Cricket 1900

344 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 16, 1900. HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS C R IC K E T W E E K , 1900. TWO GRAND MATCHES W ILL BE PLAYED ON THE C en tra l C r i c k e t G ro u n d , H aetSngs, a s f o l l o w s : — THURSDAY, FRIDAY , AND SATURDAY, September 6th , 7th, and 8 th, N O R T H v . S O U T H . MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY. September 10 th, 1 1th and 12 th, SURREY and SUSSEX Vm REST OF ENGLAND. W ickets Pitched at Twelve o’clock first day of each Match ; other days at half-past Eleven. Admission to the Ground, ONE SHILLING Covered Grand Stand, One Shilling extra. Cheap Fares on S.E.E. and L.B. and S.C.R., and Excursion traint will run. TICKET8 FOR THE W EEK , including Admission to the Ground and Reserved Seat in Grand Stand, price 10s., can be obtained on and after August 16th, at the Central Cricket Ground, Hastings, where a plan can be seen ; these Tickets must be obtained not later than Wednesday, September 5th. 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Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TBE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, AUG. 16 th , 1900. ^ a t J t l t o n G o s s i p . The abrtnot u i brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e weather on Bank Holiday was bad enough in all conscience, but it was even worse on Thursday. There were then seven first-class matches on the pro­ gramme, and in only one of them was it possible to play cricket. This was Kent v. Surrey, in which Kent batted for twenty minutes. I n the first innings of Leicestershire against Hampshire, on Saturday, Mr. de Trafford was caught in the long field by Mr. L. V. Lodge, the famous old Association football international full back of some years ago. The batsman was given out, although, as it turned out, Mr. Lodge had one foot over the boundary when he made the catch. When this was discovered, the umpire reversed his decision. “ An O l d H a r r o v i a n ” writes:— In Cricket, of August 2,1900, Mr. J. Wagstaff Blundell says:— In the notices of Richard Daft a peculiar fact has been omitted. In the Players v. Gentlemen, 1872, he made 102. W . Yardley was put on to howl. Daft played his first hall, 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. I WISH to point out lhat Mr. R. Daft, in the match in 1872, scored:— b Appleby ... ., 0 b Appleby ...........102 R hodes has now taken 203 wickets. The list of bowlers who have accomplished the feat of taking two hundred wickets in a season is as follows:— 1870—J. Southerton ................................... 210 1882—E. Peate ........................................... 214 1884—F. R. Spofforth................................... 2 8 1888 -G . A. Lohmann ........................... 209 1889—G. A. Lohmann ......... . ........... 202 1890—G. A . Lohmann ................ ... 220 1893—J. T. Hearne ................................. 212 1896—J. T. Hearne ................................... 257 1898—J. T. Hearne ... ......................... 222 1891—A. Mold ................................... ... 2 7 1895—A. Mold ........................................... 213 1895—T. Richardson................................... 290 1896—T. Richardson ... ........................... 246 1897—T. Richardson ... ................... ... 273 1893—A. E. Trott........................................... 239 1900—W. Rhodes (up to present date)... 238 T h a n k s to the bowling of Burton, the West Indians finished up their tour in a sensational manner. Their opponents, Norfolk, went in at about half-past three to make 48 runs to save tbe innings defeat. There did not seem any likeli­ hood that the match would be brought to a conclusion, but Burton, finding a wicket to suit him admirably, bowled with Buch success that the innings was over in an hour, Hinds making five catches off him behind the wicket. At one time his analysis was 5 overs, 5 maidens, 0 runs, 5 wickets. His analysis at the end of the innings was 10 overs, 4 balls, 7 maidens, 9 runs, 8 wickets. W e a r y of announcing on their con­ tents bills that De Wet is hopelessly cornered the evening papers have begun to bring cricket forward again. On Monday a contents bill was as follows— it was most appropriate, for it described the change in the weather so admirably— GRACE AND H O L L A N D IN FORM . D E W E T G O N E A W A Y . It must be ages since the name of the Doctor—or for the matter of that, of Holland—has appeared on a contents bill. O n Monday, Alec Hearne took three wickets with successive balls for Kent v. Gloucestershire, at Clifton. His victims were Mr. Champain, Mr. Jessop and Mr. A. G. Richardson, so that he had an excellent haul. The total of the Gloucestershire score was 173 for two