ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 13

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

CRICKET. A STORY ON TACTICS. Talking nboiit performances with Hio ball, Mr. Uert Kortlting, tho crack Aus-tralinn-Ampi'ican crickntw , , tells a K"O<1 story of a bowling font achieved fcy .loliii y. Sniiuders, grouud man at the linsiii Jt«orve, when both players were representing Victoria on tour'iu Wpsfe'rn AnsIrnlia. "Wo wore playing 22 of Albany's best on a coconnat matting wicket, on which ] ttamiders, in form, is almost unplayable. Jnck hud tuktsn nine wickets for 0 runs when in came a plnyer full of niry coniidence who wns foing to 'stop the rot.' Ho woro blnck h'ousers held up bj- his , braces used hs a belt, nnd I fancy ho had sido-whiskers. Ho called out loudly for 'ceutre,' and took grent earo in marking his block. It was clearly a ease for tnctics. (founders eyod Win shrewdly, and treated him with proper deference. He placed the wholo of tho field out on tho bonnclnries, .with tho exception of tho wickot-keep, and then, eeein? some of the men standing a yard or two from tho boundary, ordered them right out on tho fence. The batsman eyed these arrangements with growing discomfiture, still 'Jack' kept on shifting tho men a yard to two this or that way, as in anticipation of great things. "At last the umpire Raid: 'Get a movo on—l can hear his heart llmniping from here!' then, glnring fiercely nt the batsman, he retired to tako his ran, shifted the long-off another two inches along tho fence, and swept down on tho crease. Tho next moment nil three stumps lay spread out on the aand in a beautiful geometrical design, and the batsman gazing blankly on the mess, said loudly: 'IVell, I'm Mowed!' After that Saundere.went and had a game of bowls in a neighbouring preen. I fancy wo got thorn all out for 29' runs."