The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-25
WOMAN JOINS MEN
At CRICKET GAME
Feminine Champion of Australia
Makes First Appearance on
Local Field.

There is a swell chance to get up
a cricket team of all ladies here, and
then the Honolulu Cricket Club won t
have any kick coming about not beng
able to round up enough players to have
a match now and then. Australia 5
champion woman cricketer has been
resident of this city for several years,
but only blossomad out on the field
yesterday.
The Honolulu Cricket Club team went
olN to Makiki to meet a picked eleven
from the British ships in the harbor
Yesterday afternoon at the wlckets, and
while they were practising up tor the
frav William Knott and Mrs. Knott
ventured out on the field. Mr.. and Mrs.
Knott are natives of Australia, and
Mrs. Knott was a Miss Constable be-
fore her marriage. The Consta bles are
a celebrated cricket family IN Australia.
Being bred to the game, they are all
hereditary champions of the English ma
tional sport Mrs. Knott 5 brother, Tim
Constable, is the champion amateur
cricketer of the Colonies, and Mrs.
Knott was at one time the woman cham
pion. OF course, when the women play
against the men the latter have to do
i ft-handed, but from the way IN
which Mrs. Knott handled the ball and
bat Yesterday it would seem that she
could beat the men here left handed,
allowing them to play any old way.
She bowled Just like Bob Anderson, who
is the star cricketer here, and she could
handle the bat as we'll as any of them.
oh hold fka rd
for throwing a ball high, and was also
i high class tennis player. Il Mrs.
Knott would get busy and organize a
feminine cricket team here, it would
please the local Britishers awfully.
After waiting about an hour, Fred
erick Everton showed up with a mis-
cellaneous team from the four British
golfers in the harbor He said the first
he knew that there was to be game
was when he saw notice of 1t in the
morning paper He charged r. A. Jor-
dan with giving reporters a bum steer,
but as long as it was done, he SAID, he
figured they might as well get into IT.
Several of the best players on the ships,
Everton explained, couidn I get away,
so he did the best he could for the sake
OF little sport. The game finally got
under way, and the local team won by
the score Of sixSy-fve to thirty-one.
Bob Anderson played on the sailor
team, and Cartwright bowled him out
with only five runs.
J. Ramsey, who BOWED on the fleet
eleN IN, has deceptive twist that
ba flied the local batsmen. He proved
to be the Christy Mathieson of British
cricketers. Of the last SIX up at the
bat. Mrs. Knott was the only one who
got hit off his delivery. c. J. Har-
wood OF the Honolulu Cricket Club ran
up the best score which was twenty
and he was not out at the finish. Har-
~ Bailey came next with twelve. Ram
sey, the star twirer of the sailor men
piled up seven runs which was the best
individual score made by the British
sailors.
The visitors were good players, but
many of them hadn t played for years
and all were way out of practise. Fol
lowing is a summary of the game:
Honolulu Club Team
r. \. Jordan C. Anderson. .
II. T. Wlnkley b. Anderson. ....... s
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