General Gossip.

NZ Truth, Issue 245, 5 March 1910, Page 3

General Gossip.

J. A, Prout holds the record for Highest score made m a school match m Australia. In March, 1909, playing for Wesley College against Geelong College, he made 459 out of 710. He batted 6£ hours, hit 7 sixes, 1 five, 62 fours, 19 threes. He gave four chances, the first at 190. The former record was held by O. H. Dean, who made 412 m 1904 for Sydney Church of England Grammar School.

Only one century (122, by S. R v Walford) was credited to the team sent over to New Zealand by the N.S.W. Cricket Association m 1895. Poidevin topped the batting with an average of 40.86, and Callaway the bowling, 40 wickets at 9.17. Dave Noonaa was second m the batting with 35.50, and second m the bowling with 20 wickets at 16.45. The team consisted of L. T. Cobcroft, S. R; Walford, S. 'T. Callaway, Poidevin, Burton, D. J. Noonan, F. Wade, E. Hume, Pryor, M. Shea, F. M. Ridge, A. • J. Furness, with J. 0. Waine as manager. It was absent about .five weeks, played 5 games, winning 3, losing 1, drawing 1. Joe Vance, the local Association's secretarial man, skipped away to " Auckland on business bent m the early part of the week. . They say that the local Cricket Asso- , ciation's executive, when executing its "bouquet"-throwing act last ", week, perpetrated a hideous blunder by ."omitting Martin Luckie from the list of recipients. Martin's solicitude for the pressmen .alone should have given him that honor. Anyway, "Billy" Tonkin, of the morning "Moaner," thinks sq. ! The match ; between Victoria and New. South Wales, played m 1895,' was a remarkable one. Upon a wicket hard and true, New South Wales required only 155 runs. Four wickets fell for 70, but the remaining six only added 29, total 99. The bowlers to do the damage were H. Trott 5 for 31, A. E. Trott 4 for 39. A Sydney paper, m noting ine-'depar-ture of Or. A. Beruer, of the -worth Sydney Club, and formerly of Redfern, for Wellington, where he has received, an appointment, says that as a left-band batsman with strong defence he should dowell/in Wellington cricket, though- lafr 4 \ terly m North Sydney ,he has confined , his play to the second eleven.. The "Bosie" bowler has come to,, stay ' m Sydney, says a writer of that ■ cityj but it is too early to say whether, he has come to conquer m first-class cricket. W. J. Stack is the most accurate example of the "Bosie" bowler. • Most of them are long-hop and full-toss young men, after the style of the illustrious pioneer, B. x J. T. Bosanquet. . At I?he conclusion of the first test, South Africa v. M.C.C., there was a scene of tumultuous excitement. Faulkner and Snooke ' were vociferously cheered, and the former was chaired and carried m triumph round the ground, while Thompson (.M.C.C.) received a . great ovation for his brilliant attempt to save the game for his side. > . Recent English files state that on December 13, Judge Parry gave judgment for the plaintiff m an action brought by James Topping against the committee of the Burnage Club -and C. A. Butt, a player of > that <Jlub. In the course of a match Mr Butt hit »ne ball out of the ground, beyond the boundary of the club's property. It struck plaintiff on the head and injured him. Plaintiff at ,' the time was lawfully standing where he was attending to his own affairs, and wasx no trespasser. Still- less was he spectator of the game m p.rogress. His Honor awarded £15 damages and costs. Notice of appeal was given. ■ , A. Bannerman has, m representative cricket, carried his bat through the innings upon seven occasions. J. E. Barrett, another stonewaller, has twice done so. . . N. Claxton is the only South Australian batsmen to carry his bat through "tbe innings m Sheffield Shield games. He made 199 not out v. Victoria lin December, 1905. . Harry Donnan went through the innings for 'N.S.W. against South Australia for 160 m- 1898. Ecfchold, the Otago representative, was ' 3hrs 30min compiling 122 runs for Dunedin against Grange last Saturday week. In the same match Alick Downes had the unusual experience of not getting a single wicket, sending down 144 balls, off which 39 runs Were scored. Poor Percy McDonnell, playing for Queensland against New South Wales 'on 'the Sydney . Cricket Ground m 1895, hit <up 65 runs m 55 minutes,' twice sending the hall over, the fence. Together . with Coningham (who made 151), he put. up 102 runs m4B minutes. Poor Percy's powers were never more remarkable than on occasions when the wicket was so difficult that everyone was helpless except himself. If he had never done anything except to score 81 out of 85 at Old Trafford on a "mud wicket," 'he would still have gone down to fame as a phenomenon. In I'BB2, . at Holbeck. against Alfred Shaw's Eleven, on a sodden wicket, the best Australian batsmen, Massie, Bannerman, Murdoch, Hqran, Giffen, and Jones were bowled with a total of 14, but McDonnell got 45 out of 46, and a total of 79, his hits heinj; 2 sixes, 7 fours, 1 two, and 3 singles. The intimation that the Dunedin cricketer, who asks to be addressed as Mr Fisher, has chucked the game is hardly likely to disturb the feelings of Dominion cricketers outside bis own narrow circle, and Wellington players least of ( all: Only once has New Zealand met New South Wales m Sydney, viz 7 m 1899, when the game terminated m an easy victory for the Cornstalks by an innings and 384 runs. New Zealand made 140 ' and 64, and New South Wales 588. Vie-, tor Trumper scored 253, Farquhar 110. Tom McKibbin captured 7 wickets for ] 30 m New Zealand's second innings. The Australian team of 1878 (D.= Gregory's) toured New Zealand, and Charlie Bannerman made 128 not. out v. 22 of Inv.ercargill. - The Canterbury 15 defeated them by 3 wickets 3 runs. The incident which arose at the Basin Reserve, when Alick was given 1.b.w., and liis brother Charlie, taMng- the huff, threatened to quit the field, is still well remembered by Wellington old-timers. Tbe C. T. B. Turner benefit match, played m Sydney recently, after payment of expenses, only realised £334 9s 6d. The "Sydney Sportsman" thus comments: "Where, oh where, are the generous givers of the 'olden days, whose' guineas alone would have equalled. the sum total received from all sources. A .strange fatality seems to attend all tne efforts made to benefit ihe. really great cricketers who are m need ox the golden ointment. Noiflfe;, iin tJie> Height of his prosperity, got a cool thousand or two; poor Charlie a paltry . three - hundred. Such is the luck of the «;amc."