Some Cover Shots.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 4

Some Cover Shots.

11l Jack Board Gloucester liad an excellent wicketkeeper, a batsman of wonderful courage and innumerable bruises, a most lovable and cheerful personality, and one of the worst judges of a run that ever lived.—ll. S. Altham. Victor had the funeral of an Emperor, and the greets of fey'dney were lined five deep. He was carried to his grave by Australian XI. men, and I can tell you we all broke down. No more modest cricketer than Trumper ever lived. He, if anyone, had the straight bat and the modest mind.— Clem Ilill, writing to P. F. Warner at the time of Victor Trumper’s death. A good fielding side is the hall-mark of cricketing efficiency. It encourages the bowlers, it gives the skipper of the sida. enormous confidence, and it leaves tee opposing batsmen with the feeling that all their scoring shots are being blocked.—G. A. Faulkner. No game except cricket combines a great amount of science with the advantage of bodily exercise. In fact, the mental and physical qualities required for one who would excel as? a cricketer are about equally in demand.— Richard Daft. Each member of the Australian cricket team will be insured against accident, as was done in the case of Armstrong's team in 1921, Auckland's batting was timorous against Wellington, say's the “ Dominion.” It was obvious that the visitors A’ere playing Badcock’s name and not the deliveries he was sending down,