CRICKET OMENS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 6

CRICKET OMENS.

oThat entertain'!; writer on cricket, '■(Miserver" of the Argu-*. has an ar-ti'-li> on omrns in the j^reat game. (.'riuketers are s-iid to be more buper.stitious than men who follow other •mine*. Tins is put down to the fact that there is more link in cricket than in any other game, and the crickeier i> h-d to take precautions against such ill-fortune as a superlatively good ball before he has £ot his eyo in. Few would susp. * i the great Murdoch of being influenced by meeting a cross-eyed person, yet this abnormality frequently had this' effect. In sin inter-State game at Melbourne Murdoch was not out at lunch with a good score. A friend congratulated him on tho fact ihat he had "got going," and was rather astonished to receive a curt and cross reply. Murdoch apologised a few minutes afterwards. "I was annoyed when that cross-eyed brute came and sat rig! i. opposite- mo ai table. YVhai chance have I now of getting a hundred?" He was out soon ait,er lunch, as nii^ht have been expected, for no one can be relied on to got runs in E.nch a frarre of mind. Tho Inu* K. W. }(cLcod. "« practical man of marked ability," 1 vilso Kid a pronounced f^ar of cro&s-ejcd. people. When, just before a test match,- McLeod airl souk* other ir.ombers of iho Australian teim drove up to the hotel at which they were to stay, they were met by tho landlady, who had a decided cast in one eve. N:> sooner had McLcod seen her than ho picked up his hag and we:il off to another hotel. The Australians baited , badly, and were beaten hy en innh'^s but McLeod scored well in both innings. The popular p.ntidoto against such evil influences h tlio weaving of a lucky cap, sash, or even n lockv singlet. Many a player for thu ro:ir>oj< retains garments which oihV-rn Ite would long ago hi* xv gov.o iu> in smoke ohooi! converted nito ca<;!i. Amoi".; spectator.:, there is an Kit;' that Ihr>v can influence- th" foriu'ic.- 1 . of a player or a side by moving to sinntiu"' s<>;u. Some beliovo that tho chpn/t h "o! j complete- unless they Imv a rh'iuk between one soat nnd fhe other.