Cricket 1900

280 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 19, l'.OO. CLUBS can be INSURED AGAINST C R IC K E T A C C ID E N T S . Proposal forms and full information may be obtained of the LAW ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY, LTD,, 215, STRAND , LONDON. City&South Cricket: A W E iK L l RECORD OF TUB GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOUDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 19 th , 1900. T h e columns of the Tasmanian Mail which are devoted to cricket are often full of the paragraphs taken from Cricket, the source being nearly always acknow­ ledged, with little comments signifying approval and appreciation of the humour. But in the issue of June 9th some com­ ments ( f another pattern appear (not in the columns devoted to cricket). We imagine them to be sarcastic, but as we do not in the least object to this, we append them :— Cricket , an English journal devoted to the noble pastime and nothing else, is not often guilty of a joke. In its last number, how­ ever, it breaks out in the form of a small cartoon, in which it celebrates the fact that “ Prince Kanjitsinhji was practising at Cam­ bridge very early in the season.” “ Ranji ” is represented as a black swan, standing con­ templatively on a cricket pitch, on which is resting a ball, with a saucy-looking worm lying across it. The title of the picture, “ The early bird,” is supplemented by the motto;— “ Eara Avis in terris, Ranjique Simillima Sinhji.” The application of the early bird and early worm is shown by the addition of an enormous sun, which is emerging with halo of rays solidly set, above a clump of trees which adorn the horizon. The picture is a capital one. The only doubt about it is what the bird intends to do. The early worm is evidently about to swallow the early ball, so 1 f at if the swan proceeds to swallow the worm, ball and all, it will have nothing left to play wilh, and its preternatural hour of rising will have been of no avail. Hence the tear, which seems to be falling from the eye of the “ rare bird.” The satire of Cricket is tremendously profound. Candidly, it is a little bit beyond us. [The artist states tl at he is proud to learn that his saiiie is tremendously profound. He had no idea that there was any more satire in the picture than there would be in one repiesentiug a mowing machine or a pavilion.] H ib b s r t , the young Lancashire cricketer who made such a successful debut against Warwickshire, is a Notts man by birth, and has long been marked out as a sound batsman and a fair change bowler, and scores of 49 and 79 in his first county engagement are distinctly encouraging. The second eleven match at the beginning of last week achieved something if it did nothing more than bring two young players into prominence, viz., Hibbert and Oyston, the young left-hand bowler from Leeds, who was selected by his county to play against Hampshire. ------ A cc o rd in g to the Ceylon Standard there would seem to be an idea in Ceylon that a team from the island ought to visit England. ‘ Take for instance,” says our contemporary, “ the eleven strongest players in the Colts this season. They appear exclusively on local grounds, but we should like, if it were possible, to send a team to England or Australia. There are many who pooh-pooh this idea, very much on the ground, ‘ can any good thing come out of Ceylon in the way of sport P’ If, say, the Ceylon Colts appeared at Lord’s against Middlesex or the M.C.C., we are confident they would To the Oval from Moorgate Street, Bank, and London Bridge Stations. Travel by the Electric R a ilw ay— Trains every four minutes. 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I n the matches played in the Streat­ ham Cricket Week 2,957 runs were scored for the loss of 89 wickets, an average of over 33 per wicket, and yet only one match was left drawn, four being won by the club, and one lost. H. L. Dawson, playing for Streatham, scored 434 runs during the week, thus having the fine average of 72 for six completed inning?. lib fe r r in g to the match to-day (Thursday) between Yorkshire and Lan­ cashire, for the benefit of Arthur Mold, the Manchester Evening Mail says :— Cricketers hardly need reminding of the great match of the year at our own doors this week end. Everything so far seems to have gone well for Arthur Mold, who, it may be again stated, is to receive the “ gate ” as his reward for splendid service extending over a dozen years. The other day, Mold was telling me something of his career as a cricketer, and he took the opportunity of correcting a mistake which is frequently made in reference to his antecedents. It is often said by critics who are never weary of pointing out the cosmopolitan character of the Lancashire eleven,that Lancashire “ poached” on Northamptonshire in the case of Mold, but the fact is that two worthy Lancastrians, Messrs. Arthur Appleby and Roger Walker, “ discovered” Mold while he was playing against them at Banbury. They were not slow to detect possibilities in the then “ raw youth ” —the expression is Mold’s own—and they were instrumental in bringing him to Old Trafford as a member of the ground staff. It was while at Old Traflord and not one moment sooner that Northampton realised that they had a bowler of great ability who first saw the light of day in their shire, and they sought and obtained permission from the Old Irafford authorities to play Mold until such time as he qualified for Lancashire. B riggs , in the same paper, has also something to say about Mold. “ We trust,” he says, “ we shall have the very best team, fine weather, and ‘ bumper gates’ for one of the very best fast bowlers who ever touched a ball. After the many years that we have worked together in fair and stormy weather and wickets, I sincerely hope he will have a good match, for the sportsmanlike way in which he not only plays the game, but the manly way he behaves himself on and off the field. I hope all will be well with the team, and that the Red Rose representatives will give a good account of themselvea, for we are sure to see such excellent cricket played that the vast crowds may rest content for the rest of the season.”