CRICKETER HONOURED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20561, 12 May 1930, Page 16

CRICKETER HONOURED.

TRIBUTE TO JACK HOBBS.

Jack Hobbs has had a remarkable tribute paid to his genius in tlio erection of a pavilion, costing £3OOO, at Parker s Piece, Cambridge, to commemorate bis cricket career. The pavilion, tho money for which was subscribed by tho public, was opened by tho Mayor of Cambridge in the presence of Hobbs and his wife Hobbs is a Cambridgeshire man by birth, aru| it was at Parker's Piece, where his father was engagpd as a professional, that he learnt his cricket. He played some games for Cambridgeshire before qualify ing |ty icsidcnce foi Surrey 25 years ago llubbs has all sorts of records to his credit, and it is -said that ho hopes this season to beat Dr. W G. Grace's aggro gate of 54,896 runs in first-class cricket He requires about 1500 to accomplish the feat. Grace and Hobbs are tlio only cricketers who have scored as many as 50,000 runs, and it is inteiesting to note that while Hobbs has made his in 25 sensons (1905 to 1929, both inclusive), there was a period ol 43 years between Grace's first appearance in 1865 and his last in 1908. In Grace's day, however, there was not. nearly so much cricket as rhero is now, and runs were harder to get. Hobbs, at 47, :s still u wonderful cricketei, and it. seems certain that he will pass Grace's aggregate before long.