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$8.50 | your hopos this time, the practice will have given you more confidence and cannot But im- prove your game if your practice is not frivolouss Of course, certain names are already mentioned as those of persons not unlikely to gain the coveted honour of a place in the local elsyen. But it is obviously premature to canvas the marits or claims of any one at present. Very much, if not everything, will depend on the individual form displayed in the next month or 80. This much may be depended upon, that no one will be chosen simply because he has ' borne a local or English reputation: present form in batting, bowling, and fielding will be the sole ground of selection. Friend pidgin," personal feelings, hesitation to weed out, cannot be allowed to influence the selection, of which the sole purpose must be to place in the field the most earnest, skilful and hard- working eleven that can be got together in the Colony. News reaches us of the calibre of the visiting elevens. The Straits XI is reported to be stronger than the 1897 XI; and Shanghai is
$50,070.60 Those who intend subscribing and have not yet done so will please send their subscriptions to either of the Honorary Treasurers, care of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank on or before Wednesday, the 25th instant, on which day the lists will close
C. P. CHATER T. JACKSON
Hon. Treasurers.
A WORD TO CRICKETERS.
The Cricket Ground is open !
To the prac tical, downright cricketer (for with the casual, dilletaute psuedo-cricketer we
September 28, 1901:1
Tai Sing
$100
Supreme Court Staff
Kwan Tai...
100
C. B.
Nam Hing Loong
100
E. C. Wilks...
Chun Tai....
100.
A. Harvie
Nam Wo & Co.
100
J. Ramsay...
Kwong Loong Thị
100
A. Ewing
A Tack & Co. ...
100
W. M. Deas
Kam Fung Yu
100
G. Smith
Kat Cheung Hing
100
C. Fittock
Luen Choong
100
S. Wilson
Tsun Cheong Wing
10
J. W. Jack
Yee Shan Tai
100
J. Wilkie
Tak Shing Hong
100
H. Hoile
Hau Fung Hong
100
G. Patton
Kwan Yik Tai...
100
E. Jackson.....
Man Sang...
100
W. Stewart
Chan Tin Shan
100
J. R. Craik
Li Lai Wo
100
G. Duncan
Fung Shau Shan
100
Yuan Wan Chin
100
Chin Hang On
100
Yung Hin Pong
100
Lan Chin Ting
100
Kwong Wing Shun
100
Kung Yuen
100
Kwong Man Cheung
1,00
Joe Tak Sing
100
Hang Kee
100
Kwong Tak Fat
100
Hin Fat
100
Tak Cheong
300
Ming Yu-Tai
100
Kwong Cheong Wo
100
Kwong Cheong Loong
100
Kwong. Wa Yuen
100
Kwong Yick Wo
100
See Sing Wo
Kwong Lun Tai
101
Tung Kee & Co.
100
Tsui Cheong Loong
100
Sing Tai
100
Yu Wo Loong
100
Yan Cheong.
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Po Looug.. Him Yuen...
10
100
Kwong Yu Ying
Kwong Tak Wing
TOO 100
Kwan Wo Loong
100
Wing Cheung Sing
100
Sun Kwong Hop
10.0
Kwong Mee Yuen
160
Sun Tung Cheong
Wo Cheong
100
Wing Cheung Kat...
The Tai Shing Paper Mill
100
Yee Hing
Tack Hing
Lenng Sing Woon
100 100
Chan Quan Ee...
Tong Lai Chuen
Lau Pun Chin...
100
Chau Howan
Ip Shuu Ham
Tum Tze Kong
Jou
Tong Wan (hin
IGO
Wan Ho
Wong Yu Chuen
Wong Chuk Yan
Chow Hing Kee
Chan Wut Chin
100 100
Kwok Shin Lan
100
Chan Woon Ming
Chan.Oi Ting
Chan Hing Ting
100 100
Chow Dart Tong
Chan Shak Shau
Cheung Kam Tin
J. H. Stewart-Lockhart.
Harbour Master's Office Staff
Colonial Secretary's Office Staff
32
C. McI. Messer
3)
Registrar-General's Staff
28
G. T.. Veitch
Treasury Staff
17
A. W. Brewin
F. R. Smith
J. Hays
W. Nicholson
A. R. Lowe
C. Clementi
G. A. Woodcock
15
15
10
10
10
10
10
R. M. Rumsey
10
O. D. Thomson...
10
1. J. Budeley
10
J. W. Norton Kyshe
10
P. A. Barlow
10
W. Wilson...
10
J. W. Graham
10
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stated to have an eleven good enough to play the Surrey Colts and to be one of the best amateur elevens ever seen! Assume this to be so. The very rumours should stimulate us to put forth every effort to be as fit as we can to meet such donghty opponents and to contemplate the extra glory of victory. They should have a bracing effect, and make our hearts stouter and our training more strict. Admit that at present bowling is our weakest point-it is a libel on our bowling if it is meant merce) this announcement marks the return to that our fielding is better than our bowling - but a winter diet of robust exercise and the annual admit it for the sake of argument: the inference weaning from a summer diet of croquet, Folt, is that we must strengthen bowling by render. or lawn tenis. Whilst it is hopeless fù convince ing our fielding efficient. To that end special attention minst be paid to this most important and a man who has played cricket since he was ten years old that there is any other outdoor game finest department to cricket Practice away in the world and that other forms of open-air from the nets must be arranged for: each man recreation are aught but flippant pastimes, that | should get accustomed to his appointed place same man will frankly admit that business in the field. Apart from organised practice, worries may find safe vent in the expletives every man shonk spend a portion of his practice of golf, that household cares may be forgotten | in short and long catching and in ground-field- in the glee of wiring your opponent at croqueting. Bail fielding makes the best bowling and that lawn tennis (even without the anathe. inuoenons, because hitting the stamps is not the person clear | sole object of a bowler: chances accepted, rins matised screen) steers naby
saved, and men in out will make moderate of the summer doldrums. He institutes no
reason that bowling difficult to cope with. Newcomers comparisons, for the simple
should be told that forward play is essential to
· he cannot bring cricket and other outloor pursuits on to the same plane. He knows the batting success on the normal wickets of the names of Vardon, Dogherty, and Roper; but Club; few occasions for back play offer. It what are they or their fathers' honse by the side remains only to say that if we mean to win, we of a Grace or a Ranjitsinhji? By assiduous must, one and all, gird up our loins and pat practice he might attain to medicerity in all our whole soul into the business. Local pride pastimes, but he defies the devotees of such and honour, not to mention the generons up. pastimes to attain even to mediocrity at cricket. port of the community at large, make this Enthusiasm and His view is that if these champions in other reasonable demand npon us. games had been able to attain to average skill determination! These are the requisite qualifiés. at cricket, they could not have wasted their lives in other diversions. This may not be sound reasoning, but it is the attitude of
The Hongkong Cricket Grond is again j the man who appreciates the genins of cricket
aud has the cricket virus in his system. It is open. and the practice-nets are in their usual not an attitude of contempt or of disdain, but of position. Why this position, 2 nets at one end wonderment. How many men having these of the ground and 2 nets at the other exactly vital radical and conservative views of cricket opposite each other, was ever chosen I never are to be found in the Colony to-day? Are could make out. It is utterly impossible at there a score of men who don't mind whether present to practice fielding with any degree of pleasure or safety, as whatever position the they go in first or last, whether they are put on to howl or not, or where they are placed in the fielder takes up he has to stand with his back field? Are there twenty men who will assidu to two of the four batsmen at the nets and ran ously and carefully practice batting, bowling, a very good chance of getting a ball on the fielding, and catebing, determined to do all that back of his head. The ordinary and sensible they can to accustom themselves to the pace way would be to place the four nets at one side aud size of the ground and the peculiar and of the ground and pat the screens at the other It cannot side, and the players who wished to practise varying light which obtains on it 38.50 be that there is not this number of disciplined, fielding could then do so with safety, as they self-denying crickoters in Hongkong, men ready would be facing all the batsmen instead of to strive their best to get into the eleven which standing with their backs to two of them. will represent the Colony in November next, Fielding should be encouraged and not made who will not caril if the selection committee's impossible, as it is here when the nets are up. choice does not full on them, and will not say in hat excellent article on fielding by “An Old advance “It's no use my practising, as I have no Fogey" should incite our cricketers to study chance of being picked." Play up. gentlemen, the art. Some of them could-well improve their and show yourselves at your best: tune your-oricket in this respect and would, no doubt, come and practise if the nets were arranged selves up to concert pitch! If some one who batted or bowled well last year has lost his differently. form, the selection committee will not do its duty if, influenced by sentiment or commiseration, it includes in the eleven any extinct volcanoes: not but that, in a crucial game, some regard must be paid to the steadiness of experience. Let no one then be discouraged because he thinks he has no change of being included: he who is possessed of that spirit proclaims himself to be no cricketer of grit. Even if you don't realise
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SPORTING AND OTHER NOTÉS.
I see the missing of catches has forced itself upon the notice of home players, and in the worst recorded week of first-class cricket 49 catches were missed and the batsmen thus favoured scored 1,439
runs after they were let off. This is only taking the chances that the spectators have the right to expect in first-class cricket should be accepted,
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