Cricket 1911

380 CR ICKET : A W EEK LY RECOED OP THE GAME. J u l y 29, 1911. the Aldenham averages, with total 380, average nearly 32 ; in 1905, when he first became captain, he finished up the school season, after a run of bad luck, with scores of 89 and 127, both not o u t ; in 1906 he developed form as a slow bowler, and, first playing for Cambs. in that year, took 6 wickets for 95, though doing little with the bat. In the following year he averaged 35'60 for the school, and scored 198 runs in 12 innings, highest score 56, for the county, taking also 10 wickets at just under 27 each. I n 1908 he was below only the Rev. R. S. Swann-Mason in the Cambs. averages, scoring 406 with an average of 27. But 1909 was his great year. In 13 completed innings for the county he made 502 runs. He played a great innings of 221, made in a trifle over four hours, with only one chance, Photoby] [Ilaiokins&Co.,Brighton. F. PEARSON. at 111, v. Herts, at Cambridge ; he carried his bat through the first innings against Norfolk at Newmarket for 75 : he scored 70 v. M.C.C. at L ord’s, and 57 v. Norfolk at King’s Lynn. Moreover his modest share of bowling was successful, for he took 12 wickets at under 20 each. Last year he could not get going at all. In 16 innings he made only 142 runs. It is a real pleasure to note his return to form. T h e Maidstone Week proved a success from every point of view— that is cricketically, socially, and financially. B oth matches were won b y Kent, and although play did not on either occasion last well into the third day the takings (including £50 derived from tents and cards) amounted to £567 12s. lid . The residents entered thoroughly into the spirit of the Week by decorating all the principal thorough­ fares, and the attractions arranged for the evenings were varied and popular. C a d e t C o l r .-S e r g t . R . S t L. F o w l e r , the Eton captain of 1910, has gained the sword of honour at Sand­ hurst. A t an inquest at Marylebone on the 21st inst. it trans­ pired that Stuart Fulton Mill, aged 14, of Willesden, N.W., a pupil at the Merchant Taylors’ School, was struck on the head with a cricket-ball whilst batting in a match and died after removal to hospital. A verdict of Accidental Death was returned. A t another inquest, held on Monday last, it was proved that Thomas Lloyd, a schoolmaster, aged 43, died suddenly whilst taking part in a match at Castell Gorfod, near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, two days before. He had just hit a ball to leg when he fell and died. Death was attributed to heat and excitement, and a verdict was returned accordingly. W h a t a pity it is that Mr. R . H. Spooner cannot go to Australia ! He would be a tower of strength to our side there. B y the way, with reference to Mr. Spooner, we have a confession and an apology to make, on behalf of the compiler of our ‘ ‘ Guide to Cricketers,” and of the Editor of C r ic k e t , who, as he oversaw the whole work, pleads equally guilty. B y some inexplicable mistake, Mr. Spooner was omitted altogether from that (though we say it who should not) valuable work of reference 1 It is not likely that Mr. Spooner minds. But we do. Mr. F. E. T a y l e r , who has played in several matches for Gloucestershire this season, is the same player who appeared for Warwickshire in 1910. Our enquiry con­ cerning his identity brought several replies. He is an old Wellingborough Grammar School boy and showed good all-round form in the school eleven both in 1905 and 1906, bowling with great success— 39 wickets at under 11 runs each— in the latter year. A n o th e r old Wellingburian is Mr. H. E. Bowmer, who played for Derbyshire the other day. He had a couple of matches for the county in 1909, but has still to make his mark in first-class company. That he is a good bat his school record attests ; in 1908 he averaged 29 and in 1909 nearly 34, his highest scores being 101 in the former year and 117 in the latter. T h e gentle art of “ barracking” is evidently not unknown in Wales, for in an account of the recent match between Llanelly 2nd X I. and Morriston we read :— ‘ ‘ During the Morriston innings there was something in the nature of a scene. Some of the spectators were repeatedly calling out to the Llanelly captain to ‘ throw Jack Rees, the wicket-keeper, off the field.’ Rees at last turned round to the annoying party, and said, ‘ I can’t do better. I have only got two hands.’ Jack Rees subse­ quently took off pads and gloves, and his place was taken by D. H. Davies. This was very unfair to Rees, who has done good work for Llanelly, and is essential to the success of the club.” H .H . T h e M a h a r a j a o f P a t ia l a , the captain of the All-Indian team, has been elected a Fellow of the Zoo­ logical Society of London. Mr. C. B. F r y ’ s latest century, v. Worcestershire, is his fifth against that county, and his eighty-third in first- class cricket. He has seldom failed to take heavy toll of the Worcester bowling, One failure there was, in 1903, when, at Worcester, Wilson twice bowled him for a single; but in eleven matches (eight for Sussex three for Hants.) he has totalled 1,180 runs in 18 innings, once not out, his average thus being only just, under 70, W e saw him play a splendid innings of 96 on the Severnside ground in 1900. His last three innings had been 125 and 229 v. Surrey, and 110 v. Middlesex ; from W or­ cester he went on to Bristol, and made 105 ! In May, 1903, he scored 174, with only one chance, against Wilson,