ONE OF TWO

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12

ONE OF TWO

LADIES WITH M.C.C. PARTY

There are only two womeu in the i M.C.C. party, and one of them is Mrs. Woolley, who arrived with her husband this morning. The. other, It.rs. Lcgge, who was married a week before the team left England, is still in Australia. Both ladies are from Kent. Mrs. Woolley visited South Africa with the team some years back, but Australia and New Zealand are both new countries to her. "We particularly wanted to see New Zealand," she told a "Post" reporter to-day, "for one hears so much of its beauties, and also I have a brother in the North Island. No, I do not eoine of a. cricketing family. My brothers all played a lot of cricket, but none of them left their mark." Mrs. Woolley has a small daughter with her, and a boy and girl are at school in England. The fourteen-year-old son of probably the best left-hand player in the world is not unnaturally very keen on cricket, and is becoming quite a good bowler.

"I was only a month in Australia," said Mrs. Woolley, "and so my impressions r.re very hurried, but I enjoyed it all. J saw Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and had a day at Perth. The weather in Sydney was good, but very bad at Melbourne, so perhaps that was why I was not very impressed with that city. Adelaide I liked very much; it was so clean and well laid out. The. cricket grounds in Australia struck me! as being very large and well equipped.^ In fact, altogether in Australia there seemed to be plenty of room given up to recreation, and that is always a great asset to any city. The Australians? Well, the real Australians were very different to anything I had met before, but they are very hospitable and nice once one gets to know them." Mrs. Woolley also referred to the Australian barracking, which she said was mostly good humoured and given impartially to both sides, but at Melbourne it had been very personal and insultincr with some bad language. "We j^j straight Home from New Zealand, via Panama, arriving at the beginning of April," concluded Mrs. Woolley, "and the men start practising again at the beginning of May, so that this year we have really three cricket seasons, the one we have just left, the 6ne in Australia and here, and the one we return to.