THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1941.
CRICKETER
CricketInTasmania Cricket In Tasmania VETERAN Like Rural England RETIRES
THE ASSERTION of the popular song that "There'll Always Be an England" is given an un- expected ring of truth by the way in which cricke- ters in Australia persist in keeping alive the best traditions of the grand old English summer game despite the war-depleted players' ranks and other difficulties, writes a correspondent from Hobart, Tasmania.
Evidence is the first intra-state game of the sea son played here in a setting now perhaps more Eng- lish than the bomb-torn playing fields of the Old 'Country.
Half-a-century-old deciduous trees that might have been plucked from the very heart of rural England shaded the raised turf-covered banks upon which spectators sprawled in village-green fashion to watch the two-day match fought out on the richly verdant oval.
To former years this game has always been a trial of strength, letore the selection1 of the State side to meet Mauland state teagas This year it is a tributes to me tom, jog Tasmania can never field, an eleven strong enagh to comm- pete with the Ipote propulers Mainland states
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