CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1704, 22 March 1913, Page 12

CRICKET.

: -'■ r .; [Bz the Breakbe.-I ... ;EiWprds-o( an-Eye-witness, / •; ■■;■•. ■ 'i- •"Did I see'tlie match?!: Trumper'g bene- ; 'fit? Of course I did! '.■Victor Trnmper ,>- ; wi)lget over from the match and ; > .'private subscriptions.' ;.I think thafs 'something about the figure that ■'Victor' • deserves. ■Jlnybe'.more."..■..:..'■ i The questioner Was "The Breaker".and. the answerer was Mr. L. S. Monk, who ■■. spends his main moments in ■ theatrical business (ho ia now hero with tho Allen, ■ .'-.■ Bobno' Company), and his spare moments iii watching cricket—a game in which, he . niid several .brothers were, ppco capital. .' players. ~:: : ';'- , . ":'• ■■ . .'.' .• ■•'■llr.-Monk states that it is difficult, to estimate how. big the Trumper' benefit "'■ (ittondnnco would really have-been had -•'- it not been for the very heavy rain, which. ■"''■ set' in on tho. first evening fit .the match, »• .and maintained a /depressing flood, over; ,;:;: Sydney until -11. a.m. on the , .second day.'. V :• "pydiiey," eays Mr. "really did not .?. tnow whether cricket would, bo 'on'-tliat, '■,-'., day or not." But r as it wasi 15,000 people ''.'■;;.werol .present. Had it been dry, the figure ■ .could safely havo been multiplied Jjy two. ~ ;Mr. Monk thinks that tho crowd almost .'•'killed '-'■ tho "great ■Trumper fey kindnp?s •■ ' j-i ,; when he went in to take strike —there , was, . j; ?o-much, cheering and.clapping.<\As the '.•■; "great artist walked. to" the 'wicket .': ' .crowd stood up, like one man'.(and,.wp- •: v'jnan) and perpetrated'that'yery'unnerV- ■'_ ing thing—a unanimous cheor; •To ,'mako ,' !> matters . "worse," , Clem Hill 'then"lined: ..■,;iip his side .and gave, the illustrious in,'iComer.three further lusty cheers'. Triim■.:'ppr, asit seemed then; was; like the hero ■■■. ■: in Bomo drama or other,' "quite undonp.". ■;■ ': Whitty.was bowling, and;iunder.tho cir- ./. oumstances, he judged it best to wheel up' : . Bomething on which Trumper could break '■ '" his duck, eo'he bowled up a full toss to :-:: ■"■:■ ,- : • ■■■ / ; ' ; ..;.-..■■ ,'-/-■■:;:

'U? 'i'rumper missed it! •'■••''' Altogether it must have 'been, a/scene . which the element of emotion entered 'a. great d»al. - . Y . ' ;•■■■ C. R. Smith and his,"Slows." - • „A bowleriwlio, has been doing some good; -for-his side lately is; C. R. .Smith, of . the ... i 'Rivals .(Wednesday). ..Club. Ho is; a .lei't- . ~--.'litthder,. and ho bowls ;the' y old-fashioned ' , : li.'rqijnd-in-m ball, round ,the,.';wicket.,.;His : ; r -most destructive •: is -;'ono : that' (Pitches on tho leg stump and breaks back. ■ iMHe, is a bowler who' uses liis ,intplligenco , n always, and ho appears r to, have absolute I iCcontrol'iovSr the; ball—two , very'.useful ' iattribntes in a bdwler. This year.' lio has . bowled seven' times, and ho has . taken :2f) wickets, his best ono (by performance \vboing~sbvba for/12 against .Union on Feb- . ruary 19. .-i/;,;'. ; ;c.vv . .... >; . • --i Kinrig 'piled up' the hugb score of ,172 . ,;.'a few Wednesdays ago playing for Rivals - ngamst,Union. It was''a magnificent performance altogether,.but ho was lucky at once, if/not twice. At fifty' lie suri '..'.vived a-reasonable appeal for stumpin'g, ■■ and Eomo.'hyenty i runs later lio was exoeedingly liicky; in ' not being. run out. "In trying ..to/score a. .douhtfiu .j-uri. toth jbatemen wero half-way down the wickoci . land tbo ball wjs returned to Burns, tho ; ; fHJUon wicket-keeper.; -.Taylor; r'tlib Union --captain,' balled tb him' to' throw the ball . .to the other end, w*hich lio did. but it ;-:Vaa"not fielded, and as ICinvig .was :• y.way up from jßuyns's own end at the time -. have' easily phipped the bails 'J' 'off there and then.'-' Kinvig took no more ""'•risks, and gave no more ohances. ■' '. , , .\ '

(Two Splendid Mfd-Week ' In tho Oricntol Wednesday _ Club, the i oldest Wednesday club in-; Wellington;' are itwo players, W. J. Blllman and A. Q. Truscott, vrhowere .original./momlers when the club , was formed back' in 1897, 'and they have played for tho club- every . Beason since then.' ' • i/ '- ■ Billma'n is still a useful performer with the ball, aid' as good a field as. there.is, '>n l}is teamrra . wonderfully persistent . trior. His" best/batting .. seoTd was 77, Artillery.-som().years ago, and With tho ball in another, season he took , Beventy wickets for an average of 5.0 runs. Qlw best ono tjay performance with the ■ ball was. to. tdko'seven wickets for 8 runs. This year with the bat ho has 192 runs • on to date, and ho has taken twenty-six : wickets for 257.runs,.an average.of 9.23.; I "Wally" was also secretaryof'-tho club ; for four years prior to-1909.-- > M Truscott 'is.as keenian/enthtisiast-as his .colloaguo, and is still a inan who can he relied,npon to.get a few runs oyery. strike. !His batting avcrago'last year was 10.4,. land this year it is iI.S. 'TheM hvo'voteriahs.aro.tho only original members who havo played with .the.club for tho 10 years • of. its'existence,'. but there , is. onb other ..original member now. in' the .team. Ho (is George Day, ivho has again; taken tho - field after, several,'years' retirement. . '

V South Not Done With Yet; -;As tho championship 'fixtures of Iho - lOutsido Association have been : ..cornV ;j)hst(?(L.' 'Murphy,well known, as an old »"• Sli<lian<!, 'Wellington', and' .South ■ player, « has oomo out to help tho South Club. Ho •' iwonld havo been playing against Hutt ;last Saturday hsid rain not rendered post- • i.ponsmcrit nccossary::. . , '"Tolkin? of' South brings, to mind tho ■; ' icliiVs. .'struggle' for; life during tho list ■> . couplo i)i' years.- Its members; (limited .'in number though they ba): aro sti]! keen .-and .hoppful that with a ren(l ju s tail on t of ">■ : boundaries next geaspi) tlio club will bo ; aWd tv run teams in all grades. ; For tho eika nf thoso who havo .battled along so . gam?'y apainst.th-o many, difficulties that ■ confronted them, it is to bo hoped that ' .the most critical, part of the .club's -'-'ill- . ness" is past.. ~: ' ■ ■ Highest Scorors in Sydney, Hcr.ica Davis, of Waviriey, is tho most prolific run-getter, in club cricket in'Syd? noy this sfiasonl. . Ho. has scored 510. runs, an.l i.-- tho only, batsman to reach the fifth tet.tur}'.' ■ Includod in his total aro two, ■centuries—l 43 not o'ut against Glebe, and 112 -against Central Cumberland. His ' baiting iii t'lio Tasmanian gamd after ho " , ..had'warmed ;iip a little'was very favoiirab'v coremeiited; on. , ! - . IV If. Y. .Iloi'iicrn has ; secured tho . ..•gra'fi'.fl'' nitmliee, of:.: wickets (58) ? at . tho . - rl.rapC'.s- ! rosl—-S-Ofi. li. SiiorUnnd, tho G(irc;..M\ .a!l-rouTi<ler.' is tho ■ only other bowler-VlioVhas -rsriclwd tlioi forties.

''Eitihly-hvc Nof Out." Williarr. CViffyn, the great old Surrey cricl-ctev/celebrared his 85th birthday on Sunday. February 2 ' 116 - was bom oil •February 2, 3823, and came'' ont .to Australia with tho.first All-"England El-oven, 'limU'i- TI. 11/ Stepjiensori, in 18GI-1 ' Aiur.iig lettors' of congratulation, tho veteran w.i.s (specially delighted' to rav ceif,> oiio' froni Charlie Lawrencc, now Tcsilir.g in Surrey Hills, Sydney.' Ha c ane to .Arst'-ali.i with Caffyn.. and elect-, cd to shy there over.since., Charlie "Law-rei-cc bc-rn ou Dccemljer 10,1828. . ''Net tikciy to be Repeated." In . tho latesv edition of "Wisden's ' 'Alrpaß.v.k'" tho editor refers thus to tho triafis'ui'ir matclio..'. "The result is that tho cxyc-iinieut is not likely to bo repeated fci; many ycar-j to not i i thi- gcroaticn." With regard to tlio Australian team, ho-, says:—"Thero was no way of making up for tho absence of Trumper, Armstrong,' Ransford, Cotter, and Clem Hill. - Even Australia cannot manufacture cliamnion players at five minutes' notico. When the wet weather enmo, Bardsloy ond Macartney, with Kolleway to help them, hod; in matoh after , match, to carry tho rest' of tlio si do on their shoulders."