Cricket 1911

CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. APRIL 29 , 1911 . "Together joined in Cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron. n o . 865. v o l . xxx. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1911. p r i c e 2 d. /Vir. Sherwell on the South Africans’ Tour. so, Mr. Sherwell, the fifth and last Test match is completed, and I suppose all interest in the tour is at an end ? ” “ Don’t you make any mistake,” replied the S o u th A fr ic a n c a p t a in . “ T h e tour will always be regarded as one of very great interest to us, and only when we have met Clem H ill’s side and the Broken Hill combination will we relax efforts. We make no difference whatever match we are playing, except, of course, we are allowed to take matters easier than when we are engaged in the great Test matches. If we have not gained a good reputation as match winners, we cannot be blamed for not trying. ” “ Have you done as well in the Test matches as you expected ? ” “ No, we have not. I think that we have struck more great Australian batsmen in their best form than we anticipated, and I am led to think this from my cricket reading, when I discovered that we had to knock up against a very strong proposition. All these Australian fellows have come off, and all of ours have not ” “ You came to Australia primarily in quest of experience and know- “ By Jove, we did; and we have found it, too. I don’t believe that we have taught the Australians a single thing. In batting and fielding the Australians were head and shoulders above us, and their bowl­ e g has been the acme of accuracy. I think that we have done very well to have come out as we have.” “ You will have admired the Winning of the Australian batsmen between the wickets and in the field ? ” “ Yes; they might be all Postles Photo by] and Donnldsons, to see how quick they are, and the judging of a run reminds me very much of the great lesson that Hobbs and llhodes should have taught us,when, a year ago, Leveson-Gower’s M.C.C. team was in South Africa. Bansford struck me as being a wonderful long field man, and certainly I^have never seen anybody to better him. There are many others; and, of course, Gehrs and Macartney, are quite in the same street as Bansford. And yet I hear that Sy.K Gregory was a perfect gem at cover-point. Well, I might have the opportunity of seeing him one of these days, fcr I hear that he intends to make a bold bid for another trip to England. Some people are like Tennyson’s brook. Until the fifth Test match, Macartney had not troubled us in the run-getting department, but he has scored many more runs than several of our fellows have made in the Tests.” “ Have your own men come up to your expectations, and have they played up to their reputations ? ” “ Several of them have not. In the first place our bowling has been very seriously handicapped through the disappointing form of Ernie Vogler. He thoroughly deserved all the great opinions expressed of him iu Eng­ land, and had he approached his 1907 form I feel confident that the Australians would not have scored so easily against us as they have. Mind, I never expected Vogler to startle Australia as he did England, but he has not touched his ordinary form even. In addition to being such an extraordinary bowler in South Africa, he is a most capable bat, and a model man for the slips. But, there, we lost all his services. Vogler is not the only disappoint­ ment. “ T ip ” Snooke has not exhibited his proper form. Some [Hawkins de Co , Brighton Mr. P. W . SHERWELL.