Need We Exhort You?

"We have to play cricket to-morrow."

That simple remark was made by the world's greatest cricketer when a bystander observed: "You fellows must be keen, practicing so early."

Don Bradman and his South Australians had arrived in Melbourne from Adelaide two hours before. It had been a weary night-long train journey of about 500 miles in the hot Australian summer. But, on the morrow, they had to meet the Victorians in an important Sheffield Shield engagement; later in the day they would have time for resting. So, immediately after breakfast, down to the Melbourne Cricket Ground went the whole team, and no one was keener than the captain.

Tournament is Less than a Fortnight Off. These words are charged with the same significance as the six simple words of Bradman's.

We have good—very good—prospects this year. In every selection there is quality and the essential element of enthusiasm is not lacking. But there must be no resting on one's oars, no easing up now that the first goal has been attained, for that extra bit of improvement that every man and woman representative is capable of effecting between now and Easter Saturday may mean all the difference between success and failure.

We were Not Last in 1937; we do not want to be Second in 1938: Our Object this Year is to Win.