Cricket 1903

J u k e 4, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 185 of winning. But Sewell scored at such a rate that when stumps were drawn the score was 238 for three wickets. The first hundred went up in 35 minutes, and Sewell made his hundred in fifty minutes, eventually reaching 148 in an hour and a-half. A n e w cricket club has been founded by the English colony at Ghent—as an off-shoot of the “ Racing Club de Gand.” Mr. J. Standfast is the captain. The first match will probably be against the Lille C.C. T h e following table shows the perfor­ mances of the batsmenwho have made most runs each season in ten years of Elector­ ate cricket at Sydney. It will be seen that the highest total stands to the credit of Victor Trumper, with Charles Gregory a good second :— HIGHEST NUMBER OF RUNS IN FIRST- GRADE CRICKET EACH SEASON. 1893-4 W 1891-5 T. 1895-6 A. 1896-7 A. 1897-8 V. 1898-9 A. 1899-0 B. 1900-1 V. 1901-2 C, 1902-3 A. No. of inn . Camphin (E.8.) 10 Garrett (CJni.) ... Mackenzie (Pad.) ConiDgh<iin (Q.) Trumper (Pad.) Hopkins (N 8.) A. Duff (N .8.)... Trumper (Pad.) Gregory (Wav.) Mackenzie (W.) Times Most not in an Total . out. inn. runs. Aver. 1 170 879 42 11 92 624 62-40 214 666 61*86 176 665 65*60 ♦191 1021 204-20 137 619 77 37 10 168 •218 •207 160 662 62 44 657 61-88 821 103 60 626 62-60 T h e following list gives the name and performances of the bowlers who secured most wickets in each of the ten seasons past:— MOST WICKETS IN THE FIRST GRADE EACH SEASON. 1893-4—A. Newell (Glebe) . 1694-5—T. Connell (L’dt) 1895-6—S. Austin (Wav.) . 1896-7—T. Connell (L’dt) 1897-8—S. Austin (Wav ) 1898-9 —M . A. Noble (Pad.). 1899-0—A. Hopkins (N.8.) . 1900-1—W . Howell (C.C.) . 1901-2—J. Marsh (Syd.C.C.) 1902-3— J. Marsh (Syd.C.C.). O. M. . 228...61.. . 810 . 83.. . 302 . 72 . ..267...95.. ..204 . 37.. .149 ..32 . ..155 . 32.. "l8t..'.52" .177...32 . R. W. 326 . 60. 651...65 728 46. 602.. 60., 643..34 417-49 .498...40. .633 46. 542 ..53. 604...48 Avg .. 5 43 .10 06 ..16-71 .1001 .15-97 . 8-51 . 12-45 ..11-68 .. 9-35 ..12-68 T h e completion of the cricket season in Melbourne left the North Melbourne Club in possession of the club premiership of Victoria. For the final game, Fitzroy were their opponents, but owing to the state of the turf on the last day (April 18th), their match had to be left un­ finished, with the North 61 for three wickets against a total of 193. This left the North with the Pennant Premiership for 1902-3, a success they thoroughly well deserved with eleven points as the nett result of five wins and a tie. East Melbourne were the runners-up with eight points for five wins, one drawn game, and one defeat. The unfavourable conditions on the last day were very re­ grettable, as three of the five games had to be left undecided. T he Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, K.C., who has just been appointed the Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester, fully merited the eulogium passed on him last year by Sir William Harcourt as a man who had won distinction in many fields. As an athlete he was of infinite variety. The youngest of seven brothers, all of whom had been in the Eton cricket eleven ; he captained the Cambridge University Elevens of 1878 and 1879, and sub­ sequently represented England against Australia twice. He also got his English Association Football Cap in 1877. He represented Cambridge at cricket, football, tennis, racquets, and hammer throwing, and was Amateur Tennis Champion from 1882 to 1895. As President of the Marylebone Club in 1898 and Chairman of the International Board he was a great success. This month’s Strand Magazine contains a cricket story by the well-known writer, E. W. Homung. The title is “ Chrys- tal’s Century.” C. K e n w a r d , whose all-round cricket has been of considerable use to Surrey’s second eleven in the last few matohes, has come into Surrey cricket, as did E. Wiltshire, the left-handed batsman who has played for Surrey this season, from the Addiscombe club. He is a younger brother of R. Kenward, who represented Derbyshire occasionally a few years ago and subsequently played once or twice for Sussex. The bowling of the younger Kenward had a good deal to do with the victory of Surrey’s second over the second eleven of Essex at the Oval this week. “ A l l being well,” the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, who reached Queenstown yesterday, should by this time be safely housed at the Victoria Hotel, which is to be their headquarters in London. Though the serious part of their programme does not begin till Monday next, through the good offices of Mr. H. Thouron of the Philadelphia C.C., who is in England just now, they will have a useful pre­ liminary trial in the shape of a match at Mr. Holme Sumner’s ground, at New Hall Farm, Addlestone, on Saturday. Mr. Thouron’s eleven will include several well-known English cricketers. F ro m June 8th to August 8th the Gentlemen of Philadelphia will have a busy time of it, with only six days’ rest to break their two months of hard cricket. They have kept the dates of the Inter-University match free, and are not playing on July 20th and two follow­ ing days. So far no fixture has been actually made for July 23rd, 24th and 25th, though one is pretty certain to be arranged on the South Coast for those dates. Otherwise the programme is as follow s:— JUNE. 8. Cambridge, v. Cambridge University 11. Oxford, v. Oxford 16. Cheltenham, v, Gloucestershire 18. Nottingham, v. Notts 22. Lord’s, v. M.C.C. and Ground 25. Beckenham, v. Kent 29. Taunton, v. Somersetshire JULY. 6. Manchester, v. Lancashire 9. Coventry, v. Warwickshire 18. Worcester, v. Worcestenihire 16. Southampton, v. Hampshire 27. Brighton, v. Sussex 30. Cardiff, v. Glamorganshire AUGUST. 5. Leicester, v. Leicestershire 6. Oval, v. Surrey C ric k e t readers who can recall the form of the members of the earlier Australian teams will heir with satisfac­ tion of the continued vitality of W. Bruce, one of the most attractive of left- handed batsmen, in Victorian pennant cricket. W. B. was well in the front of the batting for the Melbourne Club with a very fine average of 81-57. He was also at the head of the bowling list, but as he only sent down sixty-two balls, his figures did not count for merit board honours. A t the same time the credit of the best individual record in these Victorian Pennant Matches belongs to another cricketer also well-known on English grounds. This was F. Laver, who had the best average for the runners-up (East Melbourne). He had the splendid average of 111 runs per innings. Hi3 score of 311 against Fitzroy was the best of the season, and East Melbourne’s total of 744 for two wickets stands as a record for Pennant cricket in Melbourne. T h e match between the second elevens of Surrey and Essex at the Oval this week saw the passing of at least two records. Up to Tuesday last, the second team of Essex had not been beaten for four years, and as it was, Surrey were only able to get home this time with some seventeen minutes to spare. Up to this week the highest score for Surrey’s second had been R. Henderson’s 210 not out v. Herts at the Oval in 1895. Moulder, the young cricketer from Richmond, outdid this easily, being still in with 242 to his credit when Surrey’s first innings was declared closed. D. R e e s e , the young New Zealander who scored so heavily against the English team in the early part of the year is evidently finding our English wickets to his liking now that he has got fairly going. A few days ago he scored just under the hundred—I think it was 98— for Tottenham against the Essex Club and Ground. This week he has made a start in first-class cricket with a useful score of 45 —the second highest on the side — in the first innings of London County v. Leicestershire, at the Crystal Palace. H. S tr u d w ic k , Surrey’s young wicket keeper, will have particular reason to remember his first experience of Mr. G. L. Jessop in county cricket. He had at least the satisfaction of helping directly in the dismissal of the most dangerous of English batsmen in Gloucestershire’s second innings for a “ blob,” a very rare piece of luck for the outside when G. L J. is at the wicket. But besides this, Strud­ wick had a hand in the downfall of four other wickets in the match, and only gave one bye in Gloucestershire’s double in­ nings in an aggregate of 249. In a Hull newspaper, the Sports Express, the Rev. W. F. G. Sandwith relates the following story of a South London club of which he was a member. The club