Cricket 1904

442 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Oct. 27, 1904. A c o rre s p o n d e n t wishes to know how the cricketing elephants, who re­ presented C. B. Fry, R. E. Foster, and Bhodes, as mentioned in the last issue of Cricket, managed to bat, bowl, and field. In reply I may say that they used their trunks, and showed remarkable pro­ ficiency in all departments of the game. I understand that they may possibly be seen at the Hippodrome during the winter. A t the Exhibition of Industry and Art, held at Brighton at the end of last month, Mr. Alfred D. Taylor took the first prize with a screen on which photo­ graphs of 150 famous cricketers were shewn. The portraits were displayed in such a manner as to represent a very large group, and some of the cricketers represented would have considerable difficulty in recognising themselves among the crowd, arranged as they are in picturesque or grotesque attitudes, amidst scenery entirely different from that inwhich they areusually discovered. E. H. D. S e w e ll’s batting record for the past season in all matches is 1,956 runs in fifty-two completed innings, average 37'6. It is said that he had thirty-four chances during the season in first-class cricket, and held twenty-five of them. I n the match between Gentlemen of Philadelphia v. Players, S. B. Lohmann, a brother of the famous Surrey player, was onthesideof the professionals. The latter could only raise ten men, and the eleventh place was taken by an amateur, Mr. E. K. Leach, a member of the Bel­ mont C.O. A d in n e r is to be given to the Lanca­ shire county teamonNovember 24th at Manchester to celebrate the triumph of the county in the Championship matches of 1904. All the cricketers who played for the county in the championship will receive a memento of the season’s record. T h e death is aunounced of Mr. C. W. Furze, A E.A., the well-known artist, at the age of thirty. Mr. Furze was a cricketer, andI believe that he sometimes took part in the matches played by the ArtistsC.C. T he portraits and biographies in “ Wisden ” for 1905 will be those of B. H. Spooner, Percy Perrin, B. J. T. Bosanquet, E. A. Halliwell and Hallows. F o o t b a ll will again be played this winter on the Essex County cricket ground, and the famous amateur club, the Corinthians, has arranged to play its matches there. O n October 20th Mr. W. M. Bradley, the Kent fast bowler, was married to Miss A. Millyard, at All Saints’ Church, Knightsbridge. One of the wedding presents was given by the cricketers who have played with Mr. Bradley in matches for Kent, and took the form of silver plate, cutlery, and a clock with inscription. T h e Warwickshire committee have decidedto dropthematches with London County next seaeon. It has been arranged that for the next four years the matches against Worcestershire shall begin onWhit Monday and the August Bank Holiday. Next yearWarwickshire will go to Worcester on Whit Monday, but in the following years the dates are to be taken alternately. F o r a gorgeous collection of names of cricketers commendme to the following. They represent the players who appeared in the match between the Purasawalkum (this is an elegant name in itself) eleven and the Hindu Boyal eleven in Madras at the beginning of October. P u r a s a w a lk u m . M. B.Venkatachellam N. Kulasakaram C. P. Chakarapani A. Tharmaroyan V. Varadarajaloo E. T. Sunkaram C. Veearaghavaloo K. Doraiswamy S. Abdul iiahim Gurusamy Natarajan H in d u B o y a l . Sivanathan Natesan Gurusamy Purushotham Eswariah Nambiar Venkatachellam MuthuIyer Devarayan Govindan Karmiah F rom the Bombay Gazette :— ThomatchbetweentheBombayGymkhana audthe ParseeGymkhana was a remarkable one in several ways, and three separate records were created, all by the Parsee Gymkhana. To start with, in the whole series of matches between the two Gym­ khanas extending over a period of twenty years a total of over 300 has never before been compiled, and the Parsees’ innings of 334 for seven wickets therefore establishes a record. Again inno previousmatchbetween the two Gymkhanas have two individual scores of three figures ever been put up by one side, and the centuries of Mody and Belgaumwalla create a second record for these matches. The third record was the defeat of the Bombay Gymkhana by three wickets and237 runs by far the heaviest ever inflcted by either side in these matches. Fromthepoint ofviewofBombayGymkhana supporters the match was almost as dis­ appointingasthe PresidencyMatch. T h e Victorian Cricket Association at its annual meeting on September 20th chose the King’s birthday for the com­ mencement of the match v. South Australia at Adelaide, and New Year’s Day for the opening of the return in Melbourne. I h e a r on good authority that the Testimonial Fund instituted last winter by the executive of the Surrey County C.C. as a special recognition of Bobert Abel’s splendid services to the county during the last few years will reach the respectable figures of just over four hundred and sixty pounds. T h e report of the committee of the Melbourne C.C. presented at the annual generalmeetingonSeptember9thshowed that, although the season commenced with anoverdraft of £2,671, and in spite of theoutlayonthenewstanding gallery, £207, and on painting the grand stand, £225, the overdraft had been reduced to £810, making a net gainof £1,861 9s. 5d. The matches played inMelbourne by the M.C.C. English team, the report stated, had resulted in substantial profit to the club. The total membership stood at 3,526, as against 3,376 at the end of the previous year. In addition, there were awaiting election 852 senior, 153 junior, and 36 country nominees. The total receipts for entrance fees and subscrip­ tions had amounted to £6,810 6s. as against £6,592 9s. in the previous season. T h e unfortunate break up of the weather just when the match between the Champion County and Eagland was on at the Oval last month had naturally a very prejudicial effect on the amount for division between the Cricketers’ Fund and the London Playing Fields Committee, who are to receive the entire nett receipts. Instead of a profit of over two hundred pounds, as was the caselast year, the two Societies mentioned will only receive a sum of just over fifteen pounds apiece. Considering that two of the four days were absolute blanks, and that the expenditure of the match was comparatively very heavy, perhaps, after all, the result might have bee aworse. H ttgh T rum b le ’s popularity among the members of the Melbourne Club was conclusively proved by his position at the head of the poll at the election for the Committee at the annual meeting of the Melbourne Club on September 9th. His nearest rival was B. W. McLeod, who was followed closely by W. Bruce, with, at a respectable interval, F. E. Allan fourth. The International quar­ tette thus had matters much their own way. A graceful recognition of Hugh Trumble’s splendid services to Australian cricket was made in his election to a life membership of the Melbourne Club. As Essex and Lancashire are this year to supply the visiting teams for the Can­ terbury week, the good people of Kent will therefore have no reason to complain of the quality of the cricket fare the Kent authorities intend to provide for themfor the annual gathering, which is, of course, to commence onAugust Bank Holiday (August 7th). The Australian teamwill also be seenat Canterbury, but later in the month. W h ile taking part inabaseball match in Sydney on September 10th, M. A. Noble, the Australian skipper, tore a muscle in his right leg, above the knee. The injury, however, could not havebeen