TARANAKI CRICKET.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 303, 7 December 1936, Page 2

TARANAKI CRICKET.

Team Chosen To Play Wanganui. The team to represent Taranaki in the cricwet engagement. with Wanganui on Thursday’, Friday and Saturday for Hawke Cup elimination was announced yesterday by the selectors, Messrs H. J. Larkin (New Plymouth) and J. Muir (Hawera). Players who will travel to Wanganui are: W. Barker, 11. Barker, D. Buist, E. Christensen, O. Foreman, Sp. Giddy, W. Geary, W. Groombridge, S. C. Hay, T. C. Larkin, R. Lendrum, V. Parkinson. One play’er may not be able to travel and the team will be finally settled to-day. A serious difficulty facing the selectors in the choice of Taranaki’s first representative team this season has been .the number of players who if selected would have been unable to travel. Three of South Taranaki’s staunchest cricketers, D. Dornier, W. Hall and S. Bet-ts, notified the selectors of their inabilitay to travel, and such prominent North Taranaki men as M. P. Donnelly, O. Nasmith, J. Spedding and Hawesworth were debarred from consideration for a similar reason.

Iconoclast Sarazen. When Gene Sarazen and Helen Hicks played Ivo Whitton and Teddy Naismith at Royal Melbourne, the Australian Open champion had been well tutored previously by pressmen and others as to the tone and tradition with which the club is surrounded. But it is difficult to create the right impression on one of the temperament of the little ItaloAmerican. The sardonic side of his nature does not permit him to be overawed even at the Royal and Ancient at St. Andrews. He stepped on to the first tee, glanced up wickedly at Ivo Whitton and, tapping his foot on the turf, raised his eyebrows in one query: “Sacred?” he asked.