CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 281, 19 April 1913, Page 7

CRICKET.

A ROYAL GAME. William TV. sent £2O towards an undertaking onee Tiaviiis? for its object tlu. nlnviii" of county matches, with an e\iivessio'n "that : ie desired to encourage the ma ill v gam" of cricket as a game which so peculiarly belongs to this '"oueeii Victoria occasionally honoured small matches at Osborne, Windsor and Bn'moral with her nresence. lvii" Edward Yll.. whilst ?.t o\foul occasionally played with the f*™ous Bnlline'don Club. The Prince o, Wales 'now Kiiiu Oeoige. was the makings of n good batsman whilst 111 the navv, but did not EfO on Pvince "Christian Victor. wlio«« sad dnatli from fever in Pretoria on October •">0 1!)00, Vi\s tV be«t- exponent of tlie «a'ine the Iloval Family ever produced. MACARTNEY'S RECORD. C. Macartney is the only Australian lintsman who has twice made two separate centuries in first-class cricket. T'oi New South Wales v. South Australia, in TBI9-11. he made 110 and l'7fl: and for Oreo-orv's team v. Sussex, 1012, he made 142 and 121. CROMWELL AS A CRICKETER. <?iv William Dugdale lias, described Oliver Cromwell as throwing himself into a. dissolve and disorderly_ "as becomW famous for football, cricklof e-idwliMio- and "•restlincr. and as | acquiring the name of roysterer. I -