Cricket 1900

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Scores must reach “ Cricket ” Offices, 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C,, by first post on Tuesday following the match. Cricket: A WEBKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOHDOR, E.C. THURSDAY, MAY 17 th , 1900. $a\)tlton Gossip. The abstract and brief ohronlcle of the time.— tfaV*'. So far this season there has not been much talk about the crying necessity of handicapping the batsuien in order to give tbe bowlers a chance. Already two important matches have been finished in a day. At the beginnirg of last week, Yorkshire beat Worcestershire decisively on May 7th (Monday), and on tbe follow­ ing Friday the Essex 2nd X I. as decisively be*t the Surrey Second at Leyton. In this match the Essex captain, Mr. G. F. Higgins, took the bold course of putting his opponents in first—a policy which was very soon justified. A SUGGESTION in the Sportsman from a correspondent that the sesin of a cricket ball should be more pronounced tban it is, has brought a reply, from “ F.G .H .,” in which the writer says : — “ With the form of the ball now used, does it not occur occasionally that in a hot return by a batsman to the bowler the latter gots his hands split open f Did not A. E. Trott at the beginning of the season of last year get one of his hands severely damaged in that way, and thereby could not play for a few weeks? What would have been the effect with the proposed altered ball ? Possibly the loss of his hand. Some years ago, when practising, I went to pick up a ball played to short leg—the wicket had no side nets—when the batsman hit the next ball in the same direction, skimming my upper lip, and taking a considerable amount of skin off it (I had no moustache then). If tbe seam of the ball had been raised it is possible tbe damage to my lip would have been serious. Not many years ago a county bowler was found to grow a long nail on his bowlinf; hand to raise the seam to enable him to get more twist on the ball—of course, contrary to the rules of cricket, as he was mutilating the ball. When on a classical ground last summer, I noticed a ground bowler, on his way to the nets, using his finger nails to raise the seam of a ball, there­ by taking undue advantage of a batsman.”