A GREAT WELCOME

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 68, 22 April 1929, Page 8

A GREAT WELCOME

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

United Service.

ENGLISH CRICKETERS RETURN. Big Crowd At Yictoria Station.

LONDON, April 21. O11 their return the members of the Marylebone cricket team received a tumultuous welcome at Yictoria station, rcsembling the excited reception given the Australians in 1926. Several thousunds, including some hundreds of schoolboys, gathered at the expected hcur, ot arrival, but delays en route mcant an extra wait ot two hours. By the time the team eame in it was necessary to bring up additional police, including mounted men, but few were enabled to see the rcturning heroes. | \\ arm cheering inside tlie station notified their actual arrival and was takeii up outside. Hundreds stampeded, liopn.g to get a glimpse of the members ot the team as they passed. Tlie president or tlie Marylebone Club shook hands with everyone, Thereafter there were spasmodic s* rambles to surround individua! htroes. The greatest demonstration was given to Hammond, who was slapped on the shonlder time and time again, with "Good old Gloucester. rt is understood Larwood, when interviewed, said he would never go to Australia again. He emphatically ob-jc-cts to Australian barracking as ugly, j unnecessary and unfair. He considers • mueh of it is deliherately plamied. An interviewer asked most of the tuni what was the fincst batting disp'av of the tour. and the unanimous ri-plv came, "Jackson's innings at Adelaide. "Our success was due to team work above everything," said Hobbs. interviewed by the Sunday Dispateh. "1 have never been associated with a team where everv member was more determined to win. The tour was exhausting."