Cricket 1906

440 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O ct. 25, 1906. JOHNWISIEHI Cl. CRICKET BALL MAKERS, Supply all the Principal Counties and Clubs through­ out the world with their well-known M a rve llou s Tes tim ony . The Inns of Court Hotel, 18th Sept., 1905. Messrs. JohnWisden &Co., London. Dear Sirs,—Before leaving for home, I shouldlike tohear testimony to the Bats you supplied me with and which I have used nearly all thetour. I mustalsospeakinpraise of your “ Special Crown” Cricket Balls, which, of course, we have used in all the Tests and many other Matches, they are less hardonthe hands, in my opinion, than any othermake.—Yours faithfully, W a r w ic k W . A rm strong . S.S. “ China,” 18th, Sept., 1905. Messrs. JohnWisden &Co. Dear Sirs,—Daring the tour of the 1905 Australian Eleven, your “ Special Crown” Cricket Balls were the only balls used in the TestMatches, andtheygaveeverysatisfaction. 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Cricket: A WEEKLY EECOED OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, OCT. 25 th , 1906. $a\riltott (§0521tp* The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet Cricket readers will be sorry to hear that J. Darling, the Australian captain, has been recently laid up, owing to a severe hick from a horse on his shin and ankle. The injury kept him in bed for several days, and early last month, when the news came from Adelaide, he was just beginning to move about, though in considerable pain. T he New South Wales Cricket Asso­ ciation has issued its programme of first- class and grade engagements for the coming season:— Nov. 10 and 12.—Trial match. Nov. 10 and 12.—New South Wales v. Queensland, at Brisbane. Dec. 14,15,17 and 18.—New South Wales v. South Australia, at Adelaide. Dec. 21,22,24 and 26.—New South Wales v. Queens­ land, at Sydney. Dec. 26, 27, 28 and 29.—New South Wales v. Vic­ toria, at Melbourne. Jan. 11,12,14 and 16.—New South Wales v. South Australia, at Sydney. Jan. 25, 26,28 and 29.—New South Wales v. Vic­ toria, at Sydney. The Times of Ceylon gives a summary of the bowling record of the Ceylon Colt, T. Eelaart, which it considers to be probably unparalleled in the world. According to the Ceylon Times, between 1889 and 1905 Kelaart bowled in 275 innings and captured 1,284 wickets at an average of five runs each. I n a match between the Madras C.C. and Buchi Babu’s XI. played at Madras in the middle of September, H. P. Symmcnds and P. W. Partridge put on 126 for the first wicket of the Club. As a matter of history it may be as well to record how they were out. Symmonds, after just missing the hundred by four runs, was “ st Muttu Mudali, b Raja- gopilacharry,” and Partridge (57), “ c Subbramanian, bMannarkrishnan.” The other members of B. Babu’s XI. were B. S. Ramulu, C. R. Ganapaty, Ethira- julu Naidu, M. S. Subbramania Aiyer, P. T. Kumaraswami Chetty, S. V. Chetty, and B. Bangaru Babu. On the evening of Wednesday, the 10th inst., a banquet to celebrate the winning of the County Championship by Kent was held at Maidstone. The Major, Mr. W. Day, jun., presided, and presented each member of the team with a silver cigarette box on behalf of the inhabitants of the town. The toast of “ The Champion Team,” which was proposed by the High Sheriff of Kent, was responded to by Mr. C. H. B. Mar­ sham, who, in the course of his remarks, expressed the hope thatMaidstone would in future have a cricket week. Alec Hearne and Huish also replied. Sir Marcus Samuel proposed “ The Club,” and Lord Harris, in responding, touched briefly upon the County’s cricket history during the past 200 years. COUNTY cricket will be considerably the poorer by the retirement of J. H. Brain from the double office of Hon. Sec. of the Glamorganshire C.C.C. and the captaincy of the County team. Since he gave upGloucestershire, after graduating with brilliant success at Ciifton and Oxford, he has, it is not too much to say, borne the brunt of the administration of oounty cricket at Cardiff, and one may also say of the more strenuous cricket throughout South Wales. One of the most deservedly popular of sportsmen, he will be very greatly missed, not only in his own district for which he has done so much, but by the hundreds of friends he has made on the cricket field every­ where. E rn est Smith, the Yorkshireman, was the winner of the scratch prize of the Cricketers’ Golfing Society, at the first meeting of the season, held on the links of the Maidenhead Club on Wednesday of last week. R. H. Mallett, of Durham, one of the Hon. Secretaries of the Minor Counties’ Competition (15) landed the eclectic prize with a net scoreof 64, with A. P. Day (Kent), 10, and P. J. de Para- vicini (Bucks), 11, equal second, each with 69 nett. “ Para,” too, won the handicap prize witha scoreof 85—11=74. A t the banquet to the Kent team at the Hotel Cecil the week before last, Lord Harris started proceedings by announcing that “ The Rev. H. B. Biron, who scored 200 against the Gentlemen of Sussex, will say grace.” The innings alluded to, I may add, was 214 for Cambridge Quidnuncs, at Brighton, in 1864. It was the first score of 200 or more ever made in the County. W i t h in the last few weeks a tablet has been placed in Eton College chapel to the memory of Colonel Frank Rhodes. The Colonel, who was a brother of the Empire builder, Cecil Rhodes, was in the