THAT CRICKET "INCIDENT."

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 54

THAT CRICKET "INCIDENT."

Copies of New Zealand new^r.aoersi and indignant invocations addressed tc the editor of the London Field, who is aiked not to publish the correspondents' own eloquent animadvosisions, but to express an editorial opinion, hav3 arrived by this week's mail (says the latest Field). The ethical question js one of perfect simplicity, but the facts mu't hi taken om the authority of the genders and tho newspaper report? na. It ig eaid that in the match between Lord Hawkio's Eleven and Canterbury, a local playei was apparently bowled by a curling slow from Mr Bosanquet ; but, as neither urap're could see how the bail was displaced, no verdict could be given, and the batsm.in, of course, continued his inning*. Our informants go on to allege that there wee much discussion before tho game was resumed, and that one or more of the Englishmen continued to make unpleasant remarks which i:a<l a disconcerting effect on th<2 batsmen. T"ho feeling produced in New Zealand seems to have amounted to disappointment at the beha^tw of Englibh gentlemen, previously regarded as being cmite tans reproche m all matters of sportsmanship ; but one of the newspapers, tLe Lyittelton Timea, is kind enough to suggest cm their behalf that they may have supposed the honesty of their wicket-ikeoper to have been impugned. It seems unnecessary to add anything by way of comment. Experienced cricketers should, of course, be able to refrain from open criticism of an umpire's decision, and Englishmen Vbroad ought, under any provocation, io set an example of chivalry.