CRICKET CHATTER

Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 7

CRICKET CHATTER

[My On'lookeh.] It v/iil be griri'viic.,' news to cricketers ■i,i. niily !« kniu'tln.t alter all Hopkins v.ll be a\a:ii'.l.-k' lor the CjlUsrbuiyOU<:o match at Christmas, He will play for iii- ji'jvi.u". and then take a few i!,,!*' iv-il —a siti'euuotis year's work causing i'iiu to bj a bit run down—at before le'-uniiii.: work in the New Year. Apparently the South Africans are not viayiii'' cgain-it odds, as visiting Kaiglish •ams nave done. They met onl_" eleven f Toowoomba. Stanley Ileatley. the captain of the Foleshill Albion Cricket Club,. Coventry iKng.), has scored the first prize of JJIO.CCO in the Hungarian .Suite lottery. An English newspaper states that siuce he left school lie has been in the office of Mr J. Vv. Dutferu. chartered accuuntaut, and it is hia intention to continue his work, notwithstanding this stroke of good fortune. He received the lottery prospectus by post, and, although he had never before ventured on anything of tho kind, he purchased ;i shuro for just under £5. lie aeord nothing furtlisr until two men called it his house and informed him that ho had von >JIU,COO, and handed him Kugli-ih 'jank notes for that amount, taking his receipt. Nourse was in luck at Che beginning of

ilhfl tour. Before ho left Cape Town a| wealthy friend promised to cable him a '•tenner" every time he made a century. I Hin 201 not oiit at Adelaide was promptly _ followed by a money-order cable for £2O. j Several matches against odds—the majority of them in aid of charity—aio I played in the London district, after first ; class criekot ia over for the year, by teams | got together by county players. In Sep- ! tamber (). VV. Ayres's XV. (167) played on Weybridge Common against XXV. of V.*e\ bridge and District (198 for eighteen wickets). Tho bowling against the local side was opened by John Durant, a centenarian, who had never preciously had a cricket ball in his bauds. To his great satisfaction "Johnson 0 (otherwise Piatt) , «;is stumped off his second delivery, and ; the players crowded round the old man to ■' congratulate him and shake his hand. J Durant, who is an old sailor, .and wonder- | fully active for his age, was born at Nor- : wood, near Southall, in Middlesex, on Febj mary :?, ISIO. 'Cricket.' 11. 1.. Collins hns proved a remarkable addition to the Sydney Club, his 136 ■ against Faddington on November 26 beinj; | lite th'th hundred since he joined the club at the start of last season.

Our Christ-church correspondent wires: Mr V. M. Warren, who has returned from a trio to England, Europe, and America, spealiii optimistically of Britain and Canada. Ho told au interviewer that the trade repotts, which ho regarded as a faithful index of tho state of trade, showed a wonderful recovery light up till tho time of his departure, and ths Freetraders were greatly dated. Tho invariable ussuraafce he had from delegates to they Leeds Conference of Chambers of Com mere© was that their factories were running at their utmost capacity. Tho building trado was slack, but this wan attributed to the new Land Tax regulations. The activity prevailing throughout Canada greatly astonished Mr Warren. Land, he said, was being settled at ;in extraordinary rato, especially in tho western districts, and he was informed that 60,000 poisons had settled in Alberta, iu twelve montlis. Canada's immigration scheme apparently had been successful, and its success was due to the fact that land could be acquired very cheaply. Bald Man (in court): "The uproar was so terriblo that it made my hair stand on end." Judge: "Look out; remember that you aro on oath!''