Cricket 1910

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Caldwell, has played for and resides in Worcestershire, but is qualified by birth for the former county. W r it in g in last Saturday’s Westminster Gazette, Mr. P. P. Warner said: —“ In these days, when many are saying that no one over thirty-five should play for England, it is good to find Tyldesley bat­ ting in his own inimitable style on a bad wicket against Derbyshire. A cricketer must, as a rule, lose something in activity after he has passed, let us say, seven- or eight-and-thirty, but there is no reason why he should not bat as well as ever he did at forty-two or even forty-four, pro­ vided he is fit and keeps his figure! Shrewsbury, Abel and Gunn never played better than after their fortieth birthday, and “ W .G ." made a thousand runs in May in the year he was forty-seven! Bowlers cannot be expected to last the same time—their work is far more arduous. But a batsman in sound health who lives a careful life can go on for years playing in his best form. His experience, for one thing, is so great that he goes out to bat with no more concern than if he were going down to breakfast! I believe in youth in a team, but I am no believer in thinking A is a better man than B simply because he is younger than B.” Q u e e n M a r y ’ s sons know that if “ Mother ” says a thing must be done she means it. Cricketers themselves, they know their mother can be relied on to “ play the gam e.”— Ladies’ Field. T h e recent burst o f warm weather lias been held responsible for many things. Perhaps it was accountable for a famous old cricketer—he was chosen in his day for Gentlemen v. Players and is now one of the oldest living cricketers of note— sending me the following query :— “ Why did P. P. W a rn er?” Fortunately, he himself supplies the answer :— “ Because she spelt Corfee with an M .” W it h the death of King Edward V II. the lease of the Leinster C.C.’s ground at Rathmines has fallen in. The Princess Royal (Empress Frederick), the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh were the three lives in the lease, and all these have now passed away. F r o m Balin’s notes in the Referee :— “ To say that the ordinary professional cricketer is highly paid is, if Mr. Fry will forgive me, arrant nonsense..................... No time could be less appro­ priate than tlie present in which to lead a sort of crusade against the professional in first-class cricket. Just now, it is true, we see too many professionals in most of the county elevens, but here the com­ mittees have the remedy in their own hands if they will avail themselves of amateur help without in­ sisting that the amateur must play all through the season or not at all. What an amateur, only able to play now and then, can do for his county has been shown most convincingly during the past week by Curgenven for Derbyshire. I think that in this matter the committees are learning wisdom, and I hope we shall this season ®ee some interesting developments.” O n May 18tli N. Tweedy (166) and G. C. Wells-Cole (54) made 225 together for the first wicket of Caius College 2nd X I. v. King’s College 2nd X I., on the Caius ground, Cambridge. Caius scored 262 for two wickets after King’s had been dismissed for 105. Tweedy hit twenty- seven 4’s. I n a day match at Elstree on Whit- Monday, between Emmanuel, Maida Hill, and Wellington Works, Elstree, the hat- trick was performed three times — by Spickernell and Cockram for Emmanuel, and by Kirby for Wellington Works. A l t h o u g h the recent match between Surrey and Essex was, like every other first-class game commenced on Thursday last, restricted to a couple of days, the home side came much nearer to obtaining a victory than perusal of the score would, lead one to suppose. Friday being a dies non, it was agreed before tossing that two-day match rules should be observed. Thus it came about that when Mead went in, last man, Essex still required a couple of runs to save the follow-on. That number—and a few more—were obtained, but had they not been it is more than likely that Surrey would have pulled off the match. As it was, they made a great effort to win, playing a fine forcing game in their second innings and declaring with half their wickets in hand, but they found it impossible to dismiss Essex in the time available. In its account of Saturday’s play the Sporting L ife remarked :— “ There was much that was interesting contained in the day’s play, but there was little sign that the new system of scoring in the Championship is exercising an influence on the character of cricket.” In some “ Cricket Notes ” on the same it was said :— ‘ ‘ The feature of the game was the spirit in which it was played, since under the old arrangement for reckoning the Championship we should not have had the sport we had on Saturday.” It seems to be a case of “ You pays your money and you takes your choice.” I t is evident that in H. S. Harrison Surrey possess a batsman o f unusual promise. He has a very strong defence, and obtains the majority of his runs on the on-side. Against Essex at the Oval last week he played a capital innings of 65, and in partnership with Ducat put on 117 runs at a time when the loss of another wicket might have had very serious consequences for the side. He was born at Cheam, in Surrey, on April