CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 310, 9 February 1910, Page 8

CRICKET.

MACARTNEY'S ST A ITS. I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cliristehurch, Last Night. In response to the New Zealand Cricket Council's request for a definite assurance that Macartney would comply with the residential oualilication rule governing Phinket Shield matches, the Otago Association have replied conlirming the ota-;. captain's statement that their arrangement with Maca-t----ney will comply with rule !). At a cricket competition in the Windsor (New South Walt's', district recent,iy, much feeling was displayed owing to the defeat of the Wilberforce Club i.y the Richmond team. When the Richmond team were coaching home from Sackville. they received a shower of rotyn eggs just after passing through .\\ ilberiorce, the eggs being thrown under cover of darkness" and the security of a cornfield. One of the cricketer's fired a revolver, by way of frightening the egg-throwers, whose aim was so good that the members of the team made the remainder of the journey of seven miles uncier much discomfort. The Yass correspondent of the Sydney Telegraph writes: "Is is a rav .thing to find a team of cricketers helonging to one family, or bearing the same name. Yet in a match here the pther day one eleven was made up of the Horton family, and, in addition, the manage l- , umpire and scorer of the £eam. were also named Horton, although they did ?iot belong to the one family. In an age when every one is on the look-out for records, Yass claims that a cricket eleven, manager, scorer and umpire, all bearing the one surname, is invparalleled. The Horton family are residents of Wargiela, and they are fine sportsmen. They met the Yass j Club, and won hy 5S runs."