Cricket 1910

M ay 5, 1910. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 1 0 9 WEST OF SCOTLAND v. YORKSHIRE. Commenced at Glasgow on May 4. (To be concluded.) On a drying pitch the West of Scotland, who experienced difficulty in getting a good side together, could, with the exceptions of liarry and Cullen, . make little headway against Hirst, who took six of their wickets for 20 runs. Cullen hit three 6’s in his 42andadded 83 forthe fifth wicket with Harry, the Lancashire player. Radcliffe and Rhodes made 77 for Yorkshire’s opening partnership, and at the end of the day the county, wfcth four wickets in hand, were 53 runs on. Present score :— W est of S cotland . T. C. Dunlop, b New- stead.......................... 4 J. Grieve, b Hirst ... 5 H.C. Shaw, 1) Hirst... 0 Harry, c Rhodes, b H irst.......................... 30 A. Harrow, b nirst ... 0 A. C. Cullen, run out 42 G. P. Burt, c Watson, b Hirst .................. 0 E. J.Radcliffe, c Grieve, b M cN ab...................37 Rhodes, b Megson ... 55 Denton, lbw, b Harry 4 Drake, not out ...........25 Hirst, b Megson.......... 23 W. Henderson, b Hirst ................... S. Ferguson, not out Megson, b Myers A. McNab, b Myers... B 0, lb 2 ........... Total ...........] Wilson, b Megson .. Rothery, run out ., Myers, not o u t... . B 4, lb 1, nb 3 . Total (6 wkts)...163 Newstead, Haigh, and Watson to bat. W estern C ounties . O. M. Ii. W. O. M. R. W. Hirst ... 15 4 29 6 IMyers ... 5‘3 3 4 2 Newstead.. 8 4 10 1 IRhodes ... 6 0 46 0 I aigh . . 5 0 10 0 | THE COUNTY TOURNAMENT , 1910. Walk u p! and see the Tournament that’s just about beginning ; The sixteen Champions are here, all (?) flushed with hopes of winning ! We’ve got new rules this year to make the sport more entertaining And ev’ry bout will he played out,—excepting when it’s raiuing. Our maxim now is going to be : Mark only when ice hit, sirs ; (The other fellow’s marks on us are not to count a bit, sirs !) This rule should make the little chaps to lose outright more willing, They’re bound to let the big ones win—to make the sport more thrilling. Should they object, we’ll say to them, “ Look her^, you chaps, go through it! A game that's l. st means nothing more to you than if you drew it; A win means ev'rything to u s; so please, when wi; attack you, To tukn your linking lying down. Be sports­ men ! Let u-* whack j ou ! ” (Though let us hope they won’t from habit show ihis mild compliance When England <*n her liers down has got to place reli m ce!) When big meets big — ? Ah, then, of course the fun \\ill be b ginning. If draws and loss s count alike, and the\’ve no chance of winning, To backmark us by drawing ihey will have their oppoitun ty And, bet your life, they’ll have a try and do so with impunity. Still, walk up gents and take your Feats, for, this I have no doubt about, We’ve had somo crazy lules before-and rattling sport to shout about! P ott . 3 May, 1910. THE M.C.C. THE ANNUAL MEETING. TIIE CLOSURE RULE ALTERED. Among those present at the Annual General Meeting of the M.C.C., which wa« held in the Pavilion at L>rd’s last evening were the Earl of Chesterfield (president). Earl Yerulam, Earl of Lichfield, Lord Harris, Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane and Messrs. C. E. Green, A. J. Webbe, Henry Perkins, W. E. Denison, O. II. Borradaile, S. Bircham, H. Philipson, G. MacGregor, J. 11. Mason, and 11. K. Causton. After tbe annual report had been adopted without discussion, Lord Alverstone, L.C.J., was elected a trustee in place of the late Mr. Nicholson. Messrs. C. E. Green, A. J. Webl e, H. W. Baiubridge and J. It. Mason retired by rotation from the Committee, and were succeeded by the Earl of Chesterfield (the retiring president), the Duke of liutland, and Messrs. P. J. de Paravicini and W. H. Patterson. It was decided to send a team to New Zealand in 1911-12, provided the New Zealand Cricket Council p iid the travelling expenses. In June, at the request of the Federation Beige de Cricket, a side under Mr. F. H. Fox will visit Brussels during the Exhibition, and play a couple of matches against representative Cout nental elevens. It was unanimously resolved that the Club membership should be limited to six thousand. The Earl of Londesborough was elected president for the coming year. After the ordinary lusiness had been transacted, the meeting was made special, and the proposed altera’ion in Law 54 was unanimously carried. The Law will no.v read :— “ The in-side may declare their innings at an end in a three-days’ match at any time ou the second day.” Under the old rule tbe closure could not be put in force before lunch-time on the second day. INCOGN1TI C.C. 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