CRICKET NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1922, Page 1

CRICKET NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AFRICAN CRICKET TOUR. CAPETOWN, Sept. 21. The. Marylehone team’s tour opens on Bth November. They play twentytwo" matches, including five tests on December 23, January 1 and 18th, February 9th and 16th. A SUCCESSFUL NEW ZEALANDER. LONDON, August 9. Mr P. Randall Johnson, the New Zealander who has distinguished himself in the cricket world, was forty-two last Saturday. The “Evening News” saw fit to reproduce a photograph of “our greatest sTtylist” on that day, and beneath the print is the inscription: "P. R. Johnson, of Somerset, wlio is perhaps the most beautiful bat in current cricket, is 42 to-day.” Elsewhere in the same issue the following appreciative paragraphs occur: “Although nearing the ‘veteran’ stage, Johnson is playing ns well as ever, and in the cider county’s dramatic victory over the (Lampions Ins robust hitting was a feature of the game. A New Zealander by birth. Johnson won his colours at Eton in 1897, and was in the Cambridge team of 1901. While at Eton the old Cantab was famed for his fast bowling but at Cambridge his hatting improved to the deterioration of his bowling. "Johnson, who hits freely all round the wicket, accompanied Bosanqr.et to America in 1901, and in the autumn of 1900 visited his native country with the M.C.C. He joined the hand of immortals by hitting two centuries (164 ami 131) against Middlesex at Taunton in 1908—the only Somerset man to perform this feat.

The same cricket authority writes: “I hoar that the Hon. F. S. Caltliorpe is to be married in the early autumn, and that the honeymoon will include a trip to New Zealand with Archie MacLaicn’s team. But for this the Warwickshire skipper might easily have found a-place in the M.C.C. side fcrr South Africa. Onlthorpe is one of the best all-round amateurs playing, and seems destined for test match cricket in the near future. Warwickshire are* fortunate to have such a sterling cricketer to load them and carry on the wonderful work of Frank Foster.”