Cricket.
New Zealand cricfcct—and Wellington more particularly— is about to lose its best all-round player, for a time at least. I refer to John Sidney Hiddleston, who in business life is manager of the clothing department of the Wellington branch of Messrs Sargood, Son,' and Ewen. The manager of the firm here is C. G. Wilson, t]ie one-time Melbourne, Otago, Southland and New Zealand representative cricketer, -who in 1904 was manager of Sargood's Invercargill branch. It was in that year as a lad that "Sid" Hiddleston joined the firm, and he has risen steadily in the service since then. Now he is -on the eve of leaving for ; the Old Country—he was born in Invercargill —to enlarge hisi business life. His departure on the 9th of next month will be a loss to New Zealand cricket, but I have anticipations that he will rise still' higher than he has at the game if he gets the opportunity in the home of cricket. Before coming to Wellington seven years ago lie already had the distinction of being an Otago and Southland representative cricketer, and has added' to hisi reputation here. He is a brilliant batsman with more aggressive strokes than most in these parts, can keep one end for all the afternoon if necessary and he has an occasional "googly" in his kit. At midoff he has no equal in New Zealand these days, his only failing being a rather reckless" return to the wickets .after gathering in thejbal'l. Some of his batting performances in Wellington •cricket are as follow: Century scores: 1914-15, 120, 115; 1916-17, 131; 1918-19, 240, 116; century stands: Ist wicket, 118 and 211 (with W. T. Bray), 168 (with A. R. Barker); sth wicket, 307 (•with W. J. Wagstaffe), the last-men-tioned being the highest stand for a wicket in Wellington cricket. In representative cricket he has scored one century (119 v. Wanganui), ancL with *C. G. Wilson put to'gether a century partnership (177). Hisi best season's bowling performance was 54 wickets for 651 runs in 1916-17. The following are J. S. Hiddleston's batting and bowling performances during the past six seasons in Wellington: — BATTING. —Championship Matches —
No. of Not Total Highest AverInninga. Outs. Runs. Score, age. 1913-14 ... 13 1 322 91 27.66 1914-15 ... 15 2 613 120 47.15 1915-16 ... 15 2 400 87* 30.76 1910-17 ... 11 2 449 131 49.88 1917-18 ... 11 0 218 97 19.81 1918--19 ... 4 0 392 240 98.00 Representative Matches— 1913-14 ... 10 0 381 170 38.10 1914-15 ... 7 0 190 68 27.14 1917-18 . 6 0 316 90 52.66 1918-19 ... 4 0 109 68 27.25 BOWLING. —Championship Matches. — Buns Wkfcs Avge 1913-14 ...... 276 29 9.51 1914-15 • 813 45 18.06 1915-16 .. 677 43 15.74 1916-17 651 54 12.05 191J-18 638 42 15.19 1918-19 255 11 23.18 Representative Matches. — 1913-14 322 14 23.00 1914-15 371 12 30.91 1917-18 354 13 27.33 1918-19 294 17 17.29
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Free Lance, Volume XIX, Issue 995, 30 July 1919, Page 29
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479Cricket. Free Lance, Volume XIX, Issue 995, 30 July 1919, Page 29
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