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"A. E. R. GILLIGAN: "W AN APPRECIATION OF FINE CRICKET CAPTAIN.
What constitutes a successful captain? To the mans, of course, the winning of matches by the team, be leads, writes Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower in the Daily
all. But to the fow who think mor EDINBURGH. May 20th.
profoundly there is another definition of Scots are up in arms against the golf success that goes hand in hand with the "bookie." It is more than twenty years winning of matches-namely, modesty in since a well-known writer expressed the victory and cheerfulness in defeat. Arthur opinion that with the exceptinil of the Gilligan has given evidener of both. He Oxford and Cambridge bat mage the achieved victory in the Test matches last was hardly a bit of honest sport left in summer defeat during the recent tour of the M.C.C." Who shall say modesty England. The sweeping assertion was not intended to be accepted literally it was not is characteristic after his team's was prompted by a very strong desire success against the South Africans; cheer- to denounce the growth of betting inflness not the keynote after the rubber
it Australia bad been lost? Asociation with sport other than the turf.
A SPLENDID MID-OFF. Arthur Gilligan was four years in his school eleven and claimed 187 wickets for just under 13 runs apiree, a wonderful achievement for a boy while he scored
with an average of da
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Hitherto golf has remained com paratively immune from the betting evil. It is true that historic matches in times past have been the occasion of wagering hot only among the players engaged in the encounters but also between sup porters of the rivals, and privately it still goes on That, however, is not the same
Going up to Cambridge, Cilligan was thing us betting conducted publicly assured of his " blue," but he had only professional bookmakers. The moralist
two dashes of brilliance. Obviously maintains that all wagering is wrong. though the measure of evil consequence arded by his captain, J. S. F. Morrison, a howler, he went in last vary from very little to a degree rely s Positively hurtful. By law, rights or
against Sussex and actually hit 101 in an wrongly, there is a place for the hour. Then on the third morning of the maker, but the last place where no wil University match, on a drying wicket, be tolerated is on the golf inks. The proved irresistible, 9 overa, 3 maidens, brazen audacity of the men who descend runs, 5 wickets, an analysis not ap ed upon the course at Hollinwell, Notting pronched in that encounter since the
success of Dr. A. F. Mercom. ham armed with the impediments of their nefarious, trade, and hegan to shout the odds in the manner of the racecourse, will be very properly reprahated by every golfer who respects the traditions of the royal and ancient game. We rend that they were ordered off at once. They had no right to venture in such a capacity on It was at the Oval in the following June! a course which is private property, and that, the first glimpse of Arthur Gilligan's 1t is
certain that they or any of their possibilities as a bowler came under fraternity will be equally summarily dealteneral notice. When he went on for the with if they endeavoar to make similar second time be appeared singly unplay overtures else where. Opinion of this able at a pace faster than I had seen on matter runs very strongly in Scotland: any ground since the war. there a no dissentients to the condem- nation.
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In 1920 Gilligan's success was moderate: But it had begun to be realised that wa had found one of the finest mid-offs of this period, and it is not too much to way that in this position he is to-day the best in the world.
INSPIRING LEADERSHIP.
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Tader Arthur Gilligan Sussex have become probably the best "draw of any county in England. They attract by the brilliance and accuracy of their fielding Not even Yorkshire have ever possessed their dash
Still, it was only in 1992, when he While all the world knows that Seous because captain of Sussex, that he deve men have little to learn from the loped into the cricket personality that har representatives of any other country and become a national saget to the gamNe. regard to the theory and practce of the Ho monlded his county texu exactly as game of football, both Assocation and he moulded the England eleven last year Raghy, it is a somewhat melancholy fact against the South Africans. that their prowess on the cricket field side at Birmingham, in spite of his own is only lightly appraised by their friends bowling and that of Maurice Tate, played south of the Border. Last week n Scottish as a scratch team. The combination was eleven visited Manchester and suffered perceptibly better at Lord's, though defeat by an innings and 74 runs. At leaving much to be desired. At Leeds, their first venture the Soctamen gave a fer the first time since the days of F. S weak display of batting, but showed a Jackson, we had an England eleven work vast improvement, in the second innings, ing in nearly absolute harmony-a side in scoring nearly 900 runs before the fall of being the last wicket. The visitors of course could hardly be expected to produce batting for equal to that of the Lancashire professionals, but tome of the individual performances were quite meritorious, and for their clever work in the field they won the genuine apprecia tion of their English critics. As in golf, it is unfortunate that the representative sides sent to play other countries are seldom the strongest that can be found, for the amateur sportsman is not always his own master and the demands of the business world often prove more impera tive than the invitation to take part in an international contest At the same time it must he admitted that Scotsmen do not regard the game with the same seriousness as is bestowed upon it in England, and that the climatic conditions experience even in the height of the period of the year named summer are sometimes depressing enough to dan successfully the ardour of a potential Scottish Hobbs or Sutele.
As a captain, it was thought that Arthur Gilligan might suffer from being himself a fast bowler. But he has never over bowled himself or neglected to make use of himself-in itself an unusual in- stance of judgment.
I is off the field as well as on that Arthur Gilligan is so unobtrusively in- pressive. As a speaker he is excellent And he is imbued with the finest spirit of the 'game.
AN ASSET TO THE EMPIRE.
I have travelled some way ahead of the time when Gilligan took over Sussex, but is success as leader went hand in hand with the development of his prowess. He took more wickets (125) than any amateur since P. G. H. Fender and Jack White and scored more than nine hundred
I runs. saw him play a £ne forcing innings against Surrey. field grandly for the Gentleinen at Lord's, and, when for the first time, he came to Scarborough, with Astill he was responsible for scor ing two hundreds in the same innings against Yorkshire, playing very brilliantly and putting on 12 for the eighth wicket. Last summer, of course, he loomed larger
An unfortunate breakdown in the weather at the week end brought about the abandonment of all the principal matches in the West of Scotland. Eise where wielders of the willow exacted a heavy toll from the bowlers. In Edin burgh that fine all-round cricketer, the Rev. H. F. T. Heath, in helping himself to a century at the expense of Stewart's F.P.'s, materially assisted Carlton. At Perth. a dashing display by P. in the public eye than anyone except Gardiner, who also topped the hundred, was the feature of the match between Perthshire and the Royal High School P.P. while D. Duncan, of Freuchie, collected 120 not out, the highest in dividual score of the season. Principali results;
Hobbs and Maurice Tate. In the earlier part of the year he was irresistible. At Lord's be actually tock 8 Middlesex wickets for 35 runs, and this tame im mediately upon for 24 at the Oval. These led to his astounding 6 wickets for 7 runs in the Srst Test.
At the Oval for the Gentlemen, he Stirling. Co., 19: Glas. Academicals.received so severe a blow over the heart
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10 for 1. Forfarshire. 122; Cupar, 115 Edin. Acads., 145 for 6; Watsonians, 85. Carlton, 174 for 5; Stewartonians, 97
for 5.
Dunfermline, 113; Arbroath, 91. Heriotonians, 115; Grange, 105. THE SIXCCER CHARITY CUPS.
·Rangers beat Clyde by one goal in the pal of the Glasgow Charity Cup. It was a somewhat commonplace fight, Rangers all through showing superiority in tactics and general team work, though the Second League Cha had. much credit for their defence. In the Edinburgh Rose- bery Cup final, Hibernians won by the only goal scored against a Heurt of Midlothian team of a somewhat experi- meatal nature.'
UNIVERSITY GOLF.
Edinburgh won the Scottish Interuniver sity Championship, the scores being Edinburgh, 6 points, Glasgow 4, Aberdeen
, and St. Andrews ail,
THE SCOTTISH TEAM FOR WESTWARD KO!
that he retired for the day. To every body's surprise, he went in to but on the morrow and played one of the innings of his life, hitting 112 in an hour and a half, and reducing Tate to impotency.
Personally I never anticipated over- whelming individual success for him on bis first visit to Australia: But it..is not too much to say that no Englishman out there since the war has done so much for Imperial unity.
W. L. Hope. St. George's Bill.. W. J. Guild, Murrayfield. Alexander Meanies, Ralston. W. A. Murray, Westhill
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