Cricket 1903

J olt 16, 1903. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 281 ing results, even if his methods may seem to some to be antiquated. His experience has been so varied that although he cannot have had great hopes of winning the Gentlemen v. Players match at the Oval, the state of the game on Friday evening when his side had a very great advantage can hardly have surprised him, for he takes things as they B y scoring 100 for Eton v. Harrow, E. N. S. Crankshaw has placed his name on a very small and select list. The following are the only individual innings of a hundred in matches between Eton and Harrow, and it will be noticed that until this year no innings of a hundred had been played since 1897 :— 1841—E. Bailey(Eton) 152 1860—A. W .T . Daniel ( Barrow)(notont)112 1869—C. J. Ottaway (E ton ).................108 1871—A. W. Ridley (E ton ).................117 1876—W. F. Forbee (E ton ).................113 1885—A. K. Wats n (Harrow) ..........185 1885—E.Crawley(Har­ row) .................100 1886—C. P. Foley (Eton) ..................114 1888—R. B. Hoate (Harrow) ...........108 1895—J. H. Stogdon (Harrow) ........... 124 1896—B. J. T. Bosan­ quet (Eton) ... ...120 1898—H.O. Pilkington (Eton) ..................101 1897—G. G. O. Cole (Harrow) ...........142 1903—E. N. S. Crank­ shaw (Eton) ....100 E to n and Harrow have now played 78 matches against each other, Harrow winning 33, Eton 29, while 16 have been drawn. But Harrovians do not recog­ nise the match of 1805, in which Lord Byron played for them, and in which Eton were victorious by an innings and 2 runs. It is believed that several matches between the school took place between 1805 and 1818, the next recorded match, but no trace can be found of them. Possibly with so many hard­ working statisticians in the field, a dis­ covery of the missing matches may be made one of these fine days. I t w as a well deserved compliment to L. O. 8. Poidevin that he should be asked to play at the Oval for the Gentlemen against the Players, and big failure to make any runs was, of course, no sign that he ought not to have played. He had the unusual experience for a fields­ man of disposing of the first three of the Players’ side in the second innings by catches in the slips. F rom time to time a lob bowler meets with such great success, and so completely upsets a strong batting side, that it is astonishing that so few men who can bowl a really decent lob are to be found in present-day county teams. The Players had a good chance of baating the Gentle­ men at the Oval on Saturday, for with only four men out they had scored 170 out of the 295 required to win, but not long afterwards a happy thought occurred to W. G. to give Simpson-Hayward another trial, and he finished off the innings in fine style, taking four wickets for five runs in three overs and a ball. I t was circumstantially reported in some of the Sydney newspapers in May that J. Marsh, the aboriginal fast bowler, had died in the Cowra hospital from blood-poisoning. But according to the latest news from Australia, Marsh is sound and well. T h e following princes, noblemen and gentlemen have subscribed to the guaran­ tee fund that is being raised to send a team of Parsee, Hindu and Mahomedan cricketers to England next year : — His Highness the Aga Khan (Rs. 3,300), His Highness the Maharajah of Bikanir (Rs. 1,000), His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore (Rs. 500), His Highness the Raja of Kapurthala (Rs. 500), His Excellency Lord Northcote (Rs. 150), Sir Dinshaw Petit, Bart, (sum not stated yet), Mr. J. N. Tata (anything between 3,000 and 5,000 rupees), Mr. Jehangir Bomanjee Petit (sum not stated yet). The York­ shire and SurreyCommittees have guaran­ teed £100, and this amount may also ba looked for from Lancashire. F oe the first time since 1882 the Surrey team on Monday took the field at Lord’s against Middlesex without Robert Abel, m r . j . b . crouch (Capt. of the Forest School XI.). who has never quite recovered from his illness during the winter. He began the season fairly well, among his scores beiog 61, 43, 36 and 34, but since then he has been out of luck. Everybody will hope that his absence from the Surrey team will be very short. A CURIOUS result, says the Australasian, has attended the efforts of a cricketing sub-committee to determine during the off-season whether district cricket could not be established in Melbourne. It was desired that men should play for the district in which they lived, but reference to the “ Directory ” showed that some fifty prominent cricketers in first and second elevens would thus become asso­ ciated with the Hawksburn club, and the difficulty of finding room for them in two elevens was obvious. As one member of the association put it, the only leading cricketers who would not under those circumstances belong to Hawksbum are certain playing members of that club. While the scheme for district cricket, has been enthusiastically approved at Hawks­ burn, other clubs are not at all partial to it. . T he once ever-victorious Essex second eleven has fallen on hard times, and has met with another defeat at the hands of Surrey second by ten wickets. The chief feature of the match was a stand of 101 for the last Surrey wicket in the first innings. T he Streatham cricket week has been remarkable for high scoring, and espe­ cially for the number cf individual innings of a hundred. On the final day Mr. John Shuter, the famous old Surrey captain, made 105 out of 191 for 7 wickets for Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower’s X I;, while on the Streatham side Mr. E. Field made 1,29. During the week 3,228 runs were scored for eighty - six wickets, Streatham having the best of matters with 1809 runs for 37 wickets. C. B. F r y is now going very strong for his two thousand runs for the season. By the end of last week he had made 1,754 runs, and his average was 87-70. He was easily first in the list. This week for Sussex v. Notts he has scored 27 and 32, thus bringing his aggregate up to date to 1,813. O n Monday, Ringrose, the Yorkshire bowler, was at the head of the bowling averages with the following record for the season:— O. M.B. w. Agst Warwickshire, at Birmingham.. 15 5 22 3 Agat Derbyshire, at Derby................. 15 7 13 4 „ ......................... 16 3 63 3 Agst Kent, at Leeds ........................ 7 3 0 28 3 Agst Notts, at Trent Bridge .......... 12 4 82 1 .......... 16 6 38 2 Agst Surrey, at Sheffield ................. 10 2 45 4 .. .............................. 16 0 54 4 Agst Leicester, at Dewsbury ..........15 4 40 0 „ „ .......... 151 4 20 6 137-4 35 356 30 B efore the match between the Gentle­ men and Players at the Oval G. W. Beldam had played nine innings (once not out) this year, with an aggregate of 119. But in this match he made 80 and 54, and followed this up by playing two splendid innings of 89 and 118 for Middlesex against Surrey at Lord’s. Thus in the course of four innings he has increased his aggregate by 341 runs. He is just the sort of man who might be very useful in Australia. The following cablegram appeared in the Daily Mail on Monday with reference to the M.C.C. team for Australia:— S yd n ey , Monday, July 13. Marylebone has agreed to all the conditions asked for by the Australian authorities, and the visit is now regarded as settled. People are immensely pleased. The Melbourne Club is arranging the pro­ gramme, which may embrace a visit to W est Australia. Australia hopes that the counties will co-