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THE ENGLISH TEAM. LINES OF SELECTION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept- 15. Lord Harris, speaking at the Mnrylebone Club’s luncheon at the Oval to the Marylebone team going to Australia, said the public were entitled to know the lines upon which the team was selected. “The Marylebone committee chose the side because Marylebone pays the piper and it is entitled to call the tune. Many amateurs and professionals with Australian experience ..were consulted, and the fact that seventeen were selected was due to Hobbs’ inability for health reasons to accept the first invitation. When later he informed the Marylebone. committee that he had been medically advised that he could go they felt the Australian public would be disappointed and the British public would not understand if he was not included.” Lord Harris emphatically contradicted the statement that Marylebone was departing from the practice and was not finding passages for the players’ wives, as in Hobbs’ case.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 3
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