CRICKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 281, 14 July 1888, Page 5

CRICKET.

Lacrosse is growing in favour in Christchuroli and bids lair to become a leading pastime. It can bo played in summer if need be and is a long way ahead of lawn tennis. Samuel P. Jones, one of the members of the Australian Eleven, is ill with rheumatic fever, and will be unable to play this sea&on. The crisis is past, and he is considered to be out of danger. He will be replaced in the Australian team after this month by S. M. J. Woods, of the Cambridge University, and a son of Mr John Woods, of Manly, New South Wales. The M. C. C. and Ground boat Yorkshire at Lord's on May 8, by 103 luns. Yorkshire, without Ulyctt, Bates, and Emmett, made a pooi- display with the bat. Alec Hearne bowled grandly ior the club; his lenvirkable analysis in the first innings of Yorkshire reading • — 33*1 overs,l9 maidens, 30 run&, eight wickets, ; and none of the county team made any show with the bat except H. Hill (29 and 27). In the first week of May, R. Abel, the well-known Surrey cricketer, was presented with a gold watch and an illuminated addresft as a mark of the e&fccem and respect in which he i& held by his Bormond&ey and Rotherhithe friends. The Morylebone Club and Ground v. Middlesex Colts match, annually played to unearth any rising talent in the country, especially bowling talent, brought out a youny professional named Jennings, who took six wickets for five runs, and carried his bat out for 17 runs. Mold, the Northamptonshire professional who did so well la&t year, taking fifty wickets for an average of 12 "15, is qualify- [ ing by residence for Lancashire. Playing for Manchester against Rusholme on the Old Traftbrd Ground, he took four wickets for 28 runs. Play ing for Stansted against R. G!. Monckton's elc\en, who had made 140 in thcu liist innings, A. R. Muna Rivers went in first for Stan&ted with the best bat of the side. When the formci had made 28 Mr Tate, who was bowling, hit his wicket hard with the ball ; the stump swayed back, and yet the bails did not come oIF. In the next over, deli vei eel by the Rev. Mr Stack, the same thing occurred. The wickets were hard stiuck with the ball by a full pitch ay it/bout the bails coming oft. Theie is every chance, says 'Cricket,' of the airangement of two fixtures between the sixth Australian Eleven and Shrewsbury's team. It does not seem altogether improbable that Mr Beal will take his party tluough Americaon their homeward journey, and "there are already rumours of the possibility of arrangements with American team?. If he does su the team will, in all probability, play two or three matches in New Zealand. The Notts County mean reformation, as before their first match of the season began, Mr Oates, the hon. secretaiy, called the players together, and addressed them on bar! play and punctuality, and btated that it was intended to commence at twelve on the Rust day of u match and e^en on subsequent days, and he appealed to them to set an example in those respects.