Cricket 1910

J u l y 2 8 , 1 9 1 0 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 297 other hand, copied his defensive methods without acquiring his faculty for getting runs. Hence the back play of Vine and several of the others is purely defensive in character.” F. R. F o s t e r , of Warwickshire, who bowled so well in London recently for the Gentlemen against the Players, has been invited to appear in the last two matches of the Scarborough Festival in September— for Gentlemen v. Players on the 5th and for Lord Londesborough’s X I. v. the M.C.C.’s South African team on the 8th. Not many Warwickshire amateurs have been chosen for matches of such importance, but Foster thoroughly deserves the distinction which has been conferred on him, and his county is to Southampton on Saturday was their first win over their old rivals since 1002, when they gained the day by ten wickets on the second afternoon. That season, strange to say, they were last among the counties, and their only other win was by five wickets over Somerset at Ports­ mouth. Last week’s match supplied them with their eighth success of the season—a number reached for the first time sinc6 their restoration to first-class rank—and enabled them to advance to third place in the Championship table. Three days before they had beaten Derby­ shire by an innings and 15 runs, and therefore their Week at Southampton must have proved eminently satisfactory. F oe John Newman, who bowls rather for several years past, but it is probably better at the present time than ever before, notwithstanding that Somerset recently obtained the verdict against them. W ith the team doing so well— their percentage in the Minor Counties Championship is 100—it is surprising that the executive should have cause to complain that the support accorded the side is not what it should be. So far as one can judge, it is most likely that Glamorgan and Yorkshire 2nd X I. will meet in the Final. F oe some time rumours had been current to the effect that the matches between Kent and Nottinghamshire were to be resumed next season, but it was not until Friday afternoon last that it was THE WORCESTERSH IRE ELEVEN . Photo by] [Hawkins it- Co., Brighton. BIRD. ARNOLD. CUFFE. BOWLEY. BALE. TURNER. BURROWS. PEARSON. W. B. BURNS. H. K. FOSTER. G. H. SIMPSON-HAYWARD. MAJOR W. L. FOSTER. be congratulated on possessing such a capable cricketer. He was born at Small Heath on January 31st, 1889, and is therefore only twenty-one years of age. W ith Newman and Brown, o f Hamp­ shire, he appears destined to play a part in international cricket at no distant date. A r t h u r M o l d , I note, is still a force in club cricket. Playing on Saturday last for Middleton Cheney v. Culworth, he took eight wickets without a run being made off him and scored 72. Furthermore, five o f his wickets were obtained with consecutive balls. I t is with pleasure one chronicles success on the part of so sporting and historic a county as Hampshire. Their victory by 61 runs over Surrey at above medium pace, the present season has provided an enhanced reputation. He was born at Bitterne, near South­ ampton, in November, 1887, and made his first appearance for Hampshire in 1906. Each succeeding season he has shown improvement, but this is the first year in which he has taken as many as a hundred wickets in strictly first-class cricket. He is smart in the field, and is at times decidedly useful with the bat, as he showed against Kent at Canterbury two years ago when, by scoring 31 not out, he had much to do with his side’s success by a single wicket. Unless some­ thing unforeseen occurs, he will probably be found playing for England within the next two or three years. G l a m o r g a n cricket lias been strong found possible to make a definite pro­ nouncement on the matter. The following official announcement was then com ­ municated to the Press at Maidstone :— “ The members of the Notts and Kent Committees have agreed that the matches between the two counties should be renewed in 1911.” This is the most welcome news which has been published for some time. The two counties have not met since 1905, and the renewal of the fixture should increase the interest in next season’s struggle for the Championship. I n K. O. Goldie is a cricketer whose services the great majority of the counties would be only too glad to have at com ­ mand, for in addition to being a sound and rotising batstoan he is a useful