Cricket 1902

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All communications to be sent direct to the Offices of Cricket, 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.O. $a\uitott Gossip, The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Samlet. A .K e r m o d e , who made his first appear­ ance for New South Wales in the match against Victoria at Sydney at the end of January, is a professional bowler on the Sydney Cricket Ground. As he bowled 120 balls and took four wickets at a cost of 49 runs, it must be accounted a very creditable (ttbut. The only knowledge, the selector, Mr. M. A. Noble, had of him, it is said, was as a professional bowler at the practice nets on the Sydney Ground. He is fast medium right hand, and can make the ball do something. As a bat he is very moderate. V a l e n t i n e ’ s D a y was celebrated in right royal fashion by the cricketers of Calcutta. The Calcutta ground is not a stranger to high scoring, but this time its previous record had to go by the board. The occasion was a two day’s match between the Calcutta C.C. and a Military Eleven got up by Captain C. Wigram, the Old Wykehamist. Cal­ cutta’s first score of 337, of which S. R. Hignell made 173, was outdone by the soldiers. When their innings was closed the total was 483 for eight wickets. To this aggregate Captain Wigram con­ tributed 188, A. J. Trueman 139 not out, and Captain Akers Douglas 101. Four individual hundreds in a match cO L sti- tute a record for Indian cricket. T h e most remarkable thing, writes an Australian critic, about the stand of Mr. Maclaren and Hayward for the first wicket against New South Wales last month is that the 314 runs were got without a chance. This 314 by the way, beats by four runs the score of A. Shrews­ bury and W. Gunn for the third wicket of the Non-Smokers against the Smokers at Melbourne in 1887, previously the Australian record for any wicket. The biggest Australian partnership in the colonies is 286 by M. A. Noble and S. E. Gregory for New South Wales against South Australia at Adelaide two years ago. H ig h scoring was the rule rather than the exception at the River Plate in the first week of February. The best of several good performances was that of B. B. Syer 95, and A. Macdonald, who put on 160 for the first wicket of Flores v. Buenos Aires on February 2nd. There were three other hundreds out there in the same week, if not on the same day. They were:— R. D . Mackinnon 122, for Belgrano v. Quilmes. Hon. E. Scott 109 not out, for HurliDgham v. Bolsa Brokers. H. E. Horner 108, for Northern Gamps v. Ro'ario. J. W o r r a l l , the Victorian captain, who has been over here twice with Australian teamp, finished up the last week of January in a perfect bl»ze of triumph. With F. Warne he put on 3o7 for the first wicket of Carlton v. North Melbourne, establishing thereby a record for pennant ciicket in Melbourne. A few days later