ENGLAND’S YOUNGEST CAPTAIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1924, Page 4

ENGLAND’S YOUNGEST CAPTAIN.

LONDON, dune IS'. Arthur Iv.lward Hubert Gilligaii. who l.i's just keen making cricket history in the England v. South Africa match at Birmingham. and who has taken II wickets for :>!) runs in addition to leading his team, to victory, is the "beamish hoy" a! the game. Hut Surrey, when thev had the chance ol him, did Uni say "('ome lo my arms.” They let Itiio go, as ihey lei f. I), fry. Philip .Mead. I.conartl liraund. and others

!i has proVid a sad tiling for Surrey; lull Arthur Gilligaii Inis never let it worry him. Worry and Gilligaii do not go hand in hand ; he is one ol the most cheery, smiling, optimistic cricketers you eun hod in a reason's seal -li. lie has a happy temperament, ami lie is so lend of cricket that he has -aid he would play :is a professional if !!' ".Is were.

One of three hi'othel's who did some cl' (heir early'hailing ami howling on the sands at Ihigimr, Arthur Gilligaii is twenty-nine years old and the youngest li'.au lo whom the committee of |||- M.G.C. has ever entrusted the eaplaitiev of an Kr.gland cloven. lie has keen given the job partly on personal grounds, partly on what lie has done as skipper ol the Sussex side since dh-d.

fair-haired. Minburnt. almost liiick,l. and always tremendously lit h.o plays hockey in the winter—he is the fastest howler iu England for a lew overs, ami tile hf-l List how lei on a "dead" wicket. Hut he lakes so much oiit t I himself that he is sometimes apt io slow down after a spell of howling. 11l ill" field he is the finest mid-off i.dnvilig: as tpiiek as a terrier and as learies-. lie catches hit' that look tpli l— imiiossilile and 'lops strokes that seem to lie ee'daio linn Inin lies. lie is an improving batsman who believes in I,•■; ting the bat hard agaitisi the hall. Mr (; illiga it win educated al Dulwiidi (‘illege and (Tunbridge, and among hi- other ipialitie' is the ability

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