CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 28 April 1924, Page 11

CRICKET

» — DEATH OF G. STREET. London, April 25. The Sussex wicketkeeper, G. Street, - was killed as the result of a motorr cycle accident at Brighton. Aus.-N.Z. 1 Cable Assn. . s [G. Street was born at Charlewortn, s Surrey, on December G, 1889, but he 1 went to live at Warnham when he was , ' only six years old. lie was playing . ’ against tlie Old Malveriiians when he I acme under the notice of the Sussex Committee, and joined the ground staff at Hove in 1909, where he was coached 1 by A. Millward, the old Worcestershire ; cricketer, and now the well-known tini- ■ pire. Street played his first match ; - for Sussex in June of that year against ■ Cambridge University, but he had to 1 wait until 1912 before he became a * regular member of the Sussex eleven. 3 When W. 11. Livsey, the Hampshire ’ keeper, met with an accident during ’’ the visit of Mann’s English team to . South Africa in the 1922-23 summer, . Street was sent out to ’tlie Cape by i the M.C.C. Tlie deceased cricketer 3 showed exceptional form behind the sticks in the 1922 English summer, 5 many good judges placing him ahead of liis professional confreres. Last year 3 Street accounted for 68 catches, and ' stumped 28 batsmen, his nearest at- ’ tendant being A. Dolphin, of York- ,. shire, with 47 catches and 22 stumped.] s > J. B. HOBBS’S MEMOIRS. ] London, April 25. John Berry Hobbs, pnt’essional i cricketer, who has recently published 3 his cricket memoirs, says therein that the South African spectators are very sporting in their feeling both on and off the field, and more cordial than the Australian. He adds that he hopes his many Australian friends will not , read more into the statement than what ■ is meant.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.