CRICKET.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 3

CRICKET.

(By "Scout.")

, "Doc." ; Edwards and a few kindred spirits associated with the fortunes of the Wellington East District Cricket Club, have struck an excellent idea for keeping the club members together during the off season and promoting social intercourse m their ranks. "Doc." and his friends have arranged for the use of the large upstairs room of the Basin Reserve pavilion m the winter months for the purpose of card parties and other social forms of entertainment. Representatives of other clubs will be invited to participate, the promoters very sensible sidestepping anything that may be ' construed ■into a "close corporation." The scheme of "Doc." and Co. should appeal very strongly to the members and their friends of the Bast Chib. More unlikely things may happen than Tommy Warne, the Victorian cricketer who was round these parts lately with the Australian team, taking up the duties of groundsman at the Basin Reserve. Eighteen matches have been played by New Zealand from ISU4 to IVIO, four of which have been wonj three drawn, and eleven lost, including the tour to Australia m .1899. Of the 61 players who have participated m these matches, 22 hail from Canterbury, 16 from Wellington, 12 from Auckland, nine from Otago, and one each from Hawke's Bay and Taranaki. Boxshall and Ernie Uphain have played m 11 matches, Dan Reese m 10, Alec Downes m nine, Jimmy Baker m seven, and "Mr" Fisher, as he likes to be addressed by everybody below the rank of Bill Lee Plunket, seven. Wicket-keepers of New Zealand representative teams have been Boxshall on 11 occasions, Arnold Williams (2), Jonny Fowke (2), Wright (1), R. C. Niven (1), and Rains (1). It is rather a coincidence, points out a Christchurch writer, that Reese . afcd Sims, who as boys played for Canterbury against Wellington, making 96 and TOO respectively, were picked for New Zealand together m 1899, and this season have been the successful batsmen for New Zealand, with plenty of cricket ahead. Two distinguished ' old Oxford cricket Bhies "solved the great mystery" last February m the persons of Mr A. F. Walter and Mr F. D. Longe. The former was m the Eton Xls of 1864-5 and the . Oxford XI. of ISU9. Mr Longe (an old Harrow captain) played v. Cambridge m 1851-52. •