CRICKET.

NZ Truth, Issue 138, 8 February 1908, Page 2

CRICKET.

(By .Scout). General Gossip* No senior competitions were under way last Saturday, the -Basin Reserve being utilised for the Dbmfinion's Amateur .Athletic Championship meeting. All going well m the matter of weather, the semi-finals will be ires-urned this afternoon. F. S. Jackson, J. Darling, and Sid Gregory were born m the same year as was A. C. L, Mackenzie, , the burly cricketer of N.S. Wales. , It is an unwise thing for, a cricketer to be untruthful— lie is always m danger of being bowled out. In connection with his batting m the two innings at Adelaide, '7 Roger Hartigan received m all about one hundred telegrams of congratulation from different parts of Australia. George Ulyett captured four wickets with successive -balls when playing for Lord Harris' team v.' N. S. Wales m Australia,* ■ Presentations galore is the reward: of Hartigan for Ms thii-d Test performance. He is- to.be presented with a cricketing , bag by his friendS ofthe Gordon District • Club i_x Sydney, and Queensland admirers are . combining jtogether to procure j-him. a souvenir oi the rppcasion'. '.v a- .ji... , . ?f ' v '. t Apropos of the.j. souye^r given 7 to. Hill and Hartigan for their 'display m the third/Test match at, Adelaide, the Commonwealth public, does not now respond. with tho old liberality of collections- m recognition of a great performance,. by a player m a big match. ' Charles Bannerman received a big sum m recognition of his innings of 60 not. out, when he and H. H. Massie (78 > nbt opt) put on 110 runs for the. sixth wicket and won the match: for N» •■&- Wales against Lord Harris team \in 1878. The same player's . famous innings of 165 m the fifrst .Test match was. also handsomely recognised at the time by) the Melbourne public,, and '*Tich Gregory had ho cause to regret the notching of\his. 201 intone.,, of t-hase historic encounters some yeajs later. The English cricketers reckon they were beaten at Adelaide by, the H's— Hill, Hartigan, and the Hades temperature. ..- j„- •-, " V In the. late Adelaide Test, the Australians made 285 runs m -four' hours fifty. minutes, : . and -506 iims'-in nine hours twenty minutes; total, 791 runs for. thirteen hours ten -minutes' play. England made 3b3 in. six hours thirty-four minutes, ..and 183 m three hours twenty .minutes ; total runs. 5546 m nine hours fifty-four minutes. The Australians bowled-,' 1171 balls, and the Englishmen 1571. The N. S. Wales v. Victoria match, which ended." last week; m the defeat of -the Corkstalks, is the Slstpkved between the two States. ->The *&m, State has scooped m 42 victories as against her rival's. 3B. The hirhWk total ever-, made m these matches is 807 by,N. S. Wales, the highest - H Victoria beipsr 511^ . Would Australia have had ,&ny. show against England's best eleven had itbeen available? Just fanCy meeting Jackson, Haywaxd, Tyldesley,' Lilley, Gunn. Barnes, Fielder, Braund, Cia-w-----ford, Hirst. Yin& A correspondent wticf adopts the nen-name Of "Eye-witness," sends along the fo^OTO^ri^UittJet-^pistl. :— That serfioi? player a smapk on the finders from a ball delivered by a" fast bowler on Saturday week, is .evidently of opin'On that whenever a casuality of t&is nature happens X the. ground is deserving of all bilame'. and the w'ay 1 be.afgued it out wi{K the groun4**«n shows him to he devoid of tm_ sportsmanlike instincts. The groundsman and the * livtery cricketer tr«re nearly coming, to blows, it is a nity they didn^t," for then we would b«xe seen the Speedy collapse of the rlayer and his argument. Tho tetter's injunction to a .clubmate to take bis pads off 'as hte did not want to' pay funeral, expenses-,, was silently ignored, and alt/Ogetber the peevish one came very bad indeed out of ths little affair. He was -the laughing sto_k of tbe whoje field.< , - , . Should the Eftglishmen win the, toss m the fourth- Test match, they ought, says a Sydney •■ writer, to oco pretty close ito victory; for, sudvipg by the games already played, th*»re is not much difference in 'the calibre of the two elevens, and probably w»ck will be with them next time. It is unfortunate that Jones h'as^ -l>e<p» "liable to play, for he is a fine Hatsman, and splendid "field, and M* Captainship is Superior to that of Fane. Probably after ' their td" to Tasmania they will -return with renewed vigor. The terrible heat. closeDe^ nf the finish m the second Test, and t*.e short interval between the frames; a-U told, against them m the contest • flu* ished at Adelaide. The takings at the second T**t match amounted to £40"3 l?f> c d. Expenses, including £300 nlavern' «1« lowarices. and £52 'as exn^ns o *.- totalled £716 18s 3d. The W«>rvleboT>e Club's. share of half the c-ross <nr<Mi*d takings was £142(1 Ifis f'd, wWte £264 went to the trustees nf *bo Metropolitan Cricket Ground. ' r *« balance accrutna; to the A««nH , '" ,f, n from the match .was £16^ 11? d. * ?d. From the. .Test and inter-Stete match v. N.S'.'W.. v the"V:C.'A: 'defived a total profit of £2140. . ' , The total attendance at the tM-vd /Adelaide) fest match was The takinsrs were £174fi ins Pd. Each Australian cnc''et.pr + -a- , '-?ni* part m a Test match receives h 25 per match : those nlavinc -nwav f rom, their own cities are allowed also •*!! travelline eynen.ws and 12s P^r dny for board and lod fine. At a TTteetinff of the d : if>leeate« o! the Queensland Association, tbr». ye*

port showed, a loks of £14 on the re•e_t visit of ■ the Englishmen. ' Mr Fair commented strongly on the con- j duet of the English team m not at-j tending to play during the afternoon of the last day. Mr J. N. Hoi;ton, said, the matwh should have been contimiwl. The' __oglud__ien were not -iPwttfht *!_*_• te' attend the races. _-»•_• k mmam joy m Australia— anil' New Z*a&.«d also for the matter Of that— -over ©nc erfeketer who scores a Century than over 99 righteous nflom«ii who ciualify to defend the land of s'unsSink . Melbourne 1 ' ,o l7i' u { ! h'-' discharges all its., vials .•!. wrath on , those entrusted wiih Hie administration of law m the city by the.'srocHlul Yarra. From Its. latest edition to hand I extract the follojvln£ editorial comment :— W_biouta "weak- ago three of the English cricketers- were discovered drinking beer m a swell city hotel on a hot Sunday evening. According to the evidence, they added to their offence by telling- a deliberate falsehood iri declaring that they were boarders at fche^ hotel. But when the *_se was heard*— the defendants being absent at Adelaide— the three bat and bill men were each fined £1. Contrast' with this the-., penalty imposed at South Melbourne upon a poor laboring man who ©ailed into a "pub." t_Wr« on a ftaaday afternoon and had ft-.ibft-V witi Mm . landlady— and also a g-kuw •*■" iw. H« was fined £2 . The sd_-e_ et Jusla«c appear to be b-al-aneed cricketer £1; common - : - \ A*»&'ftKan ( ' laborer, £2" ! ____, ; w _«_«rwr a' poor man is the detmvO^t-, ■**»• fin*i« always the higher aa__«irt. Ttoly, Justibe may be bHad, feu,t .{_» eon feel— for the well-te-d_.'"'7" .■^auiUfim' tow-Log figures m all Test aid »t»te r*p. matches played Ify Mm ia Ansiralia, as compiled by Mr R. H. Ca_»j>b«ll, the bestyJricket siat_ati«4(_ii- ia th» Commonwealth, stand aa fell©-** :— Number of matffoea, 4s -; ©v«w, 20QQ.3 ; maidens. *4©7; ruao, l-*7 ; wickets, 225 j aver-: ag*, _fl, ; i«. _!• has also delivered _fr vMsm .jwwM.l _*-bails. 7 . A'■ wmiWa -rsM-d wicket-kee^-ins fita. iau- a*f «ia**of ciloket is said to $fend t«- **«« ttedit of- Major Trevor, who e*_aiit ail and stumped two m <m«- ta__oM- for Dr. Conan Doyle?s alaves ■% TKr j. V. McMillan's eleven _* U__l_i_haw (Eng.) on August £- !_**.' ; M a meeting of the English firstcl*M county captains it was decided tSia_. tho wearing of glasses should hpt" ue&essarilv be a bar. to anyone s.__?iativCtt: ss u^'-'Wre. /vfo&neS'day players : journeyed to last Sunday to play a fcefeui froriV Ptvraparaumu, the match ♦rajng m■_ victory for the Wellingfct_iarts. "Chief scorers for Paraparaw_ui were' ■■SmitJH. 41, Whiter oa 28, *jtvd Wh are 18 . the total score being J_&. *"%)Uhffton .' responded with 137 fisr -seveh'' wickets, 0-. Burton (not eutV 46. A. Monre (retired - ) 40. being top scorers.- The visitors w ere well t^ted : ahfl had a Glorious time of it,ftr ,j» t^oi- forward to another match. ■ : iu". Qt. ; H©mi'By-th« Auckland player, bn.R -> i" irfld : -22 innings m representa—r» exioket. scoring 874 runs, andtvitesW 89.72. . :.''•■:'. A t*ALIP«ONTAN CHIRP. $fc» M&4s*is»" ~*B>o knows .the game, . *- Ami .tewfe va .to some fun "And jwkla ■tr«»»udous to his fame, . %io one wfeo'U biff and run.