CRICKET SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 10

CRICKET SEASON.

A.C.A. ANNUAL KKYIEXV OF, GOOD YJ^R.- 1 ;- ' Tlie annual meeting of tbe.Aoehfcai Cricket Association will be h»y j> tfc Chamber of Commerce this evemu. A decided advance in public, in activity among the playw*. son is indicated by the which shows that in «ddiU«a usual club events of all' association initiated a "dub (UriL. ship"' for best showing in all pE'' which was won by North SboccQltiSle the club games, two tours wife taken by senior playere agement of Mr. E. "c. Bealfc y»t~Mr; J f C. Furley respectively, a team visited Wellington, a. PaneO Iμ visited Botorua, a team 01 gaoiieiWJfr E. C. Beale, visited Rodney, and* Bp& "Auckland team visited : Awklaeft. ? -'fc Plunket Shield matches AuckTae* fcfeated Otago and Canterbury, bof I*l to Wellington. They also lostVu Australian eleven. A Test match'asifttt the Australian team was played-- k Auckland. Good ■Work had been tee by the Sussex playor-coaehes. Wkd M«c been re-engaged for the coming mmi*. Anionp notable events .of the aefckat were the departure of C. C. OacrS'*i» take up professional cricket in En-Ult and the deaths of Mr. W. W. Rotenot. an ex-Auckland representative*" ftajtr who had long been resident; in Eajbni. and of Mr. Norman T. Williami, oabaf the greatest stalwarts of Auckiudl cricket as player, official and finunl supporter from the 'nineties. 118 »tM ciation's balance-sheet showed m padt of £2*20 on the year's operations. ;v.