Cricket 1908

J u ly 9 , 1908 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 265 very strong-. The scoring ruled lower than had been anticipated, the extent to which bowlers were assisted suggesting- that the wicket had been too recently watered. Fry played a really great innings on Thursday, but, apart from that, the Gentlemen’s cricket was not worthy of the occasion ; their batting was poor and their fielding often at fault, whilst their bowling was not managed well. As in the Centenary match of 1906, Fielder bowled with great effect, and he was well supported by Relf. In a somewhat low scoring match Hardstaff’s innings of 77 stood out very prominently, as it deserved to do, but it was scarcely so fine an innings as that played by Fry on the previous day. O ne hundred and sixty-eight matches have now taken place between the Gentle­ men and Players, with the following re­ sults :— W on b y W on by Ground. Played. Gents. Players. Dr. Tie r _ „ j» ( X I. a-sido ... 76 29 38 9 0 Aj0rast Agst. Odds ... 17 7 9 1 0 Oval .................................. 51 14 25 11 1 S ca rb o ro u g h .................... 8 2 2 4 0 H astings .. ... 7 1 2 4 0 Prince’s ..................... 5 4 1 0 0 u ■ 1 I X I. a-side 2 0 1 1 0 Brighton j Aggt od(Js 1 0 O I O Canterbury (Agst. Odds) 1 001 0 Totals [X I. a-side... 149 |A gst. Odds 19 50 69 29 1 7 9 3 0 Grand T otal................ 168 57 78 32 1 Note. —The Players have never received odds in any shape or form w hen m eeting the Gentlem en. To-day’s match at the Oval, it will be thirty-four wickets, the former scoring 431 for seven wickets (innings declared closed) and 231 and the latter 548 and 111 for seven wickets. Lieut. O. E. Leggett made 203 in the first innings of Royal Navy and K. R. McCIoughlin 292 not out in that of the Royal Artillery. McCIoughlin hit fifty 4’s in his great score, put on 229 for the third wicket with Captain H . H. Bond (96), and offered only one chance— when 70. The R .A ., set 115 to win in forty minutes, made h i in that time (McCloughlirt, 42). Gold- ney was caught as the clock struck the hour for drawing stumps. L a s t week the Enterprise C.C., of Eal­ ing, played two tie-matches in succession, EARLY CRICKET AT HARROW SCHOOL. F r o m T he N ew s of the W o rld :— “ I t is not at all im probable that w e have seen the last of the G entlem en v. Players m atches at L ord ’s. This not only because o f th e diffi­ culty o f g ettin g a team o f gentlem en to make any adequate show again st the professionals, but also on a cco in t o f the internal feuds w hich seem never absent from the am ateur side. It is an am azing fa ct that at one tim e on Thursday it seem ed only too probable that the Gentlem en w ould have to take the field w ith only eight players. Ono w ell-know n am ateur refused to play unless the w hole o f his expenses w ere paid him , another unless he w ere m ade captain, and a th ird unless his frien d ’s dem and fo r cap­ taincy w ere conceded. The financial demand was conceded, the other dem and was refused, and on ly the greatest pressure prevented the tw o from carryin g their threat into execution. There w as a tim e, and n ot lon g ago, when any am ateur player w ould have paid untold gold to be given the honour o f pla yin g in th is m atch, and in w hatever capacity.** The above rumours may, or may not, be in the strictest accordance with facts. But whatever degree of truth there is in them, it seems to me perfectly ludicrous to suggest that the procedure on the part of two or three individuals could possibly contribute to any extent to the discontinuance of so historic a match. seen, is the 150th played between the sides even-handed. R. S. T o n k in took all ten wickets in an innings for 35 runs for Christ’s Hospital against Cranleigh School, at Horsham on June 27th. The score of the innings was as follow s:— R. MacD. W inder, c B. Dreyfus, c Leem - Pennington, b Ton- ing, b Tonkin kin ... ................ 9 F. O. Sprinks, st Bar- H . G. Voice, c Simp* ber, b Tonkin son, b Tonkin ... 15 C .F inch-N oyes,c Bar- T. R. W hite, st Bar- ber, b Tonkin ber, b Tonkin ... 8 T. H . W ilson, st Bar- F. Morris, c Leem - ber, b Tonkin ing, b Tonkin ... 0 E. L. Watson, b Tonkin ................ 6 A. J. Currie, not out 13 B 7 ,1 -b l, n-b 1 ... 9 H . H . H ockley, c Leem ing, b Tonkin 0 Total ................ 63 Tonkin also made the highest score (69) in the Hospital’s innings of 264. I n the match at Portsmouth on Friday and Saturday last between Royal Navy and Royal Artillery 1.321 runs were obtained for against St. John’s School on Tuesday, when each side made 23, and against Springfield College two days later, when the totals were 48. S p e a k in g at the prize distribution at the County Educational School at Harpenden, on Wednesday of last week, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy, expressed his disagreement with a criticism levelled at the public schools of England that they existed for the cultivation of cricket and character, and nothing else. When speak­ ing of cricket, however, he expressed his approval of it because it taught boys to “ play the gam e,” and to co-operate one with another, instead of always playing for their own hand. He rejoiced that cricket was not contaminated with betting. I n the two matches played at Eastbourne last week as many as 2,544 runs were made for the loss of sixty-nine wickets, the scor