Cricket 1892

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Read, which appeared in C r ic k e t a fort­ night ago, the captain of the South African Team spoke favourably of the batting of D. C. Davey, who scored well for Eighteen of Durban against his side. Since the English­ men reached home, Durban has been the scene of another good performance by Natal’s premier batsman. Playing for Twelve of Durban against a Twelve collected by Mr. J. T. Henderson, the compiler of the “ Natal Cricketers Annual,” Davey distinguished him­ self by the double achievement of carrying his bat through the innings, and at the same time scoring a hundred. Of the total of 206, he was responsible, too, for no less than 134. On the other side was Mr. McMaster, who went out to South Africa with Major Warton’s Team and settled in Natal. “ Felix” of the Australasian ,most veracious of chroniclers, by the way, gives in his rotes of April 16 an instance of run-getting which will bear comparison at all events with the very best records of the kind. In comment­ ing on some scoring by the Carltons agaiost the Metropolitans dnring the previous week, in a vein of playful irony he refers to the 346 made by the former in an hour and thirty-five minutes as a “ fairish rate of run-getting.” This savours a little of the process of “ damn­ ing with faint praise.” The details are not uninstructive. Armstrong, who had evidently had enough of it, retired when he had made 126, and Maplestoue hit in fine style for 117. Watling, too, must have hit blooming hard, for he made twenty runs from the only four balls he received. I f to err is human, forgiveness is the attri­ bute of divinity. Still no mortal can be sane at all hours, and if only on that ground I hope I may count on the exercise of the forgiving spirit, when I plead guilty to a mistake in last weeks “ Gossip.” From information I received, and from a source which I had every reason to be well informed, I gave Mitcham