Cricket 1909

F eb . 25, 1909. CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 25 first Test match against the Australians at Edgbaston during the coming season will revive interest in the game through­ out the district. Three county fixtures have been arranged to start on a Saturday. Santall’s benefit last season realised £'406. T he Scottish Cricket Union have arranged a game with Ireland. It will be a three-days match, and Perth has been decided upon as the venue. Wales, for reasons which are fully appreciated, are not yet in a position to undertake an International match, but they are hoping the day is not far distant when they will be in a position to meet both Scotland and Ireland. In the event of a triangu­ lar contest being arranged, the M.C.C. will probably be asked to play the winners. A m a r r ia g e has been arranged between Lord Dalmeny, Surrey’s ex - captain, and Miss Dorothy Grosvenor, younger daughter of Lord Henry Grosvenor and a cousin of the Duke o f Westminster. Lord Dalmeny is now in his twenty- eighth year and his fiancee nine years his junior. In reply to a correspondent his lordship has stated that he will not have time to play first-class cricket during the coming season. T he late Mr. John Bradley Dyne left estate of the gross value of £33,730 17s. 6d., of which the net per­ sonalty has been sworn at £27,357 19s. 4d. M r . H arry B eloe , presiding at the annual meeting of the Gloucestershire County Club at Bristol, referred to the loss of over £300 on last season’s work­ ing. He said that the County had lately lost many members, who had taken up golf, and that a special appeal to them and others for their annual subscriptions must be made, otherwise the existence of the County Club would be jeopardised. H e had been asked how much Glou­ cestershire money went into the pockets of amateurs. He willingly replied in public that the expenses amounted to £1,756: of that amount between £1,300 and £1,400 went to the professionals and the rest to the amateurs. W ith regard to dropping the fixtures with Yorkshire, he believed that would be for only one season, and was because Yorkshire could offer only M ay 9 for the home match, and it would be farcical for Gloucester­ shire to accept it, knowing the strength of the side they would then be able to command. It was announced that a testimonial was to be raised for Dr. E. M. Grace as a recognition of the excellent work he has done for the Club, and that the Duke of Beaufort had con­ sented to act as President of the fund. T he Derbyshire Committee have alloted their match with Hampshire to Blackwell, an East Derbyshire colliery village, a mile and a-half from West- houses station on the main line of the Midland Railway. There is a good League club at Blackwell and the ground is excellent, though the accommodation is naturally not what is found on the leading county grounds. D uring June the Devon and Somerset Wanderers will play a series of matches in Liverpool and district. Their fixture list is as follow s:— 17th.—v. Birkenhead Park. 18th.—v. Bootle. 19ih.—v. Hightown. 21st.—v. B'jck Ferry. 22ud.—v. Sefton. 23rd.—v. Oxton. 24th.—v. Northern. 25th.—v. Liverpool. 26th.—v. Liverpool College. During their previous fifteen tours they played 91 matches, of which they won 47 and lost 28. The remaining 16 were drawn. M em orial E rected by P ublic S ubscription over tiie G ra v e ok th e late M r . C. A bsolon in N eav S outhgate C em etery . T he Annual General Meeting of the Wanderers C.C. will be held at 24, Lawrence Lane, Cheapside (Mr. Bichard Brook's oifice) on Thursday next at 5 p.m. ---------- L ast year the total receipts of the Notts. County C.C. were £4,758, of which £2,023 came from matches and £2,447 from subscriptions. The highest amount taken was at the Surrey match at Whit­ suntide, £886, and the lowest £30 in the game with the Philadelphians. The profits on the season’s working were £364. A sum of £3,033 remains owing to the Bank on the Trent Bridge ground and extension account. In response to the appeal for funds for a testimonial to Mr. A. O. Jones, a sum of £1,200 has been received to which the Committee recommend that £300 should be added from the Club funds. In a case heard at Acton on the 16th inst. evidence was given to the effect that a woman, about to be arrested for being incapable whilst having the custody of a child aged four months, threw the child in the direction o f another woman, and Police-Constable 396 T „ who happened to be passing, caught it. The P.C. mentioned said to the magistrate: “ She threw it like a cricket ball, and I caught it in the air.” The incident was published in the Daily Telegraph under the bold headlines “ Baby as Cricket Ball.” I f my memory does not deceive me the “ Old Buffer ” has recorded how the Hon. Robert Grim- ston once brought off a similar catch whilst strolling through London. A t a meeting o f the Committee of the Leicestershire County C.C. on the 10th inst., it was decided by nine votes to six to recommend that Mr. C. E. DeTrafford should fill the office of President, rendered vacant by the resignation, through ill- health, of Mr. J. W . Logan. T wenty - five years ago this month the marriage was announced in “ Pavilion Gossip ” of the H on. Ivo Bligh, now Lord Darnley, and I feel that I am but voicing the opinion of every follower of the game in very heartily congratulating the Earl and Countess upon the celebra­ tion of their silver wedding. Lady Darnley’s mother, Mrs. Morphy, of Beechworth, died in August last at Brighton, Australia, at the great age of 88. Her father, Mr. J. S. Morphy, was a stipendiary magistrate in the Owens River district of Victoria in the gold- digging days, and owned a beautiful estate at Beechworth, where the future Countess was born. The story of her first meet­ ing with Lord Darnley might almost be called romantic. During a match in Melbourne he got a “ nasty one ” on the hand, and had to retire to the pavilion for first aid. A handkerchief for a band­ age was lent by Miss Morphy, and the tie, as the novelists would say, proved to be for life. M r . F. S. G oodwin has been appointed honorary treasurer of the Warwickshire County C.C. in succession to the late Mr. J. C. Lane. He is the father of Mr. H. J. Goodwin, the Cambridge and Warwickshire cricketer and international hockey player. I n view o f the recent trouble between the Board of Control and cricketers over the financial part o f the Australian Eleven's tour, the following extract from