RYDER'S FEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 30

RYDER'S FEAT

The following extracts from an article in a Melbourne paper regard-! ing the player who was to captain the Australia team on the tour of New Zealand which did.not eventuate last year will be read with some interest: —Jack Ryder, Collingwood's great champion, has performed many-"extraordinary feats in-the. course of his ■: wonderful cricket : career,-but none...upon. which he will-look 'back ;With more pleasure than that of: a recent Saturday. By an extraordinary, batting effort, .and with good; assistance from;- several of his comrades, he took his, young/Side into the district cricket final : when very few-people gave 'them. much.chance.,.

It.i.was, an* occasion which called for nerve and experience^. and Ryder proved -.the nian for the occasion. Tor just ;'qh" four,'hours he: heldthe: Richmond bowlers: at: bay, never departing from methods; of .caution,-and- in that time added ■80 runs to 'his own score; and saw .victory go tolhis side. - It -was' reaUsed^thatTa'Collmgwdod victory >depended upon'him, and no "one realised it morevthari'he/did himself. 'Had he gone early, a;win for.Richmond would have been aliriostr a ;certainty. . \

Jack, Ryder : .had 'Carried -the burden'of his side like-a champion,, and it ; -was; his effort ■ that 'brought-:the victory' to his; side, .although -i the other batsmen deserve praise for .their part. Ryder .batted: 329 ; minutes for his 113 not out. .'• -V.-;-,.; ■•- •'■■ ;-.'.:'■'--. ■ ;

' Fraser-Smith,. a Wairarapa forward who -won a vgood deal of:praise for his performances' in ' some .• important Rugby ..matches , last is now in Dannevirke.