Cricket 1908

72 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r i l 16 , 190 8. H. GRADIDGE And SO N S , Manufacturers o f a ll R eq u is ite s for C r ick e t , Lawn T enn is , R a c q u e t s , H o ck ey , Foo tba ll, a n d a ll British Sports. PATENTEES AND SOLE MAKERS 01 '’ THE Used by all the Leading 1 Players. Made in Men's, Small Men’s, or College, 6 , 5, 4, & 3 sizes. I ' r i c e l . l s l s f r e e 0 1 1 A p p l i c a t i o n . O f all First=Class Outfitters and Dealers. Reblading a Speciality, Factory ; Artillery Plage, WOOLWICH . IMPORTANT NOTICE. Commencing with the last number of “ C r ic k e t ” the price of the journal was 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 last week’s issue was presente 1 to all readers the usual SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET, containing the revised First-Class Fixtures, with Portraits of tome of the leading players of the day. THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, post free, to all parts o f the w orld Is 3/9 per annum. The Subscription for the 24 Summ er Numbers on ly 3/-, payable in advance. Subscribers w ho have prepaid at the old rate w ill have their subscriptions adjusted] accordin g to the new terms. C r i c k e t : A WEEKL Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 168 , UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, APR IL i 6 t h , 1908. Pavilion Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. T he match at the Oval between the First XI. of Surrey and the Next XVI., arranged originally for May ist and 2nd, will be played on Monday and Tuesday, April 27th and 28th. A t the Annual General Meeting of the Leicestershire County C.C., held at Leicester on the 8th inst., the chairman, Mr. J. W. Logan, announced that the re­ sult of the appeal for donations to wipe off the deficit of the Club’s finances was that .£'1,900 had been guaranteed) in addition to the ^'500 promised in connection with the improvement fund. The Bank over­ draft would absorb ^2,000, leaving therri with a working balance of ^400. During 1907 there was a loss of ^451 14s., in­ creasing the Bank deficit to ^1,434. In place of Mr. T. Burdett, who had acted for the long period of twenty-eight years, and who was accorded a special vote of thanks for his services, Mr. C. E. Rudd was elected to the position of Hon. Secre­ tary by the choice of the members. The present membership of the Club is 1,514. A Cricket reader has kindly forwarded me a copy of a verse which he recently found cut into the stone stile leading into the churchyard at Llandais Discoed, near Caerwent, in Monmouthshire. It is as follows :— “ Who Ever hear on Sonday Will Practis Playing At Ball it May Be beFore Monday The Devil Will have you All.” —which seems to suggest that every cricketer would do well to remember and act upon the advice given by Mr. Justice Stareleigh to Sam Weller, “ You had better be careful, sir.” T he proceeds of the match between Leicestershire and Hampshire, which com­ mences on the Leicester ground on July 6th, are to be set apart as a benefit for Coe. Offices: 168 Upper Thames St.,‘London, E.rj. In the report which is to be placed before the members of the Essex County C.C., at the Annual General Meeting at the Liverpool Street Hotel at 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 30II1 inst., the future of the Club is referred to in the following terms : Your Committee regret that notwith­ standing the repeated and very earnest ap­ peals which they have made to the County at large and the public generally for in­ creased support by an enlarged roll of members, the actual total of members is now only 1,761 (i.e., 1,558 gentlemen and 203 ladies), being 62 fewer than at this time last year. In consequence of this small and totally inadequate membership, the Committee were much to their regret compelled to call upon those few members who so kindly became guarantors. This fact more than ever emphasises the abso­ lute necessity, which your Committee have so often insisted upon, of there being a membership of not less than 2,500 in order to place the Club upon an absolutely sound basis and to make it quite independent of a wet season and all other outside influ­ ences. So disappointing has the response from the County been that several of the most influential members of the Committee have decided to retire at the end of the coming season unless the membership list is in­ creased to the required number. The present position seems to indicate that a very large number of people in the County who should be supporters of the Club are quite indifferent as to whether there is a County Cricket Club in Essex or not. Naturally this apathy is most dis­ heartening to your Committee and to all the staunch supporters of the Club. Your Committee cannot help thinking that there really should not be much diffi­ culty in securing a membership of 2,500, if all those who have the interests of the Club at heart would help by securing at least one new member. There must surely be many supporters of the game having no connection with the County who would be only too pleased lo support the Club during its pericd of ad­ versity by becoming annual subscribers. Those desirous of being enrolled as mem­ bers should communicate with Mr. O. R. Borradaile, Essex County Ground, Leyton. A n attractive list of fixtures has been ar­ ranged by the Reigale Priory C.C. for the coming season. There will be a Week in August and the usual match with Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower’s X I.—always a popular event— in September. On August 12th and 13th, too, Surrey Second XI. will meet Buckinghamshire on the Priory ground. I am glad to see the familiar and honoured name of W. Caffyn included in the list of members and subscribers for I 9 ° 7 - T iie following programme for the forth­ coming season has been arranged by the Intercollegiate Cricket Association of America :— May 1 4 .— Harvard v. Pennsylvania Uni­ versity, at Philadelphia. May 1 5 .— Haverford v. Harvard, at Haverford. May 23.—Cornell v. Haverford, at Ithaca. May 30.—Haverford v. Pennsylvania University, at Haverford. June 6.—Cornell v. Harvard, at Ithaca. June 1 - 5 .— Cornell v. Pennsylvania Uni­ versity, at Ithaca. The President of the Association this year is Walter F. Keenan, jun., of Pennsyl­ vania ; the vice-President, Charles E. Lex, jun., of Cornell; and the Secretary and