Cricket 1914

236 THE WORLD OF CRICKET. J u n e 13 , 19 14 . £be Morlfc of Cricket. E d i t o r : M r. A . C. M a c L a r e n . A s s i s t a n t E d i t o r a n d M a n a g e r : Mr. J . N. P e n t e l o w . 61, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, EMBANKMENT, LONDON, E.C. Correspondence should be addressed to the Editor; sub­ scriptions, advertisements, and all communications on business matters to the Manager. Subscription rates: Inland, Nine Shillings per annum;Overseas Ten Shillings. Pavilion Gossip. Bine sky, clear sky, meet for the game we love, Golden sun in the heavens high, crisp turf under our feet— Great game, clean game, game all others above For the duffer alike and the player of fame, in victory or defeat! T h e greatest pains are being taken b y the respective selectors to get the best teams possible for the old Harro­ vians v. Old Etonians match to be played at Lord’s on June 19 and 20. H o n . F . S. J a c k s o n has promised to turn out and captain the Harrow side, which will include M. C. Bird, M. Falcon, E . M. Dowson, Hon. R . Anson, A. H. Hornby, A. H . Lang, H. P . Chaplin, G. E . V . Crutchley, A. C. MacLaren, and one other. B . J. T. B o s a n q u e t is getting up the E ton team, and to show how careful he is in his selections I m ay say such a player as C. Heseltine reported himself only on trial the other day, when I spoke to Hampshire’s fast bowler of a few seasons back. I t was good to see the Rev. John Burrough bowling against the Harrow boys for the Free Foresters throughout the whole of the first innings and for the greater part of the second. He varied the height of the ball splendidly, also the pace, and appeared to bowl just what the batsman did not want. He has lost three stone, and some of his friends would not know him. He was too good for the boys, who lost on the first innings by some 50 runs. G. A . C. S a n d e m a n was at his best at the other end, swinging into the batsmen time after time w ith variation of pace, and I should think the Old Etonian gets through as much bowling as falls to the lot of two men pu t together in a season— he fairly revels in it. O l d H a r r o v ia n s are quietly confident that the school will p u t up a much better fight at L o rd ’s this year. Three flannels were awarded after the Foresters match in Jackson, twelfth man in 1913 ; Jessop, left-hand bowler ; and Renton, who has kept w icket capitally in the last few games. T h e old choices, w ith the exception of Dury, have not struck their proper form yet, but time should pu t that matter right, for they are all keen cricketers. M. C . Kemp has been untiring in his efforts to bring them along. T h e catch b y which the Rev. F . H . Gillingham dismissed Ducat a t the O val on Monday was rather out of the ordinary. He fell in making it, and finished up flat on his back, with his hands enclosing the ball well clear of the turf. The fall of the church m ilitant— but the church m ilitant arose smiling. C . B. F r y ’ s 112 v. Gloucestershire is his ninety-third century in first-class cricket. C o l in B l y t h e has quite a nice little record v. Northamp­ tonshire. In 15 matches he has taken 121 wickets for 1492 runs, or a trifle over 12 each. In no match has his bag been one of fewer than four w ickets; and three times he has taken more than 10— always a t Northampton, where in 1909 he had 14 for 75, in 1908 13 for i n , and in 1907 17 for 48 (10 for 30 and 7 for 18). C. J. T. P o o l , a few years ago quite Northamptonshire’3 best batsman, has taken a hotel a t Bettws-y-Coed. T h e Mulholland case appears to be rousing some people’s ire. The rule which will be transgressed if last year’s Cambridge captain appears at Lord’s against Oxford— and the Oxford authorities, it would appear, raise no objec­ tion to his doing so— is one made in 1865, to provide, primarily, against any man’s playing more than four times in the ’Varsity match. The sub-head under which a man was barred from playing in his fifth year after matriculation seems to have been designed to prevent the appearance of a player whose talents were not early recognised after his ordinary period of residence had run out. If Oxford don’t object, however, it is difficult to see how members of the general public can reasonably raise the voice of complaint. I t is said th at E ast m ay not p lay for his county again. He has been an unlucky cricketer in the m atter of leg trouble— so prevalent w ith first-class players, though the spectators can’t understand why their wearied limbs should ever need a rest— and has suffered from sciatica or lumbago also. A l b e r t R e l f is to take his benefit n ext season, and there­ after will only be available for Sussex in August, for he has accepted the post of head coach at Wellington College for 1916. Wellington should p ro fit; R elf is a really good coach, and did wonders in bringing on the Auckland players during his three or four seasons in New Zealand. Bu t Sussex will greatly miss the fine all-round cricketer who has put in so tremendous an amount of work for the county since he joined the team in 1900, having already won his spurs for Norfolk. T h e projected testimonial to H. K . Foster is quite in the fitting order of things. W h at H. K . has meant to Worcestershire, perhaps, only those who have some inside knowledge of the workings of the county club can realise. T h e r e have been plenty of greater captains from the point of view of tactics. There have been few captains w ith higher hearts or a more chivalrous conception of the obligations which cricket imposes. In the worst of times H. K . kept the flag of courage flying ; and always anything but ever so little beyond the indefinite border-line of fair and unfair play was to him anathema. B y the way, one of the Sportsman's contributors stated recently that six of the Foster brothers had made centuries in first-class cricket. B u t when did B. S. reach three figures in a first-class game ? Certainly N. J. A . has not done so. C a m b r i d g e U n i v e r s i t y v . The A rm y came upon some of us as quite a surprise. The fixture was made late. Though the m ilitary side cannot raise full strength, it should be a most interesting one.