CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 14

CRICKET.

Sydney inter-club junior cricket has been restricted to players under -25 years of age. This means that the particular grade is to be really junior cricket, which is right and propel". The V.C.A. have decided to have only' one selector for their representatives, and in this connection a Sydney paper says: Peter McAlister. of Victoria, is a good cricketer-7-one of the best, in fact —but. all the same, his appointment as a sole selector of inter-State, teams is a mistake. The sole selector business is a bad blunder. No man U infallible, and a comnvHt : bf> of threi; should!.iilwiCJßs be retained for the job. Last" yettf. "five men did the work, and the present violent change to one is probably the outcome of the bickering that ensued. But if live were too many one is too few, and Hugh Trumble and Bean might be added unto Peter, and make a really first-class selec- j tion committee. I Tn the course of a letter to Mr. C. \V. ' Butler, of Hobart, "\V.(S." expressed the opinion 'thart in the last series of test ! ■matches in Australia the better team won, and added: "It is a jrreat pity the-j M.C.C. here did not send out our best I team. 1 am wondering what your fel- | lows will do when they next conic Home, i If they do not unearth t*ome new firstclass bowlers, they will not take back the ashes. "We have very few young bowlers who are any good at the present time. The South Africans are just now 1 a very good team, and will take all the | beating we can give them. They have ; three or four good bcrwlers, and they are sure to improve. I think they can give England and Australia a long start at the time in this department of the game." The. time lost in bowlers having trial i balls during an 'minings is at last begin- I ning to attract the attention of the authorities, and in commenting upon the question a London exchange aUout hits the nail on the head in the following paragraph: Time was of consequence in a small match played the other day near | London, in the presence of quite a. fair ' crowd. A new bowler was told to try! his hand. He was about to '"have a few | down," when his captain said: "Here,! time's precious: we can't fool it away. Avith trial balls in a S-aturday afternoon match." The change bowler hesitated, | and looked distressed. The captain, ob- | serving this, asked kindly. "You don't | really want to bowl any trial baJls. do [ yoi:?" "Oh. no." was the quick reply; , "but I don't want all these people to ! think mc an ignorant asts. It's always done, you know."