Cricket 1911

M ay 13, 1911. CEICKET: A W EEK LY RECORD OF THE GAME. 145 took seven wickets for 29 runs in a total of 82. The Banks had previously declared with seven wickets down for 185. I t has been arranged that Cambridge University and Gloucestershire shall meet at Cambridge on Thursday next. This is an additional first-class fixture, and one which should prove most attractive. Some of Mr. Jessop’s most remarkable innings have been played at Cambridge, and it will be interesting to see whether he will add to the number next week. P r e s i d i n g last week at the Savoy Hotel at the coming- of-age dinner of the London Playing Fields Society, Prince Arthur of Connaught, in the course of a most interesting speech, remarked that nothing finer than their national and historic games of cricket and football could well be found, provided that they were taken as a recreation and not as a business, to maintain the physique and many high moral qualities of the English race. If, as pessimists were so fond of telling them, those qualties were deterior­ ating it was because it was the tendency of the day for young men and boys to watch other people play and not to play so much themselves. “ D u c a t ’ s C e n t u r y ” was the topic on Sunday evening last at St. Mary-at-Hill, Monument, E .C . A v e r y interesting fixture-list has been drawn up for the Germantown team which will be in England about the third week of July. It is as follows :— Date. Opponents. Where played. July 28th, 29th Royal Artillery . Woolwich. July 31st, Aug. 1st Free Foresters Lord’s. August 2nd, 3rd ... Band of Brothers . Belmont. August 4th, 5th The Mote ... . Maidstone. August 7th, 8 th ... Royal Engineers ... Chatham. August 9th, 10th ... M.C.C.................................... . Lord’s. August 12th Mitcham ... . Mitcham. August 14th Blackheath . Blackheath. August 15th, 16th... Gentlemen of Surrey . Oval. August 17th, 18th... Gentlemen of Liverpool .. . Aigburth. August 21st. 22nd... Woodbrook . Woodbrook. August 23rd, 24th... Phoenix C.C. .............. . Dublin. August 25th Co. C o r k ........................... . Cork. The match-list was drawn up by Mr. W. Findlay, the Secretary of the Surrey County C.C. I t can seldom have happened that neither Eton nor Rugby, two of our great cricket schools, should have had a man in the Freshmen’s matches at the Universities. Such, however, was the case this year. And the forty-four players engaged in the two games, leaving the captains out of account, were pretty widely representative, too. At least thirty British schools were drawn upon ; and India, Australia, and Jamaica were all represented. Two of the colonial players at Oxford—Mercier, the Jamaican, and Rock] iffe, from Tasmania—figured with distinct credit. One would like to be sure of the Tasmanian’s correct name. He has figured during the last few days with much variety —as “ J. F.,” “ T. F.,” “ E. F.,” and “ G. D.,” but always with the final “ e ” to his surname. When he played for Tasmania v. New South Wales a little more than a year ago, however, he was set down as “ T. Rockliff,” and under that name he appears in the Tasmanian Cricket Association’s list of members in 1908-9. P e r h a p s the likeliest of all the bowling freshmen to get his blue this year is H. Grierson, of Bedford Grammar School, who had the fine analysis of fifteen wickets for 97 runs at Cambridge. By the way, ‘ ‘ Bedford ” (so often given) is scarcely a sufficient identification of school, for Bedford Modern, whence came Major A. J. Turner and the captain of Notts., has at least as big a claim to distinction as Bedford Grammar. Bedford County, having become “ Elstow,” is out of the reckoning. Mr. Grierson was four seasons in his school eleven, and during that time took 186 wickets at an average cost of under 15 runs each—a wonder­ ful record for a schoolboy. He has represented Bedford­ shire with some success, too. In 1907 his batting average was 5'62, in 1908 it was 5'66, in 1909 it had risen to 12'75 ; but last year it took a sudden jump, and with 404 runs in 15 innings, five times not out, he stood at the top of the school’s batsmen. He bowls a swinging ball, medium to fast left hand ; and that type of bowling is sufficiently out of the ordinary ruck to make it likely that he will have other opportunities of showing his form in first-class company, notwithstanding his ineffectiveness this week against Surrey. M r . E v e r a r d J o s e p h R a d c l i f f e , who has succeeded Lord Hawke as captain of Yorkshire, after being acting- captain for the greater part of two seasons, was born at Photo by] [Hawkins & Co., Brighton. Mr. E. J. RADCLIFFE. Tiverton on January 27th, 1884, and educated at Downside and Oxford. He did not obtain his blue. Although a fair bat and a good captain, he has a big task in trying to fill his lordship’s shoes. A ld e r s h o t C om m an d should have a very strong batting side this season, for among the players available are Major A . J. Turner (Essex), Capt. W. N. White (Hamp­ shire), Capt. E. L. Challenor (Leicestershire), Lieut. H. W. Yates (Hampshire) and Lieut. C. L. Tudor (Sussex). As was foreshadowed in Gossip a few weeks ago, the Worcestershire authorities have considered it advisable to transfer the match with Yorkshire, which should have been played at Dudley on May 22nd and following days, to Worcester. The Dudley ground will not be ready for first-class cricket until the season is well advanced. In Random Recollections by Charles II. E. Brookfield, a new edition of which has recently been published, the