Women's Cricket.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 6

Women's Cricket.

Dear Sir,—The epistle appearing in your paper on women's cricket is. to sav the least, amazing. In the first place the allegation of non-sportsmanship on the part of members of the English team does not convey much evidence of such to any intelligent reader. They set out on their mission without the slightest hope of personal monetary gain. Quite the contrary. Evidently their main object was to demonstrate to the cricket-loving public the state of proficiency which women’s cricket has attained at Home.

Our visitors had built up a reputation in Australia which they had perforce to live up to in their New Zealand games. I ask vour correspondent how many of the thousands who have witnessed those games would have been keenly disappointed if not disgusted had they failed to see Miss Maclagan in action? Who is geing to benefit from the huge gates that this player was mainly responsible for? Now let us view this matter from another angle. The All Blacks of football fame visited Britain and trounced the minor counties of England to the tune of 50 And 60 points. Did the Counties squeal and suggest what your correspondent does about the cricket team, that the All Blacks were poor sports and purely' “ pot-hunters,” or seekers of limelight? I feel sure that there are not many New Zealand women cricketers who will feel inclined to thank your correspondent for his abject apologies for their defeats. His advice to men is truly to the point, but he would have been well advised to have confined his letter to such, and not endeavour to criticise as real a body of sports as has ever visited this Dominion.* I think I can safely say that New Zealanders have enough stamina in their makeup to accept defeat from worthy opponents and utilise such an experience to enable them to turn the tables on their teachers at no very distant date.—l am, etc.. TRUE SPORT.