OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY

WELL-KNOWN SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETER, 8/ Telegraph.— PrcM Association.— Copyright, (Received February 26, 8.5 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 24th February. The death is announced of J. H. Sinclair, the well-known South African cricketer. SOUTH AFRICA'S BONNOR A man of giant stature, and extra* ordinary length of' limb, J. H. Sinclair was one of the foremost figures in modern South African cricket. As a batsman, vigorous and free, his name is "encircled with honours #nd records. " When Lord Hawke's English Eleven visited the Cape in 1895-6 (the team in* eluded such champions as the electrical G. A. Lohmann, C. B. Fry, "Sammy" Woods, Haywafd, and T. C. O'Brien), Sincls-ir was a member of the South African side, but Lohmann was too much a mystery for everybody. Three years later, when Lord Hawke revisited the Cape, Sinclair hit up 86 out of a score of 251 in the first Test at Johannesburg, and 106 (the first century ever scored by a Springbok in a Test against England) in the second eleven a-aide match. In 1901, a South African team toured England, and while Sinclair was not in the first four leading batsmen, he was second on the bowling list, capturing 106 wickets. But it was when, at the invitation of the Wanderers' Club, Johannesburg, the Australians visited the Cape that Sinclair came into his own. He played in four matches against the Australians, and made no fewer than three centuries, his final three-figure innings at Capetown j (104 out of 226) being considered one of the finest innings ever played in tho I country. As a batsman, he was again a comparative failure when he went to England with the third South African team, but he was in all the 'Test teams chosen to meet Warner's Eleven in 1905-6. The big fellow went Home with the 1907 South African team which Bhowed Nouree. Faulkner, and Sncoke at their top as batsmen, and Schwarz and Vogler as bowlers. #On his own grounds, Sinclair was a veritable Bonnor. General regret was expressed when it was found that he could not make the trip to Australia with the touring Springboks who visited the colonies for the first time a year or two since. The late J. H. Sinclair was 6 feet 4 inches in height, and altogether a splendid specimen of manhood, and he will assuredly remain one of the landmarks of Cape cricket history. | A SCENIC ARTIST. ! (Received February 25, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. John Clarke Hoyte, the wellknown scenic artist, is dead. He was formerly on the staff of the Grammar School, Auckland, whence ho came to Sydney about 1877. MARQUIS OF SLIGO. (Received February 25, 9.55 a.m.) i LONDON, 24th Febrnary. The Marquis of Sligo is dead. [Henry Ulick Browne, fifth Marquis of Sligo, was born in March, 1831, and educated at Rugby and Haileybury. He ! served in the Bengal Civil Service from i 1851 to 1886. The heir to the estate is I the late Marquis's son } the Earl of AUamont. The Marquis owned 114,000 acres.] ________