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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 10

A quaint incident marked the recent trial races on the Swan River to select the West Australian representatives in the 16ft sailing-skiff championships in Brisbane. Gloaming, one of the selected candidates, was rounding a mark, when she collided with Corntalk 11. One of the crew of the latter jumped overboard, and, climbing on to Gloaming, shinned up the mast and did his best to pull the boat over—a task akin to lifting oneself up by one’s bootstraps. He was promptly hauled down and chucked overboard, to be rescued by his mates. It is years since Tas. produced a cracket player whose claims to international class were seriously urged. \ et, curiously enough, the Speck sent players to England long before Queensland and Westralia were on the cricket map at all. Ken Burn was in the IS9O lot. lie wasn’t exactly an outstanding Liatsman, but he was better than some of the team. In 1893, that fine allrounder Eady made another from the Apple Island. Since then, except for Burrows’s appearance in the trial match, it has never had a look-in. Is this the one part of Australia where cricket and cricketers have retrograded ?