CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 11 (Supplement)

CRICKET.

NEWS AND NOTES. l<Tve centuries were scored last Saturday in Dunedin cricket, three in first grade and two in second grade contests. Crawford, Otago's coach, playing for Albion, led the way with 151. Grange put on 277 for one wicket against Carisbrook, McMullan made 120, and White 102, both 'being unbeaten. The Rev. F. H. Gillingham, the Essei cricketer, who, with the exception of u very short interval, has acted as chaplain at the front for nearly the whole period of the war, returned to England for a time in October. He went to Birmingham and gave £■. sermon in the church of which he was formerly rector. It was a noble appeal to men who are eligible for the Army. A pupil of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Miss Elsie Vickerman, was presented last week at the annual ceremony of distribution of prizes, with a cricket bit. In commenting on the presentation, the headmistress, Miss Butler, said tlmt ill a recent match with the Diocesan High School team, Miss Vickermau had scored 101 runs, not out. She added that the boys might be scornful about a girl scoring 101 runs, and ask who the bowler had been, She had, as a matter of fact, a good bowler, and one of a visiting team who had come determined to conquer, so there had b"cn no tempering of the wind to a thorn : 'mb, because the lainlj happened to I- girl with a cricket bat. H, W. Taylor, the greatest of South African batsmen of the moment, has joined the "noble army of Benedicts," according to the latest news from the Dark Continent. A writer in The Latest tells us that he was married to Miss Dowling, a Johannesburg lady, on October 20. The writer adds: "Taylor has played many line and long innings, and it is said he has never been troubled with nerves. One wonders whether he was at all nervous when he commenced this his latest and most important innings. Whether he was so or not, he has survived the opening over, and one trusts it will prove the most successful, longest, and most prolific oi any of his partnerships." Some sensational bowling was witnessed in the match between the Presidency and Mahomedans in the second game of the Quadrangular Tournament, played at Poona, India, on Septomber !), 10, 11. The Presidency team included many well-known English cricketers, but it was the bowling of H. L. Sirams, the Sussex amateur, and F. Tarrant, the Middlesex-Australian professional, that »tood out so prominently. Great things had been expected of the Moliamedans when they went in to bat against a total of 201 for five wickets, but the two bowlers named were at the top of their form, and for the first time in' these matches the spectators were treated to the spectacle of fine batsmen, with great reputation in Indian cricket, following one another to the wicket without even having the satisfaction of a knock. It was a great day for Simms.as he created a record in these matehes by,capturing four wickets in one over, and doing the hat-trick. His second, third, and fourth deliveries in the second visit to the wicket clean bowled two, the other being caught. In the Moslems' second venture Tarrant very nearly did the | tame, accounting for three wickets in one over, the match ending in a victory for the Presidency Europeans by an Innings and 141 runs. The Presidency scored 201 for five wickets, Tarrant making 49, and the Mahomedans 21 and 39, Tarrant taking five for six and five for nine, and Simms four for two and five for 16,