JACK ARNEIL.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 195

JACK ARNEIL.

The subject of our sketch was born on the very top of the Himalaya Mountains, about 20 years ago or less, and arrived in this city when but a very little fellow indeed, about seventeen years since. Young Arneil, whose name has become so well known to all lovers of out-door sports, is not, however, only noted in those pursuits, but is a living example of the uncontrovertible truth that a youth or man can engage with credit in all healthy athletic amusements, and yet do himself and his tutors credit as a student. At twelve years of age Arneil was the best cricketer, and one of the best footballers in the Auckland College and Grammar School.and ho d also won, with honour, a scholarship in his class. At 15 Jack took the highest possible scholarship in classics, and was still facile princess at all the sports of his equals in age in Auckland. Before he left school he joined the Ponsonby Football Club, and immediately began to make his mark as a player, though opposed to men of older growth and greater experience. Soon after leaving school to enter the sale-room of Mr Arthur Heather, Arneil became a member of the West End Cricket Club, and under the colours of these two clubs he has contended nobly on all occasions since first joining. In football he has very few equals (in the fast dribbling game, none), while as an all-round cricketer Auckland can boast of no bantling who approaches "young Jack." Arneil played in Auckland's representative team of footballers against Wellington, and twice against Sydney. This is his first venture as ■ a cricket " rep.," and right well is he proving his fitness for the trust reposed in him, as, bar Barton, he is the highest scorer in the Eleven as yet.