Cricket 1909

CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 6, ig o g . H. GRADIDGE And SONS, Manufacturers of all Requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Hockey, Football, and all British Sports. PATENTEES AND SOLE MAKERS ' i OF THE Used by all the ’ft Leading yA Players. ^ M a d e In M en's, S m a ll M e n 'a , o r C ollege, 6, 5, 4. A 3 a iz e i. P r i c e L i s t s I 'r c e o i l A p p l i c a t i o n , Of all First-Class Outfitters H and Dealers. Reblading a Speciality. Factory ; Artillery Place, WOOLWICH. J OHN W I S D E N ’ S CRICKETERS’ALMANACK F o r 1 9 0 9 . Edited by SYDNEY H. PARDON. T H E Record of First=Class Crickct. Being the ONLY Publication giving the full Scores and Bowling Analyses of every first-class Crickct Match played in 190S. P rice 1/- P o st F ree 1/4 C ontains : Five Cricketers of the year, with Photographs, Lord Hawke, J. B. Hobbs, J. T. Newstead, Alan Marshal, and Walter Broarlcy. Full Statistics of Ranjitsinliji’s Scores in first-class Cricket. Public School Cricket, by C. T o ppin . ‘ Cricket in the Sixties and at the Present Day.’ NOW R E A D Y . 21 CRANBOURN ST., LONDON, W.C. Crichet: A WEEKL Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, MAY 6 t h , 1909. Pavilion Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. A t the Annual Dinner at Lord’s last night, Earl Cawdor, the retiring President of the M.C.C., nominated the Earl of Chesterfield his successor. The new President was born in 1854 and has been a member of the M.C.C. since 1870. T h e Australians have been practising at Lord’s during the present week, and to-day commence their tour by playing Notts at Trent Bridge. In having to meet so strong a side so soon after their arrival, the visitors have no light task before them, and I cannot help feeling that the Australian Board of Control would have done well to send the team over by an earlier boat, especially as so many of the players are new to England. R e s u l t s of matches between Notting­ hamshire and the Australians :— 187S. Notts won by an innings and 14 runs. 1880. Notts won by one wicket. 1 So.> I Drawn. I Australians won by 184 runs. lc o . \ Australians won by three wickets. lbM' ( Drawn. I Prawn. ' 1Drawn. 1SS8 f Notts’won by ten wickets. |Notts won by an innings and 199 runs. Notts won by an innings and 25 runs. Notts won by ‘20 runs. Australians won by an innings and 1-54 runs. Australians won by six w’ickets. Drawn. Australians won by an innings and 4 runs. Drawn. 1890. 1893. 189(5. 1899. 1902. 1905. Seventeen games in all, o f .which the county have won six and the Australians five. The remaining six were unfinished. Two of the new comers among the Australians played their first game on an English wicket on Saturday, McAlister and Bardsley turning out for Silwood Park against Esher on the latter’s ground. In their first innings they were dismissed by J. H. Hunt for 14 and 5 respectively, but in their second remained unbeaten to the finish, McAlister with 66 to his credit and Bardsley with 14. In his innings of 100 not out for Esher Morice Carlos Bird, the old Harrovian, hit a ball 140 yards to the pitch. I t is not generally known that M. A. Noble is a capable musician, and can sing a song in good style and play his own accompaniment. As there is a possibility of the imposi­ tion of special taxation on a number of cricket grounds, as the result of one of Mr. Lloyd-George’s Budget proposals, it will prove of interest if I reproduce a few remarks made by Mr. Lacey in the course of an interview published in yesterday's Daily Teleqraph. The Secretary of the M.C.C. said :— “ I should have thought that, after all we hear about free education, the authorities would at least remember that there is a body to be educated as well as a mind, and that if the body is not reasonably healthy there will be very little mind to educate at all. It seems to me that Loudon has not got enough playing fields and open spaces as it is. . . . But I am quite c’ear that the general effect of the present scheme would be extremely harmful to the legitimate pleasures of the people, and I can see no prospect of an equivalent return to the Exchequer in the future if the usefulness, and the spending power, and the labour employment if such places as Lord’s are to be ruthlessly attacked.” No doubt the proposals will be modified, for, as Mr. Lapey remarked, “ their in­ evitable effect can never have been realised by those responsible for such suggestions.” I n a match on the St. Catherine’s ground, Cambridge, on Tuesday, between King’s College and St. Catherine’s Col­ lege, the former declared their innings closed with eight wickets down for 264. There were only two double-figure scores from the bat, A. E. Herman making 119 and A. A. Tyer 100 not out. The next highest individual effort was 8, but there were twelve extras. T h e distinction of making the first cen­ tury of the Cambridge season fell to the lot of D. C. Collins, the Senior from New Zealand who was tried in the University side for his bowling last year : he scored exactly 100 for Y. C. W. Agnew's XI. v. J. L. Crommelin Brown’s XI. in the Trinity Trial match. On the following day—Thursday—John William William Nason, the Hastings cricketer, hit nine­ teen 4’s in an innings of 124 for Queen’s v. Selwyn on the St. John’s ground. Nason was born in Gloucestershire and has played for Sussex under the residen­ tial qualification. T h e annual report of the Staffordshire County C.C. shows that last season’s receipts amounted to 1:1,100. There was an increase both in gate-money and sub­ scriptions, the result being that an adverse balance of .£88 has been reduced by £ 70. This year games have been arranged with Worcestershire and M.C.C. and Ground, in addition to the Championship matches, and another successful season is confidently anticipated. All last year’s players, including the captain (Mr. H. D. Stratton), will again be available. The Earl of Dartmouth was re-elected Presi­ dent and the other officials were also re-appointed. A Sporting L ife representative has been to the Royal Academy, and, in the course of his remarks on the visit, says :— * ‘ The lover of sport searching for a friendly face among the portraits, and finding only dull - looking gentlemen connected with politics or fashionably-gowned ladies married to rich husbands—hence, seemingly, their presence ‘ on the line’—is startled upon