Cricket 1906

4iO CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 13, 1906. have been carried out. But, after all, there were cogent and powerful reasons for the ruling of the M.C.C. To carry out a trip to Australia with a certainty of success is a very different thiDg from arranging for a match between M.C.C. and Scotland at Edinburgh. Before such a tour could be ratified there must obviously be many and important preliminaries to be settled, and no im­ partial critic could gainsay that the atti­ tude of the Marylebone executive has been anything but scrupulously correct. In suggesting that the M.C.C. has, in refusing to send a side, desired to punish T h o u g h the season of 1906 is only just dying, the negotiations arealready in full swing for the arrangement of the various programmes to be played under the auspices of the leading County Clubs next summer. 8ome of the more enter­ prising secretaries have even already got their draft schedules complete, although it is more than three months before the Annual Meeting of County Secretaries takes place at Lord’s. I t must have come as a great dis­ appointment to Mr. Knox, after all his fine work during the season, to be pre- (Tyldesley’s second score of 109) so far, in this week’s match at the Oval, the rate of rungetting, considering the late period of the season, has been generally very much above the average, and already an aggregate of 1,031 runs has been reached for the loss of twenty-five wickets as the outcome of the three days’ cricket. It looked, pretty well up to the end of the innings, as if Kent would get up to, if not pass, their opponent’s score. Blythe’s run out, however, came un­ luckily when they werenearing the oppo­ site total, though, even as it was, it wasa very goodperformanceto get within 27 of Photo by Half-tones, Ltd.] MR. N. A. KNOX. \Reproduced by kind permission o f the “ Tatler .” Australian cricketers in some way or other, the Melbourne Herald, to use a sporting phrase, is “ hitting below the belt.” Some time ago I hinted at the possi­ bility of the visit of another team repre­ senting the Gentlemen of Philadelphia during the course of next summer. The last trip they made over here was in 1903, and I am given to understand that a programme on the lines of that tour of three years ago is proposed for the com­ bination which is to come in 1907. vented from playing in the Kent v. England match this week at the Oval on account of lameness. His record of 144 wickets in all first-class matches at a cost of under twenty runs each, is one of the best season’s work accomplished by any amateurfast bowler for several years. In the interests of Surrey, as well as of English, cricket, one can but express the hope that his long rest during the winter will benefit him greatly and cause him to be found thoroughly robust at the commencement of the 1907 campaiga. T h o u g h therehasbeen onlyonehundred England's big total of 392. It was the first time I at least had seen K. L. Hutchings on the ground. That he was seen to the very best advantage gave, it goes without saying, uumixud satis­ faction to the onlookers, even to the considerable proportion which was not actually of Kent sympathies. T h e Young Amateurs of Surrey, if not ia some respects as successful this year in their annual matches as on some pre­ vious occasions, brought their series to a close on Tuesday in brilliant fashion on the ground of the Brixton Wanderers.