Cricket 1911

A p r i l 29, 19 11. C E ICK ET : A W EEK LY EECOED OF THE GAME. 105 just like the Lancashire 400 odd against Hampshire hist year covered the whole of the weak spots in the Lancashire scheme. ” ‘ ‘ I suppose you haven’t yet begun to feel excited about the Triangular Tournament of 1912 ? ” ‘ ‘ The what ? Oh yes, I remember now—the All- British fakement. No, sir ; I haven’t begun to be excited about it, and it strikes me from the frost that the South African tour has been in Australia that this new-fangled idea will be the biggest frost we’ve ever had. But you will excuse me, sir. I ’m just off to buy some snow-shoes and skates and a Rembrandt or two for my club’s pavilion, and Ihey’ll all go up in price if I don’t look slippy.” W. A. B ettesworth . CRICKET IN CEYLON. [F rom a C orrespondent .] MR. P. R. MAY TO SETTLE IN THE ISLAND. Colombo, March A.th. The bowling of Greswell, the Old Repton and Somerset player, has been the chief feature of the present cricket season in Ceylon. To date he has taken seventy-seven wickets at a cost of 474 runs. Cons dering that our season is only two months old, and that our matches are played only on a Friday and Saturday, Greswell’s feat is a great one. His opponents have always been good batsmen. Those who have seen him bowl in England say he has improved fifty per cent, since he came out to Ceylon. If he visits England next year, as I hear he will, I am sure England will be strengthened by including him against Australia and South Africa. Fitzgibbon, the old Hampstead placer, has struck form in Ceylon. He played an excellent innings of 60 against Colombo on Saturday last. V. F. S. Crawford has done fairly well, but we expect much more from one of his reputation. P. R. May, the old Surrey, Cambridge and London County bowler, is expected in Ceylon next month. He should greatly strengthen the European X I. in the annual match which will be plaj ed next month in Colombo. The European XI. will possibly be : W. E. M. Paterson, V. F. S. Crawford, W . T. Greswell, P. R. May, A. L. Gibson, H. G. Cornish, D. F. Fitzgibbon, L. C. Davies, E. R. Waldock, J. D. Forbes and G. D. Brown or C. A. Wicks. If such an eleven take the field I am sure the Ceylonese team will be defeated. C.C.C. v. UP-COUNTRY.-Played at Darawella on March 3 and 4 and won by the C.C.C. by four wickets. Greswell obtained six wickets for 6G runs iu the first innings and seven for 10 in the second. Score U p -C o u n try . First innings. H. G. Cornish, c Cook, b Greswell ........... 38 C. R. Collison, c Rudgen, b Cook .................. 3 D. F. Fitzgibbon, c and b Greswell .......... 60 Capt. H. V. Greer, run out .......................... 0 M. H. G. Peterkin, c. Rudgen, b C o o k .......... 13 J. D. Forbes, not ou t.......................................... 22 F. C. Smith, c Greswell, b Cook ................... 7 G. H. Gibson, b Greswell.................................. 1 L. Ringham, c Cook, b Greswell ................... 0 J. Holden, lbw, b Greswell .......................... 0 H. B. Daniel, b G resw ell.................................. 15 Bye ...................................... 1 Total .................................. C.C.C. First innings. W. E. M. Paterson, c Forbes, b Cornish ... Capt. Budgen, b Daniel ................................. R. J. Fawcett, c and b G ibson......................... W. T. Greswell, st Forbes, b Cornish .......... K. O. Mackwood. b Holden .......................... L. C. Davies, b Fitzgibbon .......................... R. W. Forbes, c Gibson, b Holden.................. G. Hare, c Cornish, b Holden .................. R* G. B. Spicer, not out .................................. S. E. Grant Cook, lbw, b Fitzgibbon .......... M. Hanna, absent.......................................... Byes, &c........................................ Total .................................. Second innings, c Paterson, b Greswell b C o o k ............................... c Budgen, b Cook ... . c and b Greswell................ c and b Greswell................ b C o o k ............................... b Greswell ........................ b Greswell ........................ c and b Gresswell ... . c Hanna, b Greswell... . not o u t ............................... Byes, &c....................... Total ................ Second innings. c and b H old en ................ b Holden ........................ c and b D aniell................ b Holden ........................ c Greer, b Daniell ... . not o u t ................................ b Peterkin ........................ not o u t ................................ Byes, &c...................... Total (d wkts) R IC H A IID D A F T ’S N O T T IN G H A M S H IR E apply Radcliffe-on-Trent Notts. M A R L.—Particulars Publ ic S c h o o l Cricket in 1911. (Continued from page 77.) B y C. M. SCOTT. MARLBOROUGH . A. SHAW, who is captain of Marlborough for the third time, is a son of Archdeacon the Bev. E. D. Shaw, of Oxford and Middlesex fame. Instances in which a boy has been in his school eleven for five seasons and captain for three must be very rare. It seems not unlikely that Sbaw will have the satisfaction of leading the strongest school combination of the year, for he has at his back seven of last year’s Eleven which, though it failed at Lord’s, was exceptionally successful during the season; Rugby, in fact, were the only side which beat them. The batting should be very sound with C. Patteson and W. F. Q. Shuldham, who have headed the averages for the last two years, again available. The former, whose average worked out at Mr. E. A. SH AW , M arlborou gh. exactly 54, with F. II. Knott and I. P. F. Campbell may be regarded as the^three best Public School batsmen of 1910. He and Shuldham should prove a tower of strength to the side, which, with other very useful batsmen in R. B. Lagden and Shaw, should prove very difficult to dislodge. For the last couple of years Shaw has not quite realised the expectations that were formed of him as a rungetter. In 1908 he averaged 26, blit since then has not exceeded 20. However, he is a batsman of no mean ability and is never easy to get out. Furthermore he is the wicket-keeper of the side. The bowling should be just as good as the batting with Woodroffe, Branson, R. B. Lagden and Battersby : in fact it is difficult to find a weak spot in their all-round strength, and it would not be surprising to find them go through the season unbeaten. If only Branson could develop some finger spin he ought to prove really dangerous; as it is, he is a slow left-hander with a difficult swing. K. H. C. Woodroffe was kept out of the Rugby match last year owing to an accident, and