Cricket 1908

1 84 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD O f THE GAME. J u n e 4, 190 8. H. GRADIDGE And SO N S , Manufacturers o f all R eq u is ite s for C r ick e t , Law n T enn is , R a c q u e t s , H o ck ey , F oo tb a ll, an d all British Sports. P A T E N T E E S A N D SO L E M A K E R S . O F T H E Used by ^ all the >14 Leading- Players. ^ M ade in M en’s, Sm all M en’s, or College, 6, 5, 4, & 3 sizes. P ric e I«i 8 ts F r e e ou A p p l i c a t i o n O f all First=Class Outfitters and Dealers. R e b l a d i n g a S p e c i a l i t y . Factory ; Artillery Place, WOOLWICH. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Comm encing with the Spring number o f “ C r ic k e t ” the price o f the journal was perm anently altered to ONE PENNY. T h e paper will continue to be conducted on the lines which have proved so successful during the past 26 years. W ith the Spring issue was presented to all readers the usual SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET, containing the revised First-Class Fixtures, with Portraits of some of the leading players o f the day. THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, post free, to all parts of the world is 3/9 per annum. The Subscription for the 24 Summer Numbers only 3/-, payable in advance. Subscribers who l-.aYe prepaid at the old rate will have their subscriptions adjusted according to the new terms. Offices: 168 Upper Thames St., London,E.C. C r i c k e t : A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 168 , UPPER THAMES STREET LONDON, E.C. THUR SDAY , JU N E 4 t h , 1908. Pavilion Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. —Hamit t O n Friday last M r. F. E. Lacey received a cable stating that the Australian Board o f C ontrol declined to accept the triangular schem e put forw ard last year by Mr. Bailey. N o reason w as announced, but it is believed that the question of finance and the resolve tc restrict each T est match to three days were largely responsible for the decision. And thus the prospect o f a Tournam ent being held in this country is destroyed, for the present at any rate. The decision o f the B oard cannot be regarded as surprising, bearing N oble’s published letter on the m atter in mind and seeing that the idea never aroused the slightest enthusiasm in the Australian press. T h e question now is, “ Shall w e be visited by a team next year, and, if so, from w h ere? ” In the ordinary course o f things the Australians w ould have com e over, but, when the idea o f the Tournam ent was m ooted, invitations to take part in it were extended to both Australia and South A frica, the latter at once notifying their acceptance. As the project has fallen through, those invitations naturally lapse, and so in all probability, as would have been the case if nothing had ever been heard about triangular cricket, an A us­ tralian team will again be seen over here next season. A t W oolw ich on M ay 27th the match betw een R .M .A . and Band o f Brothers ended in a draw , the latter requiring one run to w in with five wickets in hand. T he total scores were :— R .A .M ., 297 for five w ickets, innings declared closed ; Band of Brothers, 297 for six wickets. M r. A. W . F. R utty , the old Shir- burnian, has been offered, and has accepted, the captaincy of the Surrey Second X I. for this season. T h e R ev. Richard H om bersley Tom lins, R ector of Bradley, near Ashbourne, whilst playing cricket on Thursday evening last, expired suddenly. H aving run out a hit for four, he rested on his bat in order to regain his breath, and a few seconds later fell to the ground and died before m edical assistance could be obtained. H e w as in his sixty-fourth year. I n last Saturday’s North Staffordshire L eagu e match at Porthill betw een T un- stall and Porthill, S. F. Barnes m ade 142 not out for the Matter without a chance in a total of 210 for six wickets. T h e Fram lingham Masters ga ve the Cam psie Ashe P ark a severe leather-hunt­ in g on the C ollege ground on Saturday. Their score was :— F r a m l in g h a m M a s t e r s . H . Bassett, not ou t ................................. 131 J. D . E. W illiam s, b Greig ........................... 6 A . M acqueen, not o u t .................................153 Byes, & c....................................................33 T otal (1 wkt.) ..................*323 * Innings declared closed. Cam psie Ashe Park collapsed for 41, the Rev. Dr. Inskip takin g eight w ickets in ten overs for 21 runs. T . B o w r in g and H . Teesdale made his­ tory at O xford last week when playing for the University against a team styled Gentlem en of E ngland. A lthough the latter were a very w eak bow ling side— R. T . C raw ford w as the only m ember of it entitled to be regarded a first-class per­ form er with the ball— the feat of the tw o players mentioned in m aking 338 together for the first w icket w as a notew orthy one. T h e nine largest partnerships for that w icket in first-class cricket are now as follow s :— Runs. Year 554, Brown (300) and Tunnicliffe (243): Y ork­ shire v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield ... 1898 391, A. O. Jones (250) and Shrewsbury (140): N otts v. Gloucestershire, at Bristol ... 1899 380, C. J. B. W ood (225) and Whitehead (174): Leicestershire v. W orcestershire, .at W or­ cester ... ........................................... ••• 1900 379, Brockw ell (225) and A bel (173): Surrey v. Hants, at the Oval...............................................1897 378, Brown (311) and Tunnicliffe (147) : York- • shire v. Sussex, at Sheffield .................. 1897 308, A. C. MacLaren (204) and R. H. Spooner (108): Lancashire v. Gloucestershire, at Liverpool ........................................................1903 304, D. L. A. Jephson (213) and A bel (193): Surrey v. Derbyshire, at the Oval ... 1900 340, H. T. H ewett (201) and L. C. H . Palairet (140): Somerset v. Yorkshire, at Taunton 1892 338, T . Bowririg (22S) and H. Teesdale (108): O xford U niversity v. Gentlem en of England, at O xford ...........................................190 I t is worthy o f rem ark that not one of the above long partnerships took place in Australia, where so many large scores have been chronicled. B o w r in g ' s 228 is the biggest innings ever played in a great match at O xford, exceeding H . H . M assie’s 206 for the Aus­ tralian team of 1882 and J. E. R aphael’s 201 against Yorkshire in 1904. It falls short, however, of K . J. K e y ’s 281 made against M iddlesex at C hisw ick Park in 1887 and G. J. M ordaunt’s not out 264 v. Sussex at B righton in 1895, both of which were made for the University. T revor B o w r in g learnt his cricket at a preparatory school at Ore, near H astings, kept by the R ev. H . C. Lenox Tindall. In 1904 he headed the R ugby averages, his figures being 29.38 for thirteen completed innings with a highest score o f 101. He