CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 225, 16 June 1908, Page 7

CRICKET.

GREAT BOWLING AND BATTING FEATS. Oy TELKCEAPII—rItES3 ASSOCIATION —OOPTEIQni. - London, Juno 14. In the county cricket match Notts versus Essex, Wass took sixteen wickets for 103 runs. Playing for . Yorkshire against Loicester, Rhodes took jiine .wickets for 37, and .Newstead ten for 29. ' Ranjitsinhji, iii' the t second innings of Sussex against Middlesex, mado 7S. Wcsliop (? Jcssop), in tlio match Gloucester against Somerset,- made 143 and 133 not out. ' THE TRIANGULAR PROPOSITION. London, Juno 14. Witli regard to tho proposed triangular cricket matches, and Australia's refusal of the suggested terms, the "Referee" says that Australians are now to be treated as naughty children for' not agreeing to a project upon which they should have been consuited before action was taken. Compared with Australian cricket, says the "Referee," South African cricket is a 'thing of yesterday. 1 ' THE BOWLING OF .NOTTS. , Thomas Wass, born in 1873, first came tp the front, in 1900 for Notts, 100 wickets falling to him in 17 country matches for just over 19 runs each. In 1901 ho had a setback, but in 1902 headed the Notts bowling averages with tho splendid record of 13S wickets for something over 15 runs each. Ho did not .do nearly f.o well again until .1907, when he took 1-15 ttickcts for 13.07 runs each, being second to his great clubmate A. Hallam (153 wickets, 11.78). Theso two bowlers had a vast influenco in making Notts the champion bounty last year, bearing almost the whole of the attack between them. Tho only other Notts bowling average worth noting was J. Gunn's 25 wickets at 29.80 each.

Writes " Wisden":. "Wass is quite an individual bowler, and is far more deadly on slow wickets than anyone of his pace whose name can be recalled. His special excellence lies in his quick break from the lee side. Whether this break bo a natural gift or an acquired art, it often makes liira practically unplayable when the ground helps him. Ho is not in proportion half so Rood op fast wickets, but, as tho South Africans found out last August, ho can on occasions do first-rate workon a firm pilch. Liko J. C. Shaw and Fred ■Sforlsy beforo him, Wass is not much more than a bowler pure and simple. Though he can hit hard ho has no profusions to bo a batsman, and when an easy catch goes to him tlie batsman has a feeling of hopefulness until ho sees that tho 1 ball has been safely held."