Cricket 1903

264 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 9, 1903. JIM WISDENI Cl. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known J O H N W I S D E N ’ S "Special Grown” MatchBalls, M a r v e l l o u s T e s t i m o n y . The Inns of Court Hotel, 25th August, 1902, Messrs. J ohn W isden & Co. Dear Sirs,—I hare much pleasure in stating that your « Special Crown ” Cricket Balls were used in the five Test Matches played between All England and Australia this season. At the Oval the play was delayed on the first day until some of your “ Special Crown” Balls were procured, as both teams preferred them to any others in the market. Your u Special Crown ’’ Balls gave every satisfaction in all the Test Matches, and all our team always want them in all other matches in England and Australia. Yours faithfully, J. D arling . London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, Oct. 27th, 1900. 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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. U n q u e s t io n a b l y it is well to give most experiments a thorough trial before making regular use of them, but the advantages of the method of scoring adopted by the second-class counties are so obvious that it is somewhat surprising that the first-class counties are content with their own method. The two drawn matches at the end of last week, Surrey v. Sussex and Notts v. Lancashire, might just as well not have been played at all as far as the championship is concerned, and the brilliant efforts of Sussex and Lancashire who had to go in against big totals were thrown away. If the method of scoring a point for a win on the first innings had been in use the two counties would have been rewarded for their work, while they would have still had the same chance of scoring from a win out­ right. T h e Rev. J. Burrough, the old Cam­ bridge Blue of 1895, has been making a lot of runs lately. For Old Salopians against Shrewsbury School he scored 161 on July 2nd, while he has also made scores of 66 and 67 for the Royal Engi­ neering College at Cooper’s Hill. He played for Cambridge as a bowler, and still keeps in form with the ball. G. L. J essop ’ s all-round cricket for Gloucestershire v. Somerset is well worthy of note, especially as but one other man on the side, F. E. Thomas, did anything at all of importance. Jessop made 41 and 81, and took five wickets for 85. In his second innings he was Jessop at his best. He made his 81 out of 89 while he was at the wickets in forty minutes, and during his partnership with Fowler he made 62 out of 67 in twenty-five minutes. M r . E rnest S m it h , who has now a successful preparatory school of his own at South Lodge, near Enfield, will be able to play for Yorkshire at the end of the month, and it is arranged that his first match shall be against Surrey at the Oval on July 30 and following days. T h e list of men who have scored two separate innings of a hundred in a first- class match is ever becoming longer and longer until it has now reached formid­ able proportions. The last batsman who has accomplished the feat, for the first time in his career, is A. O. Jones, who for Notts v. Lancashire made 137 and 100. I n the Notts v. Lancashire match 1,163 runs were scored for twenty - three wickets. A. O. Jones and Iremonger put on 205 for the first wicket in the first innings of Notts, who made the big total of 427. Lancashire capped this with 491, of which R. H. Spooner was respon­ sible for 247, by far the highest score of his career in first-class cricket. In addi­ tion to this A . O. Jones, as above stated, made two separate hundreds in the match. T h e boys of the Manor House School, Clapham, must have enjoyed themselves last week when Mr. P. M. Thornton, M.P., took down an eleven to play them. For the visiting team included Dr. W. G. Grace, who, although he only made 27 runs, hit a ball nearly into the next parish, while he initiated the young idea into the mysteries of his famous bowling, taking four wickets for 37 runs in 26 W ashington , the Yorkshire batsman who has not been able to play for his county this season owing to illness, has not derived as much benefit as had been hoped from his visits to Harrogate and Jersey, and it is not likely that he will be able to appear in the county team foi some time. Indeed, a visit to South Africa is spoken of. T h e great success of J. E. Raphael in the Oxford v. Cambridge match recalls other fine performances of men who were chosen at the very last moment to repre