Cricket 1899

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No. 502.—THURSDAY, MARCH 30. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for Is. 3d., or 6s. post free per annum; 7s. post free abroad. The amount must be sent to the Manager of Cricket , at the Offices, 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. Cricket: A W hSKLT RECORD OF THE O AM i 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JAN . 26th, 18f 9. ^ a t u l t o n ( ^ o s s i t jp . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. I t is so common, for a batsman on approaching his hundred or two hun­ dred to display such an amount of caution as to make his friends very uncomfortable, that the tactics adopted by 0 . Gregory, the youngest member of the famous Sydney family of cricketers, are not with­ out interest. In an Electorate match he made 203 for South Sydney against Bur- wood on November 12th in three hours and forty minutes. When he was within two or three runs of his hundred he promptly hit a ball out of the ground, and when his score was 198 he made a drive for five. D uring his innings of 134 for Victoria against South Australia, H . Stuckey made a hit which would probably have gone to the boundary if a poodle had not been wandering about somewhere near the wicket. The batsmen only had time to make one run before the ball was returned, but the umpire allowed a four for the hit. It would be very interesting to know on what rule he based his decision. J. C. W ilson , who recently made his hundred in an Electorate match at Sydney for Central Cumberland v. Leichhardt, made 99 in the same match last year. This year he was more fortunate, but after he had added the other run required to make his hundred, he was bow led by the next ball. A n exciting finish was seen in the Electorate match between Paddington and Glebe at Sydney on November 19th. The former club declared at 235 for nine wickets. Glebe lost eight wickets for 102 and the game seemed over. But Coning- ham and Duggan surprised everybody by bringing up the score to 231 before they were parted, and the last wicket fell when the game was a tie. Coningham made 133. L . W. P y e , who is without doubt one of the most promising young players in Australia, greatly distinguished himself in an Electorate match between Central Cumberland and Leichhardt on Novem ­ ber 12 and 19. For the former club he took nine wickets for 40, and scored 86 not out on the first day, and on the fol­ low ing Saturday finished his innings for 244. His innings included 42 fours. In a minor match, played between the two above dates, Pye went in seventh. The ninth wicket fell with the total at 69, but by carefully keeping the bow ling to himself he brought his score to 119 before ♦he innings closed. I n club matches at Pretoria, V. M. Tancred has been distinguishing himself. In his last four matches (up to December 17th) he made scores of 41, 40, 114, and 100 not out. M r. G. L. J e s s o p has been elected captain of the “ Cambridgeshire Univer­ sity” Eleven, says an Australian news­ paper. I n his first five innings (up to Decem­ ber 3rd) for Paddington (Sydney) in the Electorate competition, M . A. Noble had scored 429 runs and had only been out once, and his record reads: Four innings, three times not out, highest score 267 not out, aggregate 429, average 429'00. He had also, at the same date, taken 34 wickets, at a little over seven runs apiece. P uzzle . To find the real name of the gentleman who is variously described as follows in a Madras newspaper, in the course of a description of a couple of matches: “ Rajagopaulacharri,” “ Raja- gopaula eharri,” “ Raj agopaulachari,” “ Rajagopaula Charry,” “ Rajagopala Charry,” “ Rajagapal chary,” “ Rajago- palchary,” “ Rajagopaul Chary.” B elow will be found an interesting question on the etiquette of cricket. “ In a match (one in a league competition) which has to he played to a finish, and consequently may last several days, and be spread over two or three weeks, the captain of the batting side, after putting down his order in the score book, the second day of the match determines to leave out his eleventh man, and only to bat ten men, in the hope of strengthening his team when the match is concluded the following week, or month. His original eleventh man is allowed to field as a substitute, and does so. When the match is resumed, some two or three weeks later, another man is available and plays, though having taken no part in the previous stages of the game. WiU you, please, say if you consider this course justified, or whether the protest of