Cricket 1908

40 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M arch 26, 1908. H. GRADIDGE And SONS, Manufacturers o f all Requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Hockey, Football, and all British Sports. PATENTEES AND SOLE MAKERS OF THE Used by all the n j Leading Players. ^ Made in Men’s, Small Men’s, or College, 6, 5, 4, & 3 sizes. P r i c e L i s t s i r e e o n A p p l i c a t i o n . O f all First=Class Outfitters and Dealers. Reblading a Speciality Factory : Artillery Place, WOOLWICH. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Commencing with the Spring number of “ C r i c k e t ” (April 9th), the price of the journal will be permanently altered to ONE PENNY. The paper will continue to be conducted on the lines which have proved so successful during the past 26 years. With the above issue will be presented to all readers the usual SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET, containing the revised First-Class Fixtures, with Portraits of some of the leading players of the day. 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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— E ach of ihe last two matches played b y the English team in Australia ended tamely in a draw, the play on both occasions being restricted to three days. Charles Edward Dolling played a fine innings of 140 for South Australia, whilst at Perth Harold Rowe and Howard dis­ tinguished themselves by making 175 for the first wicket in the second innings of the home side. A review and complete sta*istics of the tour will appear in Cricket in due course. W hen the team were on their way to Australia, it was arranged that they should take part in a one-day match at Colombo on their return journey. Several previous teams had played there, English cricketers being invariably only too pleaded to give Ceylon a game. It is a matter of regret to find that the pro- ft ssionals of the side now returning home demanded a fee of £10 each to play, or twice as much as they would receive for a three-day inter-oounty match in Eng­ land. Their request was, very naturally, not acceded to, it being decided that their services should be dispensed with. According to the latest reports the ama­ teurs have consented to play for Lieut.- Col. K oe’s X I. against Mr. George Van- deispar’s X L at Colombo this afternoon. On t ie 27th ult. Lord Hawke left London for India for some big game shooting, joiuing the “ O ceana” at Marseilles a week later. During his s'a y he will be the guest of the Maha­ rajah of Rewa. H e expects to be in England again b y May 8th. W riting in the Cornhill Magazine, Mr. A. C. Benson, a son of the late Archbishop Benson, observes:— “ My own experience, the older I grow, and the more I see of life, is that I feel it to be a much more bewildering and even terrify­ ing thing than I used to think it. To use a metaphor, instead of its being a patient educational process, which I would give all that I possessed to be able sincerely to believe it to be, it seems to me arranged far more upon the principle of a game of cricket— which I have always held to be, in theory, the most unjust and fortuitous of games. ^ ou step to the wicket, you have only a single chance; the boldest and most patient man may make one mistake at the outset, and his innings is over; the timid tremulous player may by undeserved good luck contrive to keep his wicket up, till his heart has got into the right place and his eye has wriggled straight, and he is set.” It is to be feared that Mr. Benson does not fully appreciate the glorious un­ certainty of the game. Cricket would, indeed, be monotonous and bereft of charm if the best bowlers always mowed down the wickets and the greatest run- getters never failed to score. “ T he Last Test—L o s t! ” was the topic of Prebendary Wilson Carlile at St. M ary-at-H ill, The Monument, London, on the 1st inst. I t is officially announced that Mr. A . C. S. Glover will next season captain the Warwickshire Eleven in the un­ avoidable absence, ow ing to business reasons, of Messrs. Byrne and Fishwick. The return of the old Reptonian to first- class cricket will be very welcome. The Warwickshire County C.C., by-th t-w ay, have set apart the Yorkshire match for the benefit of Santall, who has played for the side for fourteen years, during which he has scored 4,875 runs and taken 804 wicketf. C ommander H enry E dgar G race , R .N , the second, but eldest surviving, son of the Cnampion, has been appointed to H .M .8. “ President.” A t the Annual General Meeting of the K »nt County C.C. at the Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square, on the 9;h inst., Lord Harris stated that the proposed extension of the pavilion at Canterbury had been postponed, the Committee having been unable to purchase some ground they wished to acquire on the south side of the enclosure. The original plan of extending on the north fide will be carried oilt, but it is too late to do any­ thing this season. During 1907 as many as 848 new members were elected, there now being 3,618 names on the books. The profit on the year’s working was £1,551. R. G. B arlow , the old Lancashire and England cricketer, it will interest a great many to know, has just published his reminiscences under the title “ Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket.” A review will appear in Cricket in due course. R . G. B., by-the-way, has an engage- nveat to coach the Essex players at Ley­ ton for three weeks, commencing on April 21st. M r . N . M ’C linton , J.P ., has just been re-elected vice-President of the Cheetham H ill C.C. for the 45th consecu­ tive year. This recalls the fact that the Hon. F. Ponsonby, afterwards sixth Earl of Bessborough, occupied a similar position in connection with the Surrey County C.C. from 1845 until his death 50 years later.