CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 211, 5 September 1900, Page 3

CRICKET.

PONSONBY CRICKET CLUB,

An enthusiastic meeting of the Ponsonby Cricket Club was held in the All Saints schoolroom on Monday evening, Mr Robertson in the chair. The secretary reported that during the season 1899-1900 the club placed four teams in the field, with fairly satisfactory results. Both the batting and bowling honours in the senior thirteen were carried oft: by Mr W. Mills, who was the winner of Mr Parr's trophy for batting with an average of 22.1. His bowling average was 12.8. He also represented Auckland v. Melbourne. In the second grade the batting honours fell to Mr I. Clarke with an average of 17.30, and the bowling to Mr W. Edmonds with an average of 6. Mr Lundon's trophy for most double figure scores was won by Mr I. Clarke. The fourth team won the fourth grade championship. Mr N. Wallace secured Messrs Robertson and Wallace's trophy for batting and bowling average In this grade with 31.5 and 5.5 respectively. The following officers were nominated:—President, Mr T, T. Masefleld; vice-presidents, Messrs Parr, Butler, Somers, Wells, Gregory, J. H. Upton, Canon Calder, J. Klrker, G. W. S. Pat'terson, J. J. Payne, W. Courtney, S. W. Buck. J. J. O'Brien, R. Noton; club captain, Mr E. Robertson; deputy captain, Mr A. Kemp; Secretary and troasurer.Mr Juggins; committee, Messrs Robertson, A, Kemp, I. Clarke, W. Mills; P. White, G. Wallace, and A. Braund; selection committee, Messrs Lundon. Mills, . and White; delegates, Messrs Langsford and Lundon; auditor, Mr G. Osmond. Mr Lundon expressed his intention of giving another trophy • for the highest double figure scorer for the coming season. After votes of thanks to the chairman, those who have assisted, and Canon Calder for the use of the hall, the meeting dispersed. •' , '

HE SHOUTED FOR HELP,.; It was not for pleasure that Mr. W3l--son concluded to take a walk in hisfc garden; it was rather an experiment than an act of recreation. And, grievous to relate, the result was against; him. The fact is, he had hardly covered a hundred feet of ground' before he stopped, gave a choking1 gasp, and then sang out for help. His wife and two sons came to the rescue, and got him indoors as best they were able. And that ended his going alone fop six months or more. By trade Mr Wilson is a carpenter, one of the most useful, peaceful and) respectable of all the forms of indus--try. He has lived and worked for s long time at Given Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane, Queensland, and lives there still. About four years ago—< or it will be by the time this gets inte print—Mr. Wilson began to feel him-, self much less of a man than he used to be; he was breaking down. The first thing he noticed-was that when he set out to walk a fairish distance, which he would have done once with a kit of tools on his back without minding it —I say, when he set. out to tramp this, he found his leg's were weak, and he often had to stop for breath. And he kept on getting worse. Such a state of things was almost as bad for a carpenter as it would] have been for a postman. Both these vocations demand good legs and good wind. On being consulted the doctor said, "Mr. Wilson, your heart is so weak it can- scarcely pump the blood through! your body, and your whole system is out of order. There is no chance of! your getting sound again, and thei sooner you lay aside your saws andi hammers the longer you are likely to live." These were plain words, to be sure,but not words which a patient wouliJ feel like pajdng out money to listen; to. All the same, friend Wilson did] as the doctor, said, because he had no choice. He couldn't work ; . and sw B naturally he didn't. His chisels grew, dull, but not so dull as their owner. He left off making chips and shay* ings, and went in for drugs and re* grets —a bad landslide for him. - . After about half a year of this sor« of thing Mr. Wilson made up his mind to find: out for himself if he was itf fact so poor a stick of .human... tlmtoes as the medical man had declared him! to be; hence the experimental walk in the garden already described. ,For six months more he was like a' ship in'a dry dock, of no use to himself or anybody else. The doctor had meas^ ured up the carpenter's complaint to an eighth of an inch, but, as for curing it, why, that he made no pretence of doing. • '•' "About this ■ time," says Mr. Wilsort in a letter dated September 22, 1899, "Mr. Frank Percival Peacock, of Man-ning-street, South Brisbane, urged me to try Mother Seigel's Syrup; he said he was sure it would help me. I didn't think so, but I tried it. To my surprise and delight it enabled me to get. aabout in three weeks, and in six' weeks I went back to work; and have had splendid health ever since.. , • •■ "As I am. 61 years old, it wasn'tjthe rebound of youthful elasticity that saved me; it was>Mother Seigel's Syrup, and nothing else. I am known, to nearly all the people of this neighbourhood, who can vouch . for the truth of my statement."—H. Wilson. Mr. Wilson's ailment was of the digestion —the heart and lung troubles being functional symptoms o£ that. When the stomach was made right he picked up his saw. ■'■..- -:',