Cricket 1903

312 CRICKET a W e e k l y r e c o r d of t h e g a m e . J uly 30, 1903. JOHNWISDEN8CO. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known JOHN W ISD E N ’S “ Special Grown” MatchBalls, M a rve llou s Tes tim ony . The Inns of Court Hotel, 25th August, 1902, Messrs. J oh n W isden & Co. Dear Sirs,—I have 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 “ 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 akling . London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, Oct. 27th, 1900. Dear Sirs,—Your Cricket Balls (“ Special Crown’0 AGAIN GAVE GREAT SATIS­ FACTION. Please send me half-a-gross for next season at your earliest convenience. I am, yours truly, To J ohn W isden & Co. W. G. G race . ALBERT TROTT, the great Australian-Middlesex Bowler, says:— Lord’s Cricket Ground, St. John’s Wood, To J ohn W isden & Co. Oct. 1st, 1901. Dear Sirs,—I have no hesitation in saying your “ S p ecia l C row n ” Balls are quite the best I have ever bowled with, they are less hard than most makes, yet keep their shape splendidly. You may like to know it was one of your “ S p ecial C ro w n s ” I hit over Lord’s pavilion in 1899. In Australia, too, all players insist on using your Balls. I remain, yours truly—A. E. TROTT. Tavistock Hotel, W.C., Aug. 8th, 1901. Dear Sirs,—We have much pleasure in stating that preferred bowling with Wisden’s “ S pecial C row n ” Balls than any other make. We found tha the Ball kept its shape perfectly, HAD JUST HE BIGHT degree of hardness, and was as pleasurable to bowl with at the end of a long innings at the beginning.—Yours very sincerely, JAMES KOTZE,) South African Cricket GEORGE ROWE, j Team, 1901. F rom D ea lers a ll o v e r th e w orld , and 2 1, C ra n bou rn S t., L on d on , W .C. City Agents; BENETFIHK & CO., CHEAP8IDE. City&SouthLondonRailway. T O T H E O V A L From Angel, Islington, Moorgate Street, Bank, and London Bridge Stations. T ravel b y the E lectric R a ilw a y— T rain s every 3 or 4 m inutes. THOMAS 0 . JEN K I N , G e n e r a l U m o n i . “ PATTISSON” LAWN BO TS. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, OPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.G. THURSDAY, JULY 30 th , 1903. $a\)tlton Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet SXMPIiEST! MOST ECONOMICAL. Used at LORD’S, The Oval, Crystal Palace, and in Royal Gardens and Principal Clubs at Home and Abroad. 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SET 4 . C. J. Bumup. ■J. R. Mason. A. C. Maclaren. C. Hill. Hon. F. S. Jackson. G. L. Jessop. SET 6. J. T. Brown. M. A. Noble. G. H. Hirst. W. G. Quaife. P. F. Warner. J. Tunnicliffe. Also Shakespeare’s Chovactars, Quotations from the Poets, Proverb Parodies. Animal Studies, Animals at Play* and other series. LONDON AND GLASGOW: William Collins, Sons, & Co., Ltd., Can be obtained o f a ll Stationera, and at “ Oricket ” Office, 1*8,.U pper Thames Street, E.C. I n the match between Sussex and Leicestershire at Brighton, C. B. Fry scared 99 and 127 not out, thus just failing by one run to make (wo separate hundreds in the match. Twice in his career he has accomplished the feat, v iz.: 125 and 229 for Sussex v. Surrey at Brighton in 1900, and 108 and 123 not out for Sussex v. Middlesex at Brighton in 1898. Another run in his first innings on Thursday last at Biighton would have placed him on a level with Dr. Grace and R. E. Foster, who have each scored two separate hundreds on three occasions. B u t if he missed accomplishing this feat, Fry in the same match brought his total for the season to over two thousand runs, and is miles ahead of anyone else in the matter of aggregate. The record for a season is 3,309 by Abel in 1901, and as Fry has still to play in a great many malches, he has a possible chance of beating this. His own record for a season is 3,147 in 1901. I t is very seldom that a more interest­ ing finish is seen in a county match than that between Essex and Lancashire at Old Trafford on Saturday. Ten minutes before time Essex required nine rtns to win, nominally with two wickets in hand, but as Douglas had badly injured his hand, the last two men were practically all that were available. As wickets had been falling with great rapidity it was anybody’s game, but as the two men were Young and Mead, it was hardly likely that time would decide the issue. As it happened, three minutes sufficed for the nine runs, and Essex thus gained a memorable victory. A f t e r leaving out Hampshire from their programme during the last two years, Yorkshire have again placed the county on their list of matches for next year. Yorkshire will thus play out and home matches with all the other first- class counties, in addition to M.G.C. and Cambridge University. The home matches will be played in the different Yorkshire towns as follows :— Sheffield—Middlesex, Sussex, Worcestershire, and Derbyshire. Leeds—Lancashire, Essex, and Hampshire. Bradford—Surrey, Notts, and Leicestershire. Harrogate—Kent.. Hull—Somerset and Cambridge University. Huddersfield—Warwickshire, Dewsbury—.Gloucestershire. A t Bexhill last week two preparatory school teams did some remarkably quick scoring. At half-past four St. Wilfred’s School declared, having made 158 for