CRICKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3

CRICKET.

Tijj:he are now 1,989 members on the list of the Melbourne Cricket Club. 2,000 is the limit. T. M. Moresby made a bjg score last week. He had been rather unfortunate a little before, but his 69 has pulled hisaverage np. "Bob" Lusk did some big hitting in the same match, against Parnell. (Sydney has a very promising bowler in Peicj Char! ton, a young player belonging to the Belvidere Club, the same club that has Ferris tor a membei. In a match against the Alberts the other Saturday, in the second innings the Alberts lost four wickets for 38 runs, and all four were to Charlton's credit for only eight run?. It is now stated, in "Cricket" that Mr W. F. Forbes, then 18 years of age, threw the cricket ball 132 \ards in the Eton College Athletic Sports^ on March 26, 1876. This teat is at least duly chronicled in the " Sporting Life," giving an account of that meeting; and Mr Forbes ha«? always had the credit of.the best authenticated record: Major Warton's team of dricketei's appear to be doing well in South Africa. At Kimbeiley £141 weie collected and diNided between the profes-iona'ls Briggs, Abel. Kead, Wood, Fothergill, and- Hearne ; and each of them was also .presented with a diamond. as a souvenir of the place. At Johannesburg Mr Cecil Rhodes backed Hearne and Abel for £45 to £5 to get as miny runs as the local twenty-two, and promised the amount to the bats-nen if they won it. They went in for the £22 10s with a vigour, and won. A local man lost £120 backing the local team. The following paragraph is taken from a Canadian paper :—: — William Priestly, the crack bowler of St. Timothy's Cricket Club, Pa., has sued Hutchinsonand Ogden, the mill owners, tor 10,000dol damages (±.2,000). He claims that he was. employed by Mr Ogden, who. is an enthusiastic cricketer, to work in the mill, but ostensibly to play cricket, at 15dol a week ; this method of procedure being taken in order to avoid any infi action of the amateur rules. In the mil l he was general utility man, but could play at his favourite game whenever hedeshed. One day a bolt broke and destroyed the tight of his leit eye ; j and he now sues lor 10,000dol. Fred Gale, the " Old Buffer, 1 ' in an afterI dinner speech the other day, said that playin % for a drawn game at cricket is like cheating at pitch-and-toss, and anyone who would cheat at pitch-and-toss would be sure to go to the devil. He commented upon the way in which cricket was played now as compared with days gone by, and said as legards the fielding in the present day it was simply perfection. He had never seen a man in his life who could pick up a ball like Gunn ; and Briggs. Lohmann, and Bowden were equally biilliant. He also, pointed ou,t the great .importance of good vvickefc-keepinc, and in&tanced the match of Surrey \. Lancashire, when Surrey, through the ground or bowling nob suiting the .wicket keeper, gave foity-eeven extras, the team got demoialised, and lost the match.