Cricket 1903

392 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S ept . 3, 1903. JOHNWISDEN&CO. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known JO H N W IS D E N ’S “ Special Grown” MatchBalls, M a rve llou s Tes tim ony . The Inns of Court Hotel, 25th August, 1902, Messrs. J ohn 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 ngla Yo our team always want them in all other matches in E nd and Australia. urs faithfully, J. D a r l in g . London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, Oct. 27th, 1900. Dear Sirs,—Your Cricket Balls (“ Special Crown ”) AGAIN GAYE GREAT SATIS­ FACTION. Please send me half-a-gross for next season at your earliest convenience. I am, yours truly, w. a. To J ohn W isden & Co. . G race . ALBERT TROTT, the great Australian-Middlesex Bowler, says:— Lord’s Cricket Ground, m _ St. John’s Wood, To John W isden & Co. Oct. 1st, 1901. Dear Sirs,—I have no hesitation in saying your “ Special Crown ” 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 Special Crowns 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 “ Special Crown” Balls than any other make. We found i ) j the Ball kept its shape perfectly, HAD JUST HE RIGHT 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. From Dealers all over the world, and 21, Cranbourn St., London, W.C. City Agents: BENETFINK & CO., CHEAFS1DE. HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS’ CRICKET W EEK, 1903. TW O G RAN D M A T C H E S WILL BE PLAYED IN THB C en tra l C r ic k e t G rou n d , H a stin g s, as follow s :— Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8EPT. 7 th , 8 th a n d 9 th , LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE REST OF ENGLAND. T eams . L ancashire & Y ork - R est of E ngland sh ire. Lord Hawke Mr. A. C. Maclaren Mr. E. Smith Mr. A. Eccles Mr. R. H. b'pooner Mr. W . Findlay Hirst Tyldesley Rhodes Denton Haigh (Selected from). Dr. W. G. Grace K. S. Ranjitsinhji Mr. C. B. Fry Mr. G. L. Jessop Mr. A. O. Jones Mr. G. W. Beldam Mr. W . W. Odell Braund Gunn (J.) 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As things turned out Middlesex won with the greatest ease, and they are therefore the champions for 1903-4. T ro tt ’ s bowling in the first innings of Surrey was very remarkable. He took six wickets for 19, and all of them fell to him in the course of three overs for two runs only. Four Surrey men were out at the same total, viz., 37, and five men on the side failed to score. It was a terrible time for enthusiastic Surrey men. T h e details o f T rott’ s b ow lin g for the above three famous overs are as fo llo w s:— w w l | w . . I . . w I t is not a little curious that on the very same day, and nearly at the same time, Ehodes accomplished a feat which was almost as remarkable as that of Trott’s, and very similar to it, for, going on for the first time for Yorkshire against M.C.C. and Ground at Scarborough, when the game was resumed on the second morning, he took his first five wickets for two runs. He ended the Innings with six wickets for 24. D ram a the second day’s play at Scar­ borough between Yorkshire aud the M.C.C. Haigh brought his total of wickets for the season to a hundred. As Hirst and Rhodes had already accom­ plished the same feat, Yorkshire has the distinction of having three bowlers who have taken a hundred wickets this year. Once before, in 1896, three Yorkshire­ men, Peel, Wainwright and Hirst, did