CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12

CRICKET.

[B; TSB BebjlKKS.] Tho Hawko's Bay Association has clial;i, Jenged Auckland for the Plunkot Shield, tho • ■ match to take placo in February. . Tho annual cricket match between Can-' : . .lerbury and; Otago, usually a Christmas 1 fixture, but by reason, of tho rccent northern, tour in quest of tho Plunkot Shield poat- . ■ ;!; ponod until February, will bo decided at ■ Carisbrook on 'February,l2, : 13; and 15.—, "Otago 'Witness." B. HartigaUj tho only Queensland "iV**,?■ ™be included m tho next Australian Eleven, satisfied with tho Board of Control's terms. ';:■!! This fino batsman is young and inexperienced=:v. Ai; /. in international. cricket, and -has yet ,to make his initial trip to England, so that his opin- - ion can have nothing like the effect of state- : ments derogatory tothe'board's action by such .men as Hill and Noble. ; A marble headstone, on which a bat, ball, '-. :• and stumps aro neatly displayed, has. been : comploted,by a Bendigo firm of monumental, masons, and will bo erected over the gravo v ;; of ...the . late . Harry Boyle, 'the Victorian - cricketer. Tho stono bears : Bcription' l Erected in kind romembrance j,of Henry Frederick Boyle (Harry Boyle) .ii ■ by friends and comrades as an expression of , sinccro regard and in testimony .of his prow:i ess as a truo cricketer, also of his i honest, : truthful, and . sterling qualities as a man. Born Sydney, December 10, 1847, died Bendigo, November 20, 1907," ' ~, , The troublo with the Board of Control' and' tho players still exists. Hie players have ■■ asked for a conference, but up to the present . : the. board has not considered their request. .. :: : If the board's estimate of tho proceeds of tho . tour (which: was based on information sup- . plied .by J)r. Poiclcvin, a - gentleman of cojisiderable cricketing ability) _and;, experience both in England and Australia) is. a fair oiio, . ..each player will receive about £700 odd. The' players contend- that the board's estimate is V;**. too high, but until they^publish.a balarice- . Bheot of tho last t-our they will fail to 'con-' '" '.. ™co tho cricketing public on that point; ; Thoy; say it is impossible t-o publish' a' bal-ance-sheet, as_ thoy .were bound to secrecy as •regards financial arrangements. In an inter- ' • ' view tho chairman of tho. board is reported : have.said,' amongst other -!i It ■ ' ■ : was the intontionof-.tlieboard, to.fmancetW ■ r . l-..tour froip - the.start, that was: to say, the hoard would pay the steamer fares and undertake all financial responsibilities, and in tho . event of any loss, the board, and not tho players, would have to bear it.] When tho . .last English team visited Brisbane, tjie . Queensland Association was.compelled to pay each player £25, ■in addition :to travelling, : hotel, 'and other expenses. The boards are v.. of the..associations,:'and unless they ' iopkai after the interests: of tho accociations, ■i.;; which it may. be; said are .'essentially "thein■l .torests of tho cricketing public, .thoy would, ; • ' ;in my opinion, havo failed in their duty. It - : imjst be ; bonio. in mind that - the : :of the .board can have no personal interest - in/this; matter, ; and. are, therefore, lining y~.,' ■: ■. onjy .the best, interest of cricket in- Australia . before them—perhaps better able to take a dispassionate and unprejudiced' view, of it in #11 its surroundings than aro „ gentlemen : ; . whose, personal interests aro involved.'' •'.»<-•<•• Beautiful and rotiring—that is Karori. And :. :;. . its eleven play a retiring and not mibeaut-iful ii ? vm !} a PPons on this se- . . - eluded 'little ground is mostly hidden from' P.?b% S ai ». it is understood that , r. ? ho ,, K - <J - c - could undertake a higher grade U. ■-V-V' the.; championships if they wero so disposed. But they aro not. A beautiful after- ( ■; noon, a. little batting, and bowling, a few - - Oadies.to 'look on, and/that is all. Karori is ...' -.. . .running to - and' .fro upon .tho' earth striving to project..its little .voice ' against wio derisive silence of the universe," as Robert Louis Stevenson would say. It is : doing, something. much better than thair-it is enjoying.itself. ..;