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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 12

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PUDSEY HONOURS SUTCLIFFE. LOXDOX, April 2.0. There will be a great demonstration at Pudsey to-morrow in honour of H. Sutclifle. the. cricketer. Sutclifle decline* to prophesy Tegardim,' iS2O. He savs his chief impressions are that Gregory is the fastest bowler he has met, and Grimmett a. wonder man. M. W. Tate is remaining in countv cricket. "While Gilligan plays for Sussex, he saYB, "I will be with him." Sir Edwin Stockton, speaking nt the opening of the Lancashire "layers' practice, said that the county would continue to T>b aj»»»ted by the Australian, E. A. McDonald. Their prospects were brighter than for many years. Extensive alterations are being made in the ground so that when the Australians came Old Trnfford would be second to none in the country. THE EIGHT-BALL OVER. SYDXEY, April 21. A meeting of the Xow South Wales Crichet Association expressed itself strongly in favour of the retention of the eight-ball over. Reference was made to GilliearTs opposition expressed in yesterday's cable message. It aws pointed out that the English captain had no statistics on his side. He himself was not a fast bowler, and Howell was seldom used. The advantage from the slow bowler's point of view was beyond question.