THE ATHLETIC WORLD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11645, 24 August 1905, Page 5

THE ATHLETIC WORLD.

By "Victor."

The Australian Eleven have six more matches to play at Home.

The Australian Eleven's share of the proceeds of the fourth test match, played at Manchester, amounted to <£1280; they got .£I2OO from the third test match.

, There is every prospect of W. W. Armstrong putting up an Australian Eleven record by taking 100 wickets and scoring 2000 runs during the Home. tour. '-He has already taken over 90 wickets, and scored well over 1800 runs, so that with six more matches to go he should secure the above mentioned record easily.

In making 92 for the Australians against Hampshire, Victor Trumper batted only an hour and a quarter, "and the manner in which he hit numerous balls from Baldwin off the middle stump to square-leg was dazzling. He made every sort of stroke with inimitable skill, and hit a six, 14 fours, 3 threes, and 4 twos."

Lancashire, whom the Australians are now playing, are the County Champions. The Players defeated the Gentlemen very easily in July. They made 356 and 293 for four wickets (closed), and the Gentlemen 185 and 315. - Hayward scored 32 and 123 not out, Hayes 29 and 73, Tyldesley 53, Hirst 4 and 58 not out, Arnold 89,. and Lilleys2. For the' Gentlemen, Warner got 59 and 97, and Spooner 81. Brearley, Arnold, and Rhodes were the most successful bowlers.

Fifty thousand bottles of beer were consumed by the spectators at the third test cricket match played at Leeds. Armstrong is at present leading in both batting and bowling averages of the ' Australian Eleven.

R. J. Scottj the New Zealand wrestler,, who went to Melbourne for the ostensible purpose of meeting Buttan .Singh jn a match "for the wrestling championship of Australasia, had not succeeded in getting the Hindoo to meet, him up to the time the last mail left, and was talking of returning to this cblony. Some of the Australian papers are- asking, if" the .Hindoo^ is afraid of the lanky New Zealander. -I • Scott' recently defeated Delhi Neilson in Melbourne in a wrestling contest for the Cornish championship of Australasia. The loser was conceding about 7ih in height and 4st in weight to his opponent, but put up a great .struggle-. -It took "Scott 82min 17sec to secure a fall.

It is said that Jim Stanbury is "growing; visibly" as a result of the relaxation after training for his race with George Towns.

W. Bfearley, . the English fast ,bowler, captured nine wickets for 47- and eight for 90 for Lancashire against Somerset early in July. It is a wonderful feat. Kermode did not participate in the match. The other three wickets were secured by Heap, Hallows, and Poidevin, who got one each. Tom Sullivan was to have rowed Eddie Durnan for stakes of J2200 a-side to-day at Toronto, Canada. The latest news from England shows that Sullivan was in very good condition just before -the last mail, left. He was to have reached Toronto three -weeks agq, and., expected to, row at about • 12st . 61b.. Providing the ex-New Zealander is in anything, like his best form -he should have gained the verdict over \Durnan, (Ned Hanlan!s\. nephew), though the* latter would have this advantage, that he has not been out of the game like Sullivan, who might have foundit impossible to get back his old brilliancy. However, it may be that Sullivan may have succeeded ia this the same as Stanbury did. ' ' L. O. S. Poidevin thus refers to the batting of F. S. Jackson, the English skipper, who has scored so heavily against the Australians in the test matches: — "Jackson ia a beautiful batsman. The foundation of his excellence lies in his magnificently sound defence. He has a nice variety of strokes, strong at all points — cutting, driving, pulling." But hie does not go out of his way to hit the ball to the on-side when it is obviously the correct stroke all the time; and he plays them all with a charming certainty and confidence. His movements are graceful and his methods of play elegant. .But it is not the volatile, bewildering grace and elegance of Trumper. The remarkable and marvellous part about his tbattjng is its freedom from mistake. " He plays the right stroke for every kind of ball, and goes on doing it. He never seems to get into difficulties with a ball, no matter how sharply it breaks or how: abruptly it jumps up from the pitch. Every time the ball is struck on the proper place on the bat; . his play is wonderfully free from misstrokes. You might see him bat all dayand never see the ball "edged" once ; he seldom falls to a slip catch. He, is a wonderfully sound, clever, versatile batsman, full of pluck and confidence, and his latest (the third) test . match century 4 was in every sense characteristic of Jackson. Who knows but what it saved the match for England? A Christchurch telegram yesterday announced* the death by drowning in India of Lieut., H. Garcia, who, it will be remembered,^ won the half mile championship event at the N.Z.A.A. Championship Meeting held in Wanganui (on Cook's Gardens) in 1898. .Garsia ran very finely in that race, which he won in 2min 0 3-ssec— a rattling good performance.