ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 62, 8 February 1939, Page 3

ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM

STARTS DOMINION TOUR NEXT MONDAY. WELLINGTON, Last night. Sir Julian Cahn’s cricket team will begin its tour of New Zealand with a match against an eleven from the Auckland Colleges, in Auckland, on Monday next. Tlie four Australiaii-born members of the team —A’. Jackson, J. G. Lush, H. Mudg'e, and J. Walsh—reached Auckland from Sydney on Sunday, and the remainder of the team will arrive at Auckland by the Rangitiki on Monday. The opening match agaist the Auckland College was originally set down for Saturday, but as the Rangitiki is -three days’ late, the match will be played on Moyday. Following is the complete itinerary for the New Zealand tour:— Feb. 13th. —v. Auckland Colleges, in Auckland. Feb. 14th.—In Rotorua. Feb. loth and 16th.—v. Waikato, in Hamilton. Feb. 18th. —v. Wanganui in Wanganui.' Feb. liOth and 21st—v.' Combined Minor Associations’ XI., in Palmerston North. Feb. 22ml.—Arrive AVellington at 4 p.m. Dinner at Empire Hotel. Leave by steamer express at 7.45 p.m. for Christchurch. Feb. 24th, 25th, 27th.—v. Canterbury, in Christchurch. Alareh Ist and 2nd.—v. South Colleges, in Oamnru, March 3rd, 4th, 6th.—v. Otago, in Dunedin. Marrch Bth. —Arrive at AA r ellington at 7 a.m. March 10th, 11th, 13th—v. New Zealand, in Wellington. March 17th, 18th, 20th. —v. Auckland, in Auckland. March 24th.—Team leaves Auckland for England. The team is as follows: —Sir Julien Calm, captain, G. F. H. Heane (Nottinghamshire), C. C. Goodway (AN arwickshire), C. S. Dempster (Leicestershire), A r . E. Jackson (New' South Wales), J. G. Lush (New South Wales), C. R. Maxwell (Nottinghamshire), H. Mudge (New' South Wales), J. E. AYalsh (Leicestershire), A. H. Dyson (Glamorgan), J. Hard-