Cricket 1904

M a y 12, 1904. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 121 they should pay such a sum as to render the professionals independent of employ­ ment. It was their desire as far as possible to engage men who have some occupation to fall back upon; it was good for them, and some county ciptains felt as strongly as he did. He asked any members who could, to assist in offering employment, not as charity, but in order to secure the right stamp of man, who would be able to earn a good livelihood and make some provision— which cricket­ ers of the past had not always done. R efe rrin g to the difficulties which the committee had experienced in seeking a captain of the first eleven, Lord Alverstone said the members all recognised the debt which they owed to Mr. L. Walker for consenting at short notice to under­ take the duties last season. They had hoped to obtain the services as the new leader of Mr. E. M. Dow- son, but he had started in business in Glasgow, and could not be expected to give it up. Mr. H . B. Chinnery was, however, back among them, and, at any rate for the present, would act as captain, and he hoped to see the team prosper under such a good sportsman. I n addition to the re- election of Lord Alver­ stone as president, the f o l lo w in g re-appoint­ ments were made at the meeting : — Vice - presi­ dents, the Earl of Onslow and Earl of R osebery; hon. treasurer, Mr. W ild- m an C a t t le y ; h o n . auditors, Messrs. C. H. Gibbs and H . Evans Broad ; commiteemen.Dr. C. C. Blades, R ight Hon. W . St. J. Brodrick, M .P ., Messrs. J. Oolman, P. P. Knox, G. H. Longman, Denzil R . Onslow, and L. A.Shuter, and Lieut.- Ool. G. L. M . Farmer. T h e captains of the University teams have been getting a little good practice in the early trial matches, although they, as is usual, went in last. Thus the Oxford captain, W . H . B. Evans, made 49 (in about half an hour) and 21 not out last week in the Freshmen’s matih ; while at Cambridge, F . B. Wilson made 49 (retired hurt) in about twenty minutes in the Freshmen’ s match at Cambridge. R. C. W . Burn, the Oxford blue, as cap­ tain of one of the sides in a trial match at Oxford made 40 in eight hits, his innings including four 6 ’s and four 4’s. M r . O. R. B o r r a d a il e , the secretary of the Essex County C.C., has announced that Mr. F. L. Fane, the old Oxonian, has accepted the captaincy of the Essex Eleven for 1904. Mr. Fane was at school at Charterhouse, and was in the Oxford eleven ia 1897 and 1898, although it was not until his third year that he gained his blue. H is best season for Essex was in 1899, when he was first in the batting averages with 61, his highest score being 207 against Leicestershire, As with their team which had such a triumphant progress in Australia, the M.C.C. had some difficulty in getting together a team for the Rest of England. senting some of the scenes during the tour would be shown in the ballet, and that boxes, decorated with the colours of the team, would be placed at the disposal of the visitors. Which was doubtless an excellent advertisement for the enter­ prising proprietors. A t the conclusion of the time limit match between Yorkshire and Notts at Leeds, the two captains, Lord Hawke and Mr. J. A . Dixon, both expressed their opinions as to the efficacy of the system. Lord Hawke said that evidently the allowance o f four hours and a-half for an innings was too great; he thought three hours would be more suitable. He suggested that a twc-day match with a three-hour limit per innings should be played at the end of the season. He approved of the sixty yards limit from the boundary, and also thought well of the apparatus for protecting the footholds o f t h e bowlers and batsmen. FOB AULD LANG SYNE. Major Markham of the Melbourne C.C. and Mr. J. A. Murdoch of the Marylebone C.C. after the fifth test match. [Reproduced by permission o f the 41Tatler .,! C. B. Fry declined the invitation, Ranjit- |who is sinhji is not in England, while other men who were asked were not able to play. M r. J ones said that he did not think the adoption of the new game would lead to slogging in club cricket, but would induce batsmen to culti­ vate a greater variety of s t r o k e s . He thought that while there was very little chance that the scheme would be adopted ia first-class cricket, it might be successful in club matches. He ap­ proved of the shortbound- ary, and thought that it would not handicap slow bowlers, inasmuch a s batsmenwould betempted to hit, and would be caught. But one cannot help thinking that a bowler who happened to light on a day when Mr. Jones was in fine hitting form, a slow bowler who was opposed to him with a sixty yards’ boundary would have a good deal to think about. So far this season Abel’s scores in first- class cricket are 22, 67, 55 and 26. M r . D . R e e c e , the New Zealand cricketer, now in England, made 49 for Tottenham against Crouch End, besides taking four wickets for 10 runs. For the same team Percy Perrin, the Essex amateur, scored 108. T h e two elevens which represented the M.C.C. Australian Team and the Rest of England were invited b y the proprietors of one of the most popular variety theatres to see their entertainment on Monday evening. This invita­ tion was heralded in the press with the announcement that tableaux repre­ T h e two brothers Keigwin have made some fine scores at Cambridge this season for Peterhouse. L is t week R. P. Keig­ win, the Blue, made 94 not out against Emmanuel, and 72 not out against Trinity Hall, while his brother, H. D ., made 103 not out against the latter team. Trinity Hall had declared with