GETTING OUT AT CRICKET.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 55, 6 March 1911, Page 2

GETTING OUT AT CRICKET.

The.c are several ways of getting out at cricket, as anyone who Ims played much must have discovered'; writes Dr. Poulcvin, in the Sydney Morning Herald: but the strangS that has ever happened to ml, T think, was a case of "run out.'' I had made 89 at the time, and was feeling rather keen about getting the century, when I hit a ball very hard towards square-leg. It was J good J&JfV lmtura»y ™°ved forlard slightly from my creas© for the purP t °Se .^running. The ball, however, struck the umpire who had turned his ff?■ fwm the ball, full in the Middle oi; the back, and bounced then to tho wicket-keeper, who had only to gather the ball and knock off the bails to run me out—all of which he did far too

I quicly for my liking. I protested that i the ball having struck the umpire 1 must be dead—but I had to go. ■ Of I course, the ball was not "dead" in ! the cricket sense, but I; still think the umpire could hare given mo ' not 'out" under his discretionary power as jto what is''fair play. On another oc- :> casion' I was nearly caught by the •bowler off the wicket-keeper's chest. •It was at the Crystal Palace, on one of tho few occasions on which I played against "W.G. He was bowling, and I kept hitting his leg-theory finer and finer, or, should I say, wtraighter behind the wickets, till at last I hit one right into the clUJst of Murch, who was keeping wickets, whence it bounced almost back to Dr. Grace, who fingered the ball, but could not quite catch it. I may say that I actually was caught by the wicketkeeper in a similar fashion many years ago, in *a week-diay match in Sydney