Cricket 1912

C R I C K E T : a W e e k l y r e c o r d o r t h e g a m e .— A p r i l 20™, 1912. ‘ Together joined in CricKet’s manly toil.”— Byron. No-4' : SER,ES- SATURDAY, APRIL 20 , 1912 . F + Z fiS g g ? '0-'] P"'ce 2 d . A Chat about /Vlr. Gerald Hartigan. the whole it seems likely that the great Triangular Six of the South Africans are in like case—Hartigan, Taylor, Tournament will be fought out by sides consisting j Cox, Carter, Ward, and Beaumont, while Strieker, Pegler and Camp- largely of comparatively new men. No doubt some bell are all new to England. In Mitchell, Faulkner, Tancred, Nourse, of the old brigade will be drafted into our own home I White, Schwarz, Llewellyn, and Snooke, South Africa has a more formidable array of seasoned team, to fill the places of the men w h o w ere n o t speciallysuccess- ful in the recent great series of tests down under; and of those who did well in Australia, Hobbs, Rhodes, Barnes and George Gunn were no strangers to test match cricket. But Frank Foster, John Douglas and John William Hearne played each his first test at Sydney in December, and Frank Woolley had only once before appeared against Austra­ lia, though he played through a rubber in South Africa in 1909-10. Then there is Smith, who won golden opinions at the other end of the world, and may very likely succeed to Lilley’s place. Well, the old brigade can­ not go on for ever. There was a time when an England team without W. G. seemed scarcely thinkable. Stanley Jackson and Archie MacLaren— Tom Hayward and George Hirst— they were great men a ll; but years roll on, and we all grow older, “ And there is an end to all things, A season to every man.” Whatever may be the case with England, Australia and South Africa must be repre­ sented mainly by young players —young as test match cricket goes, that is. Of the Aus­ tralians only their captain, Gregory, had ever played in a test match prior to 1907-8. Macartney and Hazlit came in then. Whitty and Bardsley started in 1909. Kel­ leway appeared against South Africa in 1910-1. Matthews, Minnett, and McLaren are all new men of the last rubber. Mayne, Emery, Jennings, Smith, Carkeek, and Webster have not yet played in a test at all. M r. G. HARTIGAN . players than Australia ; but even with South Africa much will depend upon how the new men perform. And of these new men there is none of whom more is ex­ pected than Gerald Hartigan, whose first test match will give him the distinction of being the only man who has yet repre­ sented South Africa at cricket and Association football. In the portrait which appears close to these words he is seen in the Springbok footer shirt which he has worn with great credit. Gerald Patrick Desmond Hartigan—there must surely be Irish blood in him—was born at King William’s Town on December 30th, 1884. He went as a boy to St. Aidan’s College, Grahamstown, a school at which several other prominent South African cricketers (in­ cluding the Tancred brother­ hood) have learned the rudi­ ments of the gam e; and no doubt he distinguished himself there, though with quite un­ necessary modesty he has failed to provide the writer with any record of his school career. After leaving school, he joined the Buffaloes C.C., of East London, and for them he has ever since done fine all-round work. The Buffaloes have had for years past a really strong team, including Hartigan’s elder brother, E. M., the brothers Norton, A. W. and N. O., and the veteran Stanley Bayly. In 1905-G Gerald Har­ tigan was second in the club’s batting averages, with 32 6(> per innings, and first in the bowling averages, with 50 wickets at exactly 6 runs each. It was in this season that he first played against an English team, and, as far as one can gather, that he first made his appear