OLD HITTER SPEAKS OUT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 12

OLD HITTER SPEAKS OUT.

J. Lyons, the famous hitter, when spoken to in Adelaide recently about tho cricket deadlock, said he had been thinking hard and sornwfully about the deadlock, and his feelings were against the attitude of tho Board of Control. It was a matter of deepest disappointment that the six. experienced and leading players (i-ould not bo going to England to take paVt in the triangular contests. Ho did not like the manner in which the board was constituted, or the way it was endeavouring to govern cricket matters. He held that the players themselves should certainly have the greater sway in regard to the practical side of cricket; and that in tho actual governing of the game, too, they should be more adequately represented. , , ... "The Board of Control is affiliated with tho Marvlebone Club," continued Mr. Lyons, "and it is endeavouring to run matters on similar linos. That is not practical. Tho conditions are entirely different here. For example, all our players aro amateurs. In regard to tho question of the .£4OO offer, immediately a player accepts that sum ho becomes a professional. "Here comos tho most serious thing about sending Home a lot of inexperienced men. Cricket in England is not the same as in Australia. A player new to English wickets could not be expected to make runs with the same confidonco as a man who has had previous experience there. It is far harder to score, owing to tho fact (hat the stroke has to bo made every time. The ball does not come from the pitch so fast as it does out here, and experience gained by those six veterans would be invaluable to Australia in the triangular tests. In fact, unless they go Homo our chances aro very small indeed."

Mr. W. Percy Morrison, who has been a coroner for the Reigafo district (England) for upwards of twenty-nine years, has tendered his resignation, to take effect from March 31 next-. Two hundred and fifty Dover children were entertained in the battleship London on January G. Many amusements wore provided for the children by tho sailors, including "flights" in a cur running on wires from tho upper bridge to tho bows. Bach child received a present on leaving. Mrs. Pankhurst spoko at a farewell meeting at Carnegie Hall, Xew York, before leaving for England, and .£I2OO was subscribed by (lie audience for (he suffrage movement. President Taft has warned photographers in Xew York and Washington that they must not "fake" any more photographs of him shaking hands with all sorts of people.