OUTING THEM.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 30 December 1912, Page 6

OUTING THEM.

■ RED GAPS AND'DEFT HAfJDS.': ' Two things our clever friend the kW atograph cannot do. It cannot reproduce warlore because it cannot get close enough to the fray, and it cannot reproduce cricket because it is not tost enough. TV will perhaps bo ten years berore .it "ows faitenough, to "snap" -ordinary., club cricket, It will b3 50 years before it can catch such work as that of Irott b "red cans" in the slips on Saturday, - Oftefone saw just a shady little streak of red travelling down the pitch-ilio ball. Then a larger' splash, of dull ye low-the swh ging hi Then there *« If ft£™f tenth of a second during whiclr-little raj streak was lost.to sight, for the keenest eve coukl liardly follow what came next, and it was left to the ear to continue th< toad of things. That part certainly■«« m, "How's that?" came . the umtea shout from the- "red caps," and .when the ked up the situation erally seemed to be the same sort of.sita-ation-some noor Welliugtoman was walkimr «lmvlv towards the-pavilion. Ite&tou nnd'phillips departed one found time to look at the, el. realised that it was identically the sains 4 of slips which "G.H.S,'.' for the lightnmg J°>>?h Tones on the Australian tour ot lbJb-a(. Krel; there were three cat-like alert men st close hey veache^ out, thev could touch each other, ihesa were anchored on or about the position hich is usually called short^hp., ■ Another man stood wider-in ; the spot usually called third man, and so the chain of hands stretched round-Jo Trott himself a point. Besides all that Pentland the "back-stop," who seems to cover a lot ot -round on both sides, of the motet,- also anwunted to a fine slip himself, so active was he That made live pairs of hands, counting from Pentland to lrott. ,- - There was, however, always, a sixth deep on the boundary to hold very much as Predate used to field for Jones 8 *Tno e thances of beating this Tegiment of "red caps" stationed behind the wicket was undoubtedly small. The.bowlersrattied down- any amount■ o cfi tueorj, tempting enough for any Wellington batsman who considered himself proficient in. the cut. Some left it alone, and some lungod-at it, but the result was much the same-very few runs came off that kind of stroke. It was difficult to see how they. C °But other things happened. Every fif•teen minutes or so rose the united shout "How's that?" and often enough souieono got his marching orders That is practically the whole story of the Wellington in-, Of'courfc some were clean bowled,'but it was probably tho fear.of those, red ™P s behind the wicket which cramped the Web lingtai piny, and led to arte other kind of dismLal. Those "red caps ad .Ml hands were certainly worth watching.

THE CANTERBURY ELEVEN,

TO MEET TROTT'S.'TEAM.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, December 28. The following.team will represent Cantorbury. against tho Soutli Melbourne tour, ins-team :-Bishop, 'Bennett, .Boxslmll, Cayill. Carlton. Hayes, Hickuiott, Patvie!;, Keese, Sandman, and Sims. ; The team is the same as.-.that which played against Duncdin, except that Bishop remittees Normsu. .

MID-WEEK REPRESENTATIVES,

The annual match between elevens representing the Canterbury and Wellington Mid-week Associations is set down for decision at the Basin Beserve on Wediv«day and Thursday, January T and,2. T>'ay starts at 1 n.in. nn Wednesday-