AU REVOIR
AUSTRALIANS DEPART ASHES POR COLLINS PONSFORD MAY RETURN (Australian and N.Z. Cablw Association.) LONDON. October 2. The Australian cricketers, before their departure, had time to visit Liverpool's new cathedral, over which they were conducted by the Bishop. The listened to an organ recital and received a civic welcome at the Town Hall, where Stoddart was one of the speakers, wishing ithem au revoir. The last Liverpool beard of the cricketers were loud coo-ces. Just before the departure of the Australian cricketers, the actress, Miss 'Sybil Thorndike, jokingly, amid the piaudils of the crowd, presented Collins with ashes in a, decorated urn. Sir Lindsay Parkinson has confirmed the statement that lie made an offer to Ponsford to join the Blackpool team as an amateur. The matter is still in abeyance, but there is a probability that Ponsford will accept. It is stated it depends on what his wife says, but he thinks he will accept.
Blackpool has also signed on Parkin, who will take over a hotel license and thus be ■eligible as an amateur.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 7
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176AU REVOIR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 7
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