CRICKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12868, 21 September 1904, Page 4

CRICKET.

SCINDE CLUB. The postponed annual meeting of the Scinde Cricket Clnb will be held this evening at the Masonic Hotel. UNITED CLUB. The annual meeting of the United Cricket Club will be held at the Masonic Hotel to-morrow evening. HOW BOWLERS ARE NOT MADE. An English writer, dealing with the subject of “How bowlers are not made," says:—“ Every year many yonng bowlers go up to the Oval for a trial, and the more promising of them are engaged upon the ground bowling staff. Then they receive coaching, play in colts’ matches, and—bowl to the members at the nets. And many people believe, and there seems good ground for them to do so, that this ‘donkey work’ at the nets, which, of course, is common to all country grounds, ruins many a promising youngster, turns many a might-have-been into a never-will-be. In his turn each ground bowler has to bowl to some member out of practice, who may be a good batsman, but is probobaly not. Four times out of five he will be someone who takes cricket as an exercise, has a very elementary idea of batting, and is a'perfect glutton for practice. It is useless for the bowler to do his best against him, and if nothing else prevents him, the fatigue of sending down ball after ball for, perhaps, the best part of an hour, will. So he gets into the way of sending down some sort of half-volley without any care and thought, and, obviously, that is not the way to become a Briggs or a Lockwood. An artist would lose his skill if he was set to paint front doors, and to put a young Lohmann on to ground bowling is like giving a young Watts a whitewash brush and setting him to decorate houses.”