Cricket 1910

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THU R SD AY , JULY 21 s t , 1910. Pabilton (Sosstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. T h e fact that Sussex batted during the whole of Thursday against Leicestershire at Brighton for 289 runs for five wickets has provided some critics with a text for a tirade against slow scoring in general and that by Sussex in particular. It is, however, worth while to point out that, with the exception whilst three runs were being put on during the Heygate-Relf (R.R.) partnership, a left-hander was at the wicket during the whole o f the time, and that the good ground fielding of Leicestershire resulted in over a hundred singles being recorded. On the same day only six more runs were made at the Oval in the full day’s cricket between Surrey and Somerset. There were as many as 151 singles in the Sussex total of 404. I n last week’s match at Devonport between United Services and Devon Dumplings, Lieut. Harrison scored 107 in his first innings and 104 in his second. The score of the match will be found on page 278. It will be recalled that it was against the Devon Dumplings— at Exeter in 1902—that F. A. Phillips made 104 and 110 not out for Somerset Stragglers. L o n d o n : MERRITT & HATCHER, L t d ., Cricket Officc, 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C. A l f r e d M o k k is , the Durham County cricketer, bowled with pronounced success last week against Norfolk and Yorkshire 2nd X L In the former match he took thirteen wickets for 57 runs and in the latter obtained all ten for 130 in a total o f 801. On the latter occasion eight of his victims were bowled and one leg- before-wicket. The ball with which he took all the wickets is to be mounted in silver, suitably inscribed, and presented to him by the Durham team as a memento o f the performance. He is a slow left-handed bowler. Hitherto his best season has been 1908 when his record was eighty-four wickets for 12-19 runs each. Like J. N. Crawford, Killick and a few others, he plays in glasses. G e o k g e H ir s t , who keeps up his form in a manner which is nothing less than remarkable, was well to the fore in Yorkshire’s match with Warwickshire at Huddersfield in the latter part of last week. W ith the ball he did little, but he was the highest scorer for his side in each innings with 103 and 88. During the next few days he should credit him ­ self with the feat of obtaining a thousand runs and a hundred wickets : for the eighth year in succession and the eleventh during his career. This year he has made 1,118 runs, with an average of 36, and taken 83 wickets for 14 runs each. O n Wednesday and Thursday o f last week Shrewsbury School played the Free Foresters, and J. H . Parry, the School captain—a son of Judge Parry, of Manchester—missed obtaining two separate hundreds in the match by a very small margin and in circumstances which must have proved very annoying. In his first innings he scored 112, and, when the School followed-on, the game was stopped and stumps drawn when it was prematurely announced that Parry had reached three-figures for the second time. When the players had retired it was discovered that he had made only 95. In the autumn he goes up to University College, Oxford. A t the conclusion of the Toronto Zingari v. Gentlemen of Surrey match last week, the members of the Canadian team presented Mr. W . Findlay, the Secretary of the Surrey County C.C., with a silver cigar box and cigarette box as a mark of appreciation of his kindness in arranging their fixtures in England this season. S o m e r s e t , although beaten by Surrey at the Oval by nine wickets, played a far better game than one might imagine from the mere statement of the result. All through the season they had had much to contend with, and not once had they been able to put a really re­ presentative team in the field. But on Thursday Daniell returned to the side, and his reappearance evidently made a great difference, for it is certain that if Somerset had bowled and fielded as well in their earlier matches as they did against Surrey they would not now possess such a heartbreaking record as 12 games played; 0 won, 11 lost, 1 drawn. It is in batting that the side needs strengthening. O n Thursday last a one-day match was played at Lord’s between Royal Academy of Arts and the M.C.C. The former, who went in first, made 139 and 89 for nine wickets, and the home side 310 for one w ick et:— M.C.C. Capt. A. H. Du Boulay, not out H. L. Gaussen, b Brown ... A. Worsley, not out ................... Byes, &c................................ ... 154 ... 100 ... 42 ... 14 ... *310 Total (1 wkt.) ................... * Innings declared closed Capt. Du Boulay hit a 0 and twenty 4’s and Gaussen seventeen 4’s. Their stand for the first wicket realised 176. O n the following day Mead (C. P.), of Hampshire, who made 166, and S. Britton (104) scored 264 in two hours for the M.C.C.’s first wicket against United Services at Portsmouth. Mead hit twenty-seven 4’s and Britton a 0 and thirteen 4's. K e n t gained their most meritorious success of the season at Tunbridge Wells on Saturday, when, after declaring their second innings closed with five wickets in hand, they beat Lancashire by 321 runs. Blythe, owing to an injury, was