CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 14634, 2 August 1911, Page 5

CRICKET.

A RISING STAR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. Apgust 1. (Received August 2, at 8.5 a.m.) Against Surrey at tho Oval Spooner made 224. Against Hampshire at Southampton Kinneir contributed 148. Foster has completed his 1,000 runs and secured 100 wickets for the season. NOTES BY " ONLOOKER," Spooner is in brilliant form this season, and it is to b» regretted that he could not see his way to accept the invitation to visit Australia. The Lancashire amateur made 186 against Hampshire in the firstweek of July, and followed this up at the Oval a couple of days later by scoring 190 for the Gentlemen against the Players. His 224 against Suiroy, added to the above contributions, must put him near tho top of the averages. Kinneir (Warwickshire) is also showing consistent form, having several centuries to his credit. He is an acceptor for Australia. Another acceptor is F. R. Foster, an amateur from the same county as Kinneir. To score the double—-1,000 runs and 100 wickets—by a. young cricketer who only came to the front last season is really a very striking jierformance. A nasty accident befell F. Pearson (last year's coach for Auckland) whilst playing for Worcestershire against Leicester, a ball from Nhipman striking him on the forehead and laying it open, the injury being so serious that three-doctors had to bo in attendance. It will be cheering to little Macartney's many Dunedin friends to know that Faulkner, the lion of last season's South African representative team, regards him as the coming cricketer of Australia. This is what G.A.F.. before sailing for England, had to sav to '' Phccnix," of the ' Rand Mail': Yictor Trumper is a marvel of ease, grace, and efficiency. To see him making 150 runs was worth going to Australia for. Bardsley is the coming lefthander, as Clem Hill is beginning to show signs of wear. But mark my words. Macartney is the coming cricketer "t Australia. Those three centureis and the 50 he made against us stamped him as the best bat in Australia that week. Why, he made 50 while Bardsley was making 17, and that takes a lot of doing. Macartney is also a brilliant field and a most useful bowler, while Hordern is " the '" googlie bowler of the day—a man who has come to stay.