Cricket 1904

394 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e pt . 8, 1904. D a. R . J. Pope, of Sydney, who played a lot of cricket in Scotland while going through bis medical course at E linburgh some years ago, and also occa'ionally as extra man assisted some of the earlier Australian teams in England, now figures as a golfer, and with success. He was one of the Suburbans who played the Metropolitans at Sydney, at Concord, N .S.W ., on July 23. The Suburban Sixteen were greatly fancied, but the unexpected happened, and the Metro­ politans won a well contested ma‘ ch by three points. K . M . C a r lis le , the Oxford Blue, who is to be the captain of the University side next summer, has been spending the lon g Vaca­ tion, or at least a part of it, in the Argentine, where his father has large interests. According to The R eview o f the R iv er Plate he has taken to golf out there, and with considerable success. The R eview , indeed, gives details of a match between the Hurlingham and Buenos Aires G olf Clubs in the first week of August, in which Hurlingham came off victorious by fourteen matches to ten. In both the Singles and Foursomes K . M . held the winning card. T h e Abel testimonial, which has been got up this summer under the auspices of the Surrey County C.C., will, so it is said, reach the very respectable sum of over three hun­ dred pounds. With a view to its augmentation, a match, with the approval of the Surrey Executive, who have granted the use of the ground, is to be played at the Oval on September 26. In this the Jockeys will oppose the Amateur Athletes, and as the former at all events will be fully represented, the receipts, which are all to go to the fund, should assist the Abel Testi­ monial materially. D a v id H u n te r, the Yorkshire wicket-keeper, has a remarkable record as the result of his seven­ teen years wicket-keeping for his county. Up to the end of last season he had numbered 929 wickets from catching or stump­ ing. This year his victims amount to 79, so that his aggregate has now reached 1,008. It is pretty safe to suggest that this is a record for a wicket-keeper. T h e v o r B ow rin g, who got into three figures for the Y oung Amateurs of Surrey against a goodish side of the Mitcham Club, at Mitcham, on Monday, is a mem­ ber of this year’s Rugby School Eleven. He is a very promising batsman with a free style, and, as he has two more years at Eugby, should develop into a player of a high order even before his Public School career has come to an end. L a s t week James Hallows, the fine all-round cricketer who has done so much to secure the Championship for Lanca­ shire, was presented with a silver cigarette case and match box in recogni­ tion of his double feat of the season iu scoring over a thousand runs and takiDg over a hundred wickets. B y this time the arrangements for the Australian cricket season of 1904-5 should be in full swing, if not on the verge of completion. The latest advices from South Australia were that the first-class programme for that Colony was under­ going its finishing touches. New South Wales are to appear on the Adelaide MR. B. P. KEIGWIN. (Reproduced ly permission of “ The Taller .” ) Oval on Saturday, December 17, to meet South Australia, with the return match in Sydney, on January 7. This means that the interstate tour of the Adelaideans will be undertaken a few days after Christmas, and Victoria will be met in Melbourne on New Year’s Day. I t will hardly surprise anyone who has followed the development of county cricket to learn that the Surrey Executive have volunteered their willingness to play Northants home and home matches next season, provided the latter is able to qualify by arranging the requisite number of fixtures. In face of the assistance Surrey has always given under similar circumstances, the authorities would indeed have been untrue to the recognised traditions of Surrey cricket throughout the ages, if they had not been among the very first to give practical encouragement to the latest aspirant for first-class county honours. T h e feason’s result of the South African team is as follows :—26 matches ; 13 won, 3 lost, 9 drawn, 1 tie. The defeats were at the hands of Worcestershire, Gentlemen of Ireland, and Kent. The tie match was with Middlesex. The annual sports of the Hamp­ stead C.C. will take placi on Sat­ urday next on the Cricket Ground. The Sports Committee i < formed as follows : —J. T. Ash, H . Greig, F. E . D . Monro, E. L^igh-Ibbs, J. C. Toller, A. E iloirt, C. Nicholas, F. C. Wheeler; the judges are J. G. Q. Besch. H. H . Evans, W . R. Moon, F. E, Spof­ forth, and the starter is F. S. Alford. Am ong what may be described as the “ cricket ” events on the programme are throwing the cricket ball, throw ing at the wicket, and running between the wickets. A lth o u g h the South African tour ended yesterday, several members of the team will, as stated in last week’s “ Gossip,” play in a match at E ist Grinstead, on Saturday, at Mr. Aba B liley’s place. E. A. Halliwell and Frank M itchell will remain in England for some time, but Sin­ clair and Kotze are due to sail in the “ Braemar Castle ” from Southampton on Saturday, while the other members of the team will wait until September 17 or 24. A r th u r M o ld , the old Lan­ cashire fast bowler, who has occa­ sionally played for Northampton­ shire since he left the former county, was married a short time ago to Miss Preedy. F hom the list of averages of the Wanderers C.C. on another page, it will be seen that Mr. Stanley Col­ man has scored over 1,000 runs this season for the club, with whose success he has had so much to do for so many years. L a s t week for the Band of Brothers against Kent Club and Ground Lord Harris made 30 and not out 27, and also took a wicket. He is still a fine crick eter U p to the present Hayward’s total for the season is 3,096, so that although he is still 213 runs behind Abel’s record of 3,309, he has beaten E injitsinhji’s 3 065 in 1900, and Tyldesley’s 3,041 iu 1901. The other records of over three thousand are Eanjitsinhji’s 3,159 in 1899, and C. B. Fry’s 3,147 in 1901.