SPORTING GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 16

SPORTING GOSSIP.

(By <\VJTAEON.") CRICKET For criticising liie umpire's decision in Ibe Marriskville-Sydncy match in Sydney a fortnight ago, •). P. Scott and G. Thatcher bavo been suspended until December. The lormer, still' the best of the available fast bowlers in New South Wales, possessed an excellent obance of selection against A. C. MacLaren's teaWi which will have played its first mutch against New South Wales before the expiry of the suspension. An Australian writer's impression oi MacLaren's colts:—"The play ot the 'M.C.C. team now touring Australasia has 60 far quite justified the venture from England's point of view. Several of the young batsmen showed here that they had the strokes, but bad yet to learn to make them productive They will. no doubt, learn how to conserve energy and make nms. If (Maclean can continue to exhibit the clean, effective work behind the sticks that he showed on Saturday, he will go far. He is the making of a good batsman, but lie U one of those who have yet to learn the art of run-making. England tackled Ihe decline in its cricket seriously, and se'jsms to have made a quick recovery. Spectpcul«r, dull- and thrilling 3re the teWns applied fo til?" cripkpt fin the three fig pf % mM >• Squtb Australia mm- ±v AmM* w}v-.jn ct Ms %i Mm* &P HgHM minutes, in which &©u r h Australia, wanted 08 runs, says: doffed ■the boundary line with fieldsmen. Murray, who had got 26 in two overs in six minuteg, banged one front Freeuiap bard tQ Chapman at cpver-ppjnt, and burfje-d off the field.' Eowry had got a catch from him in the; deep field, straight his tand*, hut dropped it, ara>4 '» SWt roar flrffin the spectators. Vie. Richardson strode rapidly to the create, but •wung back on his homeward jourp;y, Ibw. to Freeman. Dolling got a cheer fi he filled the breach, aud lilted the rst ball from the Kent jpqogjy merpbant; liigh jn the air at short-on, where TyldesIMP V a » ¥*»J4w? lor it- The hat trick! Tcjwnseri.il jfiHJfid Arthur Richardson, aud tdie pair added a few, when the latter was 'bowled by Freeman with 15 to his crcijit. Tljc'Whand of th? pavilion clock .was perilously pe»r the hour when f"jiltt?red across thp oral to the i wicket. 4 WiftHtp H*-9* tllfre -was a Sf'eat burst of cifeeripg as Tqwnsend rave tyldceley to tbe bguncjary aa<i took the total to 60—end victory.'' Otago is certain of placing at least one representative in the New Zealand team to meet MacLaren's eleven (writes a Dunedin correspondent). This will be J. Shepherd, the Albion batsman, who is displaying good form this season, both with bat and ball. The only other likely player to be selected is D. Mcßeth, whose bowling to date has been well above the rest of Otago trundlers. Dickinson, of whom great things were expected, has so far failed to show anything above the ordinary, and he appears to have lost his pace. La6t season he bowled a very fast ball, but he always made the mistake of paying too much , attention to pace and not enough to : length. j