Cricket 1912

CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TIIE GAME. J an . 27, 1912. Cvichet: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 33 and 35, MOOR LANE. LONDON. E.C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1911. All communications intended for the Editorial Department should in order to prevent delay, be addressed to “ The Editor of C r ic k e t, 83 and 35, Moor Lane. E .C ., and not to any person by name. The same remark applies to all publications intended for review. The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the safety of MSS. sent to him for consideration, although every effort will be made to return them when a stamped addressed wrapper is enclosed for that purpose. As replies to questions are given only by way of published answers to correspondents, and not by letter, those seeking information do not need to enclose stamped addressed envelopes. Letters and enquiries from anonymous correspondents will not receive attention. 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TROUGHTON .— On Now Year’s Day, at his residence, Percy Villa, Campden Hill, W ., suddenly, Medhurst Albert Troughton, J.P., of Gravesend, Kent, aged 72 years. p a v i l io n (Bosstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. HIS issue of Cricket is the first of a new series, and a few words of introduc­ tion seem necessary, for No. 1 of any paper is open to be seen—let the Hibernicism be forgiven !—by quite a number of people who have never seen it before. Of those who now see Cricket for the first time, we should like to a,sk that they will give the paper a careful reading, and after that make up their minds whether it is not one that they would like to have regularly. They are not likely to have bought Cricket , the paper, unless they are interested in cricket, the game, and we are confident that everyone so interested will find it good value. To ouroldsupporters, some of whom have known the paper for closc on thirty years, and would feel a blank in their lives if it failed to reach them regularly, we ask for a kindly welcome totheirold lriend in new guise. If they can help us— and webelievemany of them could, and hope that many of them will—by bringing it under the notice of possible new readers, we should be very grateful. N o t iiin u else helps a paper quite so much as thia. Like- others, we send out specimen copies, and some of those bear fruit. But a man naturally pays more hoed to the recom­ mendation of a friend than to a chance specimen o. a pa^er received by post. W e offer congratulations to Mr. Bernard Meakin, the captain .of the Staffordshire County eleven, on the announce­ ment of his approaching marriage to Miss Alice Gray, daughter of the late Frederick Gray, Esq., of Johannesburg, and Mrs. Grey, of 48, Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington. I n order to celebrate the Jubilee of the Incogniti C.C. a dinner will be given at the Hotel Itussell on February 15th. Some hundreds of past and present members have expressed the intention of being present, and the gathering promises to be a notable one. •T a y e s , of Leicestershire, whose health has n o t b ee n very satisfactory for some time past, left England on the 17th inst. for the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, Davos, where he will probably remain some months. The sana­ torium is close to Davos Platz, and is nearly 5,000 feet above sea-level. Jayes takes his benefit during the coming season. W e l l in advance of date, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers’ captain and lion, sec., Mr. William S. Donne, of South Court, Castle Cary, sends along the programme of his club’s annual tour. The Wanderers will visit East Yorkshire in 1912, leaving Temple Meads station, Bristol, on Wednesday, June 19th, at 12.20 p.m., to arrive at Scarborough, where the Grand Hotel will be their head­ quarters for the tour, at 7.11 p.m. The matches will be as under :— Thursday, June 20, v. Countess of Carlisle’s X I., at Castle Howard. Friday, June 21— v. Filey, at Filey. Saturday, June 22— v. Ganton, at Ganton. Monday and Tuesday, June 24 and 25—v. Yorkshire Gentlemen, at York. Wednesday, June 26—v. Whitby, at Whitby. Thursday, June 27 v. Hovingham, at Hovingham. Friday, June 28— v. Malton, at Malton. Saturday, June 29— v. Pickering, at Pickering. Scarborough will be left on Monday, July 1st, at 11.12 a.m., and Temple Meads station reached at 5.25 p.m. I t is interesting to note that this will be the nineteenth tour. In the course of its eighteen predecessors, the Wanderers have played 112 matches, won 56, lost [37, and drawn 19. I t is good to hear that Mr. C. L. A. Smith, Who ha|S been very seriously ill with rheumatic fever, has now begun to recover. He is scarcely making rapid progress ; but we hope that now he has turned the corner, he will move apace. He is not given to be slow, either in the field or at the wickets. By the way, in reporting his illness, most of the papers went astray. They referred to him as being the Sussex captain of 1909 and 1911. But Mr. Bertie Chaplin captained Sussex last year, as in 1910. Mr. G. A. F a u l k n e r broke his leg on New Year’s Day while playing in an Association football match at the residence of Mr. Lionel Bobinson at Old Buckenliam, Norfolk. Other players in the match were Mr. B. J. T. Bosanquet, Mr. A. E. Lawton, and Mr. B. O. Schwarz. The referee was Mr. A. C. MacLaren. S a m A p t e d was presented with a testimonial on the 2nd inst. on his retirement, after twenty-four years’ servidc at the Oval, as groundsman to the Surrey County C.C. The presentation, which took the form of an illuminated address and a diamond pin and stud, was made at Kenning- ton Oval, at a social and musical evening given by the Camberwell Depot Cricket Club (London County Council Tramways), whose members formed the bulk of the sub­ scribers. Apted, in acknowledging the gift, said he could not help wishing that he had been a ground .superintendent in Australia, because he had just been reading that, they had made rules there by which the groundsmen were left a free judgment as to what ought to be done to keep the wicket in good order. Here, in England, they had actually made rules to stop him from doing well, because they said he made the wickets too good and the bowlers could not