Cricket 1911

J ttly 1 , 19 1 1. CR IC K ET : A W EEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 287 decade. Malvern, first represented in 1892, showed up very strongly in the last ten years of the nineteenth century. D u r in g the whole fifty years 1861-1910 (not to go back farther) Eton was represented in one or both teams in every year except 1868 and 1907. Harrow has a similar record, except that the two barren years, 1895 and 1896, came together in her case. Winchester and Marlborough were each represented in 40 seasons, Rugby, Uppingham and Clifton in 33 each, Repton in 29, and Charterhouse in 27. Malvern has had at least one man in the match in each year since 1891. T h e ta b le w h ich follow s sh ow s at a glan ce th e repre­ sen tation a n y lea d in g sch o o l has h a d during th e la st half- cen tu ry :— F ifty Y ears op P ublic S chool R epresentation in the U niversity M atch . (1861— 1910, inclusive .) School. No. of Blues. Places filled in Places filled in Total No. of places G. teams. O. teams. filled. Eton ... 76 ... 106 ... 77 183 Harrow................ ... 59 ... 81 ... 58 139 Winchester .. 38 ... 10 ... 67 77 R u g b y ................ .. 32 ... 26 ... 42 68 Marlborough ... .. 26 ... 30 ... 33 63 Uppingham ... 22 ... 45 ... 13 58 C lifton ................ ... 23 ... 12 ... 45 57 Charterhouse ... ... 18 ... 19 ... 24 43 Repton... .. 16 ... 23 ... 18 41 Malvern................ ... 15 ... 21 ... 19 40 Westminster ... ... 11 ... 22 4 20 Wellington 9 9 ... 14 23 R ossall................ 9 ... 10 ... 11 21 Cheltenham ... 10 3 ... 16 19 Tonbridge 9 8 ... 11 19 Dulwich 4 ... 10 3 13 Sherborne 6 1 ... 12 13 Brighton 6 ... 10 2 12 Loretto................ 3 0 7 7 St. Peter’s, York 2 7 0 7 F e t t e s .............. . 2 2 4 6 Haileybury 4 3 3 6 Shrewsbury 3 4 2 6 Bury St. Edmunds 3 5 0 5 Forest School ... 4 0 5 5 Merchant Taylors 2 0 5 5 Many other schools were represented, of course ; but none which secured fewer than five places during the half century is given here. Mention may be made of the following among the others : Amersham Hall, Appleby, Bath, Bedford Modern, Blundell’s, Bradfield, Bromsgrove, Chat­ ham House (Ramsgate), Chardstock, Clergy Orphan School (Canterbury), Denstone, Durham, Exeter, Fauconberg, Forest School, Haileybury, Lancaster, Lancing, Leaming­ ton, Llandovery, Leatherhead, Leys, Magdalen College School (Oxford), Oakham, Oundle, Perse, Radley, St. Pauls’, Sedbergh, Sherborne, Stonyhurst, Torquay, Univer­ sity School (Hastings), Wellingborough, and Whitgift. These are not all, strictly speaking, public schools ; but one prefers to take the term in its widest meaning. O w in g to the difficulty experienced in getting together a side to make the journey, the M.C.C.’s proposed Conti­ nental tour this month has been abandoned. H as it struck anyone besides ourselves that an unusually large number of new players—nearly 60 in all—have been given trials in first-class cricket already this season, though the campaign is not yet half-way through ? We refer only to men who have never played in a first-class game before. Sussex, usually a team whose representation varies very little, has tried as many as seven; Leicestershire, of which the same may be said, the same number ; and Gloucester­ shire, always given to experiment in this direction, six. On the other hand Essex has not yet put an untried man into the field ; and Kent (Collins), Middlesex (Mr. D. R. Osborne), Northants. (Mr. J. N. Beasley) and Surrey (Sandham) have tried only one each. Is Mr. F. E. Taylor (or Tayler, for the name has been variously given), who has played in four matches for Gloucestershire this season the old Wellingborough boy who assisted Warwickshire a few times in 1910 ? F rom : a single issue of a contemporary we cull these cheerful headlines :— “ I n g lo r io u s C a m b r id g e .” “ T e d io u s N o r t h a n t s .” “ F e e b l e D is p l a y b y O x f o r d .” “ I n d ia n T e a m ’ s P oor B a t t in g .” Calculated to buck up cricket, this sort of thing—eh, what ? Luckily we are not all Jeremiahs ! S o m e b o d y , misled by the fact that Mr. Cecil Wood played for Northants. before representing Leicestershire, has been lamenting that he did not stick to his native county. But it is for his native county that he now plays. He was born at Market Harborough, and one doubts Photo by ] [Hills & Saunders , Oxford. Mr. R. H. TWINING (Oxford). M r . R ich ard H aynes T w in in g .— B orn N ovem ber 3, 1889, in L ondon . E ton . whether he had any better qualification for Northants. than the fact of being a pupil at Wellingborough Grammar School. Mr. W a l t e r T r o u p , who played for Gloucestershire against Somerset at Taunton, and was obliged to retire hurt, made his first appearance for the Western county, while still a schoolboy, twenty-four years ago. He went to the wickets six times that season, making 83 runs in all. As many as 62 of them were scored in one innings v. York­ shire at Gloucester, when he batted for four hours, he and W. G. putting on 101 together for the second wicket. In 1888 he played in nine matches, and averaged 15. Among several good defensive innings that season, his 64 v. Middle­ sex at Lord’s stood out prominently. He stayed 3 hours and three-quarters in all, and helped the late John Painter, who played a slashing innings of 150, to add 236 for the third wicket.