Cricket 1900

360 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 23, 1900. HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK , 1900. TWO GRAND MATCHES W ILL BE PLAYBD ON THE Contra/ C r ic k e t G rou n d , H a stin g s, A8 FOLLO W S: — THURSDAY, FRIDAY , AND SATURDAY, September 6th, 7 th, and 8 th, N O R T H v . S O U T H . MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY, September' 10 th, 11 th 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.lt. and L.B. and S.C.Jt., and Excursion trains will run. TICKETS 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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Very fine collection of early Cricket Books, Cricket Prints, and Score Cards. Complete Cataloyue, po&tfree, Six Stamps. ALFRED J. GASTON, Preston Park Library, Preston, Brighton, Cricket: A WEhELY RECORD O f TBE GAME. 'F8, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOfDOl, E.C. THURSDAY, AUG. 23 rd , 1900. $atulum <&O80tp. The abstract and brief chronicle o i the time.— Hamle', A f t e r being for a long time alone in their glory of having scored over 2,000 runs this season, K. S. Ranjitsinhji and Hayward are now joined by Abel, who, requiring 28 runs, reached the second 1,000 at Lord’s on Monday morning, in the match between Surrey and Middle­ sex, and a few minutes later by Mr. C. B. Fry, who required 52 runs, at Brighton in the match between Sussex and Leices­ tershire. O t h e r men who have a possible chance of scoring 2,000 runs this season are Hirst, who has at present 1,705 to his credit; Mr. R. E. Foster, 1,608; Car­ penter, 1,670. A l b e r t T r o t t has now scored 1,000 runs and taken 190 wiekets, so that for the second year in succession he is almost certain to have a record of 1,000 runs and 200 w i c k e t s . ; ------ T he possible hundred-wicket men are Mold, 93; Mr. Mason, 80; Blythe, 93; Lees, 75; Field, 88; Mr. Bradley, 86; Arnold, 81; and Baldwin (Hants), 83. I n a match between Seaton and I Zin­ gari, at Seaton on August 15 and 16, Mr. A. J. Webbe scored 117, Mr. P. J. de Paravicini 75, Mr. E. M. Dowson 78, and Mr. G. F. Vernon 57, for the latter, and Mr. Key, 111 not out, for the former. Mr. Key’s last fourteen hits were as follows:—4 4 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 4. In the Sportsman of Monday, “ D u x ” tells a good story which we do not re­ member to have seen before. It is as follows:— Only comparatively recently a novel wager was registered when Mr. Jessop was giving one of his characteristic displays. An en­ thusiast (who conducted the conversation at the top of his voice) bet a fiiend—who was wedged in a section of the crowd some thirty yards away—a “ tanner” that “ the hloke will ’it one near my ’ead afore ’e ’its one near yourn.” The gentleman happened to win his het, hut in great fear he resigned his place in the front rank of the crowd, remark­ ing, “ I don’t do no more of them at a ‘ tan­ ner’ a strike.” I t is related that in one of the recent Somerset matches, when catches were being missed wholesale, there came a time when a fieldsman who is usually safe enough, dropped a very easy one. Speculatively regarding Mr. Woods for a moment he ventured to say, “ It seems to me, Sammy, that there is a regular epidemic about.” To which the Somer­ set captain replied, with what calm he might, “ At any rate, old chap, it isn’t catching.” W hen Stedman came in to join Mr. Jephson on Thursday evening last at the Oval in the Lancashire match, a change in the bowling was at once made which may have lost Lancashire about 131 runs. Mold was taken off and replaced by Cuttell, who proceeded to send down an over of off balls in order that the Surrey wicket-keeper might be induced to give a catch. As there was no earthly reason why he should throw away his wicket, while there was every reason why he should keep it up, Stedman looked with disapproval on four of the balls, and allowed them to pass by harmless. The other he gently tapped on the ground towards point. He did not have another ball for some time, for Mr. Jephson judiciously kept the over and scored heavily off Cuttell, and by the time that Stedman’s turn had oome again he had got his eye in. The result was a partner­ ship for the last wicket of 131 runs. T he reappearance of Walter Humph­ reys, the once famous Sussex lob bowler, in first-class cricket is quite an event in its way. Naturally he is not the bowler