CRICKET TRADITION NEEDED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20892, 23 November 1937, Page 7

CRICKET TRADITION NEEDED

AUSTRALIA’S FINE GESTURE

HELP FOR DOMINION PROMISED

IMPORTANCE OF MATCH PLAY

United Press Association—By Electrto Telegrapn—Copyrlgat SYDNEY, November 22.

Mr C. G. Macartney, commenting in ■The Sydney Morning Herald” says the New Zealanders’ batting needed stiffening. It may be taken for granted that tire players were tired after their long mental strain, but the touch of fighting ability, born of experience, was noticeably absent. The batting of Wallace in both innings showed him as a champion. Moloney revealed Ills prowess, but the excellent work of these two was not sustained by their colleagues, and at the end of the day the position was disheartening. Mr A. G. Moyes, writing in "The Sunday Sun” says: "The New Zealanders can go home with the knowledge that they played cricket in a fine spirit, and that those who saw them want to see them again. Moloney proved himself a very fine batsman, and Wallace would be an asset to our Test side. Mr Moyes declares the Australian Board of Control has treated New Zealand cricket shabbily in the past, and he strongly urges that fuller opportunities should be given New Zealand to develop a cricket tradition, which the Australian cricketers can provide.

“The Sunday Sun” in an editorial says: “The presence of the New Zealand cricketers brings home to us once again that Australia has not done its duty by New Zealand cricket. New Zealand has good material, and needs only opportunity and encouragement

to enable it to acquire a cricket eleven at least equal to any Sheffield Shield side. It is understood that the Board of Control intends to do ’something.’ Let that something be done soon, and may it be adequate."