Cricket 1909

J u ly 22, 1909. CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 281 place to recall that in the early part of the last century several balloon ascents were made from Lord’s ground. T h e members of the Australian cricket team were entertained at dinner by the Surrey Club last Thursday in the pavilion at Kennington Oval, Lord Alverstone taking the chair. Among those present were Earl Jersey, Lord Harris, Mr. P. M. Thornton, M.P., Sir Jeremiah Colman, Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, Mr. A. C. MacLaren, Mr. E. H. Spooner, Mr. W. Findlay (secretary Surrey County Club), and Mr. J. N. Crawford. In proposing the toast of the evening, “ The Australian Team,” Lord Alverstone spoke of the friendly relations that had always existed between the Surrey Club and Australian cricketers. He also paid tribute to the players who had been here before, and to the younger men who were paying their first visit to England with the present team. Mr. Noble, in reply, expressed his pleasure at the fact of his team having won bowled six men with successive deliveries. The innings amounted to 25, and his analysis was nine for 11. B a y m o n d M o n d s , who was engaged for some seasons at Tonbridge, is now on the ground - staff at Old Trafford, qualifying for Lancashire. Last week he played an innings of 100 for Manchester against Bolton. In the three matches in which he appeared for Kent he made only 55 runs in five completed innings. He was bom at Lydd on December 28th, 1882. N e g o t ia t io n s have for some time past been in progress between the Yorkshire County Committee and Broadbent, the Uddingston professional, with a view to his retention next season on the list of County players. Following upon his excellent bowling performance in taking five of Durham’s wickets for 12 runs, he was last week placed on the list of players retained by the County Club, and next News, “ has been caused by the statement, which has been put into print, that Mr. G. L. Jessop’s injury was aggravated by the unskilful treatment which he received at Leeds at the hands of the Yorkshire team’s masseur, and legal action is likely to arise. It was not the Yorkshire team’s attendant who treated Mr. Jessop, un­ skilfully or otherwise.” T h e match at Lord’s between Middlesex and Lancashire, which might have had an important bearing on the destination of the Championship in the event of a definite result being reached, was ruined by the rain on Friday. Although play was restricted to a couple of days, so much progress was made that had two more hours being available a decision might have been reached. The match was in a very level condition when play ceased, which makes it all the more regrettable that it could not be finished. T h e outstanding feature of the game A CORNER OF THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GROUND. two out of the three Test matches already decided. Other toasts were “ The Surrey C lu b p ro p o s e d by Mr. Frank Laver, and responded to by Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower; “ The Visitors,” proposed by Sir Jeremiah Colman, and replied to by Earl Jersey and Mr. MacLaren ; and “ The Chairman,” proposed by Lord Harris. Mr. MacLaren, in the course of his remarks, said that in connection with the Test matches some very unfair attacks had been made upon Mr. C. B. Fry, and he wished to say emphatically that Mr. Fry, so far from picking himself to play in these matches, had placed himself entirely in the hands of his fellow members of the Selection Committee. A n o t h e r instance of a bowler obtaining six wickets with consecutive balls has reached me. The cricketer on this occa­ sion was J. E. Harris, of the Caxton Publishing Company. Playing against Neville’s Bread Company, Ltd., at Mill Hill Park on Thursday last, he clean season he will, under the young players’ scheme, be allocated to one of the York­ shire Council clubs—probably Leeds or Sheffield United. Broadbent, who is 28 years of age, has distinguished himself on many occasions this season, and only two or three weeks ago Victor Trumper, after having experience of his bowling in the Scotland v. Australians engagement, declared that he was one of the most deadly bowlers on a sticky wicket whom he had ever experienced. M r . C. I. T h o r n t o n is said to have told a friend that his England Eleven against the Australians in the Scar­ borough Week will be a team of hitters. O n Sunday the Australians went to Windsor by Boyal command, travelling by special train from Paddington. In the afternoon they visited Eton College and were warmly welcomed by the boys. “ M u c h annoyance,” says the Athletic was the bowling of Sharp in the first innings of Middlesex, when he took eight wickets for 51 runs. He got rid of Littel- john and Murrell with consecutive balls, and at one time had obtained five wickets for six runs in 26 balls. In 1901, when he took 113 wickets in first-class cricket for 22-66 runs each, he had an analysis of nine for 77 in an innings at Worcester against Worcestershire, and in the match with Kent at Manchester bowled un­ changed throughout with Webb. On his recent form no England team could be considered complete without him. J. T. H e a r n e showed that he is still to be feared on a wicket to his liking by dismissing five men for 34 runs in Lan­ cashire’s first innings, which amounted to 180. Hearne was born on May 3rd, 1867, and played his first match for Middlesex in 1888, w’hen he took two wickets for 19 runs in eleven overs against the Australians.