General Gossip.

NZ Truth, 4 January 1908, Page 3

General Gossip.

"Perhaps.it is. the best tiling" for .cricket here 'that Canterbury, should .;hay«vbjeen!'bea-ten by Auckland/* sai'dc (Mf-O. CaygplLat a meeting of the .committee of <fche> Canterbury. Cricket Association. '-'ashe people are all stalking about, it, and are willing tp' help^ now 'thai' they; see what an ' Ehg- -. •lish coach means rto. cricket." Brisbane; " Truth?, s"' cricket scribe: mince masters at all when Wealing with the.4il>andonment of the ,3-test of Australia v. "England-match linTt'he Queensland metropolis on the &tH-ult. The umpires are credited with adjudicating m a spirit which It'be scribe thinks was meant to - J cur-u-y favor with. the. Englishmen, who, ih6 understands, were not too keen i.on playing, seeing the ignominious 'crushing awaiting them. '■ "Brisbane/ the writer goes on to say, "has <beea found tb/be a fine dissipating ground for ttiese* English 1 snobs, and it would be well for the Aissooiation to aeerueMnore benefits from "future teams of this kind. The.English Eleven were here for ten days, out of which they played four days' cricket. This was a bad piece of business. oh.the part of the Asso^ 'ciation. ... This English team has been the most> snobbish eleyeu that has ever visited us, even with Warn'er's team included. On Monday last it was very noticeable the manner , m which the amateurs shunned the professionals. In support of this "Truth" noticed six of these individuals waiting for an Ascot, car, preferring a race meeting to a cricket defeat. On its arrival, the professionals of the group, viz., Hardstaff, Fielder, and Blythe, boarded the front seat, whereas the lilywhito amateurs, viz., Young, Hutchings and Fane, seated ■themselves m the back portion of the car, apart from their countrymen." Cricket has a lot to answer for sometimes. A witness stated before the Conciliation Board at Ashburton that he knew of a man • who was practically ruined because his boys would go tp a cricket mfctch and left shearing. Next day was wet, and 'the farmer missed the local 'wool sales and shipped to London, where low prices were ruling, and lie lost half the value of the. wool. This proved to be the first of a series of bricks, that ultimately, knocked the farmer down.