Cricket 1911

A pr il 15, 1911. CR ICKET : A W EEK LY EECOED OF THE GAME. 57 1877— At Auckland : Canterbury won by 108 runs. 1882— At Christchurch : Canterbury won by 27 runs. 1883—At Auckland : Auckland won by four wickets. 1884—At Christchurch : Canterbury won by an innings and 72 runs. 1890—At Christchurch: Auckland won by five wickets. 1892—At Auckland : Auckland won by four wickets. 1894—At Christchurch: Canterbury won by an innings and 156 runs. 1897—At Auckland : Canterbury won by 125 runs. 1901—At Christchurch : Canterbury won by six wickets. 1903—At Auckland : Auckland won by 2 runs. 1906—At Christchurch : Canterbury won by five wickets. 1907—At Christchurch : Auckland won by an innings and 135 runs. 1909—At Auckland : Auckland won by 32 runs. 1910—At Auckland: Auckland won by seven wickets. 1911—At Auckland : Canterbury won by six wickets. Of the sixteen matches played, Auckland have won eight, and Canterbury eight. OBITUARY. The Rev. E. M. COLE. The Rev. Edward Maule Cole, for 45 years Vicar of Wetwang, York, died at Wetwang Vicarage on March 30th, in his seventy- seventh year. In his younger days he was a cricketer of some repute, and he was a member of the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s C.C. from its formation in 1868, being also for some seasons an occasional member of the Eleven. In 186S he made his first and only appearance at Lord’s, scoring 0 and 1 not out for the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s C.C. v. M.C.C. Mr. Cole, who was buried in Wetwang Churchyard on April 3rd, was author of Geological Notes on the Hull , Barnsley and West Hiding Railways and On Ancient Entrenchments on the Wolds. A .CD . J. RODWELL. John Bodwell, who appeared for Leicestershire in three matches in 1878, scoring 38 runs in six innings, will be remembered chiefly on account of the sensational catch he made on the boundary which dismissed Frank Allan in the first innings of the Australians. He died in March. A.C.D. Mr. H. OSTLER. Mr. Harold Ostler, who died at Algiers in December, was for many years a prominent member of the Hull Town C.C. He was a successful left-handed batsman, but cn his only appearance for Yorkshire—against Durham, at Sunderland, in 1891—made but six runs in his only innings and had 13 runs scored from his bowling without taking a wicket. From 1891 to 1905 he represented Hull on the Committee of the Yorkshire County C.C. He was born on May 17th, 1865, and is buried at Algiers. A.C.D. M r . P. W. DALE. It is with great regret we announce that Mr. Percy William Dale, for over seventeen years the joint honorary secretary with Mr. A. J. Darnell of the Northamptonshire County C.C., died at Abingdon Park Parade, Northampton, on March 31st, after a few days’ illness. An attack of pleurisy was complicated by peritonitis supervening, and the end came a few hours after an operation. As he was born on June 9th, 1862—at Uxbridge, in Middlesex—he was in his forty- ninth year at the time of his death. Concerning his work in connection with Northamptonshire cricket, the Northampton Daily Chronicle remarked that it is difficult indeed to tell what Mr. Dale has done for the Club since some eighteen years ago he and Mr. Darnell became joint secretaries, pledging each other at the time that as long as one stuck to the helm the other would also, a pledge that has been loyally carried out by both, although at times it meant sinking the personal opinion of the one. Those were days ©f poverty, indeed, for the Couuty Cricket Club, and few counties had such an uphill task to face, but these two champions of the cause have carried the Club from an obscure place among the minor counties to an honourable position in the t o t rank, a place that has won the right to speak in the innermost circle of cricket government. Mr. Dale has often told the writer the thrilling story of the struggles of those days, as how on occasion so empty have been the coffers that there has not been the wherewithal to meet the expenses of the next match, of a fateful afternoon when Mr. Wentworth Vernon came to the rescue with characteristic generosity, to be followed by Lord Lilford, Mr. E. M. Crosse and other gentlemen. It was Mr. Dale himself who initiated the idea of the annual ball which, as we said only the other day, has produced over £1,300, in itself a wonderful asset, while his work in connection with the Lord Lilford Fund, which allowed Northants to take advantage of the opportunity of entering the first-class list, was of the utmost value. It is doubtful if Northants. sport ever had a man in its ranks who could better enlist the help of the well-to-do than Mr. Dale, whose geniality and enthusiasm have brought thousands of pounds from pockets that might otherwise have remained closed. THE LATE MR. P. W. DALE. Mr. Dale has died with some of his schemes &S yet incomplete. The Forty Thousand Shillings Fund, in which he has been one of the central figures, is in course of collection ; and it is a matter of interest that almost his last words at the office had relation to the Fund. On the Advisory Committee he had so well pleaded the Saturday start that it has become occasional, at any rate ; while his farther suggestion of two-day matches may be tried next season. Mr. Dale had, therefore, good claims to have done something for cricket as a game independent of the Club. While his heart was in the County Club he took an e&pecial interest in the doings of the Northampton Cricket League, and was hoping to see a Northants. League grow from the first steps taken by the joining of the Kettering and Northampton seniors in one competition. One could write much more of Mr. Dale and cricket, but we have shown what an immense service he has rendered the game and the Club. 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