Cricket 1904

S e £ t . 8, 1904. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 393 shows a small credit balance. Mr. W ilfred J. Gould is the honorary secretary. ------- T h e question why a man should be chagrined when he drives a ball out of the ground and nearly hits a window is naturally suggested b y a remark b y Mr. A. C. Maclaren in the Daily Chronicle. Referring to his fine innings of 114 for M .C.C. and Ground against Yorkshire at Scarborough last week, he says :— “ Tunnicliffe and Denton came on, one of the former’s overs realising 19 from my bat, but long John, no doubt remembering it was festival cricket, kept tbe ball well up, which compelled me to bit him out of the ground twice, the second hit to my chagrin nearly hitting a window in one of the houses over­ looking the ground.” O n another page will be found some reference to the correspondence between Mr. Lacey and the honorary secretary of the committee which con­ trols Irish representative cricket. The correspondence turns on the question whether certain matches played this year b y the Gentlemen of Ireland should count as first-class. On behalf of his committee Mr. Lacey says that they do not, and this, of course settles the matter. It is recognised that, for the sake of uniformity, it is far better for the M .O.C. to decide such things than that they should be left to mem­ bers of the Press, who m ight differ among themselves and thus compile different tables of statistics. O n the other hand it is a question whether it would not be a good thing for Irish cricket if a few matches against Ireland or Gentle­ men of Ireland were to be counted first class in the future. It could hardly be urged that the cricket played in such matches would not be of as high a class as in many matches in Eogland which rank as first-class. A c o rrespo k d e n t wiites from Dorset­ shire :— “ There was great excitement here yesterday. The Channel Fleet were to send a cricket team to play a team chosen b y the most prominent resident in the neighbourhood, and every­ body was looking forward to the match with the greatest interest. But the morning was showery, and so the brave sailors wired to say that it was too wet for them to come. In vain was a reply sent to assure them that the weather had become quite fin e ; they did not put in an appearance.” O n Saturday morning, at Bournemouth, before the match between Gentlemen of England and Players of the South was resumed, Braund and Trott had an un­ comfortable experience when riding in a motor car, which came into collision with a cart. Trott was thrown out and a little shaken, while Braund was able to jump out in time to save himself from harm. C. C. M o rris, the captain of the Haverford College X L , who visited England this season, left last Saturday for America, having stayed in London a few weeks after the departure of the rest of the team. As a mere matter of record it may be well to mention that the Haverfordians in their recent tour played fifteen matches, of which five were won, two lost and eight drawn. It is pleasant to learn from The American Cricketer that the team were so gratified with their reception as well as with the cricket results as to lead to the belief that the trip will be repeated evan more fre­ quently than it has been in the past. T H R E E F A M O U S Y O R K S H I R E M E N . W . RHODES. G. H . HIB8T. S. HAIGH. [Reproduced by permission of A ll rumours to the contrary notwith­ standing, Lancashire will, with perhaps the one exception of Sharp, be in full strength for its match against the Rest of England at the Oval on Monday next and three successive days. I have good authority for stating that the Eleven to represent the Champion County will be selected from A. C. Maclaren, R. H . Spooner, W . Brearley, A. H . Hornby, W. Findlay, L, O. S. Poidevin, Tyldesley, • Sharp, Hallows, Cuttell, Kermode, I ’Anson, and Heap. C aptain G re ig , who has been greatly missed by Hampshire this season, had a good “ kn ock ” in the match between the Poona and Bombay Gymkhanas in the middle of last month. He was, indeed, in form in both innings for Poona, scoring 108 and 40 out of totals of 210 and 121. As Bombay gave away 3d extras in its double outing, the Captain was responsible for precisely one-half of Poona’s aggregate made from the bat in the match. In order to get another look at a number of cricketers who have come under their notice during the present season, the Surrey Committee have got together fifteen young cricketers of the county to oppose the Gentlemen of Surrey at thq Oval on September 19th and 20th. The two sides will include some of the best of the rising: talent— amateur and professional—of Surrey, so that the match, with fine weather, is bound to be interesting as well as of practical use to Surrey cricket. T h e Sheffield Shield Medals, won by the New South Wales team last season, were presented to the members of the team at tbe annual meeting of the New South Wales Association on July 25 th by Mr. C. F. W . Lloyd. Mr. M . A. Noble, as captain, responded on behalf of the team. Messrs. R. A. Duff, A. J. Hopkins, C. Gregory, J. R . Mackay and A. M ‘Beth were also present. D r . W. G. G ra ce de­ lighted a vast crowd, estimated at 10,000, which had assembled on Monday to see the Charity match at Twickenham Green, between Mr. Strutt-Cavill’s Twelve v. A Local Eighteen. The D octor bowled throughout the innings of the Eighteen, taking six wickets for 110 runs, and when he went in with forty minutes left for play, and his side in a very tight place, he scored 38 not out, including a 6 and four 4 ’s, and saved his side from defeat. One of the most remark­ able innings of the season was played by G. L. Jessop ’he Tatler. on Monday, for the South of England against the South African team. While nobody else on his side couldmake twenty runs, he ran up a score of 159 out of a total of 230 from the bat, and his hitting was brilliant in the extreme, although he was suffering from a slight attack of lumbago. He was an hour in making his first fifty runs, but his second fifty only took a quarter of an hour. A t one time he made thirty-three off three successive overs, tw enty-four of them in tw o overs from Kotze. T he follow ing were the names of the eleven who represented St. Mary’s College v. the Engineering College at Cnepauk on August 13th: Damodaram, Rolandaiswainy, Jayaraj, Guruswamy, P. K . Doraswamy, Dharmarayan, Susi- adoss, Adikesavalu, P . E. Doraiswamy, Jayaram, Joseph.