Cricket 1910

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Cricket: A W EEK LY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THU R SD AY , AUGU ST 4 t h , 1910. P a b i l t D i t © O s s i p . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. I n distributing the prizes at the Berks. County Secondary School, at Windsor, on Friday, tlie Head-master (the Hon. and Bev. Edward Lyttelton) said that, although coming straight from surround­ ings which were in many ways different in character, their considerations o f pro­ blems and interests were very similar. Addressing the boys, he said it was much better for them to play cricket than to look in shop windows. Visitors from abroad were amazed at the games at Eton. Cricket did not succeed in France, for one reason because they never had a good sweep of green grass, and because the batsman had not learned to bat. He walked away with several contusions on his legs and said cricket was an overrated game. In England our forefathers did not mind getting bruises on their legs, and if they were to tell him they did not care for cricket because it hurts, he should form a very poor opinion of them. L l e w e l l y n , the Hampshire cricketer, assisted Lord Londesborough’s X I. against Lincoln Lindum on Friday and Saturday last in the final match of the Lincoln Cricket Week. As a bowler he was not very successful, taking only five wickets of the seventeen which fell, but he scored 72 in his first innings and carried out his bat for 170 in the second. Lincoln Lindum declared with seven wickets down for 333, leaving Lord Londes­ borough’s side 291 to win and 145 minutes in which to make them. Thanks to Llew ­ ellyn, the runs were made with a couple of minutes to spare. A t the Officers’ Becreation Ground at Portsmouth on Thursday last Staff and Departments made 410 runs for six wickets in two hours and 40 minutes against Gloucester Begiment and declared. Their first hundred runs—made by Lieut. C. W . Edwards (115) and Capt. Bonham- Carter (51)—were obtained in twenty minutes, and at the end of an hour and 40 minutes the third hundred had been chronicled with only three wickets down. Gloucester Begiment were dismissed for 120. T he following were amongst the names of a jury at the Stepney Coroner’s Court on Saturday:—Mead, Haigh, Spooner, Holland, Smith and Vine. I t is probable that in Frederick Hemmett Knott, the Kent-born eighteen year-old son of the Bev. Frederick George Knott, Tonbridge possess the best Public School batsman of the year. In addition to leading the side with skill, he has scored 1,126 runs in fourteen innings, thus averaging 80-43. When the calibre of the teams the School has met is taken into consideration, his performance must rank as one of the best of its kind on record. Among his best scores have been 67 v. Tonbridge, 141 v. Blue Mantles, 187 v. Band of Brothers, 56 v. Hampstead, 37 v. F*ee Foresters, 71 v. Dulwich College, 113 v. M.C.C., 146 and 23 v. Old Tonbridgians, 107 and 54 v. Sherborne School, and 105 v. Blackheath. As recently as Tuesday last he proved his worth at Lord’s by scoring 155 for Public Schools against M.C.C. In the field he is a most active cover-point, and he has also obtained many wickets with his “ googlies.” J e sse L it t l e w o o d , the old-time Essex bowler, playing for North o f Ireland C.C. against Old Watsonians (Edinburgh) last week, took all ten wickets in an innings for 53 runs. Six of his victims were clean bowled. A l t h o u g h they appear destined to occupy a lowly position this year in the Championship table, Leicestershire will be able to look back upon at least two excellent performances; in June, with Jayes away, they beat Kent, and on Saturday last defeated Lancashire by six wickets. In each game their all-round form was surprisingly good, and if they could but show it in all their matches they would not only receive better support from the public but would be recognised everywhere as a side to be feared by the strongest of the counties. O f the 41 matches which have taken place between Lancashire and Leicestershire 30 have been finished, and of that number the former have won 28 and the latter two. Leicestershire’s only win in the series before last week was at Manchester in 1899, when they proved successful by 79 runs. The sides met for the first time in 1875, when it was stated that “ No county match has been played at Leicester for seventeen years. There is now no bond fide county chib, but one will shortly be formed on a sure basis.” The game men­ tioned was played in Victoria Park. I n last week’s match Fortune was not kind to Lancashire, inasmuch as White­ head, after obtaining a couple o f wickets, was taken ill and obliged to retire from the game. This meant that he was un­ able to bat in either innings of his side— a consequence which probably cost Lan­ cashire fifty or sixty runs. The side failed badly in their first innings, being got rid of on a good wicket for 139; perhaps the fact that Jayes disturbed Spooner’s leg-stump with the first ball he sent down unsettled them. However, in the follow-on, a very different state of things was seen. They went in requiring 354 to save the innings defeat, and seeing that, after losing Spooner and Tyldesley (J. T.) for 14, they set Leicestershire 61 to win, it must be admitted that they played their up-hill game uncommonly well. Hartley batted superbly for four