Cricket 1906

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D e v o n sh ir e , as was pointed out some time ago, is fortunate in being able to claim the services of C. V. L. Hooman, the young amateur who has done so many fine performances with the bat for Charterhouse School during the last three years. By the fact of his father’s resi­ dence at Torquay he is qualified for Devonshire, though, I believe, he has a qualification for another county as well. He got double figures each time for Devonshire v. Monmouthshire, at Exeter, at the end of- last week, but, like other batsmen, was overshadowed by H. F. Brunskill, who punished the Mon­ mouthshire bowlers to the tune of 124 and70 in his two knocks. C. T . S titdd , the old Eton, Cambridge and England cricketer, who has been over in England from India for some little time, has not been content to forego his cricket while over here. On the contrary, his name has been conspicuous in the scores of several matches. At the end of August he was assisting the Folkestone Club. Mention of the Folke­ stone C.C. reminds me of a goodbowling performance for it at the close of last month. It was by the old Cantab, L. T. Driffield, who took six wickets in the first innings of E. J. Hampson’s team at a cost of only seventeen runs. T h e Steel brotherhood, who did such splendid service for Lancashire in their day, it is gratifying to notice, have, most of them, beenprovingconclusivelyduring the last fortnight that they are still in the forefront of club cricket. A. G. was not taking part in either of the matches Liverpool played recently against the Paralians and Northern. But H. B., D. Q., and E. E. were all there, the first two with useful scores v. the Paralians, and E. E. with some effective bowling against the Northern. T h e bowler of the daisy-cutter school has still his moments of inspiration, though underhand expresses are very rarely visible on this side in games of any importance. One of the fra­ ternity, R . Turner, showed that there are still great possibilities for the bowler who can make the ball bounce three or four times on its way to the wicket. He had a striking success for Boston Zingari on August 23rd at Montreal, where he took all ten wickets in Montreal’s one innings for 81 runs.