Cricket 1913

C R I C K E T : A W E E K L Y R E C O R D O F T H E G A M E .— J une 2 1 s t , 1 9 1 3 . “ Together joined in Cricket's manly toil.”— Byron. 1 “Registered at the Q .P. 0 .1 p R irF o n L as a Newspaper. J KRICE One of Canada’ s Best. w ell, however. Fo r a very long time he was one of C an ada’s foremost bowlers, and, though usually going in late, a hitter o f no mean order. H e has appeared on the cricket grounds o f both England and South A frica , and for something like twenty years he was reckoned an indis­ pensable when a representative Canadian team was being chosen. But it is not only cricket which has claimed his interest. H e has shared in many other forms o f sport, was a great man on the football field in bygone days, and is now or was quite lately President o f the O ttawa Jockey Club. No man in the political capital o f Canada is more looked up to than is he, alike as a sportsman and as an authority in sporting and athletic matters. H e first played cricket on the old Wentworth Street ground at Ham ilton, O n tario ; but at eleven he went to Upper Canada College, where he soon made a name for himself. H e played in the school’s great annual match with T rin ity College School in 1886 and 1887, taking 7 wickets in the earlier year, 12 in the later one, but doing Jnothing much in the scoring line. During the holidays he represented the Ham ilton C .C . H e was only fifteen when first chosen, and Ham ilton, it should be said, is one o f the strongest sides in the province. Fo r X V I. o f Toronto and Ham ilton against the Canadian X I. which played | the United States in 1888, he made 33, tieing for the j honour o f top score with R . O. M cCulloch o f Toronto, and thenceforward he was always chosen (when in Canada | and available,) for the big matches. Here is a record o f what he did in these games, as j nearly complete as it can be made (unfortunately Cana- j dian records are scrappy and often lacking in essential d eta ils):— ! 1888 Canada v. Gent, of Ireland, o and 7 ; 3 w.— no analysis. 1890 Canada v. United States, o* and 4* ; 1 w. for 50. 1890 Ontario v. Quebec, 1 and 5 ; 5 w.— no analysis, |1894 Ontario v. Philadelphia, o* ; 13 w. for 63. 1894 Canada v. United States, 4 ; 3 w. for 47. ! 1894 Canada v. Lord Hawke’s Team, 2 ; 3 w. for 50. } 1896 Canada v. United States, 3* and 1 ; 5 w. for 74. I 1897 Canada v. United States, 9* ; 5 w. for 72. 1898 Canada v. United States, o* and_i3* ; o w. for 59. No' 43>„v?5VbM-Sew«wSER" 5- SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1913. Mr. H arold B . McGiverin is a busy lawyer in these days, and if he plays cricket at all it is but occasionally. H e has not lost touch with the game which he played so M r. H . B. M cGIVER IN .