Cricket 1913

September 20, 1913. CR I CKET : A WE EK L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. B u t no action taken b y the Y . C . A . w ill prevent the tou r, w h ich (so M r. S . P . F oen and er of C o lom b o , who is a c tin g as H o n . S e c . to the m ove­ m ent, tells me) is a b so lu tely certain to com e off. T h e R e v . P . S . W a d d v , seen b y M r. F o en and er on the w a y to recru it h is health in E g y p t, said that Harbour and M assie were not v e ry likelv to make the jo u rn e y , and that H ill and I e C ou teu r had not a ccep ted when he left Sydney. ; bu t in a n y case a stro n g team and som e in terestin g gam es can be counted upon. ' h e P a r s i s , it is said , opposed the Q u a d ra n g u la r T ou rn am en t schem e at B om b a y , on the ground that the M ahomm edan s were; not stro n g enough to com pete w ith the other three team s. A n d now the M ahomm edan s have beaten the P arsis, a result even less exp ected than the defeat of the P resid en cy b y the H in d u s. L a s t y e a r the P a rsis beat the H in d u s in an in­ n in g s ; the M ahomm edan s defeated the P resid en cy b y 7 w 'ickets; and in the final g am e the P a rsis were all o ver the M ahomm edan s, b e a tin g them bv an in n in g s and 177 runs. D r. H . D . K a n g a made 150, J. S . W a rd e n 85, and M . D . P arekh took 13 w ickets for 76 runs. T h e r e s u l t o f the d e c id in g match o f th is y e a r ’s tou rnam en t, between the M ahomm edan s and the H in d u s, w ill p ro b b a lv appear on another page. D eta ils w ill scarcely be in hand before the O ctob er num ber. (W h ic h num ber, b y the w a y , w ill be ou t in (he m idd le o f the m on th. O ld and attached friend s o f C r ic k e t tell me that the w in ter num bers are the best o f the y ea r. M ore news in them , th ey sa y . T h is is the case, no doub t, for in summ er the Scores o f im portan t m atches must be g iv e n , and neces­ sa rily these are not news to ou r readers at home. In the six w inter num bers there is room fo r m iscel­ laneous articles, an occasional sto ry , and other featu res crowded out in the summ er. W h y n o t try them , you w ho h ave hitherto d ropped C r ic k e t at the end o f Sep tem b er, regard­ in g it as pu rely a summ er p a p e r? T h e r e is, too, the news from overseas. T h e S ta te g am es in A u stra lia , the M .C .C . tou r in South A fr ic a , the W e s t Ind ian T ou rn am en t, the Q u a d ­ ran gu la r T ou rn am en t at B om b a y ju st referred to, the v is it o f a N ew Z ealand team to A u stra lia , and that o f an A u stra lian team to C e y lo n , cricket in the A rg e n tin e and in m an y other parts o f the world, all w ill be dealt w ith . T h e s ix m on th ly issues o f the pap er o u g h t to b rig h ten “ the w in ter o f our d iscon ten t ” in the case o f m any an arden t lover o f the g am e w h o u n accou n tab ly o verlo ok s them ! R u n n i n g a paper like C r i c k e t is not all beer and skittles, to use a ph rase w h ich has go n e ou t of date now , m a yb e. F o r a jo u rn a l devoted to a sin g le g am e— even the greatest g am e o f them all — there can be no such circu lation as the con tem ­ poraries w h ich appear in hu g e p iles on the b o o k ­ sta lls e n jo y ; and app a ren tly un less a paper w ill sell in its tens or hund red s o f thou sand s a fair sh ow is not to be expected for it. T h e d i f f i c u l t y is not lessened b y the fact that one in d iv id u a l is m anager, ed itor, ch ief con tribu tor, and m an -of-all-w ork— a jo u rn a listic P o oh B ah , in fact. T h e am ount o f hard lab ou r necessary be­ tween the b e g in n in g o f M a y and the m idd le of S ep tem b er is enorm ous. A n d t h e r e are m an y d isappo in tm en ts. T h ere are con tribu tors w ho w ill not heed o n e ’s in jun ction to be b rief and to the po in t, w h o w ill w a llow in a w ilderness o f needless circum lo cu tion s, for whose cop y the o n ly rem edy is red ink— I never cou ld use the b lun t-po in ted b lue pencil o f trad ition . F o rtu ­ nately there are oth er con tribu to rs w ho g iv e no such trou b le— one in p articu lar, o f w hom a correspondent wrote la tely : “ E ven when S o -an d -S o is w ritin g nonsense it’s g o o d re a d in g ! ” O f course, E . H . D . — S o -an d -S o , 1 mean !— never does w rite non sen se; bu t 1 th ink that criticism a real com p lim en t to his matter. T h e r e are su b scrib ers w ho g e t into arrears and then d efau lt. T o each one o f them , no doub t, the m atter seem s sm a ll. It is not sm all in the a g g r e ­ ga te. T h e re are the secretaries w h o send news late, send new s sp a sm o d ica lly , d o n ’t send news at all a fter p rom isin g to do so. T h e re are inevitab le troub les on the p rin tin g sid e ; w7e h ave had o u r fill o f these latterly. B u t t h e r e are com pen sation s to one rea lly keen . L ast n ig h t the S ou th A frican mail b ro u g h t me the scores o f a num ber o f C u rrie C u p m atches for wh ich I had asked ; and when I th in k o f those good friend s o f the paper— and o f m y self, if I m ay sa y so — thou san d s o f m iles aw a y sp e n d in g m any hours in c o p y in g ou t scores at m y request— w ell, it m akes am end s fo r a lot o f troub le ! G E O R G E L E W I IM & Club Colour Specialists & Athletic Clothing Manufacturers. 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