Cricket 1906

296 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 26, 1906. JINN WISIEHt Gl. CRICKET BALL MAKERS , 8 upply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through out the world with their well-known H. GRAD1DGE & SONS, Manufacturers of all Requisites for C r ick e t , L a w n Tenn is , R a cq u e t s , Footba ll, a n d all British Sports. M a r v e l l o u s T e s t im on y . The InnB of Court Hotel, 18th Sept., 1905. Messrs. John Wisden & Co., London. Dear Sirs,—Before leaving for home, I should like to bear testimony to the Bats yon supplied me with and which I have used nearly all the tour. I must also speakin praise of your “ Special Crown ” Cricket Balls, which, of course, we have used in all the Tests and many other Matches, they are less hard on the hands, in my opinion, than any other make.—-Yours faithfully, W arw ick W. Arm strong. S.S. “ China,” 18th, Sept., 1905. Messrs. John Wisden & Co. 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B y scoring 109 for Surrey against Warwickshire, on Thursday last week, Hayward brought his total of hundreds for the season to eleven, thus requiring two more hundreds to equal C. B. Fry’s record of thirteen in a season, and one more to equal Abel’s reoord of twelve. The list of Hayward’s eleven hundreds is as follows: — 219—v. Northamptonshire, at the Oval. 135—v. Leicestershire, at the Oval. 144 (not out) and 100—v. Notts, at Nottingham. 143 and 125—v. Leicestershire, at Leicester. 100—v. Gloucestershire, at Bristol. 144—v. Oxford University, at the Oval. 144—v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield. 208—v. Warwickshire, at the Oval. 109—v. Warwickshire, at Birmingham A l t h o u g h on many wickets of the present day, in first class cricket, a man has to play a really fine game if he is to make ahundred, the days of long partner­ ships are not yet over. Thus, on Friday last, C. J. B Wood and Whitehead scored 380 for the first wicket of Leicestershire against Worcestershire, at Worcester. It may be considered as a curiosity of cricket that the runs produced by this partner­ ship equalled the score previously made by Worcestershire in their first innings. Thus, before a wicket fell, Leicester­ shire with all their wickets in hand were practically an innings ahead of their opponents. This partnership is a record as far as Worcestershire and Leicestershire are concerned, and is the third in first-class cricket. The two highest partnerships for the first wicket ia first-class cricket are:— 554 by J. T. Brown and Tunnicliffe, for Yorkshire v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield, August 1898. 391 by A. O. Jones and Shrewsbury, for Notts v. Gloucestershire, at Bristol, June 1899. B u t it may be noted that this partner­ ship by Mr. Wood and Whitehead, although it was followed by two other long stands, did not help to bring about a victory for Leicestershire, for despite the total of 701 for four wickets made by their opponents Worcestershire very easily drew the game. Still, the [Leicester­ shire score is so remarkable that I append it here as a curiosity of cricket:— L eicestershire . C. J. B. Wood, b Wilson .................225 Whitehead, c Foster, b Cuffe ..........174 Knight, c Hutchings, b Arnold ... 97 Coe, b Burrows ............................... 50 V. F. SS. Crawford, not out..............................102 King, not out................................................. 14 E xtras.................................................. 39 Total (4 wkts)... ..........*701 O* E. de Trafford, R. T. Crawford, W. W. Odell J. Shields and Jayes did not bat. * Innings declared closed. T h e aggregate made in the Worcesttr- shire-Leicestershire match was 1425 for sixteen wickets, which is again the third highest as far as England is concerned, the two higher totals being 1,492 for thirty-threewickets in the Worcestershire v. Oxford University match at Worcester,.