Cricket 1912

20 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. F eb . 24, 1912. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 33 and 35, MOOR LANE, LONDON, E.C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 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 , 33 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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Cricket's congratulations to Mr. Clare Valentine Baker, of Harrow and Middlesex fame, on his marriage on January 25th to Miss Sibell Mary F o o te ; also to Mr. Roland Clive Wallace Burn, the Wykehamist and Dark Blue bowler, on his marriage on tho 13th instant to Miss Phyllis Marjorie Stoneham. Mr. W il l ia m W a t s o n , the poet, declares that England is suffering greatly from a lack of educational facilities. “ I take a gloomy view of the condition of education in England,” he said (according to the Standard correspondent). “ People are abandoning themselves too much to amuse­ ment, and they are carrying their love of athletics and sports to excess. There is no serious interest in politics except among the minority.” Asked whether he endorsed what Mr. Rudyard Kipling said about “ flannelled fools ” and “ muddied oafs,” Mr. Watson replied : “ Absolutely, though I do not as a rule consider that what Kipling writes signifies much. However, most of the young men of Eng­ land have never hoard of Kipling’s gibe. Nineteen out of twenty of the ‘ flannelled fools ’ and ‘ muddiod oafs ’ are ignorant that Kipling referred to them .” T he Hon. F. S. Jackson, in opening the Bradford C.C. bazaar recently, said he hoped that the triangular games this year would be successful, though his personal experience was that five Test matches were sufficient, and he doubted whether nine would not be found more than enough in this country. T h e new steamer Gigantic, now being built by the White Star Line, is to be equipped with a “ cricket field.” The vessel will be 1,000 feet in length and 50,000 tons burden. George Gibbons Hearne was 55 years of age on July 7th last, and his younger brother Alec 48 on July 22nd. Yet in all M.C.C. matches during 1911 G. G., playing in 22 games, aggregated 511 and averaged 28'38, and Alec, playing 28 times, averaged 34'25 in a total of 927. May they both make many more runs y e t ! The manner in which they keep up their form is simply wonderful. G. G .’s first appearance for Kent was in 1875, his last in 1895 ; Aloe played for the county form 1884 to 1900 inclusive. It is a pity the M.C.C. never publishes bowling averages ; one would like to know how many wickets those two staunch evergreens took. B y a majority of six the Stepney Borough Council have passed a resolution urging the L.C.C. to open for Sun­ day play the golf links at Hainault. An amendment that cricket fields and football fields belonging to the L.C.C. should also be open on Sundays was defeated. T h e Rev. Henry Montagu Butler, D .D ., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed a chaplin- in-ordinary to the King. Dr. Butler was a member of the Harrow Eleven of 1851. R e f e r e n c e s in the House of Commons to Cricket are not so numerous that they can be omitted from P a v il io n G o s s ip . Speaking on Tuesday last, Mr. Harry Lawson said :— “ But the Solicitor-General [Sir John Simon] could argue anything. Last session, up in the Committee-room, he argued that the greater number of ducks’ eggs made by a cricketer in a season the higher his batting average.” The Speaker, who is a cricket enthusiast, was vastly amused. “ C r i c k e t being an English game, no true Irish Nationalist is allowed to soil his principles by taking part in it,” says a special correspondent of the Morning Post. I n giving the averages of the South African team in Australia, Wisden’s Almanack for 1912 divides them into “ test matches ” and “ eleven a side matches,” omitting altogether the few games v. odds. But surely this system is indefen­ sible ? The Board of Control has distinctly laid down wliat are first-class matches in Australia, and by their ruling the Toowoomba and Combined Universities matches, although eleven-a-side, cannot be reckoned as on a par with the State games. But the figures of the Australian players who appeared in these two games are included by the Editor of Wisden in the Australian averages, which renders these utterly valueless. While giving in full the scores of such games as South Africa v Sixteen of Hamilton, too, Wisden .does not even mention the two matches between Queensland and New South Wales, and the match