DACRE CLIMBING HIGH ON ENGLISH CRICKET LADDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 12

DACRE CLIMBING HIGH ON ENGLISH CRICKET LADDER.

NEW ZEALANDER GAINS PRAISE AND FAME FOR “ JESSOPIAN HITTING.”

(Special to the “ Star. *’) AUCKLAND, August 22.

C. C. Dacre, last year’s skipper of the North Shore Cricket Club, and now qualifying for the Gloucester County team, has clearly made good in Bristol as a cricketer of distinction. Newspaper clippings from Bristol state that as a club player for the Bohemians he is one of the strongest attractions that cricket has in Bristol, and the All England selectors have asked him to appear for the Players in the next Gentle men v. Players match.

Playing for Gloucester against Oxfori he knocked up 63 runs in forty mir

utes, by what is described as the “most attractive cricket of the match, mark ed by some of the cleanest hitting ever seen on the Oxford ground.” . Playing for the Club and Ground team against Mid-Gloucester after the latter had made 194 in four hours he and Dipper put on 84 in thirty-five minutes, for the first wicket, while he and Hammond added 103 in another forty minutes. Dacre that time made 89, which included five sixes and ten fours, and the report of the match states that though Hammond made 100 in seventy minutes, hitting five sixes and eleven •fours, the New Zealander was surer in his timing than was Hammond. Playing for the Bohemians against the Old Bristolians he knocked up 127, “ hitting with Jessopian fury and bringing off some of the mightiest hits seen on the historic old Bristolian ground, winch is overlooked by a house in which W. G. lived for many years.” “Another Century by Dacre ” is a newspaper prelude to a report of the Bohemians v. Taunton game, in which the New Zealander made 131, just six rums short of the Taunton total.

With the mail which brought this news of Dacre's cricket successes came also advice that he will be able to go in for football in the winter, playing for Bristol City in the second division of Soccer. He had been offered a school-coaching job in England for the off season, but preferred the football variation to being tied all the year to cricket.