Sporting Jottings.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 19 February 1909, Page 2

Sporting Jottings.

[By Ims] A paragraph in » pap«- ‘bat I bap pened to pick ap the otW day «ya : —“ The matter of playing tennia on Sunday briefiy referred to by the Chartdi.Tr'mn. virkr, on Basd»y esenflo etntod that a oin plaint had been made to him that the local courts bad been used alt the morning, which be . Bdevdood wm contrary to the rate* of the c’.ob Speaking a- a dergysKu be thought there was no mure harm in paying a game of tennu on a Sunday than there was- in reading a noyel. Bit he considered that people aboald consider «ho example they were waiting the yoangcr generation, and be n» -r.» c ireful wbut was done during the bopr* of public worship.**

To-morrow (Saturday) a good match should be the r .sult of tbs meeting of the Married aud Single cricketers, as both can pub d-st class elevens into the field. The following are the respective wan : -Married : fi. Dereoourt, J. Harper, A. Wrigb*, A. Babbage, H. Babbtge, W. Mclntosh, G. H. Chase, G. G. J juatbao, F. Newton, E. Aubin and A. Symons; Single : H H Pettit, 0. Reeves, C. B*rg> Mountforc, Higgins, A. Fairfax, W. Wrigft, L. Armitage, T. Whitman, R. Nealey and F. Dereconrt; emergencies: J. Sadler, Theo. Newton and A, Per bam. George Grey, tbu youthful Australian bitliardin’, has boon putting up BJtne fine perform in era oia the green cloth, making breaks of over 300 by lousing hazards alone; bis accuracy and rtrengib must be wonderfoi. There »6 now a talk of tillering tbv rube of billiards limiting the num l *. * of losing hazard*. What non-eus • I Immediately one player excels another at a carta-o stroke they want it barror the rules altered. s<>tue yeat» a - when J Peail stood out ae a spo stroke player the rutee were altered and remain so to tho present time, but personally I would ra-har see a . man make a big spot break (for there are so many positions) then a nursery | cannon break; only the referee can I See if baif the caononi are fair, espe- I cially when the spot stroke was in ; vogue, but that baa rightly been de- | dared a foul. Having seen John , Roberta make over 600, principally by runs of nursery can nous, and W. J. Peali put together over 2<)00, chi’ fly i by the aid of pot strokes, I came to j the conclusion that the break by •

Bobares was quite us monotonous to watch, if not more so, than the afore said break by Peail. It ia a wonder someone does not suggest barring vol- ' ley in g at lawn tenuis or disallow drop- | kicking goals at Bagby football, or ■ some other equally ridiculous thing- i They did attempt to alter the laws of j cricket a few years ago, thank good--252 to nut eminate from the piayera themselves, bat from spectators or the stay-at-home critic (who do not even know the finer pointe of the game). They complain that the cricket eco res are too large, never thinking of that dropped*catch before the batsman had scored, ia conseqaence of wh oh he goes on the even tenor of his way and at the close of the days’ play ia not oat with 150 to bis credit; they never think of that thunderstorm which comes on at the close of a day or twos* big jeoring, which with the aid of a powerful sun ths next morning, renders the pitch almost unplayable. My advice to each is to leave well alone.