CRICKET.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 2

CRICKET.

When Aian Kippax rose to speak at the forty-third annual meeting of the .Glebe Cricket Club, held in the Glebe School of Arts, he was greeted ■with cheers and the singing of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Speak- I ers congratulated him on his election as a life member of the Waverley Club, and the chairman of the meeting, Mr H. H. Cush, in extending Kippax a special welcome, said that few men had done as much for I cricket. Mr Kippax said that it was pleasing after 25 years of cricket, to have such an honour conferred upon him. “One cannot go through life without making an enemy here and there, but if you play ‘cricket’ as it j should be played, you have nothing to fear,” said Mr Kippax. Board of Control member Mr Hutcheon has conducted personally all the negotiations to bring Billy Brown to Queensland cricket, and preserved the traditional tight lip common to oysters and members of , the Board of Control. He said nothing; therefore, disclosed nothing, writes a Brisbane scribe. • • • Yet the two really important announcements regarding Brown’s transfer, on the condition of his contract and the actual fact that he had accepted the offer were made during Mr Hutcheon’s absence in the North. It is good to know at last that Brown will come, and with his youth and fine example of achievement and style it is thought that he will do more for the game than Ducat, Christie or the ill-fated Archie Jackson of treasured memory. Actually Brown may be here for four years instead of three, according to his contract, as a clause provides that, should he go to England with the next Australian XI. (seems a certainty), the * time on tour is to be excluded from the three years’ tdrm.