When reviewing the doings of the Cricket Club during the last season, one feels a fatal inclination to moralize. The Club has done so well on some occasions and in some directions, that one cannot help feeling surprised that more success in local championship matches has not been its reward. During the season we met not only Canterbury College, but also the Auckland University team, and we would have played Otago University had the Southerners been able to bring their team here.

So far as the Senior Eleven is concerned, the season has been the most successful we have yet experienced. The eleven obtained fourth place in the Championship, winning four games out of eight; and except in two games, and despite the adverse criticism consistently bestowed by the Wellington press, worthily acquitted itself, and proved beyond doubt its claims to rank as a senior team. But it is chiefly in regard to the junior and third elevens that one feels disappointment. The junior eleven might page 76 well have gained a large measure of success, had the efforts of its captain been backed up by the individual members of the team, with even ordinary enthusiasm. But the regrettable thing is that members of the team, with few exceptions, showed but little of that keenness which is essential to success. It was a common thing for the team to roll up on the second day of its match with two or three members absent at a swimming or athletic meeting. Under these conditions, success in the competition and enjoyment of the game are out of the question. Much the same remarks apply to the third eleven, which had the additional disadvantage of having no lower team to draw on when short of men. A word of praise is due to O'Shea and Cox, who successively had charge of the team, for their self-sacrifice and enthusiasm, in keeping the team together during the season.

In interprovincial games we were represented by Berendsen against Hawke's Bay, Canterbury and Auckland; Dickson Auckland, and Martin against Marlborough.

Following is a record of the Club's doings during the season, with the exception of the Northern tour and the Canterbury College game, which are more fully reported elsewhere:—