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Econtinued from prys 2.j the giant run-getters in Hayward, Hobbs, mil Hayes, and "fine and" to wute hitter la M. C. Bird. It puzzl the most exp.it of cricket analysts to
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ingle mateli was lost. The hugu mujár. by of the other were mere or less clustie" ricksters; yet only a single match was ron. Northants fluished with only on ounty above tim, Essex with only 35 below them.
Deeply has this fallure be feit hy nea, who hare dono very imch, to nið Essex evounty cricket, Mr. C. E. Green. to whom the county are almost" evtip.. thing, has at last wearied al struggling A. O. Jeves will once more lend Notty in the gx cutse, but his parting gift ras a most munifeest one. There were and he is regal to veno as a field cup tain. It is, of course, a professional silther resignaticus, too, and is very at ng will command, but later on the sense is there to is a freally start, 1 for Sworne my, d. W. Corr, is sure tours that thawo who wish the side will be given another trial, a remark that applenble to P. Peuron-Gregory, Then me ather young players under consider put, while it is quite likely that A. B Crawfor: will be found to be an extreme is uefa county cricketer. All-the old brigade ar again available.
Warwickshire fell from Bob to ninth in 1912. They my resonably expect
On View from Thursday, the 29th May, something of a boon to follow this un Tash on delivery,
foreseen shop. They havo a good bowl ing sile, but just univer men who enr alinitely bowl well for them did not
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DARTICULAS AND COMPTIONS of the
will agree that, if there is to be a real every, More life" must be fe motto. The eleven is full of first rule ricketers, mui, as the quieter policy has job- brought success, it is at least worch while trying the experiment of putting nore "go Into the Bert. One luct s only too patent. If there is nob. A ubstantial recovery of the deld of play.
a 1919; there is only a very poor cliance of there being any cricket at Leyten in 193-4.
A certain lack at first-class bowling is carerly enough to account for the Tat bat Worcestershire stand sixteenth on he list. True, they are chiefly a re setting side on fast wickets, and last
Luckily, F. B. Foster has Cesped another tiring winter, and with lint in his best form again all, should I well. But he cannot do it all, and if Fick can unig reproduce the skill heater was abnormally wet. That, shed in 1911, Warwickshire should be however, is a partial excuse for what: formidable, despite the fact that they happened. One need vos dwell upon it
ow. With H. K. Foster back in his ol are not exactly great busting side.
place, we may hope for better things. However, he is only one of the famous
LUSSES TO SUSSEX.
Sussex will much miss the batting a the Jain of Nasunagar and the bowling of H. Simuns, Thurs is only one-ulbest of Fostership."
Hanji, ut in Sims the county had
and of brothers. It was indeed the true word spoken in jess" when the humerist
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the brothers Relf and the Vateru: Vine. A has already "been an nimoed, G. I Jessop has resigned th captaincy of Gloucestershire, though will often, it is hoped, take the fiel under the new leader, C., O. H. Sewel who is not merely an excellens crickete himself, but also a first-rate judge, of th game.
Jessup, of course, is a feature not on! Gloucestershire, but of England eri ket, and the public will hope that not. D toany years to come will he think retiring. The new caplait has alread been hard at work doing his best to t earth fresh tulent, antall cricketers w wish him the best of luck in the difer task he line unterlaken,
Diler new country captains are R. 4 Baggallay (Derbyshire) and E. 5. 3 Poyntz (Somerset); while 1. K. Fost returns to bis oid place at the Worceste shiro helm. In all three ensos the len ers have rutitor unenviablo tasks befer them. From Derbyshire comes no new of encouraging discovery of capable me und the side struggla ön front year 1 your with but little to cheer them.
Discouraging, too, are the positions! the list, held by Leiestershire nad Serie: Act, more especially by the former. I www only a very low sensors ago that f lulfa summer Leicestershiro' stool. ut the lead of the list. There is, howes reason to expect a revived in the
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cuse, and great adininistrative, troub bus "been taken, County matches The payed at Loughrough, by
Znuch, Hockley, and Coalville as wat is at Loferster, and one at feast of the younger tre who were trini in 197! should be useful this summer. It is and
Altogether the county season, begin, jespite mus sacial asity, in rather wpful conditions. There is no triangu az contest or foreign incision," and diy eyes of the public: uro concentrated ipcn cuunty cricketers. It is for them To prove intwring enough not to les hose eyes water from them..
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