TEAM OF MARKSMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 12

TEAM OF MARKSMEN

FROM BRITAIN ROEND WOBLD TOUR

TO SHOQT JN NEW ZEALAND A team of 14, chosen from among the best markgmen in this eountry, left Liverpool by the s-s. Ulysses on October 16 for a round-the-world tour, during whieh they will shopt many mgtches i.n Sputh Afriea, Au§tralia, and New Zealand, gpming home by way of the Panama Canal, says an English writer, Seventeen yevar§ have gone by since the Natio.naj Rifie Assogiatipn has been able to accgpt thg rgpeated mvitationg ©f Australia tp send" ©ut a team. The lack pf money for sucb a purppse has been the reason for refusing invitations whieh everypne conneqted with the sport wished io accept. Next February there will bc «■ Vgry important prize meeting at Sydney as part of the 150th annivera§ry eelebrations of the founding of New South Wales, and in order to enable the team tp take part in this there has been t a private vvhip round amongst mernbers of the association and the necessary money has been found. Capetown will be reached on November 5, and the team wfil be touring in South Afriea until Deeember 3, when they will take ship for Australia, Dqring the month matghes will be shot against all the provinces, and on November 22 there will be a Test match against South Afriea, which may possibly bo made triangulap by the tnciusl*>*M«£ ... ^ X'-