Cricket 1910

72 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r i l 21 , 1 9 1 0 . H. GRADIDGE And SONS, Manufacturers of >u Requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Hockey, Football, and all British Sports. Made In Mea'a, ■mall Mea's, #r Cellege, 6, S, 4, A I PATENTEES AND SOLE MAKERS ^ OF THE % & \ Used by all the m Leading: yA Players. ^ \ p r i c e i.lH ta ; F r e e o n A p p l i c a t i o n . Of all First*Class Outfitters and Dealers. Reblading a Speciality. Factory ; A rtillery P lace , WOOLWICH. C n c f e e t : A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THU R SD AY , A P R IL 21sr, 1910. H a b t U o n © a s s t p . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. L a s t year the Northamptonshire County C.C., for the first time since it became a first-class side, not only paid its way but made a profit of ±385 19s. 9d. Furthermore, the County finished higher than ever before in the Championship table, so altogether it was a great year in the Club’s history. The income for the year was .£3,026 15s., the chief items being subscriptions £1,311 7s., gate re­ ceipts ±‘1,143 13s. 6 d., and profit on bazaar ±758 Its, 3d. The largest amount taken from one match was ±298 17s 3d., when Leicestershire were met. The liabilities of the Club are now ±'220, com ­ pared with ±611 a year ago. F o r the coming season all last year's players will be available, as well as Ellis, Haywood and Seymour, who are now qualified. At the Annual General Meet­ ing of the Club on Monday last, Mr. A. J. Darnel^ referring to the agitation for starting county matches on Saturdays, said it was most disappointing that they could not persuade other first-class coun­ ties to adopt the scheme, which he thought was their own financial salvation. Lord Lilford was re-elected president, and Mr. T. E. Manning captain. D u r in g the approaching season half-a- dozen benefit matches will be played in the County Championship competition, the first being Pougher’s at Lord’s in the middle of next month and the last Apted’s at the Oval in the last week of August. It will, perhaps, be as well to give a list of the gam es:—- First clay Player. of Match. Pougher ... Middlesex v. Kent, at Lord’s ... May 16 King ... Leic’shire v. Notts, at Leicester June‘23 Quaife ... Warwickshire v. Surrey, at Edg- baston ..................................July 28 Sharp ... Lancs, v. Yorks., at Manchester Aug. 1 Killick ... Sussex v. Lancs., at Brighton ... Aug. S Apted ... Surrey v. Kent, at the Oval ... Aug.22 A deserving half-dozen players, everyone will agree. D u r in g the lucent tour of Mr. H . D . Swan’s team in Portugal the native journalists made a gallant attempt to report the matches, but from their remarks, which are distinctly amusing, it is evident that they do not understand the game at all. In some accounts the visiting side was called the Essex County team, and in others the “ Swansea Club of the City of London.” The sixth match was summed up thus :— The second match between the Lisbon Cricket Club and the Club of London Players took place yesterday. Lisbon, which was the first to bat, made with its eleven men 283 and the English Club 144 with Jive men. The match was not finished for want of time. In the first encounter between these two Clubs, as we have paid, the team of the Clubs of London, who were first to bat, made 250 runs with eight men and Lisbon with four men 180 runs, showing by these results the equality of the two teams, who yesterday played with energy and a desire to win. The first day’s play in the final match of the tour—against Portugal, at Lisbon— was described in the following manner:— CRICKET. Enyli&h in Lisbon .—The Cricket match which we announced took place yesterday before an extra­ ordinary and animated concourse at Cruz Quebrada, between the English of Swansea and a team com­ posed also of English players from the Porto Club, the Carcavellos Club, and the Lisbon Cricket Club. The play was only one part of the game, the other being reserved for to day. Thus it is that the Swansea players being the first to bat made 288 runs, and it is hoped the mixed team who play to-day will do well considering the good elements of which it is composed. . Of the English team of Swansea organised by Mr. Swan, Secretary of the Essex Cricket Club, and composed of members of this Club and good players from other counties, mention may be made of Messrs. Perrin and MacGray, who are considered among the best batsmen of England, and Mr. Crawford, a batsman of the 1st class and a magnificent bowler, as is also Mr. MacGray. Also in this team is an officer of the English Navy, Mr. Beresford, son of the English Admiral of the same name. Of the Lisbon Cricket Club, the Club that has offered the most serious resistance to the strong team from England, is the. 2nd Secretary of the English Legation, Sir Lon Herbert, who as a batsman is considered 1st class, having already played for his county Smert Shire. For the loan of the cuttings from the Portuguese papers I am indebted to Mr. Swan, who promoted the trip and saw it carried through successfully. M r . A. E. L it t e l j o h n , the Middlesex cricketer, won the West Middlesex Golf Club’s Senior Monthly Medal at Southall on Saturday with a scratch score of 72, which beat the amateur record for the course. He went out in 38, and came home in 34. J u st at the present time, when every cricketer is preparing for the coining season, it seems appropriate to draw atten­ tion to a small handbook on the game which very many—and especially those who devote some of their time to teaching youth the way they should go cricketically -—will be glad to procure. The publica­ tion is entitled “ Instructions to Cricket Coaches at Lord’s Cricket Ground,” and when it is stated that Mr. F. E. Lacey is responsible for the production, to which Mr. C. B. Fry and Capt. Wynyard have added a few hints to pupils, all has been said that should be necessary to convince anybody that the advice given is perfectly sound. Copies can be obtained at Lord’s Cricket Ground at 6 d. each. Is England decadent as a sporting nation ? Take lawn-tennis, cricket and football, says a writer in the Saturday Review, and you will find that the Davis cup reposeth at the Antipodes, the ashes of English cricket lie in Australia, and the wraith of English Rugby moans in New Zealand and South Africa. “ I have sufficient confidence in my fellow- countrymen,” he says, “ to feel that they are all right—if they will think more. He would indeed be a bold man who would say that we are going forward. I must confess that I look in vain for any sign of improvement in English sport, particularly on the mental side of it. It is really quite an important question, although I have no doubt that few will recognise the fact.” An amusing story is told of the late Mr. Unwin Sowter by the A thletic News. When Mr. Sowter was playing his not out innings of 47 against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1871— in the first county match ever played by the Derbyshire C.C.—the people in the pavilion were much puzzled as to what the initial “ U ” stood for in his Christian name, but after he had punished the bowling of Reynolds (lobs), Whatmough and Mr. W. Mills, one of the party solemnly announced that