Cricket 1906

A p r i l 26, 1906. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 89 H. GRAD1DGE & SONS, Manufacturers o f all R eq u is ite s for C r i c k e t , L aw n T e n n i s , R a c q u e t s , F o o tb a ll, and all British Sports. PATENTEE!? AND tOLl MAEElir OF THE Price Lists ^ Pree on **. Application. ?• O f all F irst=C lass Outfitters and D ea lers. Factory, ARTiLlERY PLACE. WOOLWICH. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, APRIL 26 th , 1906. ^atotlton ®0S53tp* The abstract andbrief chronicle of the time.— Hamle'- In British East Africa cricket matches are played every week, and the full scores are published in the Globe Trotter, a newspaper which has only been running for a short time. In a recent match between Married v. Single a bowler named Turner had an analysis of 5 overs, 1 maiden, 13 rune, 4 wickets, of which the last three were taken in four balls. Tbe highest score of the season tis 137 not out by L. Innes. S everal of the Yorkshire eleven began practice at Headingley, Leeds, last week, and it is anticipated that Lord Hawke will return from India in time for the match against South Wales at Cardiff. T he annual report of the Derbyshire County C.O. shows that the expenditure was £2,588 Is. 4£d., match expenses accounting for £1,611 8 s. lid . Tbe receipts amounted to £2,391 12s. lid., including the sum received from the test matches, and the deficiency is therefore £196 8 s. 5£d. T he new rules which will govern the Halifax Cup Competition at Philadelphia were passed at a meeting of the Asso­ ciated Cricket Clubs on March 9th as follows:— In future the competition will be divided into two divisions, to be known as A and B. Division A will consist of Belmont, German­ town, Merion and Philadelphia; and Division B of Frankford, Moorestown, Germantown and Merion B. The teams in each division will play one game with each other, and the teams in Division A will play one game with each team in Division B. At the end of the season the winner of Division A will play the winner of Division B a two innings game for the championship. Moorestown will be allowed to play one professional. Each team in Division A is to name eight men who will be ineligible to play in Division B and the Philadelphia Cup Competition; aDd each team in Division B is to name eight men who are ineligible for the Philadelphia Cup Competition. T he members of the West Indian team are to sail for England from Bridgetown, Barbados, on May 2nd in the "Trent.” They are due at Southampton on June 4th. A t the annual meeting of the Norfolk County C.C. on Saturday last it was stated that the gate receipts for last season had fallen from £123 to £72, but that subscriptions had produced £374 instead of £348. Thanks largely to the sum received from the test matches, the club is able to show a balance of £ 68 . F or 61st and 64th Pioneers v. Ootaca- mund Gymkhana E. Mareden made 247 not out on March 31st at Ootacamund. He weat in first, and the innings was declared closed at 381 for seven wickets. For the other side Morrison scored 108 out of 228 for six wickets, a total of 609 being made during the day. It may be interesting to note that the Zemindar of Kumaravalam, the Zemindar of Swagiri, and the Zemindar of Palayam- patti, who were playing for Ootacamund, did not bat. R eferring to the record of the Pad­ dington C.C. at Sydney for the past season the Sydney Mail says It is not so very long ago that Paddington was, like Eclipse, first, th#rest nowhere. Now the position is quite the reverse. Paddington has played to date eight matches, and has won but one—that one against Burwood, who were beaten outright. There are on the Paddington side two of the best cricketers in the world (Trumper and Noble); yet that club cannot win. It is in accordance with the traditions of the game that the batsmen nearest perfection should sometimes fail, and also that several should fail together. That has been Paddington’s luck this season. Noble’s loss of skill as a bowler has had a lot to do with the low position now occupied by the winners of the Hordern shield. F rom the Adelaide Observer : East Torrens barrackers —and there has been a growing element of Norwood youths every Saturday lately— were given a good opening by wicket-keepcr Richardson of the Adelaide team on Saturday. Wright sent down a twister to Con Chamberlain, whe mishit the ball a few yards out from the crease. “ Jock” Richardson bounced out after it and was about to toss it back t» Wright when he noticed that the batsman was just out of his wicket. Chamberlain had his back half-turned to the wicket-keeper, so that Richardson might have sneaked up quietly and whipped the bails off. But when he got within about four feet of the stumps he let fly with terrific pace at the wicket. As the stumps remained intact and Chamberlain coolly walked back into safety, and as the spectatorscould not see the ball fiying through space, they conoluded that Richardson had merely made a feint to scare the batsman. Their surmises were checked, however, when they beheld Richardson suddenly careering to the opposite boundary at his best speed, and—their eyes being cast in that direction —they beheld the ball just dribbling up to the fence. C. B. J ennings has made a new record for Adelaide club cricket by scoring three hundreds in succession and four in a sea­ son. F. T. Hack, J. Darling, C. Hill and A. E. H. Evans have each made three hundreds in a season. W hen North Sydney were playing Glebe on March 7th they had to make 207 to win. They scored 40 without loss, and then three men, including Duff, were out. At this stage of the game A. B. 8 . White, before he had scored, had his chin cut open by a fast full pitch from Cotter. He went away, had the wound stitched up, returned, and, with the permission of the Glebe captain, continued his innings when the next wicket fell. He scored 24 runs, and helped his side to make a splendid fight, although Glebe secured the victory by 18 runs. A t the beginning of March Lord Chelmsford, the Governor of Queensland, had a slight sunstroke when playing in a matoh at Toowoomba, but it was hoped that he would soon recover. D uring the past season the weather at Brisbane has been extremely wet, and the younger cricketers cmnot recall an equally bad time. A ccording to Australian newspapers Darling, the Australian captain, has bought a large estate at Mount Barker, in S juth Australia, and intends to go in for sheep breeding. >