"A.P.F." QUITS COUNTY CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 13

"A.P.F." QUITS COUNTY CRICKET

(Own Correspondent-

Not Cominsr ^ to N.Z. To Live FAMOUS TEST CAPTAIN . !

— By Air Mail.)

LONDON, June 26. England Test oaptain against Australa, the man. who brought the Ashes back iin 1929, A. P. F. Chapman has forsaken county cricket becauee hu canuot play for Kent. And, says A. P. F. Chapman, Kent will not ask' him to play for them. In an exjclusiive dnterview at his beautiful country home at Worplosdoa, Surrey, CHapman told me his plans for the future, " writes a Sunday Graphic reporter. His next engagement is the Folkestone Festival, and then in October he goes to Indda with Lord TennysOn's XI. to play a minor test match series. "I have given np first-class cricket,'' was the former Kent captain's opening sentence when I met him on ais return from Southampton. He had been there to meet his wife, sister of Toin Lowry, who is engaged in the test in the New Zealand side. When dn his next sentence he mentioned he was playing for the M.C.C. this week he qualified his statement on first-class cricket. ^ "I shall not play county cricket again unless it is for Kent," he declared. "I have no quarrel with the M.C.C., nor with Kent, but I have definiftely decided 'to throw up county cricket. Why is my affalr. "In the very nnlikely event of Kent wanting me I would always play for Kent, but Ibey will not ask me. Oi that I am quite sure." Before I left him Mr. Chapman asked me to deny any rumour that he was going to New Zealand. with his wife to live tbere permanently.