Cricket 1911

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H E people w ho write angry letters to the papers, full o f com plaints that W ar­ wickshire’s position at the head of the County Championship is a false one, and show ing clearly how under another system K ent w ould have been first, seem to forget that the Championship was not decided under another system, but under that laid down before the season began. W hether it is the best possiblesystem isquite outside the question. It is at least better than the utterabsurdity o f a scheme w h ich reckoned a drawn gam e equivalent to a loss. T o assume that matches betw een W arw ickshire and Kent, or W arwickshire and M iddlesex, w ould have had the effect of displacing the M idland side from first place is quite unjustifiable. It is on the cards that W arw ickshire m ight have had four victories in matches w ith the other tw o counties; on this year’s form Mr. Foster and his m en have been good value for a victory against any team . The demand that they should meet Kent before the season ends is a queer one ; it is difficult to see what such a match, interesting as it w ould be, could prove. all A l e a d o f sixteen-hundredths o f a point is not a big one, w ill adm it. But it is sufficient. Perhaps it would be m ore correct if the leading county was styled “ prem ier,” not “ cham pion.” “ C ham pion” seems to im ply ability to defeat all com ers; no cricket team can be cham pions in this sense if even one defeat has been sustained by them . But the word has the sanction o f long usage. T h e s e are great times for the M idlands, w ith W arw ick­ shire at the head o f the first-class and Staffordshire worthily figuring as cham pion side in the M inor Counties com petition. Though not at full strength, the W est M idland shire made no m istake about beating Surrey Second. Barnes perform ed with his usual deadliness, and the captain, M r. Meakin, scored a dashing century. W ith its best side Staffordshire is distinctly stron g; even lacking som e o f its forem ost players it is a team to be reckoned w it h ; but the fact that the C omm ittee have had to call upon as m any as 29 m en in carrying out a programm e o f 13 m atches points to considerable difficulty in playing full strength— a difficulty w hich w ould not disappear if the county were offered and accepted prom otion. W i l f r e d B h o d e s is the latest addition to the list o f bats­ men who have made a century in each innings of a first-class match. The only county unrepresented is Northants., the youngest o f the sixteen. The feat has now been perform ed th u s: D e r b y s h ir e Needham, Storer and L . G. Wright. E s s e x :— Carpenter, C. P. McGahey and P. A. Perrin (3 times). G lo u c e s t e r s h ir e : —W .G . Grace (3 times) and G. L. Jessop (4 times). H a m p sh ire C. B. Fry, Capt. J. G. Greig, A. J. L. Hill, Llewellyn (twice), Mead (C. P.) and Col. B. M. Poore. K e n t : — BarJinge (twice), K . L. Hutchings, Seymour (J as) and Woolley. L a n c a s h ir e :— Tyldesley (J. T.) (twice). L e ic e s t e r s h ir e : —C. J. B. Wood. M id d le s e x :—B. J. T. Bosanquet (twice) and A. E. Stcddart. N o t t s . : - Hardstaff, A. 0 . Jones and Shrewsbury. S o m e r s e t :— P. B. Johnson. S u r r e y : - Hayward (3 times) and Hobbs. S u s s e x :— G. Brann, C. B. Fry (4 times) and K. S. ltanjitsinbji. W a b w ic k s h ire : — Kinneir. W o r c e s t e r s h ir e :—Arnold, B. E. Foster and Capt W. L. Foster. Y o r k s h ir e :— Denton (twice), Hirst and Bhodes.