PAVILION GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 59

PAVILION GOSSIP.

The benefit to Haigh, the professional cricketer, rea'.ised iSOSI. Cotter delivered 107 no-balls during the tour of the Australian te*un in England.

It is reported that A. C. Maclaren has joined a Manchester firm, of motor engineers. In Philadelphia crickei this year, H. V. Hordern secured 190 wickets and scored 700 runs.

Hemus, the well-known Auckland cricketer, has given up tihe game, and intends to go in for rowing. H. M. Moorhouse, the old Canterbury cricketer, scored 45 out of a total of 110 for Masterton against Carterton recently. The sum of £600 has already been guaranteed by the provincial associations for matches if the Australian cricket team will visit New Zealand.

Heygate. playing for Gentlemen of the South v. Players of the South, while baiting put out his knee, and could take no further part in the , match. Harry Trott, the ex-international player, who captain«d the I£S6 Australian Eleven in England, has undertaken to coach youngsters of the South Melbourne Club.

Asked on his arrival at Fremantle whetaer South Africa bad any chance of beating Australia with their googly bawling in triangular contests, Trumtrer said it was too early Jo talk about that yet. J. If. Crawford has left, England for South Australia, where he will take up a post as a master at St. Peter's College. He will bs included in the State eleven against New South Wales at Adalaide on December 18.

A meeting of prominent men of Bombayhas appointed an influential committee to arrange for a repersentative Indian cricket teani to visit England in the earliest year possible, and to collect funds for the purpose. J. R. Mason, who was out in Australia with Stoddart's team in 1896-7, headed the English batting averages with 65.25 for 14 innings (2 not out). His aggregate was 783. Warren Bardsley was second witb 46.38 for 51 innings (4 net out).

Board, -the Gloustershire wicket-keener, who" comes out as coach to the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association, had a fairly successful time with tha bat. scoring 1063 runs and averaging £4.29 per innings, his highest score being 150 against Essex. Warren Bardsley's 143 not out at Bray gave him the highest aggregate of the season, and the greatest number of centuries, whilst it preserved his position a<= possessor of the best average, exclusive of J. R. Mason, who has only "ba-ttsd 14 times. The English team have departed for South Africa. The test matches are:— January 1 to 4, at Johannesburg; January 21 to 25, at Durban; February 26 to March 2, at Johannesburg; March 7 to 10, at Capetown ; March 11 to 15, at Capetown. The performance of Albert Relf. the Auckland coach, vvith the ball for the Players during the first inning 1 } of the Gentlemen was somewhat remarkable. He was unchanged throughout, and bowled 14 overs for 9 runs and three wickets, the total being 60.

Playing in Melbourne recently, a left-hand bowler named Hidcllesior.e had three runs scored off his firs* nine baMs. and afterwards secured seven wickets for 2 runs. He just misred the " hat trick " on two occasions, while he got three wickets in his fourth over.

Last season in England the 'spectxicles" in first-cla c s cricket numbered 37. which is exceptionally low fcr a. *-et season. In 1903 there v.ere 52; 1907, 56; 1906. 54; 1905. 55: 1904, 33; 1903. 59; 1902, 51; 1901, 49; and 1900, 51. Carter ia the only Australian to iigure in the list.

A. Chambers a youth of 17 years of age, playing for Websdale. Shoo^mith v. "'The 'Woiker." on October 16. carried 1113 bat through thp innings, and in the next match, on October 23, against W. E. Smith ar.d Co . he did sc in each inning-, making 2o a!.d 26. This is a very rare performance.

Messrs Frank Layer mid Pe.er M'Ah^ter have njade a present to their clubniatcs at East Melbourne of ons cf the new-fangled kach-a-bail, "slip catching:" machines which 'hey discovered in the Old Country The machine is *o\v being got ready for duty, and plenty ->f amusing work is expected from it

The following tearc na» been selected to represent Victoria against South Australia at Adelaide:— L. V. Carroll. W. J. Scott. L. P. Vemon. C Rpeves. T. Warne. J. Saunders, T. Delves. C. Mackenzie. T. Cannon, G: Hazlitt. J Ainslie D. Smith, and X L. Spiers. The thirteenth man. Canroii, is a '"googly" bowler, and until recently played in second*gr".de cricket. Reeves is t usiv wickot-keepr.

The best averages for Australian Eleven* in England are — 1878. C. Bannerman. '24 1 , 1880. W. I Murdoch. 25 8: lbS2. W L Murdoch, 30.5, ISS4, VV L. Murdoch. 20.6, 1566, G. Giffrn. 25 9: IBS*, P M'Doiuiell. 23.55; IS9O, \V. L. Murdoch. 23 33 ; 1893. H Graham, 28.36; 1636. S. E. Gregory. 31.35; 1839. J Darling. 41 29 , 1902. V. trumper, 43.49; 1903. W W Armstrong. 48.32; 1903, W. \V. Bardsley, 46 3S.

South Australian cricket will receive a big fillip from the engagement of J. X. Crawfora, the Surrey amateur, who 'has accepted a mastership at St. Peter's College. It remains yet to be seen whether the Victorian

and New South Wales Associations will ' draw the qualification line. Seeing that it has been more honoured in the breach than the observance, it would be rather late in the day to enforce it now. A correspondent has sent the following to an English paper: — "I was playing for the Sons of St. George v. Yonkers % few miles from here (New York) in 1904, and was a strangei to both parties. There was only was. Back came the reply, 'What other?" I said we always have two in England. 'Oh, said we always have two in England. 'Oh, well, said one ot the players, 'one i 3 good! enough, this man has wonderfully kesn eyes, and we only have one at baseball.' " "Wanderer," of the London Sportsman, says: — "On the whole, the test match receipts were extremely good, and there "were some other capital gates, but there were periods when the attendances were altogether spoilt by the weather, which also caused the tour to fizzle out somewhat after the final test at the" Oval. / The board have, of course, their percentage, and at « rough guess, I*'do"not" think tne net profit will exoeed £350 "t0 'MOO per man." An exchange state* that Thos. Trumble, a, -younget brothei or Hughie Truroble, the world's great bowler, will be playing for Hawthorn before -long. He is a fine allround cricketer,- with the noble physitsal proportions* of the -"family. He bowls a , faster ball- -than his- celebrated brother, Hugh,,, and is somewhat reminiscent of his other international .~ .-brother, * "J.W.," who keeps Nnill cricketers busy. By the way, Tom Trumble is from, the East Melbourne seconds. ' This season, for the first time since 1903, Hayward has^ not scored over 2000 runs, but, of course, this is easily to be accounted for by the ill-iealth and injuries which prevented him ' 'from playing as frequently as usiial. In the 'course of his career he has twice scored more than 3000 mns in aseason, and more than 2000 seven times. His record is as follows: — 2647 in 1899, 2693 in 1900, 2535 in 1901, 2177 in 1903, 3170 in 1904. 2592 in 1905, 3518 in 1906, 2353 in 1907, 2337 in 1908, and 1359 in 1909. Cotter, the Australian fast bowler, whose expresses have terrified many a batsman, was on one occasion bowling in a local match in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and inadvertently hit one" of the opposing batsmen. Whereupon, the p'.ayer who was to go in next suddenly gel up ■ firom his seat and inquired, "Is there a telephone office near this ground?" "A telephone office?" asked his astonished friend. "That's Cotter, isn't it?"— " Yes." "Well, I waitf to increase my insurance policy." The distribution in connection wdth the test matches is: — Receipts: Birmingham, £1572 15s 2d; Lord's, £4720 13s; Leeds, £2744 4s; Manchester, £3153 6s; Kennington Oval, £4206 11s 4d. This makes the total amount to £16,397 9s 6cl, of which "the Australians take £5451 13s 6d, as being half the gross gate-money (exclusive of stands). The balance for appropriation is £87-3 Is 6d. and this is made a-3 follows: — 60 per cent, to the first-class counties (16) and ■the Marylebone C.C.— £3oß Is 9d*each; 30L, per cent. t3 the grounds upon which the -test matches were played— £s23 14s Tld each ; 10 per cent, to ihe second-class counties (22) —£45 18s lid each. Quite a novel experiment was made by the versatile Gloucestershire cawtainj Gilbert L.Jessop, in a match played on the County "Ground, Bristol, between a team made up largely of Gloucestershire professionals and an eleven of leading local amateurs captained by Mr A. G. Powell. In the place of the crthodox three stumps an additional wicket was added at each end. While giving greater scope to the bowlers, the innovation placed the batemen very much on their guard, and the additions although a questionable improvement for couuty .cricket, ought to considerably brighten the lot of the average club cricketer if taken up seriously, says an English paper. A curious incident occurred in a cricket match in Adelaide the other day. One of the batsmen played a ball hard into the top of his pads. He at once made an effort to dislodge it, without being guilty of infringing tiie law of "handling the ball," but the ball had lodged firmly. The opposing wicketkeeper ran forward to sequre it. but the fcataman was wary, and started running j round the wicket, and after thre? or four j circles manged to get rid' cf the ball, but narrowly escaped being thrown out, whilst out of his crease, by the pursuing wicket- j keeper. It is doubtful if the latter club would have made use of their right to appeal J if they had been successful. j _In his comments on the season, "Wanderer." in the London Sportsman, said: — | "First-class cricket is ended as far as the i English season of 1939 is concerned, and most of us are heartily glad that such is the ' case. It may be at onoe written down as | one of the dark spols in the history of the j game. I do not allude to the fact that j English cricket had to take a back seat t.> that of Australia. . . . Kathei would I . lay stress on the disagreeable spirit which seemed to pervade -the game, and like the miserable -weather." was quite out of keeping , with the best traditiors of cricket. Possibly 1 have displayed r disposition to harp on this uriduly. but my excuse ir that unleFS promptly checked this tendency will prejudicially affect the game." Some fine bawling was witnessed in Mcl- . bourne on October 30. Carlton and East | Melbourne played a draw. Carlton closed , its innings with four wickets down for 311 j {.T. Warne 145). East Melbourne lo==t six ' wickets for 106. Sannders took six wickets ! for 33 for Carlton. Prahran. nine for 281 (J. Hi.ran 76). b?at South Melbourne. 221. | Fitzroy. 2CI (C. Mackenzie 105) defea. eel Rich- i raond. 15S. T. Carlt^n, of the North Mcl- ' l>ouri:e team., a 'eft-handed, medium-pace bowler, tcok six wickets for 37. N«rthcote , made 130, North Melbourne winning by 325 ' runs. University, 2W. b^-at Melbourne," 1:22. Colhngwood 217. defeated Ecsandon. 130. In a junior match, Hely Trinity (Coburg) , were disposed of by St. Mark's (Fitzroy) for . 11 runs, 9cf which were sundries A. Ecss, | of St. Mark's, took six wickets for no runs m five overs: but he bowlec l two 3^.c-bal!s. B Thomas took the other feu- wickets for 2 runs.