CRICKET.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 864, 27 September 1906, Page 12

CRICKET.

The Eden Club is endeavouring to have one senior match played on the Kingsland ground each Saturday. * * * The Eden Club will miss a very sterling player in H. B. Lusk, who has gone to Christchurch, where he has already proved his mettle at golf, and probably will do so at cricket. * * * * The annual meeting of the Auckland Cricket Association will be held at the Sports Club to-morrow evening. * * * The North Shore Cricket Club will make a commencement with the summer game next Saturday. * * * * The Parnell Club’s delegates will move at the meeting to-morrow evening that a win outright shall score 3 points, a win on the first innings 2 points, and a tie 1 point. * * * * The Auckland Electric Tramways Company’s C.C. is joining the Wednesday Half-holiday Cricket Association. The president is Mr. T. C. Duncan, hon. secretary Mr. L. A. Frost, and hon. treasurer Mr. H. Blackler. * * * * The annual general meeting of the North Shore District Cricket Club took place on Friday. Mr. E. G. Ford presided, and there was a large attendance of members. The annual report stated that the senior team had secured a tie for the first place in the championship, and the other grades had all secured good positions on the list. Owing to the large quantity of material required during the season, there was an outstanding liability of £lO 14s sd, but as the club had a good stock of material on hand, the amount required for the coming season would be small, and with the subscriptions yet to come in, amounting to £5 12s 6d, the deficit would be easily cleared off. The total receipts from all sources amounted to £6l 14s Id, and the expenditure to £6l 14s Id, but, as stated above, there remained an outstanding liability of £lO 15s 9d to be met out of next season’s revenue. The assets amounted to £3O 15s 9d and the liabilities to £lO 14s sd, leaving a credit balance of £2O Is 4d. The debt on the pavilion had been extinguished. The number of matches played by the No. 1 grade was 10, of which five were won and five lost. The total number of runs scored by the senior team was 2385, of which Mr. A. Haddon contributed the fine

total of 508. The report and balancesheet were adopted. It was resolved, “ That the incoming committee make application to the Council through their delegates for a wicket on Vic-

The following dates have been allotted for the tour of the Marylebone Cricket Club’s team through New Zealand: —Taranaki, December 7 and 8; Auckland, December 14, 15, and 17; Wanganui, December 21 and 22; Wellington, December 25, 26 and 27; Canterbury, December 29 and 31, and January 1; Otago, January 4,5, and 7; Westland, at Greymouth, January 11, 12 and 14; Nelson, January 18 and 19; Auckland, January 25, 26 and 28; Canterbury, February 1,2, and 4; Otago, February 8,9, and 11; Wellington, February 15, 16, and 18; Wairarapa, at Mastertpn, February 19 and 20; Hawke’s Bay, at Napier, February 22 and 23; New Zealand, at Christchurch, February 28, March 1 and 2; New Zealand, at Wellington, March 7,8, and 9. The team arrive on December 1 by the Corinthic. **■<-•* C. J. Burnup, who heads the batting averages, will be remembered by Sydney patrons of cricket as a member of Lord Hawke’s team, which played in Australia after touring New Zealand in 1902-3. Since his visit to Australia he spent some considerable time in South America, and has taken his medical degree. An application from George B. Lusk, of New Zealand, to play for the Sydney District C.C., has been received by the New South Wales Association, but has not yet been dealt with. oi * * » • It is said that R. H., Spooner, the brilliant young Lancashire batsman, is likely to retire from cricket with the close of this season. » * * » Here is an English paper’s opinion of the late cricket trouble in Australia, and its result: —“It is evident and very natural that the Australians are frantically anxious that the M.C.C. Committee should reconsider their decision with regard to sending a team to Australia this year, and there appears to be some people who think the duty of the English Executive is to humour the dissentient cricketers of the Southern Cross by complying with their wishes. For the life of me I can’t see why they should do any such thing. The long drawn out and, from our point of view, utterly uninteresting squabble that has been going on in Australian cricket circles on the question of control, or, in other words, of finance, has at length been patched up. The settlement of differences appears to be utilitarian rather than the outcome of a satisfactory adjustment of the matters in dispute, and is based on the fact that all parties suddenly realised that their exchequers will suffer if no English team appears in Australia this year. The contending parties have pocketed their differences for the sake of the pecuniary advantages to be derived from the visit of a representative team and the M.C.C. —despite the sneers as to their

slowness —will do the right thing if they refuse to be made a convenience of at the request of the Australian financial cricket authoritiees. Having received the M.C.C.’s final de-

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