Cricket 1904

J u n e 30, 1904. CRICKET • A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 233 account of a damaged finger, but despite this severe handicap, Surrey had done so well by the time that stumps were drawn that with nine wickets in hand they only required 234 runs to win on a wicket which was playing perfectly true. In the night it rained, and the batsmen on Saturday morning had to play under altered conditions. Nevertheless, at lunch time the score was 206 for two wickets — only 131 required to win with eight wickets in hand. But to crown the mis­ fortunes of an unfortunate team rain then fell again, after which the sun came out. The rest of the tale need not be told. whereupon Finchley scored 208 for one wicket. Thus during the day 568 runs were made for the loss of three wickets only. E. H. Scott made 185 not out, and H . B. Hugell 105 for Upper Clapton, while L . Niederheitman scored 130 not out for Finchley. O n Saturday P. F. Warner took a tremendously strong team to Dulwich to play the College, his eleven including K . S. Banjitsinhji, F. Mitchell, B. J. T. Bosanquet, E. A. Beldam, J. A. Berners, and R. W . Nicholls. The College deserve congratulations for making such an ex­ cellent fight as only to be defeated by 48 runs. For the visitors Bosanquet made 101 in a little over three-quarters I n the match between Charterhouse and Westminster at Godalming, C. Y . L. Hooman made 158 and Lord Somers 115 in the first innings of Charterhouse, out of a total of 315 from the bat. Thus only 42 runs were scored by the remaining nine men, of whom four made ducks’ eggs. In the course of his innings Hooman made 28 in one over. W it h reference to the tie match played b y the South Africans against Middlesex last week, I may state that during their tour in England in 1901 the South Africans played a tie with Worcestershire, and that on both occasions nine runs were required to win when the last man went in. In the M .C.C. match the South T H E U N IV E R S IT Y mb. w. H . B. k v a n s (Oxford). (Photo by Messrs. Hills <k Saunders, Oxford .) CAP TA IN S . m b . f . b . w it , son (Cambridge). F o r the Yorkshire Gentlemen against Royal Artillery, at Woolwich, last week, Mr. E . T. B. Simpson carried his bat through the first innings for 134, and, again going in first, made 78 not out in the second innings, the match being won by his side with three wickets down. Thus Mr. Simpson was within a little of scoring two separate hundreds in the match. Nor was Pollitt, the Bedford­ shire professional, far from making two separate hundreds against Northumber­ land, his scores being 108 not out and 70 not out. A g a in s t Finchley last week Upper Clapton declared th e ir innings closed W ith tw o w ick ets d o w n for 360 runs, of an hour, but none of the other well- known players distinguished themselves. D b . G r a c e has never made a pair of spectacles in a first-class match, but last week he only just managed to miss them, scoring 0 and 1 for London County against the South African team. Iu each innings he fell to the bow ling of Kotze. HAYWARD brought bis total runs for the season to over a thousand on Satur­ day, but he was nearly four hundred behind C. B. Fry, the only other man who had accomplished the feat. Tyldes­ ley and Knight have now followed the example of Fry and Hayward. (Pho'o by Messrs . Stearnst Cambridge. , Africans had to make 211 to win ; in the Worcestershire match the home team had to make 210. M r . E. G. R e a d , who was tried for his wicket-keeping in the Sussex v. Cam­ bridge University match last week has been one of the mainstays of the Worthing Club for some seasons, says “ Willow Wielder ” in the Sussex Evening Times. Last year, in addition to his work behind the sticks, he registered over 1,000 runs, with an average of 40 89. His success led to a trial in the SusBex (2) v. Essex (2) match at Brighton, when he scored 21 and 29. Mr. Bead has also played for Hampshire. Three years ago (1901) he assisted the Hampshire (2) against Sussex