Cricket 1908

CRICKET: a w e e k l y r e c o r d o f t h e g a m e . SEPTEMBER 17 , 1908 . “ Together joined in Cricket’s m an ly toil.”— Byron. No . 7 9 6 . v o l . x x v i i . THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 17, 1908. o n e p e n n y . TWO CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR. There are no cricketers who will be able to look back upon the season of 1908 with more satisfaction than Hirst and Newstead. The former, though now in his thirty-eighth year, is still as great a player as ever, and for the sixth time in succession and the ninth during his career has made over a thousand runs and taken more than a hundred wickets. He is, beyond doubt, the finest all-round English cricketer of recent times and has, in fact, been surpassed in skill by only one man in the whole history of the game—by “ W .G.,5’ who took part in first-class cricket for over forty years' and was to be feared even to the last. This year he has been admirably seconded by Newstead, who has come right to the front with a bound and gives every promise of developing into a Test-match player in the very near future. The pro­ minent part the pair played in securing the Championship for their county during the past season is familiar to all, and more than justifies the publication of their portraits on the front page of Cricket. GEORGE HERBERT HIRST. Photos by Messrs. E. Hawkins t£• Co., Brighton. JOHN THOMAS NEWSTEAD.