CRICKET CHAT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 7

CRICKET CHAT.

«• Weekly Press and Rfcferee. , * ' * [By Dark Blub. ) " VThe Auckland correspondent of ibjl journal wires:—Dβ Maus, the welMtnown Chriatohuroh orioketer, ie here. It is p»fd he leaves on Thursday for Wellington.' '" Owing to the revival in mining Cuff tt , bock in Auckland again from the Thames. I am glad that the Canterbury Cricket Association is going to make every effort to get the best representative team to visit tk« North Island during the coming season. , , Subscription, lists are to be opened, and it is < expected that enough will be raised bo that monetary considerations will not be the cause ot players being unable to go. ! Giffen's team of Australian crioketere returned to Adelaide from West Australia on May 11th. The visit to the gold field , proved an enjoyable one, ahd Mr Kvun stated that financially the promoters cam« out on the right side. The jtaople in Weafc Australia, he remarked, are keen on cricket:, j and about 3000 people attended the nntjcli played in Perth on JEaster Monday. The" batting honors, he thought, were eqnelly | divided between Clem Hill, Kelly, wijf ! Gregory, and the bowling between Jones and M'Kibbin. The condition of cricket in tlw West, he considered, had considerably improved nince 1893, but moat of the playeM had come from the eastern colonies. ThaSouth Australian members of the team. , landed here, but the others continue theif journey by steamer. 'it In a review of the - season in New Santa ' Wales "Not Out "in the Sydney Jfo/af; says :—The standard of cricket in New Sow Wales was never before 80 high; the.*"' round efficiency, good feeling, and epint or she representative team were never inert . worthy of admiration, and the pecwliW. talent of men to rise grandly to the occasion in almost every one of a whole senepoj, matches was "perbape never by Intercolonial eleven. The Sydney; system has proved neither the «<""' sion nor the snare prophesied bytheow? brigade. It is a glorious sucoess. I""*"*-, season has passed off splendidly, notwit"-, standing that some of the most powerful teams had every reason to condemn the allot* ,• ment of only two days to the match** Where really strong; elevens meet in favourable wesfther there can be little doubt ««*- ---the prospects of no finality being arrived »t preponderate ; but this summer it was &•» indubitably frequent, case of a aide p!&y« n S ; ■ the sort of cricket that might suit in an International match, where time was no objecti with a week or more in which to settle W. game. There ie such a thing as «°» ift if one's cricket to the occasion, and it must \& confessed that while many of the capt«" J , | played the game to suit the restricted tuns, j many also continued in the old greov* w i the detriment of their side. A correspondent writes that W. Elnag'V. who has only one arm and played for-wa _j Mount Herbert C.C. last season, hao^ o« -' exceptionally euccessful season with the b»w* . In interclub matohee he took forty-nin? wickets for 136 runs, giving an average™" 2-8 rune per wicket. In all matches fc» figures were aiity-two wickets for 162 ' averaging 26 per wicket. His pri»ci|**;. [ performancee were:—-v. Gebbiea Vailey »W. wickete for 4 rans ; v. Lyttelton five &*?*-* v. Governor's Bay four for st;5 t ; v. Lyfctelton Btf t for 9 ; and v. Little River sevea for »•»*" five for 4 ; while for Single v. Mwriedl*: took six for 8. , In a recent issue of the Auttralatian, m « answer to a correspondent, it says On h'g"*": individual score m the world is 485 «»'<*• by A. E. Stoddart. The Middlesex cr«J went in first and was caught by Kell/ «» l , Kenny's bowling with the total *t 815,«» j being the seventh wicket to fall, ana, Wj» one man absent, the innings closed as *"* same total. Joe Davis, who acted as captain or t" first two New South Wales teanur *K»j. viaited New Zealand, again secured. WP batting average for the Warwiok CJh& *g * j the season just closed, hie figurea ] runs in 16 completed innings; average cMO* i per innings. . ! C. A. Riohardson, the well known enekewr* left bydney to take up hia reeiaeace "»,- Brisbane on May 7th. ' t& O. Covrley and T. Byrnes won prizes ?•••', 2eeach for heading the batting and k> averages respectively ot the QaeenelMj** 9 tour ia New Zealand. . ', 1