Cricket 1909

J anv 28, 1909. CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 9 Gloucestershire County C.C., should it ever come to be properly written, will bear eloquent testimony to the greatness of the three fam is brothers. W . G., E . M., G. F . : what a power those names were in the seventies ! The uncertainty of cricket did not apply to W . G., who was then at his zenith and scored largely on all kinds of wickets and against all sorts o f bow ling; E . M., in addition to being the best of points, was a very useful bowler and a telling bat who possesged some delightfully unorthodox strokps; whilst G. F., the youngest of the trio, whose premature death in 1880 left a gap in the Gloucestershire ranks which remained unfilled until Mr. Jessop's powers were fully developed, was an excellent all-round cricketer who would have played a prominent part in Test- match history had he not been cut off in his prime. D r . E . M. G race had occupied the post o f Secretary since the season of 1873, doing invaluable work for the County. H e will be succeeded by G. L. Jessop, who will receive a salary for his services. T he Northamptonshire County C.C. require £1,000, and it has been decided to have a four days’ bazaar to raise the money. M r . J ohn C harles L ane , solicitor of Birmingham, who died in September last, left estate of the gross value of £31,280. He directed that the income from £1,000 be paid for a period of ten years to the treasurer of the Warwick­ shire County C.C., of which the deceased gentleman was honorary treasurer for a number of years. The money is to be disposed of as the Club, at the annual meeting, shall think best, as talent money to the professionals or otherwise. A w ell - known publisher informs me that during the coming season he pro­ poses to issue a couple of books o f interest to cricketers, one relating to “ W . G .’’ and the other with C. B. Fry for its subject. The latter volume, I under­ stand, is being prepared by Mr. A. Wallis Myers, the well-known lawn-tennis expert. M r . A lfred L ubbock , after comment- ing in Wisden's Almanack upon the amount of pad-play indulged in by many modern batsmen, remarks :— “ There is another thing some of the best bats do now, and that is pose themselves in the attitude they played the ball in as if they were going to be photographed: one of the best bats o f the day especially. It may be done for the benefit of the snap- shotters, but I maintain that it does not look pretty.” And so say all of us. I t has recently been announced that Holland and Stedman have probably played their last match for Surrey, the former having accepted the position of coach at Oundle School and the latter an engagement with the Bray C.C., near Dublin. Both have rendered good ser­ vice to their county, the former since 1894 and the latter since 1899. All who know them personally, as well as thousands who are acquainted with them only through seeing them play, will wish them every success in their new ventures. O wing to unusual pressure on space, occasioned by the large number of obituary notices, the review of W isden’s Almanack is unavoidably held over until next issue. M r . J ohn L oder , whose death occurred at Rom ford in the last week of December, lived next the Rom ford cricket and foot­ ball ground. He established a toll of sixpence on behalf of the London Hospital for every ball that came into his garden, and the Hospital benefited for years from this source. M iss L yona T ollemache , who was married last week to Capt. C. C. Stone, the Leicestershire and M.C.C. cricketer, at Ham Parish Church, has the follow­ ing sixteen Christian names :—Lyona, C. L. S u tiie b la n d . C. G. L y t t e lt o n . W. M. H o a r e . G. F. D aw son . B. M. D a vies. J. B. D yn e. W. H. S to n e . j . h . G ibbs. R . A . H. M it c h e ll. f . N . L an gham . THE ETON ELEVEN, 1858. (Showing the late Mr. J. B. Dyne. See page IS.) R ep rodu ced b y kin d p erm ission o f M r. J ohn M u r r a y .