Cricket 1905

202 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 15, 1905. the giants of the ninth Australian team ■which visited England in 1896. He car­ ried off both the batting and bowling honours of the South Tasmanian Associa­ tion. His aggregate with tbe bat was 647, and with the ball 55 wickets, at a cost of 14 runs apiece. C. E. d e T r a f f o r d played a remark­ able innings on Whit-Monday for Leicestershire against the Australians. He went in first as usual with C. J. B. Wood as his partner. He bit four 4’s in Howell’s first over, and made 26 in the first four overs of the match. When the total was 35 he had scored all of the runs. Then there were four byes. He still went on scoring, and it was not until the total was 60, of which he claimed 56, that his partner made bis first run. Eventually Mr. de Trafford was out for 63 out of 69, which included four byes. BELOW will be found extracts from two private letters written on Whit-Monday, one of them from Liverpool and the other from Leyton. From Liverpool:—“ Lovely weather. We have had no rain for ages.” From Leyton “ Are we ever going to have fine weather again ? It has rained steadily (except when there has been a heavy thunderstorm) nearly every day this month.” T h e competition for the League premiership in Melbourne cricket was brought to a close at the commencement of last month at Coburg with the victory of E'ssendon over Williamstown. The former, who were headed on the first innings by 89, eventually won by 136, scoring 282 in their second knock and then dismissing their opponents for 67. T h e scoring of the New South Wales Eleven in Inter-state cricket this last season was v»ry fine and large. Their totals, in numerical order, were 686, 652, 480, 465, 421, 355, 299, 255, 213, 196, 176 for three wickets, and 102. In four out of eight matches they batted in only one innings. The scores of their oppo­ nents were 345, 345, 281, 240, 213, 194, 186, 183, 183, 177, 176, 174, 168, 148, 132, and 116. T h e Standard A.C. of Paris has for the last few years brought its cricket pro­ gramme to an agreeable close with a visit to the South of England. This summer Mr. P. H. Tomalin and his merry men will have Hampshire for their happy hunting ground. The matches will be as follows :— AUGDST. 28. Ryde, v. Hyde 29. Brockenhurst Park,v. Mr. Morant's X I* 31 County Ground, Southampton, v. Trojans SEPTEMBER. 1. Winchester, v. Winchester 2. Ryde, v. Ryde . ^ 4. Southampton, v. Hampshire Hogs* 6. Paultons, v. Paultons* * Two-day matches. In the Speaker elect Cricket readers will be pleased to learn the game has a keen as well as active supporter. Only recently his name figured in the sporting papers as having taken part in a match. He was, too, as I can vouch, a very interested witness of that exciting finish in the game between Surrey and the Australians at the Oyal a month ago. C r ic k e t’s infinite variety was forcibly illustrated on the first day of the match between Surrey and Gloucestershire at the Oval last week. Gloucestershire, who opened the batting, received sixty- nine overs and two bills for the 111 runs they got from the bat. Oa the other hand, the 119 which the Surrey eleven scored from the bat before the end of the day were the result of only twenty- nine overs. The young Surrey cricketer, Davis, •wjth his 46 in that innings, had the distinction of the highest individual score of the match. T h e King and Queen paid a visit to the cricket ground at Windsor Castle on Monday during the match between the 2nd Grenadier Guards and the Royal Household. On the principle that “ a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind,” Cricket has a most amiable leaning towards the Office Window of the Daily Chronicle , on account of the following paragraph which appeared on Monday:— Flattery is the sweetest whiff that comes from the outside world through the Office Window, and when flattery takes its sincerest form the present writer is happy. To know that one has helped a fellow man is a sweet thought. And the ideal man would be con­ tent with that. The view from the Office Window falls slightly short of ideality; and though it rejoices to find the world’s Press reproducing its casual remarks, it retains the mean, sneaking, quite unjustifiable desire for payment—in gratitude. T h e above paragraph appeals very strongly indeed to Cricket, especially just at the present time, when the world’s Press has been reproducing (for the most part without any payment whatever in gratitude) casual remarks from the interview with Burton which appeared last week. It is not easy to see what possible harm it could do to any newspaper under the sun to acknow­ ledge its indebtedness to Cricket. F o r the reason given above Cricket also feels most amiably disposed towards “ Wanderer” of the Sportsman who, in his yesterday’s article, says :— In the majority of the notices which have appeared of genial George Burton, the ancestor of “ the googlies,” I have not seen mention of his musical ability, which has been of no mean order, and for many years he has sung the tenor solos at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, and elsewhere. The “ peculiars” of Evan A. Nepean have also escaped attention, possibly because they are not referred to in the excellent chat in the current issue of Cricket, which has I fancy furnished some of the writers with more (or less) original “ copy.” On Tuesday C. B. Fry made his first single-figure score of the season, viz, 3, in the second innings of Sussex v. Notts. His scores this year in their order are as follows: 23, 45,* 156, 106, 9 7 ,2 0 1 / 25, 26, 50, 12, 86,* 233, 27, 98, and 3. From the Manchester Guardian :— The Manchester Club would seem to have fallen upon evil times. Two more defeats in the course of four days have to be added to the growing list of losses for the season. The towns, as represented by Bolton, Wer- neth, and Ashton-under-Lyne have suc­ cessively lowered the Manchester flag, once so proudly borne, and now it is the turn of suburbia. Longsight, a club which, like Manchester, we are afraid, is but the shadow of its former self, emphasised the victory of Bollington earlier in the week by beating Manchester on Saturday by one run—per­ haps the best finish of the day in club cricket. There was a time when Manchester, Longsight, and Broughton were our great local combinations from which sprang the greater county organisation of to-day, but times have changed. S ir M o rtim e r D u ran d , the British Ambassador to the United States, has again been elected president of the Lenox C.C. The last fortnight’s list of i.ineties is as follows:— 99 J. Gunn, Notts v. Surrey. 98 Killick, Sussex v. Northamptonshire 98 C. B. Fry, Sussex v. Gloucestershire. 95 F. H. Gillingham, Essex v. Surrey, 93 C. A. Ollivierre, Derbyshire v. Hampshire. 92 W. B. Burns, Worcestershire v. Hampshire. *91 Hayward, Surrey v. Essex. 90 R. T. Godsell, Gloucestershire v. Somerset. 90 W. H. B. Evans, Hampshire v. Derbyshire. * Signifies not out. W o o ll iy , the young bowler who took seven wickets for 28 runs, in 11 overs, for Kent second v. Surrey second, at the Oval on Whit Monday, is a product of the Tunbridge nursery for young Kent cricketers. He is slow left hand. Last week for the Kent Club and Ground he took six wickets for twenty runs in the last innings of Folkestone. Mr. L. C. H. P a la ir e t his written'as follows to a correspondent in Somerset­ shire :— In reply to your enquiry, the reports that I have been appointed agent to the Earl of Devon are true, but whether I shall be able to assist Somerset much, or even at all, is, I am afraid, very doubtful. Everything is at present so indefinite that I doubt whether I shall play at all this year. Possibly I may be able te get away to play against the Austra­ lians. With regard to future seasons, I cannot at present say anything, as I probably shall have all my time taken up, for the first two or three years at any rate. But, as you know, Lord Devon is a very keen supporter of Somerset cricket, and I think you can rest assured that both he and myself will do our best whenever possible to assist the county. R e a d e rs of the Daily Mail who study the cricket reports must have been mysti­ fied on Tuesday, for in his report of the match between Derbyshire and Hamp­ shire A. E. Lawton says, in reference to Bowell’s innings for Hampshire, “ There has been quite a discussion as to whether