John Garty

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = John Garty

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1864|1|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Mount Grey, Canterbury, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1897|1|28|1864|1|6}}

| death_place = Sydney, Australia

| batting =

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| role = Bowler

| club1 = Canterbury

| year1 = 1886-87

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 10

| bat avg1 = 10.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 10

| deliveries1 = 217

| wickets1 = 7

| bowl avg1 = 10.00

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 6/41

| catches/stumpings1= 1/–

| date = 9 May 2020

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37131.html Cricinfo

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John Garty (6 January 1864 – 28 January 1897) was a New Zealand cricketer who played one match of first-class cricket for Canterbury in 1886–87.

Garty "came with a meteoric flash as a bowler" with one outstanding performance, then lost form.{{cite news | work= Lyttelton Times | date=12 February 1897 | page=2|title=Cricket Notes|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18970212.2.3}} He was among the 24 players from whom Canterbury selected their 18 to play the touring Australians in November 1886, but was not ultimately chosen.{{cite news | work= Star | date=22 November 1886 | page=4|title= Canterbury v. Australia |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18861122.2.51}}{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/131/131979.html| title = Canterbury v Australians 1886-87| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =9 May 2020}} He was in good form in senior club cricket later that season, including 7 for 42 off 75 deliveries for Midland against Grange.{{cite news | work= Lyttelton Times | date=29 December 1886 | page=5|title= Midland v. Grange |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18861229.2.37}}

Garty opened the bowling for Canterbury in their annual first-class match against Otago in February 1887 at Lancaster Park. At one stage early on the first day of the match Otago were 10 for 4, and Garty had taken all four wickets for one run. The Lyttelton Times wrote of the play at this stage: "Garty was bowling with a good length, and most of his deliveries kept very low and puzzled the Otago men a good deal."{{cite news | work= Lyttelton Times | date=25 February 1887 | page=6|title=The Interprovincial Match|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18870225.2.31}} Garty bowled throughout the Otago innings, taking figures of 35.1–14–41–6 (four-ball overs) and Otago, batting one man short, were dismissed for 80. He took one wicket in the second innings, and Canterbury won by 10 wickets.{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3179.html| title = Canterbury v Otago 1886-87| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =9 May 2020}} He never played for Canterbury again.

Before he died Garty had been unwell for some time, and went to Sydney in 1896, dying there of "galloping consumption" in January 1897.{{cite news | work= Press | date=13 February 1897 | page=2|title=Cricket Chat|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18970213.2.8}}