CRICKET IN VICTORIA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 737, 2 June 1876, Page 3

CRICKET IN VICTORIA.

It is generally believed that the strangest of all strange things happen in Maryborough (says the Advertiser.) A cricket match, between Creswiok and our local district club, played on Saturday in the Prince’s Park exhibited the “ manly game in a new phase, which could hardly be paralleled anywhere else, for who ever heard before of a batsman wroth because the howler could not take his wicket, and hitting it down in sheer vexation ? The game commenced about 11 a. in. and it was soon seen that the Creswiokers were more than a match for the Maryborough team. Runs were scored rapidly, while we could not find a bowler who was “ on” the wicket. No less than nine bowlers—Harvey, Bithel, Beck, Passmore, Tonkin, Earl, Conway, Lawrence, Perrin, and Bell—were tried to no purpose ; the score ran up; the Creswiok men knocked the hall everywhere and anywhere they chose. It was 2.11ff before the third wicket fell, and then Creswiok had scored eighty-nine runs. A couple of hours later 172 runs were made, and then the Creswiokers began to think that it was about time the Maryborough men went to the wickets. Why? Because there were some heavy bets—bets of L 5, LlO, Ll2, and in one instance 1,20 on the result, and the Creswiok cricketers, and others from Creswiok not playing, thought they would lose their money it the match was not played out. So they tried all they could to get out, and gave the most ridiculous chances. When they saw that those chances were not taken they hit their own wickets and retired. It was then 4.15 and too late for the match to be decided. Maryborough only played for fifteen minutes when the stumps were drawn, greatly to the chagrin of Creswiok, the bets were “ off.” We hope that wo shall never again bo called on to record so disgraceful an exhibition of “cricket," on our ground, at all events.

A newspaper publishes the following notice : —“ Married at Flintstone, by the Eev. Windstono, Mr Noheraiah Sandstone and Miss Wheatstone, both of Limestone. Look out for Brimstone.” A ruinous miss—Misdemeanor.