Cricket 1910

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L e ic e s t e r s h ir e wound up their season with a well-deserved win over Surrey at the Oval on Saturday. During the year they have played seventeen matches, of which six were won and eleven lo s t: no other county passed through the season without leaving at least three games unfinished. Although their defeats are almost twice as numerous as their successes they can number Kent, Surrey, Lancashire and Yorkshire among their victims : on the other hand they lost both their matches with Derbyshire, whose only wins those were during the year. For their defeat of Surrey, Leicestershire were clearly much indebted to their fast bowler, Shipman, who took nine wickets in an innings and prevented Surrey from obtaining a long lead on the first after­ noon. As he is quite young, keen on the game and of good physique, there is probably many a triumph in store for him. T h e late Mordecai Sherwin, for many years a member of the Nottinghamshire team and of the Lord’s ground-staff, left property of the gross value o f .£'2,650 2s. 9d., with net personalty £’2,299 17s. S c a r b o r o u g h has been proverbially lucky in the weather experienced during its Festivals, and therefore it was with some surprise that cricketers in the South, who were favoured with sunshine, heard of the serious interruption in the M.C.C. v. Yorkshire match on Friday. The delay, though irritating, furnished a curiosity which has but few parallels, two members o f a side— in this instance Bates and Booth—batting on each of the three days in the course of one of their innings. As Keats once said: “ I think Shake­ speare is just about enough for us.” And most things (says a correspondent o f The Yorkshire Post) are in Shakespeare ; but did he know summers like ours ? I ask, because I have j ust come across a couplet in “ King Henry IV .” (II. Act iv., Sc. 4), which, as usual, sums up all that we have been thinking and saying for some time past:— The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep, and leap’d them over. N o t often is a Worcestershire team found without a member of the Foster brotherhood in it, but a case in point oc­ curred last week at Bournemouth in the match with Hampshire. On the same days G. N. Foster was assisting the M.C.C. at Scarborough, thereby, like M. C. Bird, leading one to suppose that he preferred to conclude the season with a holiday game rather than with an inter-county match. And no bad judge either! C. B. F r y scored 115 against Worcester­ shire on Friday on his second appearance in first-class cricket this year. Before he had made a run he survived an appeal for a catch at the wicket, and in playing forward dragged his foot over the crease. Bale, the wicket-keeper, flashed his hands past the wicket and the square-leg umpire gave Fry out, stumped. As it happened, Bale had failed to remove the bails, and the batsman continued his innings. T h o u g h much interfered with by rain, the Bournemouth Week was a success financially, the receipts for the two matches being close upon £‘500. In beating Worcestershire— a very merit­ orious performance—Hampshire gained their tenth success of the season, and during the year have won more Champion­ ship matches than in any other since their promotion to first-class rank. F or the first time in his career Burrows has obtained a hundred wickets in a season in first-class cricket. It was a very close thing, too, for it was with the last ball bowled this year for Worcester­ shire that he managed to make his aggre­ gate a three-figure one. The success of the genial and big-hearted cricketer has proved very popular, as, indeed, it was bound to do. N o r f o l k beat Berkshire in most decisive fashion in last week’s Final for the Minor Counties Championship. Berkshire had been doing so well for some weeks before that their defeat must have caused considerable disappointment. Geoffrey Stevens’ faultless innings of 201 was, of course, the outstanding feature of the match. For the last two years good judges have spoken very highly of this young player, and for some reasons one wishes he belonged to a first-class side, for however good a man identified with a second-class county may be, the proba­ bility is that he will not be given an opportunity o f appearing in representative cricket. It was in 1901 that the Minor Counties Competition received the official recognition of the M.C.C., and since then the successful sides have been 1901. Durham. 1902. Wiltshire. 1903. Northants. 1904. Northants. 1905. Norfolk. 1906. Staffordshire. 1907. Lancashire 2nd. 1908. Staffordshire. 1909. Wiltshire. 1910. Norfolk. M r . J o h n D a n i e l l , who resigned the Somerset captaincy recently, has been presented by the County Club with a set o f silver bowls o f Glastonbury design as a wedding gift. T h e Duke of Argyll once told a good story at the expense of Mr. Winston Churchill at a Tory dinner in Bradford.