Cricket 1906

J u n e 14, 1906. CRICKET: A. WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 201 hundreds in a match in the same week. C. B. Fry has played six innings of a hundred in succession, but Hayward’s record stands alone. F o r future reference I append Hay­ ward’* Fcores made last week :— SURREY v. NOTTS, at Trent Bridge, June 4th, 5th and 6th. Hayward, not out ..........144 lbw.b Hallam ...100 SURREY V. LEICESTERSHIRE, at Leicester, June 7th, 8th and 9th. Hayward, c Coe, b King ...143 c Coe, b Jayes ...125 A c o r r e s p o n d e n t writes to a Leicester newspaper stating that, but for the presence of mind of his wife, who moved A s a d tale of missed catches is told in connection with the famous innings of 295 by Tyldesley for Lancashire against Kent on Thursday last week. Tyldesley seems to have been missed again and agaiD , and in his daily report he admits that “ I am conscious that, although it is my record score, there were many faults in the middle portion of the inn­ ings.” Nevertheless the innings counts in the records as the highest score of Tyldesley’s career, the highest ever made by a Lancashire cricketer, and the highest on the Old Trafford ground at Man­ chester. Cox, the Sussex professional, made the highest innings of his career in first- class cricket last week, scoring 167 not out for Sussex against Hampshire. His runs, moreover, were made at a time when they were being badly wanted. T h e question whether the South Africans will have three or five test matches allotted to them when they visit England next year seems to have been definitely settled. News conies from Cape T ow n that the South African Cricket Association has accepted an invitation from the M.C.C. to send over a team, and PRECEDENCE AT BATTERSEA : 1G a m I T h e trea su rer goes In b e fore the b lo o m in ’ se ck e rta ry ! ’ the perambulator out of the way of a cricket ball, his baby would probably have been killed in one of the Leicester parks. One hardly knows whether to congratulate the lady the more on possessing presence of mind in a time of danger, or on being able to judge the flight of a cricket ball with accuracy. There are several county cricketers who, when they are in the long-field, would give their ears to be able to judge the flight of a ball accurately enough for them to get far enough out of its way to make it appear that a catch was out of the question. T h e critics who urge that few very large scores would be made if the fielding were as good as it ought to be for first- class cricket, must have been deeply interested last Friday in the newspaper reports of the matches played on the previous day, for in addition to the missed catches which enabledTyldesley to score nearly 300, there was an epidemic at Trent Bridge where John Gunn was missed over and over again in scoring his 92. Hayward, whomade 143 at Leicester, was missed when he had made 50, and nearly all the other men who made over 50 on that day gave at least one chance. {Reproduced by kin d permission o f the Proprietors o f “ Punch.”) that three test matches will be played. The additional announcement that they will all be played to a finishmay perhaps be taken with a grain of salt. I n looking through the scores of a match between an English Scratch EWen and the R icing Club de Bruxelles it is a little disappointing to find that only two names on the side of the Belgians look as if they might belong to natives. Further, it is said that one of these two names is that of aWest Indian. But the sole representativeof the country, Monsieur Daumerie, carried his bat in