"MUST DO SOMETHING"

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 7

"MUST DO SOMETHING"

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

STANDARD OF WOMEN'S CRICKET. COMPLAINT BY ENGLISH WRITER.

Rec. 11.40 pjn. London, Aug. 4. "After the Australian women cricketers' tour, which was a rapturous success, we shall sit back and think everything on tlie pitch is lovely. It just isn't," declared Miss Marjorie Pollard in an article in the Morning Post to-day. She agrees with Sir Pelham Warner and Mr. H. D. Leveson-Gower that wo-r.-.en's cricket has eaught the public imagination, but that if nothing more is achieved it Will be a miserable failure. The writer expresses disappointment that 80 per eent. of those present at the xuateh at Lords were men, 10 per cent. were women who would never play, and only 10 per cent. were schoolgirls, players and would-be players. There should toe more cluhs affiliated in the schools, and theri there would be more players. "But England has no Miss Antonlo, Miss McLarty or Miss Pritchard," continues Mis3 Pollard. "I agree with Molly Hide that men cricketers must coach us. Boys live cricket at school from the start. It is thrust upon girls later in life. "Men obviously coached Miss Pritchard, Miss Holmes and Miss Kath Smith. Miss Pritchard's coach cabled her after she had made a poor score, 'Stop jumping at the.ball.' He knew what v/u: v/rong 12,000 miles away. Our. batting and bowling technique must be improved. We have simply got to do something about it."