Cricket 1900

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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. As the following rules framed by the Marylebone C.C. at the request of the counties came into force on January 1 st, bar one, it will be well to reproduce them for the information of cricketers generally. The exception is Rule 5, and that became law last spring when the M.C.C. publibhed the new legulations :— 1. A cricketer born in one county and re­ siding in another may not play for more than one county during the same season. QUALIFICATION BY BIRTH. 2. A cricketer is always eligible to play for the county of hi birth. QUALIFICATION BY RESIDENCE. 3. A cricketer is qualified to play for any county in which he has resided for the pre­ vious twenty-four months, and is residing, but— (a) The mere acquirement or hiring of a tenement, unless used as a bona fide home, does not constitute “ residence.” ( b) The occupation of a tenement during the cricket season only does not constitute “ residence.” 4. Where a cricketer uses, as residences in the course of the year, tenements in more than one county, or where he leaves the country for the winter months, and in all other cases where his qualification is in any doubt, it is obligatory on the county for which he wishes to play to prove his quali­ fication to the satisfaction of the M.C.C. 5. A cricketer who has played for a county for five consecutive years is qualified to play for that county for the rest of his cricket career, or until he plays for some other county. 6 . A cricketer may play for his old county during the two years that he is qualifying for another. TRANSFERS. 7. A cricketer already qualified for a county, but wishing to qualify by residence for another county, must give notice in writing to the cricket club committee of the former county before he commences such residence, and a county cricket club wishing to engage, under a residential qualification, a cricketer who is already qualified for another county club, must inform the committee of the latter before commencing negotiations with the cricketer. APPEAL. 8 . Should any question ariso under these rules, it shall be left to the decision of the committee of the Marylebone Club, which shall be final. J. D a r l i n g , the captain of the last Australian team, had not long returned home to South Australia before he gave some of the Adelaide Club bowlers a taste of the long handle. In a match for E*st Torrens on November 11th, J. J. Lyons and he did some pretty fast rungetting. Off the first six overs delivered by Sidoli they made 52 runs, and at the end of the day, the secmd of the match, Darling was not out with 259 of 450 for six wickets to his credit. This, it may be added, beat his previous best, 252 for Prince Alfred College against St. Peter’s College in 1885, by seven ruus. Lyons was first batsman out having scored 117 of 201. As a contrast, it will be of interest to record that in another match for East Torrens againbt North Adelaide on December 9th. Darling was bowled by Ernest Jones the very first ball of the innings. J . B. W o o d , the <Id Oxford Blue, made a very succesnful first appearance for the Calcutta Club on November 25th. The match was against the Royal Irish Rifles, and of Calcutta’s total of 180 for three wickets, Wood was responsible for no less than 105 not out. J. B. W.’s lobs, as many will remember, were rather an important factor in the victory Oxford gained over Cambridge in the inter- Univemty matcli of 1892.