Cricket 1901

J u ly 25, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 297 commencement of their second innings had been taken, Fortune would have had to work desperately hard to bring her favourite team through. I t was not surprising to find the second J. T. Brown included in the Yorkshire team against Notts after the great awakening caused by the matches against Somersetshire and Warwickshire. He came into the team at a good time for his reputation, for a heavy thunderstorm on Sunday night made the wicket more favourable to the bowlers than it would have been if the weather had kept fine. Last year he only played in ten matches, having very little chance with Rhodes and Haigh doing all the work, and this year he had not played at all, but in 1899 he took 54 wickets at an average of 17i runs per wicket. I t may almost be regarded as a curiosity of cricket that Tyldesley was missed off a very easy chance when he had scored four runs for Lancashire against Middlesex on Monday, and then ran up 170, the next score to his being only 34. T h e veterans are doing so well this year in batting that a side might easily be chosen from them which would give a splendid account of itself. If it were possible to arrange that a strong team should bowl and field for them, they could take on an England team. A bat­ ting side composed of W. G., Abel, Arthur Shrewsbury, W. Gunn, A. P. Lucas, Wainwright, Lord Hawke, C. Robson, W. Newham, J. A. Dixon, and H. G. Owen would take a lot of shifting on a good wicket. One of the most remarkable features of the season’s cricket has been the falling off in batting of Mr. A. C. MacLaren. Up to yesterday evening he had played 24 innings, scored 491 runs, and had an average of 21‘34, which in these dayswhena man to be in the first flight must have an average of at least 50 is a mere nothing. He may of course still pull up very con­ siderably, but he is leaving it rather late. T h e r e has this week been quite an epidemic of nineties, and some men have taken it so badly that they even get to the ninety-eights and nines, which is a terrible affliction. Thus Mr. Palairet, when going about as strong as could be in company with Braund, had made 98 and was suddenly attacked at this unfor­ tunate moment. Again, Mr. Dillon fell a victim at 99, but Mr. Bumup, who in partnership with him had put on 210, just managed to escape. Mr. Jephson took the disease at 96, Mr. Hathorn at 99, Mr. Lawton at 91, and Mr. Prince at 95. T he following notice was issued last week by the secretary of the M .C .C .: “ The list of umpires already arranged has been altered, A. A. White having In last week’s “ Gossip ” it was mentioned that a team of amateurs might be seen in the United States this autumn probably under the command of Mr. B. J. T. Bosanquet. On the same morning on which Cricket appeared a Laffan’s telegram from New York announced that the Cricket Association of Philadelphia would open negotiations with Lord Hawke. Should Lord Hawke refuse, the committee would ask Mr. P. F. Warner to captain a team, since the Wreford-Brown team had fallen through. But on Saturday it was formally announced that Mr. Bosanquet had accepted an invitation to take over a team. W. H. LOCKWOOD. (Whose benefit match takes place at the Oval this week). Reproduced by permission o f Mr. H. Tear , Photographer , 12, Clapham Road. resigned his position as a first-class umpire for the reason that he considers Mold’s deliveries doubtful. His place at Liverpool next Monday will probably be filled by Alfred Shaw.” T h is is quite a new development of the “ throwing question.” In connection with the above notice it may be stated that White had been chosen as one of the umpires for the match which began at Liverpool on Monday between Lancashire and Middlesex. White’s place was taken by W. Richards, Alfred Shaw having another engagement. As things turned out Mold did not play in this match. M b . A. F . P a rb u ry , of Chiddingfold, Godalming, writes :—“ Seeing an allusion to my son, p. 283, in your issue of the 18th inst. which is somewhat incorrect— (except as regards his age and perform­ ances at cricket), I send you further and more accurate details. L. Parbury’s weight in light costume is just 7 stone; height 5 ft. 1 in. in stockings. He was 17 last April, and has been at the county school, Bedford, since September, 1894. He was made captain of his school eleven this season, and is entered for Keble, Oxford, in October, 1902. As to his being the smallest player who has appeared in county cricket I am unable to say. But he is the only onewho has played for his county from his present school.” T h e r e is a soul of goodness in things evil it is said, and my paragraph, not so very inaccurate after all, has at all events been of use, if only for the courteous statement of the facts it has elicited from Mr. A. F. Parbury relative to his son. As it happens I have a little grievance of my own with regard to that same paragraph of last week. It is with the printer? Why Mr. P. was I made to say that A. N. Hornby, when he first represented Harrow against Eton, weighed under six stone with his hat thrown in. Were you thinking of the hat trick ? No matter. What I wrote, not legibly perhaps, was with his bat thrown in. J. E. R a p h a e l, the captain of the Merchant Taylors School eleven, on Saturday last added still another, the seventh, to the list of hundreds he has made this season. The actual score was 107 not out, and was made against Hampstead on the school ground at Bellingham. His aggregate for the season for Merchant Taylors School is 1379. This beats V. F. S. Crawford’s record of 1340 for Whitgift School in 1897 by 39 runs. T h e young Surrey amateur, by the way, will have his first chance in important cricket in the Bank Holiday week. W. G. Grace has given him a place in the elevens to represent the London County C.C. against Leicester­ shire, at Leicester, and M.C.C. and Ground at the Crystal Palace. T h e news that B. J. T. Bosanquet has definitely consented to take an amateur team to the United States in the autumn, as I hinted last week would probably be the case, will give general satisfaction in cricket circles in America. With P. P. Warner out of it, no one could be more welcome to our good friends on the other side of the big drink. One thing, too, is certain that there is no one better qualified to get together the right side for such a tour. E v e n in club cricket the captain of a side which bats first so seldom dares to give his opponents the very remotest