience ' (snys a writer' in a Sydney paper), which.would otherwise, have been confined to tho inter-State matches. There was every possibility a week t>r two ago that the present soasqn would, be unrelieved . save for a- 'fixture between Australia and", The P.est. : '•'.•' The N.S.W. pricket Association were on the point of advocating an additional Australia v. Tho Rest game, when the rumor of an invitation for a State side to tour New Zealand intervened. That proposal has been deferred. On October: 17 Mr... Syd Smith and Mr. Tom Howard, of the N.S.W. executive, conferred with Mn David Redpath, wKo is m Sydney acting on behalf of tho N.Z.. Cricket Council, and it is now practically certain that an invitation will be issued to the association to send a team to New Zealand on terms that will be acceptable to both bodies. There is, therefore, every reason to believe that a State team will be.participating m an eight weeks' tour of the Dominion during February and March. Most of our stars are able and keen to mtke the trip.