CRICKET.
« —T nTHIRD AND FOURTH CLASS 'FIXTURES: Tho following aro the tliird and fourth class fixtures for Saturday next. Third Class? •>' * '<? • >: Victoria College v. Collegeß,""'College; Petone v. St. Patrick's '''College, ' 'Pet-ono No: 4; St. John's'l3 v. St.-Mark's, Petone "No; : 5; Old Boys v. Wellington, ' Pet-ono No. 6; Good Templars v. Midland,' Petono' No." 7; St. Jolin's A v. Karori, Karori; Hawthorno v. Newtown, Hutt; Phoenix v. College "A. j College; . ; ; <,v; - Fourth Class. . ~. . ... . Aspland v. Petone, Petone No. 8; Karori v. Old Boys, Old Boys ;-St.- Mark's-vr Petono JJaptist, Pet-one; Wadestown v. Johnsonville, Johnsonville. 'VYBARS BEHIND,THE TIMES.". I (BI TaLKOEAPn—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) '* Christchurch, October 13. ' Tho decadence qf cricket was pointedly' referred to by Mr. J. R. Evans" at the-Can-terbury Rugby Union anuual social gather-! ing last night. The ..speaker said, that in 1874 ho saw a Canterbury team defeat anAustralian Eleven. They could not do 1 it now. Yet in Now Zealand.they .had gained' world-wide honours in other branches of athlotics. Cricket in New Zealand was years behind tho times, and it was all duo to a lack of esprit do corps, and a want of application to the splendid.summer pastime.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 327, 14 October 1908, Page 7
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191CRICKET. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 327, 14 October 1908, Page 7
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