Cricket 1913

C R I C K E T : A W E E K L Y RECOR-> O F T H E G A M E.— J u n e 2 8 t h , 1 9 1 3 . “ Together joined in Cricket's manly toil.”— Byron. No- 44 SER,‘ S- SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913. PR1CE 2- PH ILIP MEAD CARRIES THE HAMPSH IRE HOQ ON HIS BACK i (This man Mead is in too big a hurry. There was not room for the cartoon last week, and since then he has made it a trifle out of date by scoring another century. Let it be supposed that the 127 is branded on the other side of the hog.— Note, E d i t o r . ) Ifravnlion (Sossip. The worse the time the better the end, and under sky and sun, I go to play the cricketer’s part, and turn the bowlers on ; And one will bowl me fast balls, and one will bowl me slow, And one will bowl me cunning and straight, and then the bails will go ; But fast come, slow come, the grass and winds are free, And, heigh-ho, follow the game, the world is fair for me ! E. E. B o w e n . U p to Saturday last inclusive, P . A . Perrin had made 54 centuries in first-class cricket, John Sharp 32, Fred Bow ley 30, Ph ilip Mead 29, Tarrant 25, the Rev. F . H . G illingham 13, Robert R e lf 12, and C. S. Baker 9. P. F . W arner’s little lot I make 59 ; but in these are in­ cluded a few that would be rejected— possibly with scorn — by the critics who hold that there is no such thing as first-class cricket outside England, Australia, and South A frica. I m yself regard certain matches played in India, the West Indies, New Zealand, the States, Canada, and the Argentine as quite first-class, and should be inclined to accord that rank to a few played elsewhere. F ro m Newr Zealand I hear that H arold B. Lusk, 11 . A ., L L B ., o f the tutorial staff o f Christ’s College, Christchurch, w ill leave the Dominion in August to take up an appointment at C lifton College, under a scheme for exchange o f masters between Christ’s College and some English public schools. T h e New Zealand team for Australia will thus be short o f one o f its very best, for Lusk is a really brilliant bat, and if he stays long enough in England should do good service for Gloucestershire in future Augusts. He has played for Auckland as well as Canterbury, and is a younger brother o f Hugh B. Lusk (Auckland and H aw k e’s Bav), one time New Zealand’s premier bat. Norman B. Lusk, who, I believe, is now fa r out in the country somewhere, away frcim class cricket, is another brother, and he, too, did good service to Auckland for a time. E x t r a c t from the stop-press column o f the Brighton Argus o f Saturday la s t:— “ K ent 140 all out. Won by 6 wjekets. And one wondered how- it was done !