CRICKET.
GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS,
ENGLISH TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND.
United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph — Copyright. (Received July 13, 8.36 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. The Gentlemen beat the Players by 45.
The Hon W. P. Reeves and Messrs A. E. G. Rhodes and F. Wilding have arranged with the Marylebone Cricket Club for an amateur team to visit New Zealand and play fifteen matches. The team will arrive in the colony on December 10.
(Mr F. C. Raphael, hon secretary of th* New Zealand Cricket Council, stated to a "Star " representative thai; soine time ago his Council sent an invioation to the Marylebone Crioket Club to send a team of amateurs out to New Zealand in the season 1906-07, virtually tor the Exhibition season. He received a reply from Mr Lacey, secretary of the Marylebone Olub, saying that nothing oould be settled until the English oricket season opened, but promising to do the best he could. The New Zealand Council wished the English test team that was to visit Australia this season to extend its tour to New Zealand. But owing to tihe dispute in Australia with regard to the tour not being Settled' the 'M.C.C.' had decided not to send a team to Australia, but to 'accept New Zealand's invitation. Mr Raphael said he had no idea of the personnel of v the team, but expected a letter from Mr Lacey by tha next mail, when the Council would meet to arrange matters in connection with the visit.) **
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8673, 13 July 1906, Page 3
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