M.C.C. CRICKETERS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 5

M.C.C. CRICKETERS

BRIGHT WELCOME ON ARRIVAL AT FREMANTLE. (Australian Press Association.) FREMANTLE, October 18. The liner Orontea arrived to-day from London. When the liner berthed at Fremantle this morning, the English cricketers, smiling broadly,' received a rousing welcome from a large crowd of admirers and spectators. Brilliant .sunshine greeted them. “Too old to play!” chuckled ‘Plum’ Warner to friends on the wharf, “but 1 am absolutely delighted to be in the great cricket atmosphere of Australia once more, after 21 years! We are keen to return with the a she. j, and cricket will be our first thought. I have never travelled with a more congenial or happier band of men.” Press photographers and cinema operators swarmed the decks of the big liner. The band of the visiting Australian ejruiser (‘Canberra” played lively airs and the sailors cheered the Englishmen. The Nnwnb of Patandi, one of the team, is no darker skinned than Antes or Sutcliffe, There is seemingly very little of the Indian about him, Voce and Bowes are big fellows. The team are all satisfied that Jardin© will prove a first-class captain. Receptions were given the team at Perth by the Western Australian Cricket 'Association and the civic authorities. The Englishmen later practised on the cricket ground.

THE BRADMAN PROBLEM. BOARD’S ATTITUDE SUPPORTED. SYDNEY, October 18. The New South Wales Cricket Association discussed the Bradman Board of Control deadlock in an impromptu way, the majority of the members holding that no actual breach wi l ! occur between Bradman and the B a .I'd until such time as Bradman writes for the press. Air E. Waddy expressed the opinion that nothing that they could do could remedy tb© trouble. Events would have to take their course. Quite a large section of cricket lovers in Australia, express the hope, through the press, 'that the Board of Control . will stand firm on the player writer rule.