Cricket 1900

312 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 2, 1900. KENT County Cricket. CANTERBURY WEEK KENT v. LANCASHIRE , On August 6th, 7th, and 8th, KENT S U R R E Y , On August 9th, 10th, and 11th. ADMISSION, ONE SHI LLING, “ C R IC K E T " is the only paper in ihe world solely devoted to the game. T e r m s o f S u b s c r ip t io n :—6/- per annum. Summer Numbers only, 5/- ; 7/- post free abroad. Payable in advance. All communications to be sent direct to the ( iffices of Cricket , 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. T HE Editor of Cricket wishes to purchase Volumes 3 and4 of “ Scores and Biographies,” “ Wisden’s Almanack” from 1864 to 1878, “ John Lillywhite’s Companion,” before 1869, 1870, 1872, 1874, “ Football Annuals,” 1868, 1872, ‘‘ James Lillywhite’s Annual” for 1874. Cheap Fares from all Stations. R e g i m e n t a l B a n d s o n M o n d a y , T u e s d a y , T h u r s d a y , F r id a y a n d S a tu r d a y . 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The only other Sussex man who made double figures on Satur­ day was Vine, with 17, the next highest score being 5. T his innings of 202 is the fourth of two hundred made by Ranjiteinhji this year, which is a record in itself. It is also the ninth innings of a hundred made by him. This record has been beaten by himself, Dr. Grace, and Hayward, each man having scored ten hundreds. A f t e r each side had played an innings in five of the six first-class matches at the end of last week there was very little indeed to choose between the teams, despite the high scoring. The scores, from which it will be seen that a margin of 36 would cover the whole lot of innings, were as follows :— Surrey 360, Yorkshire 380. M .C.'!. 313, Worcestershire 336. Lancashire 338, Gloucestershire 318. Middlesex 401, Sussex 400. Derbyshire 336, Leicestershire 372. M r . J. W agstaff B lundell writes:— “ In the notices of Richard Daft a pecu­ liar fact has been omitted. In the Players v. Gentn, 1872, he made 102. W. Yardley was put on to bowl. Daft played his first ball, a right-hander, with beautiful grace; then Yardley gave him a left-hander, which he played at with equal grace instead of leaving it alone, and, as a matter of fact, it clean bowled him, and he retired with his 102.” T he following letter with reference to the tour which had been practically arranged for America this autumn appeared in last Thursday’s Sportsman. As far as we know no further reference to the abandonment of the tour has been made on this side of the water, but it is hardly likely that the Americana will look upon thematter in thesame peaceful light: There appears to have been a considerable amount of misunderstanding, especially in America, as to the tour of a team of cricket and football players which we contemplated making in the United States and Canada in the approaching autumn. How this mis­ conception as to who was to he responsible for the personnel of the team and the control of the tour has arisen, it is unnecessary to state. \Ve merely desire to intimate that, despite the almost completed state of the arrange­ ments, we are not proceeding further in the matter of the trip. If it is agreeable and convenient to our friends in America, we propose to make the tour on the same lines next year. Yours, etc., S. H. Woon. C. W r e f o r d B r o w n . London, July 25th. F op . consistent scoring il would be hard to beat the unfinished innings of North­ amptonshire in thematch against Durham last Friday. There was no play on Saturday owing to rain. The innings was as follows :— N orth am pton sh ire . W . Thompson, b E. Shaw ...................25 C. J. T. Pool, d E. Shaw .....................144 Colson, c Nesbit, b Pike ................... 26 W . H. Kingston, lbw, b Clarke...............97 East, c Elliott, b B utler............................. 33 F. Warren, b Butler ...............................12 L. T. Driffield, c Thompson, b Pike .. 60 H. E. Kingston, st Kirtley, b Pike ... 14 B. C. Smith, not out ...............................55 J. Horton, not o u t .......................................41 Extras ................. .............................11 Total (8 w k ts)........... *517 * InniDgs declared closed. A lready K. S. Ranjitsinhji and Hay­ ward have scored over two thousand runs this season, while Abel, with 1,833, and Mr. Fry, with 1,730, are within measur­ able distance of this total. As for scorers of a thousand runs their name is Legion. Mr. T. L. Taylor, on Monday, had arrived at 999.