Cricket 1906

8 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an . 25, 1906. JOHNWISDENftCO. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known [Marve llous Te s tim ony . The Inns of Court Hotel, 25th August, 1902, MessrB. J ohn W isden & Co. Dear Sirs,—I have much pleasure in stating that your “ Bpecial Crown ” Cricket Balls were used in the five Test Matches played between All 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. Dear Sirs,—Your Cricket Balls (“ Special Crown” ) AGAIN GAVE GREAT SATIS- FACTION. 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W ith reference to the match between Victoria and South Australia of Novem­ ber 11th, of which the scores were published in the last issue of Cricket, I may state that Armstrong’s 165 is the highest innings ever played for Victoria in this match, Laver’s 164 in 1904 being second. Also 526 is the highest score ever made in the match by Victoria, whose largest total in any match is 602 against New Zealand. I n a match between Sydney University and Combined Schools a batsman named S. H. Harris was hit on the foot by a leg-break, and the ball then bounded over his head and dropped on the wicket. T he score of 691 made by New South Wales against Queensland at Brisbane on November 11th, etc., is the highest made by N.S.W. in the series of matches against Queensland, the previous highest being 686 last year at Sydney. Mackay’s 203 has only been beaten by the 210 by Darling in 1899 in these matches. W. P. H owell , the Australian cricketer, was not chosen by the New South Wales Selection Committee as one of the twenty who were to practise for the matches against South Australia and Victoria. It will be remembered that Howell was not a great success during the recent tour, but that at the end of the last Australian season he was third in the batting averages with 55’50 W riting about Howell, a correspondent of the Sydney Mail says : “ Many a time we have chatted and laughed over our experiences with the old Warwick club. The only bowler we had was Howell. I remember on one occasion trying to get Harry Moses cheaply. While he had his face turned to the bowler I shifted long slip to fine leg, close in. Howell saw the ruse and bowled the required ball. Moses glanced it right into the hands of fine leg, who dropped it. Harry got close upon 300 after that. A ustrialan newspapers state that Trumper and Duff both intend to devote themselves to business and that they will only be able to play at Sydney in the inter-state matches. Trumper made 101 (after being missed off his first ball) in his first match for Paddington since his return to Australia; in his next two matches he scored 0 and 62 not out. Duff scored 73 out of 146 in his first match. I t is significant of the ease with which runs have been made in recent years that whereas in “ Wisden” of 1896 a space of an inch and three-quarters suffices for all the “ two separate hundreds,” both in first-class and minor matches, “ Wis­ den ” of 1906 requires a space of eleven inches and three-quarters for them. Ten years ago there were three names on the list in first-class cricket; now there are twenty-nine. At this rate of progress there will be about three hundred names in the list of 1916, and a space of about sixteen columns will be required for them in “ Wisden.” F rom the Madras Times: — C. A. Pereira, the Colombo Colts bowler, accomplished a remarkable performance for Wesley College v. the Worcester Regiment in a recent match. In the first innings he was credited with eight wickets for 26 runs, and in the second with six for 15 runs. In the first innings he obtained his last six wickets for one run. In the two innings of the Worcester Regiment, who had Lieuts. W. F. O. Faviell, R. E. P. Brownell, Henry and Gilson, there were eleven blobs, the last six men in the second innings failing to score and five of them not making a run in the match. Of the latter three qualified for spectacles. The Wesley College team had not two full innings, as only five wickets fell in the second innings, but against the bowling of Faviell and Brownell seven men failed to score in the first innings and three in the half finished second innings. Altogether there were 21 blobs in the match, a bit of a record in its way, I should imagine. S ince their return home several mem­ bers of the Australian team have roundly condemned the English umpires, who, they say, made a very large number of mistakes by which the Australians suffered. No direct charge has been made that the umpires acted unfairly, but it seems that they were a very bad lot, that more than one of them suffered from defective eyesight, and that the rest never made mistakes which told against Englishmen. D arling , the Australian captain, seems also to be of this opinion, if the following