Cricket 1912

326 CEICKET : A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. J u l y 13, 1912. H. GRADIDGE & SONS, Manufacturers and Exporters of all requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Squash Racquets, &c. F a c t o r y :— ARTILLERY PLAGE, WOOLWICH, S.E. Reblading Cricket bats and Restringing Tennis bats a Special feature. Patentees and Sole makers of the “ I M P E R I A L D R I V E R ” Cricket Bats made in Men’s, Small Men’s, Collegei 6, 5 , 4 , & 3 , sizes. Every other requisite for Cricket, including balls, leg guards, batting gloves, gauntlets, stumps, nets, &c. Price Lists and Special Quotations free. ALL GOODS CARRIAGE PAID TO ANY PART OF THE UNITED KINCDOM. Sole Makers of the “ Imper ial Dr iver ” and “ Improved Gr ad i dg e ” Lawn Tennis Racquets. and owe much to their captain G. B . D avies, who continues to win matches for them. Blundell’s, with E . S. Cameron and J . E . C. Linde- say, have one of the best sides which have ever represented the school, and Taunton, and Newton, have both done well. W ith regard to the last named, the two W atts, F . M. I. and J . A. I. continue to bring off wonderful performances and both are likely to be heard of in the future, but all individual performances during the last fortnight have been dwarfed by the phenomenal success of C. H . B . Chance at Eton. _____________________ O.B. Cricket in the Scottish Highlands. B y “ C e l t .” T his is an age of surprises, and the cricketing public in the H ighlands never had a bigger surprise meted out to them than the fact that Elgin City were dismissed on Saturday last for 13 runs. Fan cy a side of the batting capabilities of Elgin City getting disposed of for such a total. Nairn County accomplished the deed on the Nairn Links. The visitors, I m ay say, batted first, and there is no gainsaying the fact that the wicket must have been queer, for the home team had three wickets down for 5 runs. B u t when all were disposed of their total reached 63, W . Whitelaw, late of Glenalmond School, being top scorer with 34. It was a bowlers’ day, E . H . Whitelaw for Nairn County getting 4 wickets for 4 runs and Dysart 4 for 9. R . C. Ham ilton for Elgin had 7 wickets for 22 runs. It was indeed a record day for Northern cricket. The Northern Counties appeared for the first time this season against Inverness Saints in the Victoria Park on a very bumpy wicket, m any of the batsmen being glad to get out. Batting first with great difficulty they reached a total of 10 2—top scorer being M. Grieve with 30 and Capt. Crichton came next with 22. Their opponents reached 6 1 before they were all dismissed, A. C. MacKenzie, going in first wicket down, carrying out his bat for 23. Nothing notable in the bowling took place on either side. At Forres the m ilitary from Fort George tackled the Forres St. Lawrence. The homesters batted first and made a good show, closing their innings at 129 for 8 wickets, of which L . D. Forrest got 5 1 by hard hitting as also did Geo. Murray who got 4 1 not out. The soldiers did not show up in their usual style, only getting 87, Lieut. Peareth top scorer with 28. G. Brands took 4 wickets for 35, and J . Gowrie 5 for 42. Principal Matches of Next Week. Ju ly 15 , 16 , 17.-—Lord’s, Australia v. South Africa. „ 15 , 16 , 17 .—Hove, Sussex v. Nottinghamshire. ,, 15 , 16 , 17 .—Portsmouth, Hampshire v. Worcestershire. „ 15 , 16 , 17 .—Maidstone, Kent v. Middlesex. „ 15 , 16 , 17 .—Birm ingham , Warwickshire v. Northamptonshire. ,, 15 , 16 , 17 .—Manchester, Lancashire v. Surrey. ,, 15 , 16 , 17 .— Sheffield, Yorkshire v. Leicestershire. ,, 15 ,16, 1 7 — Derby, Derbyshire v. Somerset. „ 15 , 16 .— Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire v. Kent 2nd X I. (Barnes’s Benefit). ,, 16 .—Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire v. Fife, i, 17 .—Dunfermline, Fife v. Perthshire. „ 16 , 1 7 — Warwick, Gentlemen of W arwickshire v. M .C.C. ,, 17 , 18 .— Camborne, Cornwall v. Devon. „ 18 , 19 , 20.—Lord’s, Gentlemen v. Players. „ 18 ,19 , 20.— Eastbourne, Sussex v. Hampshire. „ 18 , 19 , 20.— Northampton, Northamptonshire v. Yorkshire. „ 18, 19 , 20.—Maidstone, Kent v. South Africans. ,, 18, 19 , 20.—Leicester, Leicestershire v. Australians. „ 18 , 19 .— Oval, Surrey 2nd X I. v. W iltshire. „ 18 , 19 .—Bedford, Bedfordshire v. Buckingham shire. ,, 19 , 20.—Penzance, Cornwall v. Monmouthshire. ,, 20.—Perth, Perthshire v. Forfarshire. „ 20.— Stirling, Stirlingshire v. Aberdeenshire. G E O R G E L E W I N & C O . , Club Colour Specialists and Athletic Clothing Manufacturers. 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