Cricket 1907

J u l ? 18, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 281 American Team, and in 1880 appeared for Lancashire, for which county his son is qualified. It is unfortunate, from a cricket point of view, that “ M-C.” is not proceeding to either University. I n a Veterans.’ match at Norwich last week, the total ages of one eleven amounted to 838 years and of the other 827. The latter side won. Youth will be served. T h e r e was some fast run-getting ia Windsor Home Park on the 10th inst., in a match between the Home Park and 3rd Grenadier Guards. The Guards declared at 227 for eight wickets and left the Home Park 110 minutes to bat. The runs were hit off for the loss of only were beaten by 96 runs. It has been said that it was the first time for eighteen years that Lord Hawke had adopted the policy. On the occasion referred to— against Kent at Maidstone iu 1889— Kent, sent in first, won by an innings and 106 runs, scoring 239 and dismissing Yorkshire for 71 and 62. Two yeirs ago, as many will doubtless remember, Mr. Mirsham won the toss in the Lancashire match at C mterbury, and, sending his opponents in, saw his bowlera punished to the tuna of 479. At the Oral three weeks later, when playiog against Surrey, he lost the toss and, being given first innings, obtained a pur of spectacles in a match which ended in a tie, and in which the side S9nt in I H E A R that the Bishop of Bristol has offered, the living o ff St. Luke’s, Bed- minster, to the Rev. F. H. Gillingham. There'[is, therefore, a possibility of Somerset benefiting at the expense of Essex. Mr. Gillingham, having been born in Japan, would, of course, be unable to play for Somerset until he had completed his two years’ qualification. T h is week’s meeting of the Gentlemen and Players marks the Jubilee of the match at the Oyal. Until 1857 the two sides did not oppose each other—except in 1845 at Biighton, and 1816 at Canter­ bury—away from Lord’s, but in the year named the Surrey Club arranged a match, and the fixture was such a success and became so popular that it has been re- EAELY CRICKET AT SEVENOAKS, 1780. [Reproduced by kind permission from “ The History of Kent County Cricket.”] three wickets, and with thirteen minutes to spare. The hundred went up in 36 minutes, and at the end of an hour the total had reached 162, J. Christie scored 111 in 67 minutes without a mistake, and W. J. Scott 53. I t seldom chances that two instances occur during a single day of a captain putting his opponents in after having won the toss. But such an event was chronicled in connection with last Thurs­ day’s cricket, Lord Hawke putting Essex in at Leyton, and Mr. Marsham giving Gloucestershire first innings at Dover. In the former case the experiment proved successful, Yorkshire winning easily by an innings, but at Dover Kent, after gaining a small lead on the first innings, established a lead of 77 on the first innings. I t is gratifying to learn that Kent’s experiment in allocating a match to Dover has proved very successful finan­ cially. Kent, as is well known, took the field as far back as 1719, but it was not until list Thursday that a County match had b sen played at Dover. About sixty years ago, however, several good games took placa at Oxuey Court, the residence of the brothers W. J. and Elward Banks, of the Kent Eleven. The latter, who was obliged to give up cricket about sixty years ago on account of ill health, will complete his eighty-seventh year next month. tained in the Oval programme ever since. In 1857 the Players won by ten wickets, the Gentlemen, for whom four of the brothers Walker appaared, being dis­ missed for 63 and 125. Of the two elevens which met on that occasion only one member of each survives—Caffyn being now in his eightieth year and the Rev. C. D. Marsham, father of the present-day Kent captain, in his seventy- third. A t the Oval, on Monday, Tarrant made his thousandth run of the season, having previously obtained his one hundredth wicket. He is the first player to accom­ plish the double event this year in great matches.