CRICKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 5

CRICKET

(By

"Batsman")

Walter Hammond, the Gloucestershire professional cricketer, whose benefit last season realised £262U—a record for the county —has signed an agreement whereby his services will be retained by Gloucestershire for the next five years.

H. B. Cameron, who was captain of the South African cricket team which visited New Zealand, and who is vicecaptain of the team to visit England this year, was associated with the set-ting-up of a fresh record re<ipntly. He and A. W. Briscoe put up a new South African record of 327 for the filth wicket, when playing for Transvaal against Griqualand West, in a Currie Cup match. Briscoe scored 191, Cameron 182.

Arthur J. Richardson, who was h member of the Australian 1926 cricket team to visit England, will return to Adelaide in May or June. Since he left his coaching work in the Lancashire League he has been engaged in a similar capacity in the West Indies. Richardson and his son, Brian, will play for Glenelg next summer. Brian, now 18, is said to have developed into a line cricketer. He played in the Lancashire League, and a few weeks ago was one of “The Rest” picked to meet the West Indies team in a match staged to help the selectors to choose the eleven to meet the M.C.C« team.

One aspect of the engagement of several players from overseas as professionals to clubs in the Lancashire Cricket League which is seldom realised is that while such engagements benefit the finances of the clubs which obtain players of the highest class they adversely affect the finances of others. Several of the league clubs which have employed overseas players have been reporting bad financial positions at their annual meetings recently. For instance, the Rishton Club recently reported that it lost £209 last season, and that its liability to its bank is now £513. Rishon is the club for which W E Merritt played until last season, when he joined »e East Lancashire Club. W. Hunt, of New South Wales, was Rishton’s professional last year, but he decided lately to stay in New South Wales, to which State he returned a few months ago.

One of the most prominent all-round-ers among amateur cricketers in EngVkllance William Crisp Jupp, who has been sent to gaol f° r " months for manslaughter, the charg arising out of a V'Uh’ Jupp will be 44 years old in March pla P £d for Sussex as a Professional be fore the Great War, and after the war 1 . Tr, 10*’° he became secas an amateur County St Club U -Meh h P e has playe evcr since e captaining ” p is XTnb nXr who has scored 1000 and taken W ,-cket-r more in a season " ine , ""i”- w . lnie of failing health his bowling became ■7’ 1033 and last year lus illwnßy good batsman, a very beady slow spin bowler, and a Again 1 the New Zealand team of 1927 he took, for his county, seven for 9nnd three for 56. and against the. team of 1931 he took five for 99 and two for 44. In 1932 he took all 10 wickets Kent in an innings. Jupp has P for England against Australia. South Africa and West Infi'os.