Cricket 1910

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A m o n g the Birthday Honours an­ nounced last week were the following of interest to cricketers :— Mr. Freeman Freeman Thomas, Liberal M.P. for Hastings 1900-1906 and after­ wards for the Bodmin Division of Corn­ wall to be a Peer. Mr. Freeman Thomas was in the Eton Eleven three years, 1883-4-5, and played four times for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s, 1886-7-8-9. In 1885, when he scored 29 and 0 v. Harrow and 36 and 32 v. Winchester, he was captain of Eton. Among his contemporaries in the College Eleven were F. Marchant, A. C. Richards, H. W. Forster, H. Pliilipson, Lord George Scott, H. J. Mordaunt, W. C. Bridgeman and E. G. Bromley-Martin. In his four inter-University matches he made 121 runs in seven innings, lie has been a member of the M.C.C. since 18S6, and between 1886 and 1890 he played 37 innings for Sussex with an average of 19 94. His highest score in a match of note was 114 for Cambridge against Yorkshire at Fenner’s in 1887, and for Sussex 73 v. Kent at Tonbridge in 1886. His father appeared occasionally for the County between 1860 and 1867, and his unclc, the 2nd Viscount Hampden, in 1860 and 1867, being then H. R. Brand. In 1885-6-7 thelatter’s eldest son, T. W. Brand—Mr. Freeman Thomas’ first cousin—was a member of tho Eton Eleven. The lit. Hon. Bichard Kuight Causton, Libtral M P. for Southwark from 1888 unt 1 defeated last January, and from 1880 to 1885 member for Colchester, to be a Peer. From 1892 to date Mr. Causton has been a member of the Surrey County C.C. Committee. The lit. Hon. Sir Charles Hardinge, G.O.M.G., G.C.V.O., C.B., I.S.O., to be G.C.B. (Civil). Sir Charles Hardinge, of the Harrow Eleven of 1876, will succeed the Earl of Minto as Viceroy of India in November. T h e Venerable Ernest Grey Sandford, the old Rugbeian and Oxonian cricketer, who assisted the Gentlemen against the Players in 1859 and died on March 8th, aged 70, left property of the value of ±'5,358. A. I. S t e e l , whose bowling in the second innings of Winchester last week came within an ace of enabling Eton to effect a sensational win, is a son of Mr. A. G. Steel, who was present at the match and was naturally much pleased with his boy’s success. This is A. 1. Steel’s first year in the Eleven, but during the last two or three seasons he has done many good things both with bat and ball in house matches. He is a slow to medium- paced bowler. A c o r r e sp o n d e n t writes to me asking which cricketers I should pick for the Gentlemen v. Players match at Lord’s this year. Probably no two teams chosen by twenty close followers of the game would agree in every instance, and there­ fore it is unlikely that the appended lists will be approved generally :— G entlemen . P layers . H. K. Foster (capt.), E. W. Dillon, A. Hartley, K. L. Hutchings, R. H. Spooner, J.W .H .T. Douglas, S. G. Smith, G. H. Simpson- Hayward, A. G. Pawson, N. A. Knox, P. Ii. Le Couteur. Tyldesley(J.T.) (capt.), Hobbs, Rhodes, Mead (C. P.) or Llewellyn, Hirst, Tarrant, Board, Relf (A. E.), Smith (W. C.), Blythe or Dean, Fielder. Brearley, of course, is not available, owing to his accident, and not enough is known of the form of Carr and Gilbert to enable those players to be chosen strictly on their merits. M e t r o p o l it a n cricketers experienced much disappointment on Saturday, heavy rain preventing play in the first-class matches at Blackheath, Lord’s and Leyton and causing hundreds of good-class club games to be abandoned without a ball being bowled. As the Observer truly stated, “ When it rains the sides are all in the same boat. This is a sporting phase of the fun which the protestants against the Lancashire idea will not appreciate.” A t Forthill, Broughty Ferry, on Saturday, Forfarshire dismissed Stirling County for 103 and then, in the remaining three hours, ran lip 335 without loss. The total was made up thus: - F o r fa r s h ir e . J. A. Kyd, not out .......... ...........151 R. G. Tait, not out .......................... 178 Byes, &c..........................................6 Total (no w k t )...........335 This partnership falls just short of the 347 by C. T. Mannes and P. R. Lowe for the first wicket o f Perthshire v. X IV . of Auchterarder on the North Inch, Perth, in 1886, but surpasses the 333 by W. F. Holms and H . L . Fleming for Blair Lodge v. Campsie Glen in 1884* The latter match was arranged for the second eleven o f Blair Lodge, and the visitors were much surprised when the first team took the field against them. The A thletic News points out that during the tour of Birkenhead Park in Ireland Frank Sugg scored 105 v. County Wicklow, and 215 not out in a two days’ match with Pembroke. Returning to England he compiled 79 not out and 105 not out for Bootle against Birkenhead Park, making an aggregate of 425 for once out. In the Irish tour last year he went to the wickets six times and scored 450 runs. The old Yorkshire-Derbyshire- Lancashire player is thus still a very useful man to have on a side. K e n t ’ s match with Surrey had been looked forwarded to with the greatest