The World of sport.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14331, 8 October 1910, Page 8

The World of sport.

NOTES of the week.

CRICKET. (By “Argus”). It is probable that Tom Southall will again play lor Carrington Hoad this season. C. Macartney, the Australian cricketer, who spent last summer in Dunedin as coach to the Otago Cricket Association, is hack in Sydney, and has joined his old club, Gordon. The North Taranaki Cricket Association has made arrangements with the Sports Ground Committee for the control'of tho playing field for the season, and work on it will bo commenced at once. - , . In a match at Suresiies between Stado Francois and tho Standard Athletic Club, tho former were dismissed for 2 in their first innings, which is the smallest total ever made by a side in the history of cricket in I ranee. Dr. I’oidovin, a first-class cricketer and lawn tennis player, has decided to return to Sydney to nractiso his profession. For the past eighteen months he has been doing special work in the nose, throat, and ear department at the London and Edinburgh Hospitals. Notwithstanding .the ?oiigh weather conditions on Thursday a fair number attended the cricket practice on Alio' Tukapa ground held by tho New 1 lymoiith Chib. One or two new members are showing promising form both with bat and ball. The juniors were well representee!, but senior members were consnicuons by their absence. A meeting of town clubs winch are going to use the Sports Ground tins season is called for this evening* has been practically decided to use malting for all matches this year, and it is proposed to purchase .a suit jointly and hand it over to the association. Last - week it was stated in this column that Wailara would probably piny in tho Saturday competition. The clui) has, however, decided to play again in tho Thursday games. This will have the effect of obviating a hyo in both competitions, which will now contain six clphs each. A suggestion has been made that a day should ho cet apart at Easter for a play-off between the leading teams in eacli competition. Tho idea is a good one, and I hojie to',ece it adopted by the executive on Thursday next. A resolution will be brought forward nt next Thursday's meeting of, delcf gates having as its object the saving of time during the progress of gamin). Embodied in the ..resolution will ho.— An eight-ball over, five minutes’ interval between innings, and a recommendation to club captains to insist upon the incoming batsman crossing the outgoing batsman on the playing field. Tim foregoing would, it is estimated, add an extra hour to the actual playin'' time in a halt-day match, which would in many cases allow 'matches to he brought to a conclusion in one day when they would otherwise have to Ik; extended into a second day, causing much readjustment of tho fixtures. It would also, it is thought, make tho game more attractive to the spectators. A resolution was adopted last year that tho Fire Brigade Thursday junior team should enter the senior grade this year in tho event _of its winning the junior championship. The club' won that championship, and as matters now stand it, cannot enter a junior team. This means that the Brigade will drop out of Thursday cricket this year, fop they have no hope of being able to put in a senior team. Xlio object of tho resolution was to prevent the Brigade, from playing a member 'who was obviously a senior player of much ability in junior cricket, but I take it that the association does not wish to force a club to withdraw from the competitions. The member in question lias left the district, and I would suggest that the club instruct its delegate to lay, the matter before the association and ask that tho resolution he rescinded. The battering averages of a few of tho lending players in English cricket oh August 28 were,;— , ,

At that timo tho- bowling averages wore headed, by D. *\V. Carr with 52 wickets at 10.71, IV. C. Smith 210 at 12.40, and J. T. Tloarno 99 at 13.20. P. It. Lo Contour had taken 67 at 16.53, F. Tarrant 115 at 15.73, C. B. Llewellyn 143 at 18.63, and J. A. Cuffo 42 at 27.30.

The balance sheet of the Wellington Cricket Association shows the association to ho in i, very unsatisfactory liuancial position, for during the year now closing tlie indebtedness has increased by nearly £7O. Various debts, however, amounting to ov/r £45, left over from tho previous season, have been paid, ami there arc also amounts totalling over £llO in the items of expenditure wliich arc not likely to recur during the coming season. On tho other hand, the -profits from the Australian and Canterbury matches were considerable.’ The amount of overdraft at tho hank is £215, and an effort'to improve the finances'' by means of a bazaar or art union is suggested fy tllo managing committee. Cricket associations are proverbially in a bankrupt condition, ami it: is a very long day since tho 'Wellington body came out all square on tho season’s working. It is an old cricket tradition that w'hen a bonder is disabled tbe over must, if possible,' bo 1 completed (says Tho Field). Our rudo forefathers when batting used to rovcl in their opportunity and thrash the perfunctory slows to tbe boundary; but manners have’changed, and when Sharp, after straining his leg in tho Lancashire v. Sydney match, trundled—this ill-treat-ed word now finds an appropriate use—three balls to Smith, tho batsman politely interposed his bat'withont attempting to score. .There is apparently no longer any necessity toy performing what, if it is not recognised to ho a mere ceremony, must also he a farco. unless it.is feared that in leagues and places whore they still ding to tho rigour of the. game, n fraudulent howle.r might save his side by opportunely falling lame in tho last over. J. IV. Hearne,. tho most recent hearer of tho famous namo to appear ill first-class English cricket, has already succeeded in adding to tho reputation of tho family. Last yeax Be showed

very good nll-ronnd cricket, hut at Lord’s early io August he accomplished a most remarkable performance against Essex with his leg breaks. His analysis after lunch read S.l overs, 4 maidens, 2 rurts, and 7 wickets. He obtained his seven wickets in 25 balls without a rim being made off him I The only parallel to this in a fixture of snob imnortnneo is (writes Cricket) furnished h v the Notts v. Gloucestershire match at Cheltenham in.lS77, when “IV.O. 1 took the same number of wickets in 17 balls without being scored from. Notts lost five wickets at the same total, and “IV.G.” took 17 wickets in tho match, n.imi hi tho first innings and eight in the, second.

0:.' ■ W 3 , ti a >5 W J.'T. Tyldcsloy 44 2 158 2031 48.35 K. Hutchings 32 2 144 .1201' 40.03 I’. Tarrant 37 2 142 1340 33.28 J. 11. Hobbs oO 3 133 1548 32.93 C. JiCwcllyu 37 2 107 1114 31.82 P. Le Contour 19 1 leo 406 27.55