Cricket 1909

CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF T H E GAME. JUN E 17, 1909. 1 i f I 3<— > - ■J©i I n T C O / ti J $ y C ^ A Z T p i m m ____- H Q M - - - _ ■=>— >j e j— ■*- ' Jjwfic... .- * -H “ Together joined in Cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron. No. 812. v o l . x x v i i i . THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1909. o n e p e n n y . SU SSEX CR ICKET . ' v > r -VINCI i I .<ELF N f'H.'7o 1! i : ,U ■ .1. Photo by] [Hawkins&Co., Brightorh have enjoyed a very successful season hitherto, although fortune has more than once been unkind to them. The form they showed last month in their matches with Nottinghamshire, Middlesex and Gloucester­ shire was all that the most sanguine supporters of the side could have wished. That they are, when at their best, a finely balanced team no one will deny, and if, at the end of the season, they are found high among the counties, their success will prove very popular among cricketers generally. They are fortunate indeed in possessing so keen and inspiriting a captain as Mr. C. L. A. Smith, whose enthusiasm for the game is Contagious, and whose hitting powers are quite equal to changing the fortunes of a match in a very short space of time. A Sussex man by birth, education and residence, he possesses every quality both as cricketer and as man for the post he fills with such credit to himself and advantage to the side. Sussex, like her neighbours, Surrey, Kent