Cricket 1900

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Co., 5 5 , Great Tower Street, E.C. Cricket: A WBBKLY RECORD OF THB OAMB. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOHDOR, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 26 th , 1900. $atotiion Gossip* The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A NEW record has been made by Mr. C. B. Fry. In the Sussex match at Brighton, against Surrey, he scored 125 and 229, being the first man to make an innings of a hundred and another of two hundred in a match. Mr. Stoddart came very near indeed to doing this in 1893, when he made 195 not out and 124 for Middlesex v. Notts, at Lord’s. T his is the second time that Mr. Fry has made two separate hundreds in a first-class match, his former scores being 108 and 123 not out for Sussex v. Middle­ sex, at Brighton, in 1898. The state of affairs now is that Dr. W. G. Grace and Mr. R. E. Foster have three times made two separate hundreds in a first-class match, Mr. Fry twice, and Mr. Q. Brann, Mr. A. E. Stoddart, W. Storer, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, J. T. Tyldesley, Mr. A. C. MacLaren, Major Poore, and Mr. W. L. Foster once each. Mr. Bosanquet, by scoring 136 and 139 for Middlesex against Leicestershire, and Mr. Jessop wiih 104 and 139 for Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire, have also added their names to the list. W hen one saw that both Mr. Fry and Mr. Bosanquet had accomplished the above feat at about the same time, one felt for the moment that this sort of thing was becoming so common as to be almost uninteresting, but after a little reflection one felt that the two per­ formances were of far above average merit. For both men in their first innings made their score when nobody else on the side could do much to help them, and both in the second innings had a very great deal to do with the satisfactory position of their sides at the end of the match, Mr. Bosanquet’s side winning by 5 wickets, and Mr. Fry’s having got out of a very tight place with the very greatest credit. Mr. Jessop’s two innings were even more remarkable in this way. All honour, therefore, to the three fortunate batsmen. T he first innings played by Mr. Wyld for Middlesex against Leicestershire, must in its way, be a sort of record. He was twenty minutes at the wickets, never once touching the ball with his bat, but using his pads when he felt it necessary to stop the ball, and was then dismissed for a duck’s egg. A lthough in the latest benefit match — that of Mold—the game was, as usual in these matches, spoiled by rain, Mold was not as unfortunate as many of his predecessors, for on the first day there was a very large crowd at Old Trafford, and again on the second day many thousands of people had the satisfaction of paying their sixpences and of seeing a certain amount of cricket. On the third day the weather was favourable, but the crowd was not quite so large, but still Mold will receive a fitting reward for his long services to Lancashire. A t Shomcliffe last week the Royal Sussex Regiment dismissed the R.A. for 231, and were left with an hour and a half to bat. They set to work with determination, and just before time passed their opponent’s total for the loss of only three wickets. Bosanquet and Pry— And Jessop ! My eye !— Made a hundred in each of their innings ; It was Pry’s second try (See the third by and by), Of the others ’tis but the beginnings. T he veterans still continue to keep well to the front. Here is Dr. Grace making 82 and 48 for London County against Warwickshire, only one other man on his side making over 32 in either innings; Mr. J. B. Challen, the Somerset­ shire cricketer, still makes his huudreds in North Devon, and Mr. O. R. Borradaile, whom the papers have never got out of the way of calling 1 Borrodaile,” has recently scored a hundred for the Stoics, and 98 for M.C.C and Ground; while Mr. J. H. Brain scored 102 for Glamor­ ganshire v. Surrey Second Eleven. The following question and answer, which appeared in last Saturday’s Field, may interest a good many of our readers who have to deal with cricket grounds on sandy soils:— C ricket G ro un d on S a n d y S o il n e a r th e S e a . —Our cricket ground, which is quite near the sea and on a sandy soil, has got a considerable amount of moss and arenaria, or sandwort, on it. What would be the best thing to do with regard to getting rid of the moss, etc. ? Is there any manure which would get rid of the moss by strengthen­ ing the grass P I ought to mention that we propose putting down a certain amount of clay on the ground this winter.—Southbourne. [An application of two parts of sifted or screened loamy soil and one part of powdered lime would do much to destroy the moss and arenaria, and would also improve the growth of the grass on your cricket ground. A top dressing of sifted ashes from rubbish fires, or of soot mixed with twice its bulk of fine earth would add greatly to the growth and colour of the grass. If ashes are difficult to obtain, mix kainit with two or three times its own weight of fine soil, using about a hundredweight to the acre.— E d . Field ] W ith regard to the report of the match between Lancashire and West Indians, in Cricket, p. 283, a Manchester correspondent writes:—(1.) The player who made 0 and 5 was not G. II. Hartley (who, with other first eleven men, was resting), but his young brother, A . Hartley ; (2.) H. Cudworth plays for Burnley, a Lancashire league club, not for Barnaley, which is in Yorkshire.