Cricket 1899

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THURSDAY, JULY 20 t h , 189 9. ^ a t i t l t o n G o s s i p . The abstract and brief chroniele of the time.— Ham > . T h e record of the Australians is now as follows :—Matches played, 21; won, 12; lost, 1 ; drawn, 8. Darling has won the toss eleven times and lost it ten times. U n t il the match last week at Bristol, Dr. Grace had never been absent from the Gloucestershire eleven when the Aus­ tralians were its opponents. I n the match between the Australians and Gloucestershire at Bristol, the first two Gloucestershire wickets in the irst innings fell at the same total- 85, and the next two also fell at the same total— 180. Mr. L e s l ie E . M . S m it h writes :— “ On reading through your article in this week’s Cricket, I noticed what seemed to me a most incongruous statement, namely, that Mr. Ernest Jones can be said with certainty to stand alone at present as the fast bowler of the day ; but on turning to page 273 and looking at the averages, this is what I see. O. M. It. W . A. W . M. Bradley 507 193 1069 76 14-06 E. Jones.. .. 506-1 145 1147 54 21-24 I cannot at all make this fit in with the statement on page 261. Of course, Mr. Jones is more brilliant than Mr. Bradley, but we must take into account the fact that he has three or four other„/?»-s£-class bowlers to assist him in all matches, so that as soon as he is being at all hit about he can be relieved, whereas Mr. Bradley, being really the only first-class bowler in the Kent team, must necessarily be kept bowling sometimes, even after ho is completely collared. Having been a constant reader of Cricket winter and sum­ mer for many years, I have always found it most impartial in all respects, so hope that you will recognise that there is some justice in these remarks.” [Mr. L. S. M. Smith certainly makes out an excellent case. But up to last week, when the remark to which he takes exception was made, Mr. Bradley had never had an opportunity of meeting Jones on his own ground—that is to say, in the same matches. F r o m the Daily Telegraph :— “ A correspondent writes that on entering the pavilion at Lord’s yesterday, he acciden­ tally overheard a characteristic little talk between two members near him : ‘ I want you, my dear boy,’ said one, ‘ to come into the committee-room and write your name, as seconder to a friend I have put down for election; he is, in fact, a relative of mine— he was bom yesterday.’ ” Two ladies are talking over the pros­ pects of the two teams at the University match. Finally one of them says, “ You see, Oxford arevery keen to get Cambridge out, now that they are fielding and Cam­ bridge bowling, because they themselves want to be able to bowl and make Cam­ bridge field. In an article on the successes of Mr. Paranjapai in the Cambridge Mathe­ matical Tripos, and on Indian successes in general, the Madras Times says:— It has been very rightly observed that the service which Prince Banjitsinhji has per­ formed for India, is not that he has proved one of his race to be capable of the highest achievement in our national sport, but that he has made the fact known to the whole British people. “ The few Englishmen who know the Indians well, readily admit that the Bajputs are brave and athletic, and the Brahmins clever at learning. But to the masses of our countrymen who pay gate- money Prince Banjitsinhji’s performances amount to a new discovery of India. It brings home to them the fact that among our fellow-subjects in Asia, those fellow-subjects whose very hundreds of millions turn them into numerical abstractions, there are men who can take the lead in the national sport which all Englishmen love and more or less understand. Prince Banjitsinhji’s victory has enabled the average Englishmen to realise India, and has made him respect Indians to a degree that no other triumph could have secured. But it merely is the crest of the wave of a movement which has long been going on in India, and which is there pro­ ducing striking results.” So completely were Englishmen taken by surprise by the collapse of the first four English wickets at Manchester on Monday, that the “ one o’clock editions ” were for once quite unequal to the occasion. One felt that such a situation was worthy of better headlines for the posters than “ England doing badly,” “ England collapse before Jones and Noble,” “ English batting tom to ribbons,” “ The Kangaroo hit the Lion hard,” etc., etc. Something terse and descriptive would have been a relief to one’s feelings. I n each of the four matches this year between England and Australia, Hay­ ward has gone in at a time when his side was in a most critical position. Each