“SPLENDID TEAM”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 9

“SPLENDID TEAM”

TRIBUTES TO CRICKETERS MR. AND MRS. LOWRY RETURN Naturally Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, are intensely interested in cricket. Their son, Mr. T. C. Lowry, captained the New Zealand team which has made cricket history for the Dominion. They arrived this morning by the Aorangi from a trip to England, where they saw several of the matches. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry were modest about their son’s success in captaining the New Zealand XI., but they paid the highest tributes to the team as a whole. Mrs. Lowry remarked that the weather was appalling. At Preston she saw haystacks floating about in the water. Through the Midlands it was just like a sea. It was disappointing that more of the matches were not played out. There were only 10 really fine days during the time they were in England. Mrs. Lowry remarked that her son was of opinion that Dempster was as good as any bat in England. James was also considered very fine. But both she and her husband did not wish to individualise—the New Zealanders had done so splendidly. The matches had beeu most interesting; if the players who went in first were put out those who followed on always put up good scores. All the members of the team agreed that their captain’s knowledge of English cricketers and conditions assisted them materially.