Cricket 1913

148 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 3, 1913. V in e has ch o sen the S u ssex v . Y o rksh ire m atch at H astin gs on A u g u st 28, 29, and 30 fo r his b en efit; and it is to be hoped h e w ill h ave a real bum per. N o one has deserved it better. S a y what one m ay again st his slowness, he h a s again and again p ro ved th e salvation o f his side, and, apart from his battin g, h e has been, and still is, a sp len did lo n g-field , and h a s taken many w ickets with his leg-breaks. T h e circu lar com p iled fo r him b y M r. A . J. G aston (“ L eath er-H u n ter, ” o f th e A rg u s) g iv e s his total of runs fo r Sussex at 18 ,7 7 3 , his total o f w ick ets at 539, and his centuries at 23, besides one fo r the S ou th v. the A u stra ­ lians last year. In 1901 and e ach year since he has scored o ver 1000 runs fo r the cou n ty, his aggregates ranging from 1,0 72 in 1903 to 1,8 2 9 in 1 9 1 1 . T h irty- three times d id he help C . B . F ry to send up three figures before the first Sussex w ick et fe ll. T h e se are figures w ith an eloq uen ce a ll th eir own. L e t us hope the sum- total of the benefit w ill a lso be e lo q u e n t! T . J. M a t t h e w s , the hero o f the doub le hat-trick at O ld T ra ffo rd , w as down w ith gastric u lce r at M elbourne in M arch , and it w as thought lik e ly th at an operation w ould be necessary. K im b e r l e y fo lk w ere m ore than pleased with W illiam Q u aife, w h o earned go'.den opinions during his stay as a coach at the C h ristian B roth ers’ C o lle g e , both as cricketer and as man. In F irst L ea gu e fixtures his b attin g average w as 135— 540 runs, 9 innin gs, 5 not outs— which was higher than his biggest score, 1 1 9 not out, fo r the C o lle g e v. K im b erley C .C ., his last innings of the season in D iam ondopolis. On b e h alf of the staff and o f the boys, presentations w ere m ade to him before he le ft for the R a n d w ith the G riqu alan d W est team to p lay T ra n sva al— in which m atch , by th e w ay, he sco red an excellen t 60 o d d . T h e staff gave him a case o f silver- mounted cutlery ; h is p u p ils a tantalus. “ H e had set a splendid exam p le by his irrep roach able con du ct on and off the field, and th ere w as no doubt th at since h is arrival the opinion held in K im b erley regard ing the E n glish professional crick eter had risen co n sid erab ly,” said Brother M cC an n . N o one w h o know s him w ould ex­ pect any less o f W illiam Q u a if e ; and such men as he, F red B ow ley, G eorge C o x , and A le c H earn e, all o f whom have been in South A fric a la tely , are am on g the best specim ens o f a class th at, takin g it in the lum p, h as as high a standard of con du ct as an y class o f the community. T h e correspondent who sends m e d etails of W . G . Q .’s perform ances also enlightens me as to the T a p c o tt brothers. S om e confusion m ay have arisen, he suggests, from th e fa c t th at tw o o f them have “ L . ” as a first in itial. T h ese are I, G . (Lance) the crack, known to h is intimates as “ D u s ty ,” and L . E . (E ric), n ick ­ named “ D o o d le s.” N . V . (Norm an) is u su ally spoken o f a s “ the S k ip p e r.” H e cap tain ed Christian B roth ers’ C o lle g e at crick et from 1908 to 19 12 , and at football from 1908 to 1 9 1 1 . W it h referen ce to the article abou t the C aliforn ian changes last w eek, I have learned since that B ernard H aw k es, late cap tain o f the R egin a (S ask .) C .C ., m ade a vigorou s protest against the changes. A n d this w as the m anner in w h ich M r. H aw k e s w a s taken to task b y a San F ran cisco new spaper fo r darin g to speak up ! “ C O A S T C R I C K E T E R S S H O C K B . H A W K E S , T E N D E R F O O T . “ B e r n a r d H a w k e s is sh ocked . H o rrib ly sh ocked. . . . . B ernie h as just arrived from R e g in a, which is in th at dear Saskatchew an, and h is stay in th e C an adian tow'n deep en ed his reverence fo r the gam e of crick et, a reverence acq u ired in the tight little island th at B em ie boasts a s h is birth p lace. “ H a d the delegates proposed to revise th e ten com ­ mandments, they cou ld not have shocked B ern ie any more. . . . T h e n Norm an L o g a n p roposed to give the b o w le rs’ side a credit of tw o ru n s e v e ry tim e a maiden over was bow led. O n ce more B ernie p lead ed for the g am e o f his hom e and p eop le, and again h e was overruled. Jim L a ffe rty cam e fo rw ard w ith a suggestion that the num ber o f men on a sid e be redu ced from eleven to nine, but, to save H aw k e s’ life, the delegates hum anely refused to inflict th is further punishm ent upon h im .” T h e y say a comm unity gets the k in d of new spapers it deserves. T h is bein g a ccep ted a s more o r less true, one w onders less th at San F ra n cisco should m on key with the law s o f cricket. A difficult position fa ced th e meet­ in g ; bu t M r. H aw k e s’s resolute stand fo r the gam e as it should b e p layed w as all the m ore adm irab le, inasm uch as h e seem s to have been in a m inority o f on e, and it deserved som ething te tte r than this ch eap chipping. A cross the ocean and the continent, C r i c k e t ’ s com p li­ ments to y o u ,.M r. H aw k e s! T h a t you are a sportsman the fa c t th at you m ean to p la y the gam e, even in what seems to you a m u tilated and corrupted form o f it, tends to p ro v e ; and the man who can keep u p his end against the opposition o f a ll the rest ou gh t to be a go od fighter in an u p h ill gam e on the greensw ard or the m atting— or the plough land or the shingle, which m ay p ossibly strike the C alifo rn ia C .A . at some future date a s a m ore suitable w icket than e ith e r! U n d e r date o f A p ril 15, I hear from the other side that th e A ustralian to u r’s m an ager has not yet succeeded in com ing to term s w ith a single C an adian clu b . H a lifa x (N .S .) does not th in k it can raise the sum dem anded— ^ 3 0 0 fo r a th ree-days’ match, or ^ 2 0 0 fo r tw o d ays, w ith a possible addition in this p a rticu la r case, ow in g to the distance o f H a lifa x from any other p lace lik e ly to be p layed at. V icto ria ( B .C .) w ill offer the entire gate receipts fo r a m atch in June, but w ill n ot give a guarantee. W innipeg savs the id ea of a m atch in M ay or even early in Ju n e is absurd, and the term s asked are too high. H am ilton has declined definitely, and so, I believe, h as T oronto. G E O R G E : L EWI N & Club C o lo u r S pecialists & A th letic C lo th in g M a n u f a c tu r e r s . 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