CRICKET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 31 July 1929, Page 3

CRICKET

VISIT OP ENGLISH TEAM

NELSON GETS A MATCH A meeting of t|ie> Nelson Cricket As spciatiou was held last evening to eonsiclcr tlit> question of a local match againsL the strong ami attractive English side which is to lour the dominion this season. A tentative programme was received from the Cricket Council offering Nelson this second match of the tour on a guarantee of £125. The team arrives in Wellington on the 10t.h December, and alter playing Wellington is to arrive here. on. 19th, play Nelson on Friday and Saturday, 20th and 21st December, leaving for Christchurch on the. .Monday. This would give the. I'-ng-lishnien tour days in Nelson, the longest period ever spent her t . by an overseas learn of any kind. The Association without hesitation decided to put tip the necessary guarantee and accept the niatch. For the purpose of financing the tour the local associations will probably be called upon for the amount of their "purchase price"' within the next few weeks, and as arrangements will have to be. made through the bank, those supporters who are prepared to assist by guaranteeing whatever sum they may desire, are requested to communicate with tiie secretary (Mr E. R. Neale). It is extremely improbable that there will be any loss on the match, so that the guarantee will no doubt be quite fonnfil, but it is necessary" fur financing purposes. The personnel of the Engtisii team is not definitely settled, but Frank Woolley, probably the most attractive left-hander who ever lived, and Duleepsinhji, a nephew of the great Ranji, arc dclinitely coming, as probably is A. E. R. Gilligau, who* captained the 1924 English team to Australia. Altogether it will unquestionably be the strongest and most attractive' team which has over -come to New Zealand from England, and as the members will not be under the strain of playing for averages or places in any other touring team as the last Australian players were, there is no doubt that their cricket will be worth watching and Nelson is very fortunate in securing a game. This will be the fifth English team to visit Nelson, but the visits have been spread over a long period. The first was on 14th February, 1877, when XXII of Nelson met Lillywhitr's team of professionals on Victory Square. .Messrs W. Eden, S. Fowler and J. Wigzell seem to be the only members of the Nelson XXII still resident in the district. There was a long break of 26 years before the next team visited Nelson, although there was another team in New Zealand in the eighties. Lord Hawke's team came in 1903 and played 18 of Nelson on a waterlogged ground. None of the Nelsonians are still playing although half of them are still resident here. Exactly four vears later saw the M.C.C. team under J. W. H. T. Douglast meet XV of Nelson and Marlborough who scored 98 and 121 to England's 149 and three for 29. Only two of that local team are still playing.' After a 16 years' break, the last English visit was the recent one of -1923, when MacLaren's XI came here and played a Nelson-Marlborough-West Coast XI, but probably only two of the local players in" that game will be in the running for this season's match. WORMS SPEEDILY REMOVED There is nothing so effective, safe and quick-acting for worms as WADE'S WORM FIGS. Give them to the children at the first sign of worms. They never fail to give satisfactory results. Can be given to the very youngest. .Pleasant to take. No bad after-effects. All chemists and stores.