CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 167, 13 July 1912, Page 16

CRICKET.

A. K. .-If is still keeping his end up ! I in Knglish county cricket, and playing j ( recently for >_?..i'x against !>r_>y_hrr»- I t kept the runs down in a most, remark- I £ able manner, lie bowled .'l6 overs. no 1 fewer than til of which were maidens, i t and got three wick-its for 30. It In Test match cricket only Hill , , (_.(_!), Trumper ("10:51. Armstrong it (__.'..T). an-i <;reg..ry (i_lfl) have obtain- I e.i our wo thousand runs. Ihit three famou.. batsmen in Hayward (11199), Xohle (T.iPT). and MiicLarcn (19."!) It l-.ave fallen only a little short of the l ; mark. The two lastnamed ln_ve pro-j bably played their last international I a match, but it is just possible that Hay- i ( -.varrel will work his way into the England ' r side ere the season closes. lie is not . t too old at 40. r . — h An English village cricketer, named it Gordon Ambrose, recently put tip a sen-! a national performance on going em for 1 r litimlian. on .'rou.-h. __! run.-, a_raii-St ' c Re-chford, whose score stool at ill runs!** for three wickets. Ambrose took si.v 1 t wickets in seven balls for no runs. He = clean-bowleel men with each of his first t: two ba!K had a catch dropped off his ti third, and then performed the hat trick '■ rt (one •-..-. and h.,"" o-ie bowled, one caught, a, mid-ofTl—i.s.. five off the over. The 2 ether bowler se urcd a wicket, next haul. 1 complete.l a maiden over, in which a byp was scored, ami then Ambrose bowled b the last wi,-kr-t with the first ball of his j f second over. i . '. Tn a sincere and convincing passage, ! h Mr. Warner renders this tribute to the ' L -\ltiry|ebo!ie Club in hi- book on the tour V of tr.e Knglish t".im in Australia: —in '"Cricket Ibis bp-'omr nore than a game, jh It is an institution, a passion, one might c almost say a religion. It has got into the T blood of the nation, an.) win .ever Ilritish ' a men and women are gathered together : a there will the stumps -be pitched. North.' c south. Hast, .md West Uirorighout the ■' Briti-sh Umpire, from I-oru's to Sydney.: 0 from Hong Kong to the Spanish Main, ! v cricket flourishes. It is the policy vi, the M.X.C. to encourage tiie love of : i cricket in every possible May, and, in. playing at Colombo, we were but carr. -[ 1' in™ out that policy. Like all great in-' litiition... and like' ail gre.it men. the *~ MC.t'. comes iii for criticism, but it will ! ' be admitted. I think, that it docs a groat ', : ileal for the game. When Yorkshire or! " Kent or 'Notts play M.C.C. at Lord's, the. ' M.C.C pays the fees of the professionals , on both sides, in addition, of course, to: ' the ordir-.'.ry expenses of the match. • Kvery -u-r.mr"r 170 or ISO M.C.C. matches arc r.i.iv.il all ovrr i !:•-> r.peirses of _.i -i fall entirely on tiie M.C.C.-. it ~ elivide-s {(jHO between Oxford arid i am- ( . bridge annually-, it subscribes. Irberallyto the 'benefits oi" professionals: and in t re. it', years it has sent .e.ms i.i .-\us-1 tralia. to New /..ilnii. to South Africa. I v to the West Jneiii s. to liw I'nite-el .-lutes ;, and Canada, to i'gyr-f, to the Argpnt-ine. j.and to Ho'lanU. No dour-- the M.C.C. is rich, and can afford such luxuries, bat .-, that it is inthueel with an ardent desire I b for the -welfare of the pirn, no on- who 0 knows any ing about it. inner working will venture to deny. \nd in these o days v.lien cricket lias become the inter- J est of the who]- Empire, whither should i we turn for guidance' ln;r to the club r which has grown no with the game,! c v.-'oicji has fostered it, and which has al- I t ways endeivottre 1 to preserve its best . t traditions'; A-.ri it is the wish of pvcrv . r true rriCs.-tcr that the M.C.C. should so!.! ic.uti-vue '.'• c. ■•-!-.;. : ii- affairs that it jr. nil.;.- .;:.'••■.'.-, s remain not only the. trustee jo but tho __other of cricket."" [