Cricket 1908

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C R IC K E T B A T S a n d B A L L S . 18 , P r in c e s S treet, C a v e n d is h S q u a r e , L O N D O N , W The Sportsman sa y s:—“ T h e b ou n d volum e o f Cricket for 1907 is now ready, and affords a valuable record of the gam e not only in E ngland, bu t in Greater B rita in /’ P rice 8 s. 6 d., post free 9s. A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAM ES S TR EET, LONDON, E-C. THURSDAY, JULY 2 n d , 1908. Pavilion Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. I w a s glad to see that the names of many cricketers were included in the list of Birthday Honours published last Friday. Mr. Joseph Francis Leese, K .C ., M .P., one o f the new Baronets, played in his day for Lancashire, and in 1887 appeared for the Veterans in the Centenary match at L ord’s ; Captain Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, R .E ., one of the best-known Army cricketers and a member of the M .C.C. since 1897, has been appointed C .M .G . for services in connection with the survey of the Gold Coast and A shanti; Colonel (Brigadier-General) Lovick Bransby Friend, of the Kent X I. of 1886 and 1887, has received a C.B. ; Percy John de Para- vicini, Chairman of the Committee of King Edward V II. Hospital and Dispensary, Windsor, the old Eton, Cambridge, Middle­ sex and Bucks cricketer, has been appointed to the Royal Victorian Order ; whilst Her­ bert Preston-Thomas, one of the most loyal and enthusiastic of Incogs., has received a K .C .B . T h e r e was some rather remarkable scor­ ing in the match at Chatham on June 18th between R.N . and R.M . (Chatham) and the Band of Brothers. The latter, in reply to a total of 228, had scored 175 for nine wickets when the last man, E. Campbell- Stevens, went in and joined Captain C. B. O. Symons. The pair put on n o runs for the last wicket without a separation being effected, and of that number Campbell- Stevens made only 9. Captain Symons, who carried out his bat for 137, made 130 of the last 140 runs scored. T h e members of the Philadelphian team, on board the Cunarder Umbria , reached Queenstown on Saturday last and landed at Liverpool on the following morning. Their match list is as under :— JU LY. f 6 . v. South Wales, at Cardiff. 9. v. W orcestershire, at W orcester. 13. v. Ham pshire, at Southam pton. fl7 . v. A. C. Edwards’ X L , at Folkestone (2 days). •20. v. M iddlesex, at L ord’s, f 124. v. Royal Artillery, at W oolwich (2 days). 27. v. Northam ptonshire, at Northam pton. 30. v. Surrey, at the Oval. AUGUST. 3. v. A ll Ireland, at Dublin, t 7. v. Northern Counties, at Belfast. ]3. v. M.C.C. and Ground, at L ord’s. 17. v. Derbyshire, at Derby. 20. v. N otts, at Nottingham , f24. v. Durham , at Sunderland. 27. v. K ent, at Canterbury. tSignifies not first-class. Eight members of the 1903 team, which defeated Gloucestershire, Notts, Kent, Lan­ cashire, Leicestershire, and Surrey, are in­ cluded in this year’s combination. T h e meeting of Yorkshire and Notting­ hamshire at Trent Bridge last week un­ fortunately failed to provide a definite result. The play throughout was very slow, and one could not help feeling that the sides were far more anxious to stave off defeat than to run the slightest risk which an endeavour to force a win might have entailed. There was some reason for the slow play by Yorkshire after their disas­ trous start in the first innings, but several times later in the match the run-getting was inexcusably sedate, whilst the closure was delayed so much on the last afternoon that when it was applied there was prac­ tically no chance whatever of a definite result being recorded. The match, in short, considering its importance, was very dis­ appointing. “ A p a t h e t ic figure in the pavilion at Leyton nowadays is Carpenter, who used to play for Essex,” says the Sporting Chronicle. “ This once brilliant batsman, who looks in perfect health, never speaks to any of his friends. Nothing can induce him to enter into conversation, but a com­ panion brings him to the matches in the hope that a gleam of recollection may re­ store reason and speech.” T h e newspapers have been strangely silent concerning the rare feat performed in the latter part of last week by Hayward (67 and 50) and Hobbs (54 and 102) for Surrey against Oxford University at the Oval. In each innings they put up over a hundred for the first wicket, scoring 105 together in the first innings and 118 in the second. On Monday, against Warwickshire on the same ground, they made 104 in partner­ ship, Hayward scoring 69 and Hobbs 63. This recalls the fact that twelve months earlier the same pair accomplished a feat quite without parallel by making over a hundred together for the first wicket of Surrey four times in one w eek : against Cambridge University at the Oval they made 106 and 125 and against Middlesex at L ord’s 147 and 105. A. W . S p r in g , who played such a hard- hit innings for Surrey against Oxford University at the Oval last Thursday, would probably have become a regular member of the County eleven ere this had it been possible to give him more oppor­ tunities of proving his worth. He was born at Dulwich on May 17th, 1881, and be­ came a member of the ground-staff at the Oval in 1902. In his first year at Kenning­ ton he scored 501 runs in ten innings for the Surrey Colts, making 185 v. Wands­ worth and 129 v. Cane Hill Asylum. In 1903 he was tried for the first time for the