CRICKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 April 1922, Page 2

CRICKET.

' The sensational batsman, Ay GU Moyes, is so described by an Australian, paper:—He was formerly a Soutlf.Australian, and played the hurricane-- ihn*mgs of 218 in 83 minutes for Gbrd6n : against Central Cumberland" at: CBatswood recently. After having- beenseverely woun3ed in France—he- was- & major m the Australian fighting • fdrces; —it was believed that the days.of his first-class cricket had finished' for A. G. Moyes. But hte bats with'-greater-vigour even than he had when an undergraduate nl Adelaide University, whitehis slip fielding promises to be-highly useful to New South Wales.next season. sHaving already played for-Soutfr Australia and Victoria, A. G. Moyes is sureto win his New South Wales colours,, ujjd 'in £hat case his will Be a. very niir '•ummon record in cricket. Writing of the late Hon, J: S. MeGow«ii, ex-Premier of New South)] Wales, the Morning Herald says: — '.'Cricketers in Sydney to-day-owe very much to Mr. Jim McGowen* His fervour, eloquence, and influence, when he was a force in public life, wisely used, assisted to bring- into existencethe distrid system of- club oriefcet, which lifted the game- in New South Wales.fo a plane never attained-before. He was also in the movement which established the legal' rights of the Cricket Association in the. Sydney Cricket Ground. Ajid-he was a- stawnch upholder of the principle on which the. Board of Control- is founded. Mr. MeOrowen- was for years a member of the 3vew South Wa-tes Cricket Assoeiatitm, and at the time of his d&atft a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Grou-neL $*or years, too, he was ciosely- identified with sporting clubs, cricket antl bowls m particulaa-, of Redfern:."-