Cricket 1902

S ept . 4, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 393 panied Maclaren’s team to Australia and met with such great success until his leg gave way. This year he has not lived up to his reputation which he gained in Australia, for a good bowler seldom recovers completely when he once breaks down. This year Lancashire, in the last two matches of the season, tripd Little- wood, a left-hand bowler, who had done great things in the Lancashire League, while in the last match of the season, against the Australians, Kermode, the young New South Wales bowler, who is qualifying for Lancashire, made his first appearance for the county. Both men came off finely, and it was certainly not their fault that the Australians were not beaten. O ne of the weakest of the many weak teams which the M.C.C. has put in the field of late years, received a severe beating at the hands of Wiltshire at Lord’s. The first two Wiltshire batsmen, after the M.C.C. had scored 169, put up 401 runs for the first wicket. Two years ago the same two batsmen in the same match at Lord’s, scored 316 runs for the first wicket. The score of the recent innings of Wiltshire is as follows :— W il t s h ir e . C. H. Ransome, not out .......................... 212 W . 8. Medlicott, o Barker, b 'Woodcock ...219 Rev. H . R. N. Ellison, c Butcher,bLacey 24 J. E. Stevens, c sub, b Woodcock ........... 5 H. 8. Snell, not ou t.„ .................................... 18 Extras ............................ 24 Total (3 wkts.) 602 M.C.C. scored 169 and 223. T rumper ’ s total for the season is now 2,205, which leaves other totals made during a tour by an Australian far behind. Before the Leicestershire match at the Oval this week Abel required 34 runs to complete his two thousand, and by scoring 10 and 30 not out in this match he accom­ plished the feat. This is his eighth successive season in which he has scored his two thousand. M r. W. T roup , who has again been playing so successfully for Gloucestershire will have to return to India shortly, after his six months absence on leave. He is one of the most prominent officials in India, and holds the Office of District Superintendent of the North-West Pro­ vinces Police. As far as cricket is con­ cerned, it is a great pity that he cannot reside permanently in England, for when in India he has few opportunities of playing. ------ I t is announced that Albert Trott will again go to New Zealand as coach to the Napier C.C. T he subject of last week’s VanityFair cartoon was the Hon. P. S. Jackson, who is justly labelled “ A Flannelled Fighter.” Among the comments, which as usual accompany the cartoon, “ Jehu Junia” says:— He is now about to plunge into matrimony, so that the other day a fellow-crieketer asked him if he had congratulated the young lady to whom he was to be sacrificed! Yet he is not at all conceited, for he can tell such a story against himself; and another : as when he overheard one of his brother Officerstelling others that they had “ at last succeeded in making a good chap of him; ” He has a jaunty step, a lordly manner, and exceeding confidence in himself: which, is a very neces­ sary quality at cricket. He has indeed shown himself essentially the man for a big match, and he is probably the finest all-round cricketer of the day. Certainly he has on several occasions saved his country in the field. To which every cricketer will heartily say Amen! F or Reigate Priory against Dorking at Reigate on August 21, H. Budgen took all ten wickets for 25 runs. The score of this innings is as follows :— D o r k in g . H . Brooker, c and b H. Budgen................... 1 E. L. Trower, c Neale, b H. Budgen .. 6 E. A. English, c H. Trower, b H. Budgen 2 F. Stuart, c F. J. Nightingale, b H. Budgen 0 R. F. Penfold, c Harris, b H. Budgen ... 16 G. K. Olivier, b H. Budgen.......................10 C. Walker, lbw, b H. Budgen ..................16 E. Mortimer, hw, b H. Budgen................... 5 C. Brooker, b H. Budgen ......................... 3 Rev. R. Home, b H. Budgen ................. 0 W . Dorliog, not out ................................. 0 Extras .................. 8 Total .......................67 Reigate Priory, who batted first, made 176. I n last week’s “ Gossip ” reference was made to the performance of Mr. Jonas A. T. Good (for Goldsmith’s “ A ” ) in taking six wickets with successive balls. An interval of some weeks taking place between the first three and second three. On Saturday last, August 30th, he again played for Goldsmith’s Institute (“ A ” ) v. Bromley Town, at Bromley (Kent), and once more performed the hat trick, so that now he has done this feat in three successive matches against three different clubs, viz. : - South Beckenham, Ash­ burton and Bromley Town. M r . F. F. K e lly writes:—“ I notice in your issue of August 7th, page 323, giving an account of my little book of centuries scored in the United States and Canada a foot note by J. J. Kelly, the initials should be F. F . Kelly, I just mention this so that at end of year in your summary of publications you can kindly make the correction. I was a member of the Stoics and Emeriti clubs in London in the eighties, and am at present Secretary of the above League, also of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club— which has been so prominently identified with New York cricket. Thanking you for the good notice.” A c o r r e s p o n d e n t writes:— “ At a receht cricket match, one of the umpires was twice hit by the ball. An exponent of the game behind me said ‘ Oh, it doesn’t matter, you know, the umpires are always padded.’ ” W e may remind our readers that a match is to be played at Lord’s on Septemberllth, 12th, and 13th, Yorkshire v. England, by the kind permission of the M.C.C., for the benefit of the Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society, of which Mr. Henry Luff, 21, Cranbourne Street, Leicester Square, is the Secretary. T he eleven which is to represent the Rest of England in the above match is as follows:— W . G. Grace (London County) C. J. Burnup (Kent) P. F. Warner (Middlesex) W . Findlay (Oxford University and Lancashire) Tyldesley (Lancashire) Lockwood (Surrey) Abel (8urrey) Braund (Somerset) Thompson (Northamptonshire) Trott, A. E. (Middlesex) and Hargreave (Warwickshire) B y scoring 127 for the Australians 8gainst the scratch team of Players at Harrogate, Victor Trumper has brought his total of hundreds for the season to ten. This is a wonderful record for a season like that of 1902. The record is thirteen hundreds last year by C. B. Fry, who finished the season by scoring six of them in succession. T he New South Wales Cricket Associa­ tion has decided to play out and home matches with Queensland, an excellent arrangement, for as we have often pointed out, this is the best way to pro­ duce good players in Queensland, and although New South Wales may lose at first by the matches, Australian cricket will gain greatly by them. T he statement of the trustees of the Sydney cricket ground, as presented at Parliament, shows the receipts for the year ending September 30th, 1901, to have been £11,072 8s. id., of which £5,051 was derived from members’ subscriptions. In addition, there was a credit balance of £881 1is. from the previous year. As a result of the visit of Maclaren’s team to Australia last year, theMelbourne Cricket Club has resolved that a sum of £1000 shall be donated to the Associated and League clubs of Melbourne. Of that amount £900 is to be distributed among the other nine clubs which form the Association, and from whose ranks players were chosen to represent Victoria. The clubs concerned are East Melbourne, Carlton, South Melbourne, North Mel­ bourne, Fitzroy, Hawksburn, University, St. Kilda, and Richmond. They will thus receive £100 each, an advance of nearly 100 per cent, on the amount distributed by the M.C.C. on the occasion of Stoddart’s last visit. The other £100 is distributed amongst the League Clubs comprising Coburg, Essendon, Port Mel­ bourne, Williamstown, Malvern, and Brighton, averaging £16 13s. 4d. each. On the suggestion of the Bombay Gazette , made some time ago, a match is to be played at Delhi during the Coro­ nation Festival, between All India and the Oxford University Authentics. Commenting m this the Bombay Gazette says :— It would he interesting to know what steps the committee of the Calcutta Cricket Club intend taking to make the All India team a thoroughly representative one and whether natives are to be included. The latter could