Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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rkiNlTV COLLHGli SCHOOL KKCORU. 30 at least were not deserved, and If the- niateh were to be faithfully reported, some- thing akin to the following would appear in the daily papers : — 30 runs were contributed by ' Slackness, ' a plaver kindly furnished to the Town by the Schobl. Now, let us watch the School s innings. It is not long before we see a striking fault, which most of the eleven have, and which in- dicates very careless captaincy. The batsman makes a stroke, say to the off, between cover and mid-off, and calls, and they run. Now the batsman at the other wicket should take a glance at the ball and the man who is fielding it, and if he sees there is a chance for a second run he should run the first as fast as he knows how, and turn, so as to be ready to call, or answer his partner ' s call, for another ; but instead of do- ing this, we see that he runs down the wicket more or less slowly, (chiefly more), and stops; and all chance of a second run is lost. This happens not once or twice, but over and over again. Now, this is a most aggravating exhibition of slackness ; a lot of runs are wanted to win the match, there is barely time to make them, and yet we see two able-bodied boys jog up and down between the wickets as if they were hired to do it by th;; day. One would neve r suppose from watching them that it mattered in the least whether the game was won, or lost, or drawn. Anrl many a match is drawn for that very reason, and occasion is given to the enemy to decry the game as not suited to this coun- try, or slow to w.itch, where is it is not the fault of the game, but the stupid slack- ness of some of those who play it. One seldom sees that kind of thing in a really good match, but it is a fault to which school boys are specially prone, and one which the captain must be ever on the watch to correct. . ' nother kind of slackness we noticed, which the captain should look out for, and that is the neglect of the non-striking bats- man to follow up, but this is so well recog- nized as an elementary duty that we need say nothing to emphasize it. And in the School batting in this match there were some evidences that there had been slackness in the practise of the boys at the nets ; in some cases a desire to hit everything, in others a fearfulness of hitting anything. There was a great uncertainty, too, at times as to which batsman had the calling of the run. And so in watching the match, and in cri- ticizing all the bad play and applauding the good, the long summer day h.is worn away. Of course, the gaine was won by the School or I should not have enjoyed it nearly so much. It should hardly be necessary to say that the only reason for im.iginiiig all this slack- m ' ss which we are supposed t6 have noticed on the School ' s part in this match, was in order to point the moral of what I have had to say ; of course I don ' t consider T. C. S. worse than other schools in this respect, but quite the contrary, and the fact that the School has generally the strongest eleven proves that the game is better taught there, and better played there, as I hope it always will be. Cricket, you know, is called the noble game, and it is the very best game for a school, because not only does it help to de- velope a boy physically, but, if played in the light of its honourable traditions, and in the sportsman-like spirit which has always accom- panied it in the past, it will help very greatly in turning out a gentleman in the best sense of the term. Cricket is something more th.in a game, it is in a measure a part of your education, for your bodies require training as well as your brains, but looked at as a mere game it is well worth the playing, and it is worth playing well. I,et us all then, present boys and old boys, always remember that souiid advice which breathes the very spirit of cricket, i lay up, and play the game ; it is the nntto of true, clean, manly sport ; if we bear it in mind and live up to it we can never be accused of ' s tu {»ess. [• aithfully yours, DvcK V. Saunders. C. St. G. Baldwin ( ' 91 - ' 98) left suddenly last month to enter the Dominion Bank. We had counted on his being here as a cer- tainly for the cricket season, and his loss will be much felt. However, we wish him evi ry success in his new career.

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TRINITY C()LL1:GK SCHOOL RHCORL). 1 1 get there we see Masters Sloinaii aiul l.a ihoy come round the end of the gym at full speed, as if to make up by extra exertion for their slackness. IJut they can ' t do that, and they hotli ar- rive on the field pufi ' ed and with scarcely enough breath to say awfully sorry, old man, to the Captain, who savs nothing, hut if looks mean anything, he will have some- what to say to them alter the game is over. Sloman is one of the bowlers, and the Captain generally commen- ces with him : now he has to consider whether it would not be advisable, untier the circumstances, to begin with someone else. However, he decides to try Sloman, but, in consequence of his having run himself out of breath, that bowler is decidedly loose, and a good many runs are scored off his first few overs, and the Captain soon takes him off. The bowler at the other end however, is in good form, and gets two or three wickets, but then the Town ' s two best batsmen get in together and lioth become pretty well set. Laziboy is fielding at cover, the batsman plays a ball straight towards him, calls for the run, and they make it easily. The Cap- tain signals Lazilioy to come closer, he does so, but on crossing at the end of the •jver he goes as far from the wicket as before, anJ the first tiall of the new over is plaved slowly towards him and another run is stolen by the batsman in just the same way. Now, 1-aziboy did not fumble the ball, and he threw it in straight enough, but all the same he gave the other side a run through sheer s ackiiess ; he should have known enough to watch the batsman and come closer after the first run was stolen, without being told, but to be told by his Captain, and then to liisre- gard the order was unpardonable. The Captain will have an extra score to settle with Laziboy when he has it out with him after the m.itcli. But, alas, laziboy is not the only slack man on the team. We n tice that Short-leg mi-ssed a catch because he was talking to the umpire when all his attention should have been given to the task of getting the batsmen out. Long-off too, several times let the batsmen g .■l one more off each drive than they de.ser - ed, eith ' -r tlirough being too slow in getting after the ball, or in returning it to the wickets; and he once lost the ojiportunity of running a man out, by returning the ball to the nearest wicket just because it was the nearest, al- though a glance would have shown him that there was no chance of running out the bats- man who had to make that end, while there was every chance of a run out if the ball had been thrown to the other wicket. .• nd so in watching the fielding we see at various times during the innings either field- ing that is distinctly bad in itself, or ojipor- tunities of good play lost through want of at- tention, want of thought, want of effort, or whatever other want it may be, all of which come under the general heading of sAwA- nss, for it is a hydra-headed monster and assumes many shajies. But I have said that Slackness is not merely a fault in fielding, but we see it in bowling and batting as well. We have seen that Sloman ' s bowling was pretty well knocked about, and he was soon taken off, and several changes are tried before he is put on again. Now, Sloman has a fair command of the ball, usually bowls a good length, and can get some work on, and any one with these cpialifications should make a very useful bowler, if he only uses his head. Hut poor Sloman doesn ' t. When he is jjut on again he liowl.s just the same kind of stuff, ball after ball, as he tlid before. Of course, he knows (or he wouM know if he thought about it) that batsmen don ' t often make mistakes on a good wicket when they are well set, if they know exactly what sort of ball is coming, and yet he doesn ' t try any de- vices to tempt the batsman to make a false stroke, or lay any traps to catch him. Now, this is all slackness, which in this connection means want of head, want of care, and want of thoroughness generally. But the best of batsmen will make mis- takes, as these two eventually do, and pay the penalty, and after the two good batsmen are got rid of, the rest of the Town wickets fall verv cheaply ; and when he gels at the tail ' Sloman improves his analysis, for good length and good pitch will get batsmen any day who are not first class. But the test of the really good bowler is to get rid of the best batsman, and Sloman can ' t claim to 1.,- .1 really good bowler until he uses his head more. rhe Town innings closes for 150, of which

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TRINITY COLLEGK SCHOOL RI ' CORI). Although stale news to many, the Trinity College Scliool Rovers ' tour of 1S97 well deserves mention in the Rkcokd, not only to insure the scores being preserveti, hut also to chronicle perhaps the most brilliant jjerfor- mance representative of school cricket. The team was an exceptionally strong one and contained almost the full available strength of past and present. Six inatchesinall were played, five won easily and the draw against London was i)ractically the same. So high was the scoring throughout, that the Rovers in only two matches completed their innings. The record of the tour in this res- pect has no parallel in Canadian cricket, the average of runs per wicket for the Rovers ' tour throughout being 22.7, while that of the opposing teams was S. 2. It is only fair to state that the weather and wickets favoured high scoring, but it must also be considered that the opposing Clubs were amongst the very best in Ontario. The last tour was famous for the century of A. C. Allan. The tour of ' 97 boasted two, Cooper 118 not out and Saunders 101 (re- tired), not mentioning the narrow margin of three runs which prevented Alexis Martin in the London match being in the same class. Of the three, Saunders ' score was [jrobably the best yerformance as the bowling and fieldmg opposed to him were of much higher class than that of London. The wickets at Hamilton, London and Chatham deserve special mention being all that could have been desired. The success of the tour was not confined only to the field of play for it was most enjoy- able to the members of tlie team in every way from start to finish. Thanks to the tire- less energy and the unfailing good nature of Mr. Watson the difficulties of tickets, luggage, transportation and hotels never bothered the travellers and at the end of the tour at Wind- sor they expressed to him their apjireciation of how much of the pleasure of the tour was due to his efforts. 1) R. C M. m. tciie:s ML. VKn6. wox 5. dkaw.s i July 2 at Toronto vs. Toronto C.C. Rovers 139 for 6 wkts. Toronto 40. Won by 99 runs and 4 wkts. in hand. July 3 at Hamilton vs Hamilton C. C. Rovers 242 for 7 wkts. Hamilton 115. Won by 127 runs, and 3 wkts. in hand. July 5 at Ciuelph vs. ( ' iuel|)h ( ' .C. Rovers 122. Cuelph 52 and 22 for 4 wkts. Won by 70 runs. July 6 at London vs. London Asylum (!C. Rovers 301 for 5 wkts. London Asylum 152 for 7 wkts. 1 )rawn. July 7 at ( hathamvs. (. ' Iiatham C.C. Rovers 179 for 7 wkts. Chatham 77. Won by 102 runs and 4 wkts in hand. July Sth at Detroit vs. Detroit Athletic Club. Rovers 200 D. A. C. 46 and 47 for 6 wkts. Won by 154 runs. Name a c c - S ' e - ' A .- W. H. Cooper 2J3 5 I 118- 58.2 A. K. K. Marlin 249 6 t 97 41.5 I). W. S.-iuiulcrs 191 5 o loit 38.2 I). .M. ki pcTs 89 6 3 37 29.6 V. .v. lUlilwin 75 3 o 46 25. W. n. While 33 4 2 23 16.5 1). K. C. M.irlin 63 6 2 31 15.7 i:. .S. .Scnkler 62 5 1 21 15.5 W. R. .McCoiikey 42 4 o 27 10.5 W.W.Jones 39 4 o 23 0.7 C. Hecher . ' 9 2 o 9 45 V. F. Sweny 12 4 I S 4- .S. K. Saunders 6 2 o 6 3. Not out. t retiree ' . HOWLINC. AVKRACKS. Name Halls Mdiis Rns Wkts Av ' rc W. H. Cooper 322 23 III 18 6.1 I .. S. Senkler 130 5 S 9 6.2 IV M. Rogers 249 10 120 16 7.7 W. W. lones 269 9 144 14 10.2 .S. R. Saunders 115 1 79 6 13. 1 On the evening of Shrove Tuesday there was an exhibition of photographs, taken by the boys, in the Dining Hall. It was a most creditable exhibition and one of great inter- est, particularly to those who have been here sometime and recognized old faces among the groups. Mr. Williamson gave us a very interesting magic lantern show, which con- tained pictures of England, Scotland and France. ' The success of the entertainment was due to the energy of Mr. Collinson, and we hope it may become an annual event. ' I ' he prize for the best collection was awarded to Ridout. R W. Dibb r93- ' 94) is now in India, working for the examination for the Bengal Superior Police. -At the last examination he was 4th, but only three api)ointmcnts were made. It was a great pleasure to hear of one in whose heart the School has so warm a corner and we look for his success in his examination next December.