Cricket 1904

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THURSDAY, JULY 21 st , 1904. ^a\)tlton <^0QStp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamit t. L e w is , the Somersetshire professional, only just missed the distinction of scoring two separate hundreds for his couuty in the mat chat Taunton against Hampshire. His scores were 101 and 97. The last time that Lewis made a hundred was iu 1901. Another batsman, A. J. L. Hill, was even nearer to accomplishing the feat, for he made 98 not out and 117 for Hampshire against Worcestershire. T h e return to form of S. M. J. Woods will be welcomed by every cricketer who has seen him bat, for apart from tbe f*ct that he is one of the most enthusiastic cricketers living, he is always a most attractive batsman to watch when he is in luck’s way. For some time it has seemed that his career as a first- claos cricketer must soon be over, for he has lost the bowling for which he was once famous, and has made only a few runs until lately. His 136 for Somerset against Hampshire is his highest, and almost his only large innings since 1900. He is now thirty six years old, so that he may very likely play many more fine innings in first-class cricket. T h e members of the successful South Africm team were entertained to dinner by the M.C.C. at Lord’s on the evening of the first day of the match against an England Eleven. The Marquis of Granby, the president, was in the chair, and Lord Alverstone and the Earl of Litchfield were also present. R e f e r r in g to an instance in which the ball hit the wicket without removing the bails, D. L. A. Jephson says in the Daily Chronicle: — This reminds me I have seen the wicket hit from fast or slow, or any paced ball you like, and the bails remain a s a li elson on his monument. But three weeks ago we were playing a club match, and a man, who made the luckiest 100 that I have ever watched, had his sticks hit three times—note this!— in his one innings. There is a craving for records, and I will wager that this is one. Personally I hit his middle and leg off the bat. The other bowler, a man of medium pace, hit it twice, once so hard that the ball cannoned off the top of the middle stump over the wicket-keeper’s head for four byes, and never a bail showed a trace of emotion. In the vernacular, they never “ budged.” This is an absolute record, and 1 challenge any of our Chronicle readers to produce its equal. I t is not very often that a team con-