Cricket 1904

296 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 28, 1904 JOHN WISDEN&CO. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known JO H N W I S D E N ’S “ Special Crown” MatchBalls. M a rv e llo u s T e s tim o n y . The Inns of Court Hotel, 25th August, 1902, Messrs. J ohn W isden & Co. Dear Sirs,—I have much pleasure in Btating that your “ Special Crown ” Cricket Balls were used in the five Test Matches played between A ll 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 our team always want them in all other matches in England and Australia. Yours faithfully, J . D a r l in g . London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, Oct. 27th, 1900. 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Of course, in Jim Lilly­ white’s time county matches were by no means as numerous as they are now, so that his record stretches over a far greater number of years. T h e crowd at Beckenham on the first day of the match between Somerset and Kent became exceedingly impatient with the slow play of Braund, who at one time during bis innings was in for nearly an hour without increasing his total. But gradually the news spread among them that Braund was doing a very plucky thing in keeping up his wicket at all, inasmuch as he could hardly hold the bat owing to a damaged wrist. The jeering died away, and when Braund was out he was applauded with much enthusiasm. S ir T. C. O’ B r ie n , the old Oxford University and Middlesex cricketer, scored 164 not out and 63 last week at Lord’s for Gentlemen of the M.C.O. against the Royal Artillery, and was thus not very far short of making two separate hundreds in the match. An even nearer approach to the feat was made for the Royal Artillery by Major H . B. Stockdale, who scored 102 and 94. On the last two days of the week Sir Timothy scored 0 and 137 for M.C.C. and Ground v. Royal Engineers, and last Monday he made 67 for Gentlemen of M.C.C. v. the Household Brigade. T h e record for the season of H . O. Tebbutt, the captain of the Leys Schools eleven at Cambridge, is twenty-four inn­ ings, 1,443 runs, highest score 154, average 60’12. He was never not out. J. E. Raphael Bcored 1,397 runs for Merchant Taylors School, but compari­ sons of this kind are not of much use. Y . F. S. Crawford and D. Q. Steel had extraordinary records as schoolboys. Of course G. L. Jessop’s record for Beccles College was made when he was a master there.