Appeal to Club Cricketers London, Apr. 2.
Mr. Stanley Christopherson, President of M.C.C. made on March 30, a strong appeal to cricketers to carry on during the war. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Club Cricket Conference in London, Mr. Christopherson said that only the same morning the M.C.C. had been asked by the Adjutant General to the Forees to encourage cricket in every way, and that they were trying to do so. He said that any day it was available the M. were prepared to lend Lords to Service teams who wished to play there. Some indication that cricket was springing to life was contained in the fact that Cambridge University had reversed their "intention not to play by fixing up at least one game in London—against the Club Cricket Conference, at Lords. "I have no hesitation in saying that club cricket is going to become a very big thing during the war" he went on "and I appeal to A.|club officials to go ahead with fixtures." Mr. H. G. Dorman, the chairman, revealed that already nearly 500 clubs had decided to carry on. He said that the Ministry of Agriculture had promised that on the part of the authorities there would be no interference except under grave emergency, with private cricket ground:
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