SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 12 (Supplement)

SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET.

"Writing in tho London -"Sunday Tillies," Air. Sydney Pardon wiys:"the .South Africaus' i matches with the AI.C.C.'s team last, winter did | not reveal auy frc;.h talent of ;i arik» i iug kind, the rubber beinij win by > wen who .■••ere berc in 190r.' Now I have not the smallest, shadow of doubt that th» Anst-raKon-: la-.-t- w-r iv.-.p» rrrliy «fsn»»»r m !!.Hi;i l£ f i.h.in »|i«? Sot,!]! A t ri, i i | ~f 1 111-.-.- vo.irs a£v>. and lle-re i•; t hi- | , i i m ,, 11V ,l|- ; \iv l.ovL-M.n-(:ou,-r iinil „t|„> r incinlii-rs of tho M.C.C. s side that the South Atric.ins have in the meantime jjone back rather than forward. There is another point. • Tho M.C.C.'s eleven, though they lost tho rubber in South Afra-a, made quite a creditable ii'dic Does anyone imagine tlmt with their Uiittmjr they would bare bad oven a remote chance in Australia p Nothing having occurred to alter Ibo opinion J lorraod la.st year, 1 have the utmost confidence in predictine; that in tho 4 - f)]ji»n«£ .soric-vS ul tes-i. the Aiktrahans will win the rul>l»t»r, and what js mere, win c;uiiv. If evtvuu provo me wronj;, 1 dudl ho the lirst. to admit, my error ami I will otino excuses However. t have no misidviims. Given reasonably dry weather. I cannot belie vo in the Soiuh Africans „„ Mie Sydney,JWlbuurne, and Adelaide wick- 1 CS;: beauug a side (hat. all boini? well, w:!l include Clem. Jlill. JiaVdslov! linns, ort, irumper, Armstrong, .Macartney, Gregory, and Cutter, to say notniug ot two v r three .voting men-"-JiOl- ye. seen m Kn^h'.od —who canio off -it the mter-State match us hist season.' ' |

1 THE "GOOGLIE" Oil "BOS1E." . Dr. Horderu has returned to prac--1 h , IS Passion i„ Sydney, after •u.. witling tlio Uuivorsity <1 IVunv*lyama. In America J,« lic-cauie «.ue v l -": 6 .rs u ' ki - «'• u«° bowling achievi; mail-.ed .ami. at times. -ansaiiiMini »«* only l'h I delphian " ls:U:u!ion. lint- against K ]: ? hmen m J3a S lujid a- ; well as in Amer.ea. -As WO talked of tlio peculiar tvpe ■ f ,wrlln K. oi which ],o is «, able exponent. says ••.Vr.fc Ouf of the "JJo- !"' Hoiden IM-nu-a it I ln> '' IUH ' formed it. the . 'Bosie.'" sa id he, "it is I explained i'hiic wo ill Australia, had • f.f" ' ""!■>' i" ul B. J. J. LioiaiiquoJ. jn hi, l ; si nt. And ror many years before that, we had seen_w(iat wo termed "gonglitv" h-.wl-ed from boyhood. The "g.H.glio" in Australian cricket was the slow leu break, pure and simple. And when -England s exponent of- the leg-break, that turned the other way. came abui"mid 01, his conquering dav showed us foniething new. something <lifl\.rin lc so thoroughly irom our goodie what more natural than to " eaTl it ••the OOSIO.-' And ill Sydney, at all evenis. it is •IS "the Bosie ' this peculiar, perplexvillainous hall is J;nown. in. the our years since "Bosie" wa,s here we bare discovered nianv imitators of the original. And ■■JJeiie" bowlin- has become, perhaps, the most general topic amonjj; cricketers themselves I read somewhere the other day that-'the ►~euth African •'googlie" bowlers are going to shew Australians something they have never seen bot'ore. save from the originator. But "Bosie" bowlers liavo eoino up like mushrooms in Sydney. It is our foixl desire that some of them will not wither away as quickly. "U e hope one or two will remain to show quality as Southern Cross disciples of Tiosanquet. The South Africans are sure to show us quality, but, nrmrt from that, their "googlies" may not surprise y.s. I In many branches of athletic snort says "Cricket 5 (London"). Xew Ze:il:indors rank with the world's best. At tennis can foot it with tlio greatest champions of the mv.-jent day. ft New ZeaJ.ander holds the sc.uliirr>oiinmpioiishb or tho world, ar.d the opinion may ho hazarded that he w'll hold it for many years to como; Rugby football lifts no abler a>:r»on->nrs in either hemisphere than the Dominion's players. and these c.ons:<leratiuis prompt one to wonder why New Zeal-;ls^p-'s s> behind in cricket. Ti* ■ cricketers in Xew Zeuhind had loarn-eel the lesr.c.ns taught them bv v'nithirs le:im c , in the s;mik» dctiTce that footballers profit-*! bv the visit of Si-id- • dart's football team in IRBS. New Zealand would now be challenging the snpienincy of England, Australia, jhk! South Alnca on the cricket lield. cricket down under hns not- improved to like the sarae extent th»t IJurrby football has.

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