"EXCELLENT IDEA"

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1934, Page 20

"EXCELLENT IDEA"

In his well-varied and interesting collection of cricket items, "First Slip" in tlie "Scvr Zealand Observer" makes 'the following reference to the compiling of points showing the positions of tho teams:—"l notice in the' Wellington 'Evening Post' a complete list of the championship points and positions of all teams, right from senior to- third grade, in the Wellington Cricket Association, and in all grades in the Mercantile League, which is equivalent ta the Auckland suburba'u association. , Whether ' The Post' docs this regularly;' each fortnight throughout the season' I cannot say, but it is certainly an excellent idea." pointing out that senior tables only are published in Auckland each fortnight, he, states: "The second and third grade players arc just as keen to know how they stand as aro the seniors, but as things are now they; hftvo to struggle along just guessing how they are in relation to the otherteams in their competition. . . . Jnformation such as that would have to bo obtained from the association, and as a rule the association knows as much about the points and positions of the, teams as Admiral Byrd does. The wiiole root of the,trouble probably) lies in the captains of the various teams, who, I believe, aro supposed to send in the result of each match and on many occasions omit to do so."

rLhe New South Wales cricket team came, up against a freak bowler on. the way to South Australia for the recent match at Adelaide.' The "discovery" wjs m.nle at Benalla, where a special match was played. The bowler, Maynfud b^ mime,"was a right-hander but' delnoied the ball over his left shoulder, fe.-ns ,T ]I Fingleton: "He runs obliqueh it the wicket, and it was well for mo that his first ball was not at' the wicket, for ] hardly saw it in flight. Nc twistrd himself almost into a knot, and, while 1 wiiitcd for the ball to come troni his right, side, it shot out' fiom behind his nock somewhere on tli» left of his body, but delivered with hit light hand."