Cricket 1907

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GRAD1DGE & SONS, Manufacturers of all R equ isites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, R acque ts , Football, and all British Sports. PATENTEES AND SOLL MAKERS Jsed by ill th3 [jeadL.g Players. .■'rice Lists Free on application, ) f all First=Class Outfitters and Dealers. Factory, ART LLERY PLACE. WOOLWICH. Cricket : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 18 th , 1907. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. To Surrey has fallen the distinction of being the first side to lower the colours of the South Africans, and that they thoroughly deserved their success every­ one who saw the match would readily admit. Hayward’s superb batting in each innings, Knox's bowling, Craw­ ford’s all-round cricket, and Strudwick’s wicket-keeping were the out-standing features of the match from the point of view of the county. Mr. Knox proved very successful at the commencement of each innings of the South Africans, and his record of nine wickets for 140 by no means represents the service he rendered to his side. I t was somewhat remarkable that in each innings Surrey made over two hundred with only four wickets down and on neither occasion totalled as many as 240. On the other hand, the South Africans scored 162 and 217, after losiog fix wickets for 73 in their first innings and six for 71 in their seoond. The fine up-hill fight the latter made on Siturday morniDg, when, with only four wickets ia hand, they required 214 to win, was quite characteristic of the side and could not be praised too highly. Sinclair, as usual, when a great effort is required of him, was seen at his best, his innings of 64 being, perhaps, the finest thing witnessed in the whole match. On the three occasions upon which the South Africans have most required runs this season, Sinclair has done splendidly; against Kent he made 60, against Sussex 92, and in the match with Surrey 64. O n Thursday evening last the South African and Pennsylvania University cricketers were entertained to dinner by the Surrey County C.C. at the Oval, under the chairmanship of Hr. Jeremiah Colman, the Hon. Treasurer to the Club. Mr. Sherwell, in the course of his speech, remarked that the Test matches—they scarcely expected to win any—would go far towards popularising cricket in South Africa, especially if they managed to extend the English Eleven. P l a y in g in a twelve a-side match for Three Counties Asylum against St. Pancras, on the Asylum Ground on Thursday last, T. Hutchinson took all eleven wickets in an innings. On the Hampstead ground at Finchley- road on Saturday there was some fast and heavy run-getting in the match between Ealing and Hampstead. A.. B. Littel­ john made 169 for the former, who declared their innings closed with seven wickets down for 366. Hampstead proved unable to play out time, and were all disposed of for 276, of which B. S. Foster made 125 in just over forty minutes. T h e Eton and Harrow match of 1907 will always be remembered on account of the performance of the Harrow captain, M. C. Bird, in making a hun­ dred in each innings. His play was perfect throughout and stamped him as a cricketer of most unusual attainments. In addition to scoring so well, he bowled successfully and captained the side with skill, being very happy in changing his bowling, and declaring the second innings closed at the best possible moment. His father, Mr. George Gird, who has been a member of the M.C.C. since 1870, was a good cricketer in his time; at Lord’s, in 1873, he made 116 not out for Fifteen of the M.C.C. against B. A. FitzGerald’s