CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 12

CRICKET.

I s (By The Bbeakeb.) Tho team's taking part in the; Wellington bV;\»senior,-ohampionship npw; occupy ; tho following I /portions ,— ' E i Central ' ' 3 3 0 8 College 3 2 1b fe South 3 2 1 a ■ i Petone 3 2 1 5 t East A - 3 2 14 , North 3 1 2 2 V 1 East B i 0 J 0 f , Hutt 3 0 3 0 |'.. J ; .:- l 'Bajin Resone orioket,:has drawn/large num--ibera-.of; spectators-this, -.year,: and . the reason p;:«(iwhy: it should havo rivalled -'The Ponies" .and k - similar Saturday aftornood' attractions has not boon- apparent. : The :association has no; doubt f?r.f).•; ibeen: pleased at .the increased interest taken in IfK'Sithe. summer, game, since, the inauguration of l;;;:v-idifitnct clubs; but.no remarkable improvement the playj has yot occurred; -besides, it is f ,i i -'Teally too early to ;mako: comparisons with tho fc?v;;,! old -olub cnckot •,■> It. has • been: suggested. i that hew popularity of the , reserve as a Saturs«;;:i'dayafternoon': resort;' is • duo to; ,the. fact that 1 •'.vt'..--spectators,: sitting: -: calmly : -» on : tho pavilion Or lying m ?the. sun :on the grsasy. siStotAank can view other people gambling, not with iv-' iimoney, but with -their: lives—taking risk 3 that f.®;.:,are, not' allowed .at - most '.other' i,amusement ■j. tplaees i Thd centre of the danger zone is No 3 t'j . 'Wackit, : round. which schoolboys swarm ' like -beesabout a hive.Thoy; loiter about, somo :: engaging.: in . miniaturematches, dnd others, J «i ■ unattached, ■ squatting on tho ground ■to be ■ tar-. ;«rs?.'jgets"for; batsmen.; ' Humane cricketers playing i -wn No.; 3 cannot wiold tho willow unrestrainbut one of these days a smiter obsessed ;, . ;: of the desire for runs .will send that ball on a ; - fatal errand ( AjBM vThe incident Will i be-,recorded, in:-.the : "Acci--dents''.'column-after the following manner:—A corinection f witt : ohe f®i-i«f^he;;6enidr::;cricked matohos at the. Basin (. -on ■Saturday:; > Batting ,was; vigorous picket;;: and -; th<>:; balls ' woreflying §fiy':<Mwded!,over.'the :>atorhtstrip fof---,'the.reserve.' " 'At last a schoolboy Harry Fearnought, was :V.'. -,-Jiit.: .H« had'fbeen: sitting, with :a .number,, of |li : fti; r| other; : lads':clos6' to'the ; '.wick , et, -and with'them; when':~r-m?:-s 4>amo .in' to bat.-, The, ball: struck; him, above tho, 'v■■i'.ifj..right', eye, rendering■ him unconscious; and ,ho s'.f'.i,was taken to the In- a. serious ;,con- - With the appearance of ;suoh .an item, almost i V.-' V -every hand that' can ' hold ia ■ pen • will write "a Sysjiletterrsfo-jthev-paper," bo): the '.''X"' <lisraay and indignation expressed.- ''While l there. ¥ ;y?t -time;;' it ;beh6v« ; ; ; the-/Cficket 1 Ateociation &%:'-,'jEo'!; Jake'steps,Vfco ensure ':that?matches . shall 'be |?^jywrt^ l '.bn''ii;'safetyi'-^Fdilii^i , gudh\'''totioii, :, :the . S^ii^K-CStolfmieht^ell'-^Tote^Te/toinufesitp ;; ; ;-.;---:v-an,,exjjression ;of;opinion'.'on 'the ,matter.-. The ; Basia ! ;;Eesfirve: ! is , ii-:k»j'Bnrsly; noi-such as-..wi1l ,allow it .to- dispose of ■ s.iji'.- <plarers on the field in' a-dangerous 'manner.; |^p : ;;lllo>:batting fe.-":-' (wa3':fairly smmd/ and.. towards, .tho close of fi-'is: I .North'.: required • 205 ''runs; to ipn, ;and ithoy -last. -Tho .match, i.i.:'.;Bome.consider,, -would -hhve 'beon theirs had.it i not j happened that a number • oi balls wer<> i byJthe'.small; boys clustered about In ono or two instances tho ball was -' actually thrown in by non-plajers. v - .'All but the first four batsman reached : f'.!fi;.-:ijdou3)le- figures;'-itheir v-scores - being:—Williams, 'i i 39,[itJpham 37 not out, Tinlayson 32, S Hicksont! 31,-; Blacklock- ;:2li)':j Waters .23,.': and' Willis l -,\ :;-::':10.' : .' Such " an. array 'does credit, ta the team,: ; fe? -M:ancV:; although it wns a haid uphill light,, the. i- ' ~i,'-.-batsmen , lost' 'no - opportunities.:- Victory was t' almost in their graap, when ■ thi) ehopes: of. the: side,down - with a' rush 1 ,, har- . lnifmlet- a; straight -ball 'into hisv timbiri.-. *'^.■ The fielding flas only fair, and outf oi" t tffo r " bad "misses"'are;remembered. vKinvig .was. a : : than any othei man in the Central eleven He picked w\p{.!.- tip, (ileaiily, and ■. threw -in without;: delay, His f:'A'!', : :,?:'lot''jwas j,tho more - difficult, becauso .he was slationod over among the children. ■!»!i.:;'' !! -i'The' punishment meted ;out.-.to Victoria' Col.r i lege by Petone on Saturday last was not *:.:": " f;r{iatly".improved fornr lately, • in great .con-. sA.irs.irastato's-.their -ibackblocks -, display: during -,tho w.i'r. i' .■■ upeningU match,''. when- a they,', sustained ; n ■ dis-,. |&?sj:'sl?rapeful'if defeat hahdS/'off-Wellihgtbh i bonth. Smca.they, they liave not been beaten ii,-' r |f'H.'".Thfr .'position- ou Saturday,,' .that ''Petone ■ '.i.5j!;, ,, , , made >168 their >. first:' innings, ,'io '.which .(i':'i:i :i]the'.-Gflllcgians Teplied-.with. a fcoblo .57,' after b«-.■■■■-i-y a i disastrous* time' at:-the '-wickets. ;,Potono :■ had; ;' ''several wickets down for a trivial total, but vjisoon-.after., resuming on -Saturday ; Brico, andSenior ; joined-.■forces,. -.->.'Tho'.partnership. was bjg-v vii'Profltablo,' :but not; to .such an -'extent as' was f v ,i noticeable on tho previous day, r/ > On& of Bnce's best drives caused a scatter among, the - spectators : on. i'the. 'hillside ,'to : tho P-2f tt 'Pf' the ;• tJavUioiiLnvltwiis ; ! a of ty? 'X ono" .off. bur2V'S'i W fUfAVI;« ,! .C»te ifilled- the/next vacancy/ sand, hit up the piiitas >fours. and a 1 pretty five ■in . -the. r direction :of I;;:;,-.:];;:-, Cambridge .Terrace;,' ;Tho, player gave Ward a t high, but fairly easy, charce, but the latter |k"s;{ii'-,:failed''to vhold. it. "'-At : 4 . p.irir,- Petone ' declared fc»i4-«. ; rwith nmo iwickots. dowii tor-a total of 110. - t.w' if .'ii;'.v Foster..and. doi'la Mare-, wero .tho-,pioneer .pair, |l'!«'-|ir»F{ori!CollegOivb«titbey.Miiado!'Onl]r>A''-'moderate-- ~ I, stand. Iho best scorei ot tho innings was 'i . Doajpsey, who played a rvorj careful innings, f.-p.:i and secured: 35-beford Nunn' found .tho way to his; wickets. The; score . included,,three threes t' and a couple of fouis :-:T)ioionly :othor .College moil to reach double (.fijit.v : figures were. Niven ;16,'Foster 15, and Darroch 11.': r- 1 / Wellington Sonth and* Wellington East 'B f ] mot on No 2 wlckot, Basin Reserve. Tho winners ,f(S6uth);:registered, ; 2o9;6n;'the'-bpeting. FJia v'as;Tagainst - six;; f orDB4 ho tched ; by,i their : ./..opponents,;, East B.:continued tho .innings on Saturday,;;and:! Managed ;:tOv.reach;; 88,-. the '-chief rS'-v.'.-f ;:' contributors '.being-iM'Lennau: 22 and Dixon 20. [■".fc.'.f.s,;: --'Following on;-, they .-'mude.:l4o,..a, much more Nil::':'f A Jeff ort.'.v':Qrimmott,vjttot;: out, '41, .and: frfsiVsi^ash's6, r ',^6re':'thb.v^ . ji' . *nd Dind were sent out to make it. 'ihey |ifjJ;,'i:%addressed : ;tHemsol v es;l. to JO'thC-V: businesswith without.,:, apparent <j. > trouble. .39 for''six'ivicketsj 1 against 218, I , Saturday were not exactly rosy. But Judd. fe>fijf;bhev.bf a littlo;,bright .tliov'sero iand'-yellorf leaf" of fes-.'i';'HiHutt'^ : 'inhings.:-\ : l of extras and sundry small scores by other kv;;:¥ 1 .; members. of .the: team;.' brought, tho: total -up to I ■ 87. 1;..-,-. .This.:small aggregate mado■ it necessary for. fo^S- i y;the;'s^bur.ban ; team'Jb.;follo'w/brigand :iii ,thoir Bcfidiidsvattp ;.ttjb; tho^pi'daso";tKhad; moro P^^l6i&:-;i'?Judd ! :jwnt''ife*;--£rgt/'';and^«idded : .Bnother fe-(';\;;K:i :l fcather : ;.tb.-hi3 : :c^p;l)^.';compiling-a; serviceable in,;the; first, wjj^'3^/yjqiiiii^s(r-fidU;''-"nb't'^b*eeii' ; Tit'--Terj::: : .glitterso''me one, 'iliis;.'reputation, -by,-.''notching .25,';. to. ' . which Staples added 2-1, -not .out. ?■, |«te:sfra! Thus;' -...when; stumps > .were > drawn Hutt -had i;.;';. . . ivcrted a diro defeat; ; having reached a total .fivb.wicke ! : i s:. , '.;',;';: : ;c6ursb,ipor'contra,:;Eastl'A. were not quite fit';®® liivith-; the:':bowling'in ;the second 1- -- - •' innings .as in the first. Gibbesi tho break | ;-Y>i pbowler,-. whose record, for tho hrst day - was six 1 J.!:.? -wickets for 12 runs, .was clearly "oft: colour," |L.-!?v?' :■ and ■- Hales's . fast deliveries;. appeared to havo f lost their sting ]/•,(Mr. Leslie'Ashbolt, captain of the Gas.Com-.1 I , pany Club, last year, who has been residing In'Melbournoi recently," 'renewed .old acquaint- i ks;-!';;;; ances Basin" RoservS on Saturday aftorThe draft-itinorary.of the New:South.Wales, :;tbrir\o£ : New :;Zealartd ; in' December ', and January is as follows —Saturday, Deccm §p«p!-;;lMr;\lß,cleavevSydney;'Wednesday,• 22, arrive |:wMK';.v.Wdlingtoii , s;Thnrsd«iyi';-23,-orlcket match,.with, teachers;;Friday,'-2bi forenoon: ■ ten- ' nis aivl bowls 1 nfternoon leave for l'icton, -'.r:..:<'.:- T ' S ft tardfiy,'.2s, .-Marlborough Sounds, ■ and■ leavo * jt in evening for Nelson, bunday, 26, leave for !^Wbstport;7:lit6ndiy;--:27,,; 1(iay0: f&sit;?Viavßuirer;:Gorgb;::Tnesdjiy/ 28, cricket 'match; ffei'K'-'iiiv.Greynibnth'; ;■'Wednesday, ',;29, 1 :: leave xfor 1 Chribtchiifch, via Otira Gorge; Thursday; 30, Chmtchtiroh, free day; Friday, 31, playcncKot match at Chribtchurch, Saturday, January 1, ' - leave first express for Timarujicrickot match) ■'Sunday, 2, Timaru; continue cricket . match with South Canterbury teachers, lca\e per second express for Duncdln; Tuesday, 4, fv,:XJunedin, tennis and bowls; Wednesilay; 5, Duncdin, orioket match; Thursday, (5, leave for Siueenstown; 'Friday," 7i; Quoenstiowijj :-Satur-'; ay; 8, Queenstown,,orlcket or. tepws; Sunday, 9 ( Queonstown; Monday, 10, leavo for Dunedln, Tuesday, 11, leave Dunedin for Chrlstchurch and '.Welbngton; Wednesday,>l2, Wellington;begin crlckot match versus New Zealand teach--tt Thursday, 13, continue orlcket match; 1&8MJ, 14,'lei\e Wellington for Sydney.

- .Following is the personnel of the New South: Wales .teachers' cricket- team:—L. Deer, first assistant; Stanmore Superior .. Public - School (manager) ;'F.M f Mullen, M.A.; principal, Hurlstone Agricultural, Continuation School (captain)'; B.' Elston, first assistant, Superior Publio.ilSchool, Paddington; : — Cosgrove; head-' master," Balmain\ Superior Public- Sohool ; ;J. B, O'Noil, B,A„ first assistant, Penrith Superior Publio Sohool; — Cowie, 8.A., first assistant, ../Newcastle; T. Eoberts, 8.A.,... staff, Training College, Sydney; W. Hammond, B.Sc., Hurlstone Agricultural College; 0. Smith, assistant, Superior Public School, Bourko Street,/ Sydney;'.— Eose,- first' assistant,, Goulburn Superior Pablio Sohool; — Manuel, R. M'Grath, — iTapp, — Broome, 'M.A., A. Brulgo, 8.A.; —' Dunlop,Jones.. '.Of; this number the first thirteen' toured' the North '■ Island at Christmas,: 1907-;y An Adelaide correspondent of the '-. Sydaey "Referee" a curious incident which: oc-. ourred. in' a recent niatch; ' : Ono of the batsiiien played a ball hard into the, top of his pads. He at once made an effort to" dislodge it, without .being. guilty ef infringing, the law of "handling tho ball," but the ball had .lodged firmly.- s -The; opposing wicket-keeper ran forward to securest, 'but;.the batsman.was wary, and started running.rduud the wioket, and after • three .or fo.ur'eircles; get rid: of the. ball, - , but narrowly escaped .being thrown out,.;whilo.:.out.of,his:crease, by the pursuing wicket-keeper).'; The rules .provide,.: however, that:"if'tfio ball, whether struck-\rith the bat .'or .hot, lodges ■ in.- a. batsman's ; clothing, tho ball shall become 'dead'." ....,: ' ' Pour three-figure partnerships'for the first wicket havo been played in too. Sydney First Grade to date-this season—one .each for Waver-, ley, Paddington, Eedfern.-arid: Central Cumberlaud., No fewer than .eight of' thesj. partnerships: have been.' played for - the fourth wicket'. The' .only.: two.'-so • far'jcredited for tho fifth, wicket'stand to the credit of E. V. Minsett aad V. Y. Deane,'of. North Sydney. A Sunday school - crioket: club waiting for a;, train at--a, certain station; had'.the cricket.bags :] lying about 20 yards away on.-the • station;What are you watching?" ..was . asked, of one player, who kept looking in; the'direction of the "I'm - only keeping - an eye on. my cneketine things/' was the reply, "Oh, don't bother: ;about that," replied the other; "yon don't see-me watching inino!" . "No," observed the; other. player,' "you've ■no need/to—it's 10 minutes since yours went!" David Hunter, Yorkshire's, wicket-keeper for the last twenty years,: lias placed his; resignation in . the hands.' of '-the county; cricket: club,;and it .has been: acccpted.; 1 -He; says that he thinks that : it' .yras'time lie' ottered to- resign in favour of some younger men, and does not find: fault, with . tho clubfor ' accepting his resignation;;he ; still: : feels l as: fit as-: Over, al-I;though'.:,forty-nine; ypars.-of, ago, and .if Yorkshire should again want his.services .at any. time he wiU 'he - ready .'to play. :-In first-class , cricket") Hunter' has a. record of 1374 .victims disposed of, 920 being caught by him and '354 stumped. -• ';• -/- ' . ' ."Cricket is on thodown-grado all over- the ;,world,". said -Dr. Eamsay Mailler to a Melbourne "Argus''.: interviewer, (luringa CQnver• sation last : week regarding'his'recent visit to England.. .Dr. Mailler .is a - member of the Melbourne Cricket' Club -Committee,, and has been ,a- first-class 'player. -He was in ' England .'during ;the:-,recentp v visit • oftho Australian eleven. .• He attributes- this decadence to the .gieat hold golf has taken on tho public. Cricket, he said/was failing as : a game, because, young fellows liow : played "golf who, five, ten, or 35 years ago, were trying; to get.; into ' ; the eleven of, their, county. Golf ,was tremendously ..popular,-and all over'Englandthere..wero neiT .courses >pringing v ,up., .' Public . interest : -in cneket: : was . decreasing. Tho (fact that there ■Kere few ,amateurs comingi on -was causing the public to lose-interest. , Outside - Lancashire; ana Yorkshire almost every county, .club' was .being run at a .loss.:' 1 ; Cricket .was .a .decadent -sport as far :as .public . -patronage was ■ con'cerned.; ;The .English public,loved tho'amateur player. They woro proud 'of the prowess of tho. piofessional, .and appreciated good cricket; but they, loved the .amateur. • ■ ■ , Tho:.votoran encketor, Dr. W.>G.- Grace,' has :declared;. positively:....that ;in his opinion- the' playing..;o£ . criekgtL hqs ,a : -bad'., effecti r on', the-' -playing of golf. If: cricket ia .'not good for golf, tho latter has a., very elfcotivo' mcdo oi retaliafaon,.;for. : it"is , fturhihg l cricketers aside. Irom their allegiance;- to their.'.' game -and m wV nns , Sojfcrs 1 instead, . Recently a golhng M.T. in .--England- agreed' l . >-to - •• get'' up ;a team -of -.fellow-members. .to ; -play a cricket match. . When • the itimo, arrived ; ho;.'ha'd : :'to' acknowledge defeat. Ho calculated that during tho week-end in question 350 of the mem; ; bers -.were;,: away, .playing; golf,;,and - those 5 'that ; ; . re ! n , n '.? Eded '-did - not-, play cricket.'. .',' Avprominent encketor ;has ..also, confessed to :the great ■di fS- ? ult y, lie "as in' getting fresh blood into his loca- 1t0am,... and; he,-gives as : the : .'reaioh'.' : 'the' j" of-a- links ;in :.the "neigh 4 bourliood. r ~T o -'.the ;([olfor . this ! of .course, , en-v ■tirely 1 ;;■