Cricket.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 984, 14 May 1919, Page 20

Cricket.

When is the Cricket Association going to award the trophy presented by Mrs Howe as a memorial to Gilbert Howe, the old-time representative cricketer who "went West" during the Great War? It is surely time they came to a decision on the matter. I believe there is another trophy floating around that only wants gathering up. In a recent match at Auckland a young fellow named Len Elliott, who has been showing fine form in the North Shore Club this season:, took part. By the way this lad so impressed Fred Midlane, late of ours, that at the end of the season he presented him with a bat he had broken in. But what I started to write about was that in the match referred to Rev. W. J. Elliott (his father) umpired at one end and Tom Elliott (his uncle) at the other. That's something new in my experience. When the Rev. Elliott was the minister at the Thorndon Methodist Church he took a keen interest in the game of cricket, and many a chat I had with him. Tom Elliott, who is in the railway workshops at Newmarket, was a good wicketkeeper, and captained the Auckland representative team on one tour through the I>ominion.