Nesbit C. Sneddon on His Own Bat

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 8

Nesbit C. S neddon on His Own Bat

ON a meander through the musty i while on a trip south, his other counand dry-as-dust court-houses of cillors, m sorting out N.Z. cricket

Auckland m the course of a day one could scarcely avoid Nesblt Colin Sneddon, barrister and solicitor. Not that one would wish to, anyway There is nothing prosaic about this firmly-knit and prepossessing specimen of

virile manhood. As a practising solicitor he has earned a fair measure of pleasant notoriety, but he climbed to

talent went ahead with the job and completed the team without consulting him. "Nessy," at this barefaced usurpation of full authority, stood on his "dig." — and also out of the team. He refused to

play m the Test. A lot of commotion was caused over the incident at the time, and many thought that Snedden

that distinction m other should not have oeen a spheres, albeit unwittingly. player and a selector too. N.C.S., who Is one of the But that is as it may be. remaining fathers of cricket As Auckland's representain Auckland, set off a packet tive on the New Zealand of crackers a few years ago . _ ewcnncM Cricket Council he recently when the New Zealand team N " v ©NtuutN. held con f erence with the "big was being selected to meet McLaren's chiefs" m Christchurch. If there were men - only a few more men with the same Ai^linnfl®?" J?? yer at , th ! t!l ? e ' an , d P«P and common-sense m the game as Auckland s choice as selector m col- „,,.„„ ■,-, . , x , i laboration with the Wellington and Nesbit a Snedden, cricket would go Christchurch selectors, he was also a ahead more m the land of the Fern player to meet the visiting team, but Leaf.