Cricket 1909

: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. of the younger generation of players to be chosen for the Test matches for his batting. He showed wonderful command over the ball, and throughout his long innings did not make the slightest mis­ take although he was always scoring fast. It was a very masterly display. T h e Army Council has approved of a visit to Paris for a match by a team of eleven officers of the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers on July 18th and 19th. H a m p s h ir e have sustained no slight loss through the determination of their fast bowler, J. R. Badcock, to retire from county cricket. In champion­ ship matches last season he took sixty- seven wickets for 26'17 runs each, his best performance being in the match with Sussex at Portsmouth, when, going on a second time, he took eight wickets for 22 runs. In the previous year he did two rather remarkable things with the bat, scoring 74 out of 87 in sixty-five minutes v. Middlesex at Southampton, and 61 out of 77 in forty minutes against Yorkshire at Bournemouth. H e is now manager of the Palace and Hippodrome at Burnley. P l a y i n g in a Battersea Park Cricket League match on May 1st, H. Douch took six wickets with consecutive balls for St. Joseph’s Old Boys v. St. John’s Old Boys. A t the Annual General Meeting of the Surrey County C.C. at the Oval on Thursday last Lord Alverstone, the Presi­ dent, who was in the chair, announced that the five vacancies on the Committee had resulted in Mr. C. E. Horner, Colonel H. Ricardo, Mr. A. W . F. Butty, Mr. P. M. Thornton, M.P., and Mr. C. F. Tufnell being elected. On the suggestion of Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, the Committee had decided that the luncheon interval on the second and third days be taken at half-past one instead of two as hitherto. His lordship concluded an interesting speech by appealing to the members to make the testimonial to Hayward a substantial success, in recognition of his great services to Surrey cricket. The President, vice-Presidents and officers of the Club were re-elected. inaugurate a shilling fund for the purpose of raising money to liquidate the debt of i'1,500 with which the Club is burdened. Writing to Mr. Frank Newton, the hon­ orary secretary, from Hardwick Hall his grace says : “ I am very glad to hear that a movement has been started to raise a shilling fund to defray the debt on the Club, and that the county Press have most generously offered to assist the movement in every way they can. As President for the year I confidently appeal to all who take an interest in cricket, and especially to those who hope to see our county team doing well in the forthcoming season, to help as much as possible. The heavy debt we have to bear is a source of great anxiety, but I hope that if a determined effort is made we shall be able to considerably reduce it, even if we cannot wipe it out alto­ gether. I shall be glad to subscribe £25 to the fund.—Yours very faithfully, D evonshibe .” G. L . C o l e (159) and J. I. Piggott (85) made 205 for the first wicket of Pembroke v. Clare on the former’s ground at Cam­ bridge on May 5th. On the following day K. M. Robatham (123) and W . C. Gingell (101 not out) put up 222 together for the opening partnership for Caius v. St. John’s on their opponents’ ground. F r o m The Observer :— “ The regret that Mr. F. S. Jackson should of late years have been so little seen in im­ portant cricket is universal Mr. Jackson’s proper position in big cricket should long ago have been not only captain of England, but captain of Yorkshire. Even in these days, when the band of fine cricketers is so large, the actual classics are as few as ever. Mr. Jackson belongs to the 1immortals.’ Like Mr. A. G. Steel or Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, he was able to step from his work to his pleasure, to show that his genius was at his will; Harrow and Cambridge exposed this genius, for which his country has always yearned. In Mr. Jackson’s absence it is well to know that Harrow gives another of her great cricket and lion-hearted sons to lead Englind.” T h e professional bowlers engaged in the parks at Oxford are Rawlin (Middle­ sex), Needham (Derbyshire), Attewell (Notts.), Edwards (Surrey), and Quelch and Godfrey (Oxfordshire). M ay 13, 1909. CRICKET din g! The old Clifton and Gloucester­ shire cricketer is to be married on the 20th of this month at Norton Parish Church to Ivy, youngest daughter of Mr. W . Kirk, J.P., of Norton Hall, Stockton. T h u s early in the season the Surrey eleven have set up a fresh record, so far as first-class cricket is concerned, by scoring 645 for four wickets in a day. The duration of play was only five hours and a-quarter, and therefore runs came at an average rate of almost 123 an hour. Both Hayes and Hobbs, whose partner­ ship for the second wicket realised 371 in two hours and three-quarters, played the highest innings of their career, and for the first time in the history of Surrey cricket two individual scores of over 200 were made in the same innings. The five largest aggregates recorded in a day’s play in first-class cricket have been as follow s:— 649 for eleven wickets, in Somerset v. Hamp­ shire, at Taunton (Hampshire, 570 for eight w ickets; Somerset, 79 for three. Lle­ wellyn scored 153 out of 221 in 100 minutes) 1901 645 for four wickets, by Surrey v. Hampshire, at the Oval (Hayes and Hobbs put on 371 for the second wicket in two hours and three-quarters)................................................... 1909 607 for three wickets, by Hampshire v. Somar- set, at Taunton (Major Poore (304) and Capt. Wynyard (225) added 411 for the second w ick et)................................................... 1899 596 for ten wickets, by Middlesex v. Somerset, at Lord’s (C. C. Page made 164 not out and B. J. T. Bosanquet and L. J. Moon 135 each) ................................................................... 1908 591 for nine wickets, by Gloucestershire v. Notts, at Trent Bridge (G. L. Jessop made 206 out of 317 in 140 minutes) ................... 1904 It will be seen thatSurrey’s 645 is the largest number of runs ever made by one side in the course of a day’s play. T h e total of 742 was made in six hours twenty minutes, thus :— Score. Hours. Mins. 100 1 20 200 2 5 300 2 55 400 3 30 500 4 10 600 4 57 700 0 0 742 6 20 H a y e s ’ success was very welcome, for he is not only a most attractive batsman but many of the critics had already begun to regard him as a spent force. It will be recalled that he failed to show his best form during the Australian trip and that last year, except on a few occasions, his play was disappointing. So far as one <can judge, however, he has a very successful season in store, for, after making 98 in a club match for Honor Oak, he scored 34 and 96 in a couple of Trial matches at the Oval and made 41 (top score) in Surrey’s first innings against Northamptonshire. He could probably have made his score over 300 on Friday had he wished, but it was not desired to prolong the Surrey innings to any extent, and so he sacrificed his wicket for the good of the side. H o b b s ’ large score was not less wel­ come, inasmuch as he is the most likely T h e decision to take the luncheon interval on the last two days of a match half-an-hour earlier than has been the case hitherto is one which may eventually be generally adopted. Probably one result of such a course would be the full recognition of the tea interval, which, despite protests in many quarters, has firmly established itself among cricketers in many parts of the world. T h e late Henry James Moncrieffe, second Baron, who played for Harrow against Eton in 1857, left personal estate o f the value of .£70,428. T h e Duke of Devonshire, as President of the Derbyshire County C.C., has placed himself at the head of a movement to R a lp h W h i t e h e a d , who played in a dozen matches for Lancashire last season, and mada a hundred on his first appear­ ance for the County, has been down with scarlet fever at his home at Ashton-under- Lyne and will be unable to play for a few' weeks. M r . E d w a r d N o r t h B u x t o n has accepted the presidency of the Essex County Cricket Club for 1909. It is very pleasing to see so well known a cricket name still prominently connected with the game. J o h n A l l e n D a y , aged twelve, wading after a cricket ball in the River Holme at Huddersfield on Saturday, got out of his depth and was drowned.