Cricket 1906

C R IC K E T : a w e e k l y r e c o r d o f t h e g am e. JULY 19, 1906, || ill ffigj—-Ejafr "-Me}—^_JS©K . “ Together joined in Cricket’ s manly toil.”— Byron. Wo. 7 2 7 . V O L . X X V . THUESDAY, JULY 19, 1906. P B IC E 2d. {Photo by Messrs. H aw kins Co., Brighton.) {Photo by Flemons, Tonbridge.) The value of the good work Captain McCanlis and his coadjutor, Mr. Tom Pawley, have done in training the young cricketers of Kent cannot be over­ estimated. Week in, week out, during the summer Captain McCanlis gives of his very best in time and energy to illustrate by example as well as precept not only to find Kent with a supply of capable youngsters, any of whom could be trusted to take his place in first-class cricket with a certainty of acquitting himself with credit. F. Woolley is a brilliant example of the success of the nursery at Tonbridge. The good sporting folk of Tonbridge have reason to be proud of tion to the Oval was a distinct success, for he took seven of the ten wickets in the first innings of Surrey besides making forty-eight in his first knock and by some of quite the best cricket of the match. On his all-round cricket in 1905 he was thoroughly worthy of a trial in the Kent County Eleven. It was the CHATS ABOUT CRICKETERS. TWO KENT YOUNGSTEES. “ The nursery at Tonbridge ” has come to be “ as familiar as a householdword,” not only in Kent, but wherever county cricket is followed with any real interest. the developmentofa sound style ofcricket, but more than that : to impress the sportsmanlike spirit, which is, happily, the rule rather than the exception with the young players to whom County Cricket has to look for its suc:e38 in the present or the next generation. Under such expert supervision it is no surprise him as one of themselves. His father is an old and respected townsman, and young Woolley, who was born in Ton­ bridge, has lived there all his life. His first appearance in the Kent cricket nursery was some three or four summers ago. It was’only last year that he figured in Kent’s Second Eleven. His introduc- P. WOOLLEY. MB. K. L. HUTCHINGS.