Cricket 1908

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Pavilion Gossip. The abstract and biief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. B y their well-deserved success over Su rrey in last week’s m atch at the Oval, Y orksh ire added to their reputation and still further increased their hold on the Championship. I f the m atch had been played on a fast w icket Su rrey would probably have been seen to greater advantage ; still, w ith such a fickle climate as ours, it would be puerile to lay anything to the charge of the weather, and, besides, the fact rem ains that, as the conditions were, Yorkshire were decidedly the better team . W hilst H ayw ard and M arshal were together in the second innings it looked as though Su rrey m ight, after all, make a close fig h t; but, after the former had been dism issed, Y orkshire quickly got “ on to p ” again, and eventually won b y seven w ickets on the eve of their Captain’s forty - eighth birthday. The enforced absence of Strudw ick handicapped Surrey to no sm all extent, for, although H ayes brought off some very' good catches, the home side allowed four tim es as m any extras as they received. T h e 9 6 matches played between Yorkshire and Su rrey have resulted as fo llow s:— Date of Won Won Ground. First by by Drawn. Total. Match. Yorks. Surrey. Sheffield ... 1851 ... 14 ... ii . 0 ... 31 O v a l......... . 1851 ... 20 ... 10 .... 12 ... 48 H u ll......... . 1879 ... 1 ... 0 .... 0 .. 1 H u d d er s field .. . 18S1 ... 1 ... 0 .... 0 .. 1 Holbeck ... 1883 ... 1 ... 0 .... 0 .. 1 Dewsbury. . 1884 ... 0 ... 0 ... 1 .. 1 Bradford .. . 1888 ... 1 2 ... 3 .. 0 Leeds . 1892 5 ... i ! 1 .. • 7 In Yorkshire 1851 ... 23 ... 14 ,... 11 .. . 48 In Surrey .. 1851 ... 20 ... 10 .,.. 12 ... 48 Summary ... 1851 ... 43 ... 30 ... 23 .. . 90 Su rrey did not once prove successful at the Oval between 1865 and 18 8 6 ! T . G . C. S a n d fo r d was responsible for some rem arkable cricket in Devon last week whilst on tour with I. Zingari. On the first two days of the week, when playing against Seaton, he scored 10 7 and took all ten w ickets for 43 runs in an innings o f 104, bowling down the last four wickets w ith consecutive balls. On W ednesday and Thursday he made 5 1 and 28 not out against Sidmouth, and took seven wickets. R e q u ir e d , a definition of “ form .” Quite recently H ampshire beat K ent at Canterbury by a w icket, and Somerset defeated H ampshire at Southampton by seven wickets. “ H ow much greater, therefore,” Euclid, the friend— do not om it the “ r ,” M r. Printer— of our youth, would have said, “ shall be the reverse which Som erset shall inflict upon K ent at Taunton.” The argument is sound enough, but, as though to show that Cricket is far beyond the logic o f Euclid, K en t beat Somerset b y an innings and 1 1 4 rim s after declaring with two wickets in hand. And this, although Johnson made his fourth hundred in three matches and put up 188 for the first w icket with B rau n d ! T h e Kent batsmen showed their appre­ ciation of the Taunton wicket by scoring 601 for eight w ickets, Seym our, Woolley, A . P . D ay, and H um phreys all entering three-figure-land. The cricket on Friday, seeing that nearly 600 runs were made during the day, must have been very bright, though one cannot help sym pa­ thising to a certain extent w ith the bowlers who came in for such severe punishment. D uring the three days of the Su rrey v, Yorkshire match at the Oval 59 1 runs were made for 32 wickets ; at Taunton on the one day mentioned 572 were scored for the dis­ m issal of five batsmen. The contrast is certainly rem arkable, though the circum ­ stances in which the runs were made were very different. The only previous in ­ stances in which four separate hundreds had been made in an innings of a first- class match w ere— ( 1 ) b y Y orkshire v. Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1896 ; (2) by H ampshire v. D erbyshire at D erby in 1898; (3) by Lancashire v. Som erset at M anchester in 19 0 4: and (4) by E n glan d v. South Australia at Adelaide in 1907-8. A ll the performances were exceeded, how ­ ever, when Nfew South W ales played South Australia at Sydney in 190 0-1, for as m an y as five three-figure scores were included in the form er’s total ot 9 18 : S. E . G regory made 168, M. A . Noble 15 3 , L . O. S. Poidevin 140 not out, K . A. D uff 1 1 9 ; and E . A . Iredale 118 . There were five partnerships of over 10 0 in the long innings. G iv in g evidence at the inquest on the body of George B est B ester at B rad ­ ford on the 1 1 th inst., a brother o f the deceased, who was found on the roadside unconscious, said they had been to a cricket match against Horton Prim itive. Deceased had been one of the bowlers, and was som ewhat excited at his side having won the match. Medical testimony w as tb the effect that the deceased died from over - exertion of the heart. H u b b l e , the K en t cricketer, made 227 not out for M .C.C. and Ground against Eastbourne at the Saffrons on Saturday. M .C.C. won by an innings and 95 runs, scoring 498 for eight wickets, innings declared closed, against 2 3 1 and 172. L o n d on C o u n t y had B risto l School­ m asters for opponents at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, and, owing largely to “ W .G .’s ” all-round cricket, won very easily. The “ Old M an ” took six wickets for 89 runs in a total of 165 Used by all the m Leading Players. ^ Made in Men’s, Small Men’a, or CoUege, 6, 5, 4, 4 3 sizes. P r ic e L is t ) F r e e on A p p lica tion . O f all First=Class Outfitters and Dealers And SONS, Manufacturers o f all Requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Hockey, Football, and all B ritish Sports. PATENTEES AND SOLE MAKERS OF THE Reblading a Speciality.