Cricket 1910

J u n e , 2 , 1 9 10 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J75 LOST PO SS IB IL IT IES . If some other batsmen were able, like Hutchings, to give up the whole summer to the game, we should hear little or nothing about the weakness of English cricket. I noticed a foitnight ago the score of a Saturday afternoon match at Sitwell Park in which the home side included Bosanquet, E. M. Dowson and R. E. Foster. Under more fortunate circumstances all three would be in the Gentlemen’s eleven at Lord’s in July. Bosanquet is the oldest of them, and be will not be thirty-three till October. Dowson gave up first-class cricket just when be seemed certain to develop into an England batsman. The slow bowliug with which, as a very small boy, he startled people iu the Eton and Harrow match, had practically left him, but, as a batsman, he was coming along by leaps and bounds. When Lord Hawke’s team —captained by P. F. Warner —after a highly successful tour in New Zealand in the winter of 1902-3 finished up with matches at Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, Dowson played so well that the Australians exjjressed a keen desire that he might be include 1 in the next eleven from England. This was not to be, but the wish was very flattering to the young cricketer. Bosanquet, so I understand, will not play any first-class cricket this season, and as to 11. E. Foster the most we can look for is that he will pljy twice for Worcestershire. I only dwell on these points for the purpose of showing wbat teams we could put into the field if only Fortune were kinder. Leaving Dowson out of the question, as he has not been seen in big cricket for such a long time, we could almost, with the aid of R. E. Foster, B. H. Spooner, and Bosanquet, repeat the experience of the first Test match in this country—at the Oval in 1880—aud make up a splecdid England eleven with only three pr. fessionals. I siy almost advisedly, for now that H. Martyn—most unlucky to have missed Test-match honours —has retired, we have no amateur wicket­ keeper good enough to play for England. The three professionals at the O/al in 1880 were Alfred Shaw, Fred Morley and William Barnes—all Notts men and all dead. An England team in August, framed on the model of thirty years ago, might, if the fates permitted, consist of C. B. Fry, R. E. Foster, R. H. Spooner, J. R. Mason, K. L. Hutchings, G. L. Jessop, Walter Brearley, Hirst, Barnes, Blythe, and Strudwick. I have not heard a word about Spooner's intentions this season, but I hope that something will be seen of him. Fry, to judge from his much-discussed and, to my thinking, very mistaken, article, is quite out of love with present-day cricket, but whether fce has any idea of giving up the game I do not knew. For obvious reasons I am incline 1 to deal chiefly with doings of players whose fame is still in the making, the task of building up a practically new England eleven being so all- important. No consideration of this sort, however, should blind one to the fact that many men whom we are beginning to regard almost as veterai.s are showing splendid form and more than holding their own. To take two conspicuous examples, Tyldesley is batting vastly better than he did a twelve­ month ago and George Hirst is bowling with deadly effect. Nor are these by any means isolated cases. A. 0. Jones has seldom opened the season more successfully, and in saying this I am not oblivious of the fact that he led off last year with a hundred against the Australians. I thought his 72 in the Surrey match after each side had been trid of for less than seventy was significant, and on Friday he followed it up with 121 at Northampton. Though one would never think so when watching him in the field, A. 0. Jones is nearly thirty-seven and has been playing first-class cricket for eighteen years. He and Jessop and Sydney Gregory are standing proofs that brilliant fielding is not the monopoly of youth. It is quite e’ear that if a match Over Thirty v. Under Thirty were arranged just now the more mature players would have all the best of it. Their side would include a wealth of batting and all the best bowlers.—Mr. Sydney Pardon in The Sunday Times. WANDERERS v. NORBURY PARK.—Played at Norbury Park on May 28. W. M. Bradley took 6 wickets for 38 runs. T hf . W an d erers . S. Colman, lbw, b Macnamara .......... 18 R.T. Crawford, c John­ son, b Whiting ... (59 T. C. Stafford, c Mac- aldine, b Whiting... 43 * Innings declared closed. R. B. Brooks, H. T. Bull, C. Fairbanks-Smith, O. Taylor and W. M. Bradley did not bat. N orbu ry P a r k . T. J. Wheeler, run out 21 R. Kenward, not out 38 P. G. Gale, not o u t... 17 B 6, lb 4 ... ...10 Total (4 wkts)*216 P. F.Wilson, c Colman, b Crawford .......... 3 II. K. Whiting, c Smith, b Bradley .......... 49 F. L. J o h n s o n , b Wheeler .................. 26 N. Hammill, c Taylor, b Bradley.................. 6 L. Lovell, c Bull, b Bradley .................. 11 W . E. Hobbs, b Craw­ ford .......................... 0 V. Macnamai’a, notout C. H. Shoolridge, b Bradley .................. II. Lavington,b Brad­ ley ........................... T. Ralph, b Bradley.. J. J. Macaldine, c Crawford, b Taylor Byes ................... Total .......... 1 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. B irk e n h e a d .— Lord Hawke was born at Gains" borough, in Lincolnshire, Hirst and Rhodes at Kirkheaton, Denton at Thornes, near Wakefield, Rothery at Staincliffo, Haigh at Huddersfield, Myers atYeadon, Newstead at Middlesbrough and Wilkin­ son (W. H.) at Thorpe Hesley. The AMERICAN CRICKETER. F o u n d e d 1877. Published by H. K. Cornish on b e h a 'f o f The Associated Cricket Clubs o f Philadelphia. 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