TEACHERS AND CRICKETERS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 12

TEACHERS AND CRICKETERS

AUSTRALIAN TRIO ENTERTAINED. TRIBUTES TO SPORTSMANSHIP. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 6. At the National Union of Teachers’ dinner to Woodfull, Wall and O Reilly, which took place on the 54th anniversary of the first test, Lord Gorell said he hoped, as in education, that the flogging of players and selectors would be abolished. Mr. Humphrey, the unions president, who presided, said the Australian trio truly represented everything they meant within the Empire when they said “It is cricket.” He added that Woodfull was quitting Empire cricket on the very crest of a wave. No better captain had ever come to England. Woodfull, replying, said that the greatest day of the tour was not the day they won the Ashes but the Sunday afternoon they were permitted to spend at Windsor Castle with Their Majesties. Wall said that this would be his last visit to England. The messages read included a Melbourne cable: “The Victorian Teachers’ Union congratulates the victorious Australian eleven on passing its test.”