The Name Of Sutcliffe Will Be Kept Alive With Tour Of N.Z. Cricket Team

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 February 1949, Page 5

The Name Of Sutcliffe Will Be Kept Alive With Tour Of N.Z. Cricket Team

LONDON, Feb 16 (Recd 9.35 pm). —“The name of Sutcliffe made famous in the world of cricket by the imperturable Yorkshireman, is unlikely to lose any of its lustre, when the New Zealand Cricket team tours England this, summer,” says the “York-shire Post.” “For the undoubted star of the visiting team is the youthful Auckland left-hander Bert Sutcliffe. His batting performances in New Zealand cricket during the past three seasons have established him as the outstanding product of the New Zealand post-war game. In his very limited number of appearances in first-class cricket —first-class iMtches are comparatively rare in New Zealand—Sutcliffe has already scored a century in each innings upon three occasions, and like his famous Yorkshire namesake Sutcliffe is an opening batsman.—N.Z.P.A. Special Cor-

respondent. Plan cost to the United States. Mr. Hoffman, in a report to Congress on the Economic Co-operation administrations programme, said fears that the Marshall Plan would result in higher prices in the United States had proved unfounded. Mr. Hoffman said that the United States aid to Europe must be continued because the United States task abroad was economic as well as political. He said: “Unless Europe regains its economic health and again becomes self-supporting, we cannot hope to establish in the world the non-dis-criminatory trade and financial policies for which we stand. If conditions in Europe had continued to deteriorate all American business would have suffered."