Cricket 1901

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For Time Tables, Tickets, etc., apply at the Piers, and to the COAST DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L t d . , 83, Walbrook, B.C. THURSDAY, JULY 2 5 t h , 1901. $atotiton The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— ___________ Hamlet. F o r the sixth year in succession Abel has made his two thousand runs. On Thursday last, July 18th, when he went in for Surrey against Worcestershire, his total for the season was 1,986, and every man in the crowd seemed to know when he reached the second thousand. Last year he accomplished the feat on Monday, August 21, and his total for the season was 2,592, L a s t year at about the same date (July 23), Ranjitsinhji had scored 2,054 runs, and Hayward 2,049, while Abel stood at 1,655. I t is very seldom indeed that a pro­ fessional who takes part in his own benefit match meets with any success, so that Carpenter may be highly congratu­ lated on making 41 and 119 for Essex against Lancashire. Unfortunately, although for once during a benefit match the weather held good, spectators were not as numerous as had been hoped. A l t h o u g h Arthur Shrewsbury had succeeded more than once in getting very near to his hundred runs in a match this season, it was not until Thursday last for Notts v. Gloucestershire that he accomp­ lished the feat. But having once broken the ice, he went ever onwards, and was probably only prevented from reaching the second hundred by the breakdown of the tail. A s it was he carried his bat from the first wicket for 167. I t was announced in several newspapers last week that the title of the match j which is to be played at Lords’ in Sep­ tember for the W. Yardley fund was to be Yorkshire v. an English Eleven. Lord Hawke, has, however, stated that the announcement was premature, and that whether Yorkshire plays an English Eleven will depend on whether the members of the team retain their form. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t writes : “ I should like to have your opinion on the following possible point. Suppose Jessop has run out to Mold before the ball leaves the bowler’s hand. The umpire, not being satisfied of the fairness of the delivery, calls ‘ no-ball.’ Jessop misses the ball, and it hits his wicket, he being still out of his ground. I imagine that he would be out ‘ run out.’ It is possible to be run out off a no-ball, and I suppose if the bowler sees a batsman out of his ground he is permitted to throw the wicket down.” The last part of this question was answered last week in Cricket. As to the first part Jessop would not be out, as he misses the ball. “ The striker shall not be out from a no-ball unless he be run out or breaks Laws 26, 27, 29, and 30.” If he had hit the ball he might have been run out in the ordinary course of things. I n every match begun on Monday, except that at Brighton between Sussex and Surrey, the side which lost the toss had some batting before stumps were drawn, with, in three cases, curiously similar results. Somerset, Kent, and London County all made a hundred, more or less, without losing a wicket. These scores were as follows :— S om ersetshire ■ L . C. H. Palairet, not o u t ........... Braund, not out ........................... Byes ........................... Total K e n t . C. J. Bumup, not o u t .................. E. W . Dillon, not o u t ................... B 8, lb 1........................... Total L ondon C o u n ty . W . G. Grace, not o u t ................... F. L. Fane, not out ................... Byes ........................... 80 34 6 54 31 94 64 1 Total ... 121 I t is an odd thing that W. G. always seems to get hold of players for the London County team who distinguish themselves, no matter what they may have been doing in county cricket. He seldom has any bowlers with reputations playing for him, but with the material at his disposal he generally makes the other side sit up. It is with a little start of surprise that one sees Brockwell playing for him at the same time that a Surrey team is in the field—and bowling with effect, too—for Brockwell had come to be regarded as quite as much part and parcel of the Surrey eleven as Abel and Hayward. I n a match at Bishop’s Stortford last week SaffronWalden scored 163, and then Messrs. F. S. Young and W. J. Rowell proceeded to put up 294 in an hour and fifty minutes for the first wicket of Bishop’s Stortford. The score of the Bishop’s Stortford innings was as follows: Rev. A . Whitfeld, not out ............................. 51 Extras.....................16 Total (1 wkt) ...402 F. S. Young, not out 196 W . J. Rowell, b John M cQ ueen...................139 T h e first match in the Hastings Festival this year is to be Yorkshire v. Rest of England, instead of Lancashire and Yorkshire v. Rest of England, as origin­ ally intended. I t is stated that Mr. MacLaren has received definite promises fromMr. Jessop, W. G. Quaife, Hayward, LUley, and Tyldesley to accompany him to Australia in the autumn. A l t h o u g h Yorkshire came out of their match with Warwickshire with great credit, they ought to thank their lucky star that things were as they were. For if only one or two of the chances given by Brown and Mr. Mitchell at the