WOMEN TOURISTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 9

WOMEN TOURISTS.

MUCH YET TO BE DONE. LONDON, Aug. 4. “After the Australian women cricketers’ tour, which was a rapturous success, we shall sit back and think everything on the pitch is lovely. It just isn’t,” declared Miss Marjorie Pollard in an article in the Morning Post. She agrees with Sir P. F. Warner and Mr H. D. Leveson-Gower that women’s cricket has caught the publicimagination, but that if nothing moie is achieved it will be a miserable failure. The writer expresses disappointment that 80 per cent, -of the attendances at the match at Lord’s were men, 10 per cent, women, who would never play, and only 10 per cent, schoolgirls, players, and would-be players. There should be more clubs affiliated in schools, and then there would be more players. “But England has no Miss Antonio, Miss McLartv or Miss Pritchard,” continues Miss Pollard. “I agree with Miss Hide that men cricketers must coach us. Boys live cricket at school from the start. It is thrust upon girls later in life. Men obviously coached Misses 1 ntcharu, Holmes,' and. Kath Smith. Miss Pritchard’s coach cabled her after she had made a poor score, ‘Stop jumping at the ball.’ He knew what was wrong 12,000 miles away. Our batting 71110 bowling technique must be improved. We have simply got to do something about it.”