CRICKET NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10600, 8 March 1895, Page 2

CRICKET NOTES.

(Canterbury Times.) Biackham has played in forty-aix intercolonial matches, Alec Bannerman in thirty-nine, Garrett thirty-six, and Horan thirty-five. Eady, the Tasmanian cricketer, is a fine all-round athlete. He stands 6ft 2in, and, besides being a good oarsman and boxer, is regarded as one of the best footballers in the colony. Jones, of Adelaide, is probably the fastest bowler in Australasia. In a recent club match he sent down, at his very best pace, a ball which struck the wicket-keeper, Bruuton, square on the top of the head, and the ball rebounded to the pavilion fence. Brnnton must have a head of granite, for he continued playing. The following item is taken from the Sydney Referee: —Some of the New South Welshmen were telling of strange happenings at crickab on the way to Brisbane, among which one told by Sid Gregory takes the palm as a curiosity. He and Lyons were batting in 1890 against the M.C.C, when they ran three for a ball hit' botwaen the wickets. Lyons hit the ball straight up to a tremendous height, and before it fell between the wickets the pair had run 8, Jack must have bustled along much faster than usual, and that ball must have gone almost out of sigh.t This is no fairy taie.

It is hijrh time (eays the Sydney Mail ) that the abuses which have arisen in connection with the payment of “ expenses’* to amateur cricketers were put an end to. Whenever a team leaves Sydney now, an astonishing list of claims is submitted to the Cricket Association by the players for losses they have sustained, or are about to sustain, by leaving Sydney. It should be borne in mind that tbo cricketer plays cricket for hia own recreation, that he is on holiday during Lis tour, and hia hotel bill and railway fore are paid for him. usd under the circumstances it is rather too much for him to demand absolute payment to recoup problematical loss of wages. Probably the rule under which these payments have been granted in the past will be rescinded at the next meeting of tho Association. The rule reads as follows Any amateur forfeiting his salary or wages when absent from duty while playing matches controlled and managed by tho Association may he granted a refund thereof from the Association’s funds,” &c. Eeforring to Lyons’s score of 135 • for South Australia against Victoria “ Felix ” writes as follows in the Australasian It is rare to record such a run of bad luck aa the great South Australian hitter haa had this season, and his remarkably effective display—undoubtedly the beat he has ever shown on the Melbourne ground—made him fairly beam as his admirers gathered round to congratulate him. George Giffea was especially pleased, and said to me, “ Do you know I haven’t seen anything in cricket for a long time that has made ms feel so thoroughly glad as Jack’s success -to-day. You would scarcely credit how deeply he has felt hia failure to get runs.” In Sydney Alick Bannerman was asked why he did not play, and he replied “ It’s time I gave up when they leave Jack Lyons out, a player who has pretty well won-matches by himself.’* Who can forget that memorable • match against Marylebone Cricket Club and Ground in 1893, when in the second inning# of Australia Lyons and Alick went in with 181 to the bad, and in about an hour and a half had wiped out the arrears without a wicket down ? In that famous match fet Lord’s Jack Lyons put up his 100 in one hour against Attewell, J.T.Hearne, Nepean, W. G. Grace, Shacklock, and Flowers, but it took him about an hour and a half to reach the three figures against Charlie M’Lsod, A. E. Trotfc, H. Trofct, H. Trumble, W. Bruce, and Bob M’Leod. At Lord’s when Lyons reached three figures the score stood at 124, but Darling io busier than Alick, and the disproportion in scoring is accordingly not so marked in tho present encounter. Indeed at one time Joe scored a shade faster than Jack; that was when Jack was in the nineties, I think, and so soon as he had made the fourer which sent the century iu view Joe walked down the wicket and heartily shook hands with hie punishing partner.