Cricket 1906

C R IC K E T : a w e e k ly r e c o r d o f t h e sam e. SEPT. 13, 1906. ■S9£le — )$©$( "^*=- 5 ©}— }©fl— f.- fv.Ji 1111 1 “ T o g e th e r jo in e d in C r ick e t ’ s m a n ly t o i l . ” — Byron. No. 735. VOL. x x v . THURSDAY, S E P T . 13, 1906. p r i c e 2 a. CUrT. W illiam M c O anlis . by the Cricket Nursery at Tonbridge. Captain William McCanlis and Mr. Tom Pawley, both of whom have, in their day, appeared in the County Eleven, have been largely responsible for the success which has during late years attended the efforts of the many fine young players and advice has been so pronounced is a matter at which all true lovers of the game will rejoice, for it is far preferable for a side to secure the leading place among the counties as a result of the efforts of men who learnt their cricket on the County’s soil thanto gain the chief M r . T om P awley . over thirty years ago as a member of the Kent Eleven. That he is still able to participate successfully in good-class minor cricket is most eloquent testimony to his fitness for teachingthe young idea, for a manmust himself have beentrained in a sound school to have had so pro­ drafted into the side. It would, one may add without the slightest exaggeration, be difficult to over-estimate the value of the services rendered to recent Kent cricket by the pair, who have always used their best endeavours to encourage any likely candidates for County honours. That the result of their long experience honours by other means. It is, in fact, for this reason that the numerous triumphs obtained by the Yorkshire teamduring the past decade have been so popular among cricketers generally. To the present generation Captain McCanlis is, perhaps, better known as a club cricketer than for what he accomplished KENT’S CRICKET MENTORS. The prouddistinctionof playing single- handed against England, whichhas again, after a lapse of twenty-four years, fallen to the lot of Kent, reminds one forcibly of the great good which is being effected