NOT SPORT

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 15

NOT SPORT

After All, Game's The Thing

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) There are varying degrees of sportsmanship, but m cricket we are led to believe, or expect, that virtue is par excellence. THE dismissal of Gibbs, the Riccarton batsman, by the Linwood team m a recent innings at Christchurch left much to be desired from a sporting point of view, and inclines one to the belief that the claim that the good old game attracts the truest of sportsmen is purely, mythical. Gibbs tvas facing" Yates, and the ball came back,: or appeared to come back from the 'keeper's pads and break the wicket. 1 Gibbs left his crease for the pavilion under the impression that he had been bowled, but was sent backby the umpire from the bowler's end. ' Condliffe was standing near the wicket with the ball, but before he made any move, Smith, the Linwood captain, pulled a stump and: an appeal to the square leg umpire for run out was upheld. The umpire might *be pardoned for his decision,, as he understood : that Smith had the ball m his hand, : but this m no way lifts the unpalatable odour of questionable sportsmanship from the Linwood captain. After all, the game's the thing.