CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3946, 31 May 1913, Page 4

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIAN CAPTAIN CAUGHT NAPPING.

£530 WORTH OF JEWELLERY STOLEN.

(By “Short-Slip.”)

The residence of Mr Clem Hill, Bos•:obel, Nortligate Street, Hyde Park, Adelaide, was broken into on Sunday morning. AC about 4 a.in. while the household was asleep, several robbers entered the place quietly, removing a safe weighing about 3cwt,- measuring 3ft ■by 2ft, from within Soft of where Mr .and Mrs Hill were asleep, blew it up in the garden, and decamped with £‘soo worth of jewellery.

Msr Hill heard a sound like a gunshot at 4.20. Later Clem Hill discovered that ho could not turn on the electric light, and a few minutes later noticed that the safe had disappeared from its place in the passage. Three electric wires communicating with the house had been cut, and the garden trampled; upon by many feet. An entrance to the house was made through the window of the smoking-room, and the burglars had apparently worked within 10ft of where Mr and'Mrs Hill were sleeping. The stolen articles included a presentation gold watch chain and sovereign case valued at £l2-5, given to Clem Hill as a result of a public subscription on the anniversary of liis 21st birthday, and as a memento of his being the first batsman to compile 1000 runs in first-class cricket in an Australian season. There was also a brooch, with “160” attached to a miniature bat, and used as a pin. a presentation to commemorate Clem Hill’s patrnership with Roger Hartigau, in the test match on the Adelaide. Oval, against A. O. Jones’ team, during which the left-hander compiled 160 runs. Other valuables were also taken, and no doubt “The Referee” gold medal, awarded by public vote in 1807-8 to Clem Hill, as the best batsman in Australia, is among them.

The South Ausvrafian captain is indeed unlucky. It is the wish of every cricketer, I am sure, that he recover these priceless souvenirs of some of his greatest feats in cricket.

THE AUSTRALIANS’ AMERICAN TOUR.

TWO TEST MATCHES TO BE PLAYED.

Among the fixtures of the Australian tourists in America are the following:—May 29, 30, 31, v. Victoria (8.C.) at Victoria; June 20, 21, 23, v. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia ; August 1,2, v. All Americans (second Test), at New York. Matches are to be played at places en route to Montreal. After the first test match the team will start for Bermuda on July 16. and return to New York for the second Test, fixed for August 1.

THE DEAREST BAT IN THE WORLD.

An English correspondent writes: ££ ln a recent interview with J. B. Hobbs ho showed me a photograph of the highest priced cricket bat in the world, it having realised £124 13s in aid of the Wimbledon Hospital. ■ Mr Hobbs himself was instrumental in obtaining this sum by inaugurating a cricket match at which the bat was sold by auction.''-' < r