SEVERE ITINERARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 5

SEVERE ITINERARY

PLANS FOR RETURN VOYAGE IN ORONTES (From the Special Representative of the United Press Association.) GAINSBOROUGH, Sept. 6. The match between New Zealand and Minor Counties at Gainsborough is another illustration ol the severity of the New Zealanders’ itinerary. Although the game at Folkestone was stopped two hours’ early to enable the players to catch the train, Gainsborough was not reached till after midnight. Considering the players’ inevitable tiredness, no praise is too high for the accurate and inexpensive bowling of Roberts and Gallichan on Saturday. Tindill, who with his wife, is visiting Paris, goes to Australia by the Orion. The 'main body is following a fortnight later in the Orontes. Dunning, who will be unable to visit Australia, is returning via Panama by the Rangitiki. Wallace has now passed Roger Blunt’s first-class aggregate of 1927, and requires 235 to break C. S. Dempster’s record of 1931. Cowie needs two wickets to pass W. Merritt’s record of 107 wickets in first-class matches in 1927. Dunning has bowled a record number of overs for ;yiy New Zealander in first-class matches in England and is well ahead of Merritt. The strain, however, is

now tolling and his bowling has not the same venom as it had earlier in the tour. Roberts, on the other hand, is in top form and is bowling as well as he has ever done. For his zeal he has been christened “The Tireless” by The Times. Vivian’s leg is again troublesome and he is receiving treatment in London. The match at Scarborough on Wednesday promises to be heavy work. ■ The opposing team, almost the full strength of England, will be chosen from the following: Wyatt, Sellars, Maxwell, Brown, Hutton, Barnett, Hardstaff, Hammond, Paynter, Gimblett, Nelgard, Nicholls, Gover and Worthington.