Cricket 1910

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In tlie London Gazette o f Friday last several appointments to H is Majesty’s Court were announced, among them be­ ing the following of interest to cricketers: Lieut.-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., IS.O ., to be Paymaster of the Household. Dated June 17th, 1910. In last week’s Gossip it was stated that Sir Fleetwood just failed to get into the Harrow Eleven, but afterwards made some good scores for the Royal Engineers and in 1865 began to play for the Gentlemen of Kent. The Right Hon. Sir Spencer Cecil Bra- bazon Ponsonby-Fane, G.C.B., I.S.O., to be Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State. Dated May 7th, 1910. Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, who is now in his 87th year, has been a member of the M.C.C. since 1844 and its Treasurer from 1880. He was one of the founders of I Zingari in 1845 and one of the original Old Stagers. From 1851 to 1858 he appeared for the Gentlemen against the Players. Beverend Prebendary McCornrck, D.D., to be an Honorary Chaplain. Dated May 7th, 1910. As Joseph McCormick the Prebendary played for Cambridge in 1854 and 1856. He was a fine hitter, was chosen in 1857 for the Gentlemen v. Players match at Lord’s, and at Canterbury in 1868 played an innings of 137 for North of the Thames against the South. He is now in his seventy-sixth year. Beverend T. R. Hine-Haycock, M.A., to be a Priest in Ordinary. Dated May 7th, 1910. A cricketer who has played for Wellington, Devonshire, Oxford University and Kent. In 1885 and 1886 he visited America with the late Mr. E. J. Sanders’ teams. Whilst at Oxford he and Mr. M. C. Kemp played a very pro­ minent part in enabling the University to beat the Australian team of 1884 by seven wickcts. I notice, too, that in the appointments by the Queen in her household the old Oxonian, E . W . Wallington, has been made Private Secretary and Lord Wen- lock, a good judge of the game who played frequently in India some years ago, Vice- Chamberlain. T h r e e remarkable finishes were seen on Saturday last in inter-county matches, Sussex gaining the verdict over Surrey at Horsham with the last two men in, Lan­ cashire beating Notts at Manchester by two wickets, and Yorkshire overcoming Middlesex at Lord’s by the same margin on the stroke of time. For three such close finishes being seen on the same day in first-class cricket we have to go back to September 2nd, 1905, when the Aus­ tralians beat an England Eleven at Bourne- month by one wicket, Surrey and Kent played a tie-match at the Oval, and stump3 were drawn in the game at Blackpool between Lancashire and an England Eleven with the score level, but with the County having three wipkets in hand. In the last-mentioned match Cook was caught in trying to make the winning hit. A t Manchester on Saturday Lancashire were set 400 runs to make in order to win and had just over five hours in which to get them. It says much for the strength and the pluck of the side that they suc­ ceeded in making the runs with a couple of wickets in hand and ten minutes to spare. On no previous occasion in a Championship match had a county been set so severe a task and accomplished it, the nearest parallel being when Leicester­ shire, set 350 to win by Worcestershire on the Leicester ground in 1904, won by five wickets. Lancashire’s success was the more remarkable as the side were 214 runs behind on the first innings and that, during the last hour A. H . Hornby, who had dislocated a cartilage in his left knee, should have made 55 of the last 76 runs and have carried out his b a t; he went in upon the fall of the fifth wicket, at 327, declined the services of a runner, and remained to make the winning hit. No wonder the enthusiastic crowd, which rushed the ground, should chair him in triumph to the pavilion. T h e r e is no reason to doubt that A. O. .Tones adopted the right course in letting Notts bat a second time instead of making Lancashire follow their innings, for it was not his fault that the side proved unable to force the game on the second afternoon. More than passing reference should be made here to the bowling of Huddleston, which made possible the victory which Lancashire gained on the following day. Five wickets for 36 runs in a total of 185 is an average the like of which is not recorded every week. When Lancashire had lost William Tyldesley and Hartley for 50, the state o f the game favoured the visitors, but, fortunately for Lancashire, Sharp played another most useful innings, and with Tyldesley (J. T.) changed the aspect of the match, the pair putting on 191 for the third wicket. Ernest Tyldesley was responsible for a most useful 39, and Whitehead, in scoring 48, made some very fine hits. At twenty minutes to six the eighth wicket fell with the total 364 and at tjliat point, with 36 runs still required and 50 minutes left, Cook partnered the lion-hearted Hornby. Cook defended so successfully that of the succeeding 39 runs, he made only 3—an innings, almost unnecessary to add, which was infinitely more valuable than the figure would lead one to imagine. I n addition to rendering his side such service Tyldesley (J. T.) had the satis­ faction of obtaining his one-thousandth runs of the season. When he went in he required 67 to reach the four-figure aggregate, and as he scored 91 his total at the end o f the day was 1,024. No other batsman has made as many as a thousand runs this year.