Cricket 1903

A p r il 16, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 73 F OR N ATA L—Wanted, man to take charge of Athletic Department, must be able to repair Cricket Bats, Tennis Racquets, etc.; willing to help at Stationery Counter part time; salary and commis­ sion on repairs.—Apply, R.D., c/o P. Davis and Son, West Street, Durban. “ CRICKET" is the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game. Weekly, April 9 to September 16 (inclusive). Terms o f Subscription :—6/- per annum. 7/- post free abroad. Payable in advance. All communications to be sent direct to the Offices of Cricket , 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.O. C r i c k e t : A W E iK L Y RECORD OT TEE OAME. 168, UPPER THIMES STREET, LOIDGI, E.C. THURSDAY, APRIL 16 th , 1903. Jtatrilton Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T he chief items of interest in connec­ tion with the Counties this season may be summed, up as follows :— D e r b y sh ir e . —The match against Lancashire is revived. E ssex .— C. J. Kortright will he captain in place of H. G. Owen. A. J Turner will be able to play regularly. The Hampshire match has been revived. G lou cestershire .— G . L. Jessop will still be captain. C. L. Townsend will not be able to play much, but W . S. A. Browne and L. D. Brownlee will, it is hoped, be regularly available. Matches will be played against London County. H a m psh ire , —The Essex match will be revived. E. M. Sprot will act as captain in place of C. Hobson. E. I. M. Barrett will be able to play, and Llewellyn is on his way back from South Africa. A match is to be playtd at Bounemouth between Gentlemen and Players of the South. K ent .—-C. J. Burnup will be captain in place of J. R. Mason, who will not be able to play much. Nor will W . M. Bradley and S. H. Day often be available, the latter having promised to go to South Africa with the Corinthian football team. L a n c ash ire .— Matches will be played with London County. The Derbyshire match will be revived. A. C. HacLaren will again act as captain. The Essex match will be for the joint benefit of Smith and Cuttell. L eicestersh ire .— V . F . S. Crawford, the new secretary, and Gill, the old Somerset player, will be available for all matches. M id d le se x .— G. MacGregor will again be captain, with P. F. Warner as vice­ captain. The Whit-Monday match is to be played for the benefit of W . Attewell. N otts .—Shrewsbury has recovered suffi­ ciently to hope to be able to play from the first match. S omerset .—Hardy qualifies in June. Gill has left Somerset for Leicestershire. S urrey .—D. L. A. Jephson has resigned the captaincy. The new captain is not yet appointed. V. F. S. Crawford will now play for Leicestershire. Captain Bush cannot play until August. Abel, though not quite recovered from his illness, yet hopes to he able to piay regularly. S ussex .—K. S. Banjitsinbji will again assist the county. W arwickshire .—H. W . Bainbridgo becomes honorary secretary, and will no longer be captain. The new captain has not yet been appointed. Anew match, with Cambridge University, is on the card. Y orkshire .—T. L. Taylor will be away until late in the season, Mr. F. C. Toone succeeds Mr. J. B. Wostinholm as secre­ tary. The match against Lancashire, at Bradford, is to be played for the benefit of Tunnicliffe. W ITH regard to other first-class teams the news is britfiy as follows :— C ambridge U niversity .—E. M. Dowson (captain), L. V. Harper, C. H. M. Ebden, and F. W . Wilson are the old Blues. The best known seniors are G. Howard Smith, K. R. B. Fry, H. C. McDonell, and E. G. McCorquo- dale. Among the Freshmen are H. Eyre (Harrow), K. P. Keigwin (Clifton), P. R. May (Surrey and London County), F. V. Hopley (the amateur boxer of Harrow), J. G. Hirsch (Shrewsbury), and N. F. Norman (London County and Surrey). L ondon C ounty .—Gloucestershire and Lan­ cashire will be played for the first time, and a week in Ireland has been arranged. L. O. S. Poidevin will again play, and C. J. Posthuma, the Dutch amateur, will be available. M.C.C.—On the August Bank Holiday anew match will be played, M.C.C. v. a Public School team. O xford U niversity .—The old Blues are W . Findlay (captain), W. H. B. Evans, H. J. Wyld, A . C. von Ernsthausen, E. W . Dillon, lt. W . C. Burn, and M. Bonham-Carter. The best-known seniors are J. E. Raphael, L. D. Brownlee, K. M. Carlisle, and E. G. Whatley. Among the Freshmen are E. G. Martin (Eton) and J. P. Winterbotham. T he members of the Yorkshire com­ mittee have been invited by Lord Hawke and the Hon. F. S. Jackson to a dinner on April 30th, whtn Mr. Wostinholm, the late secretary of the county club, will be presented with a portrait in oils of himself. A further presentation is to be made to Mr. Wostinholm on the first day of the Surrey match at Sheffield, June 29th. T h e most important news in connec­ tion with the minor counties may be briefly summed up as follows : — B edfordshire .—Pepper, an old Notts pro­ fessional, will be qualified in the middle of the season. F. G. Brooks has gone to South Africa. B ucks .—The Herts match at Aylesbury will be played for the benefit of George Nash, the old Lancashire bowler. C ambridgeshire .—The matches with Bed­ fordshire, Staffordshire, Durham, and Northumberland will be revived. D evonshire .—The turf iu the centre "of'the county ground at Exeter has been relaid. A cycle shed and a ladies’ pavilion has been built. D orsetshire .—The new county ground in Poole Park will be used for the first time in the match against Hampshire. F. A. S. Sewell will be available in July. E. R. Kindersley is abroad. D urham .—Stoner and T. Smith are qualified by residence. Chester-le-Street is to have one of the matches. H ertfordshire .—H. J. Hill becomes captain in place of C. D. Fastnedge. M onmouthshire .—A ladies’ pavilion has been built on the Newport ground. N orthamptonshire . — C. J. T. Pool has returned from Australia. Thompson has renewed his engagement for five years. S uffolk .—A county club has been organised and matches will be played with Norfolk and Essex 2nd X I. W iltshire .—G. L. Jessop will take a Glou­ cestershire eleven to play the county in August. The Rev. H. R. Ellison is qualified. T. N. Perkins, the old Cam­ bridge and Kent cricketer, will be able to play in August. T he match between Leicestershire and Essex at Leicester on July 16th is to be played for the benefit of Woodcock. T he lot of the wicket-keeper, lika that of W.S. Gilbert’s policeman, is not a happy one as a rule. He gets more kicks, literally in some cases, than ha’pence in the ordinary way, and he does not loom as large in the score sheet as he should if virtue really got its reward in cricket. It is, therefore, the more pleasant when one is able to “ give bold advertisement ” to any performance of a stumper in the smallest way out of the common. Under this classification the feat of S. Jordan of Central Cumberland in a match against Glebe at Sydney on February 28th ctn fairly be placed. In the fall of five of the ten Glebe wickets Jordan had a band, aud all five batsmen were stumped. Five batsmen stumped in an innings is, at least, a rare record. Curiously, on the same day in Sydney Ellis, the wicket­ keeper of North Sydney, also took five of the ten wickets. M r. G. L. J essop is taking an eleven to Edinburgh to play a representative side of Scotland on July 13 th and I4th. Apropos of Scotch ciicket, I may add that the Grange Club is visiting London this summer. The match of last season between the M.C.C. and Ground and the Grange Club at Lord’s produced some heavy scoring as I can remember. In the two days over a thousand runs were made for thirty-two wickets. T he glorious uncertainty of the game ! Y. Trumper, the incomparable in the last three iuniugs he had played for his club, Paddington, in cricket in Sydney, only made 22 runs. His “ mate,” M. A. Noble, who plays also for Paddington,