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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 222, 16 September 1905, Page 12

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The fund for, the Kingsland Cricket Ground will benefit to the extent of about £30 by the recent football and hockey carnival. C». W. Jupp. the Edinburgh batsman,

was presented by R. A. Duff with a bat bearing the autographs of Tromper and Duff, as a memento of Jupp's fine batting against the colonials at Glasgow. Smith, the Surrey bowler, who took twelve Australian wickets for 124 runs, was on Saturday rewarded with a collection amounting to £40. (From Our Special Correspondeat.) LOXDOX, August 5. Your cricketers will, I fancy, remember the name of R. £. Foster, and also { the score he made in the first Test Match of Warners tour at Sydney. The members of the Kent County Eleven — particularly the bowlcis —are not likely to forget him in a hurry either, even if he gets no further opportunity of exhibiting his batting prowess at their expense, as he did at Worcester this week. It was K. E.s "first knock** in first-class cricket since his visit to the Antipodes, and he made the most of it by earrymout his bat for 246 made in 4i hours. and chiefly by means of three hits for I six apiece and thirty-fotrr for four each, j There were three Fosters playing in ! the match, and between them the brothers were responsible for 386 out of the total of 627 for 5* wickets at which Fostershire —I mean Worcestershire—declared. Not since he made his famous score of 287 in the first Test Match at Sydney has R. E. Foster been seen to such advantage. Last season he did not play in first-class cricket at all, but ever since he scored a century in each innings of the Gentlemen v. Players match at Lord's he has always been regarded as one of the best batsmen in England. Had he been playing this season he would assuredly have been one of the first choices for the England team in the Test matches. The old Oxonian was quite at the top of his form, and the daring manner in which he forced boundaries off really good deliveries was a striking illustration of his well-de-veloped natural abilities. Generally he made few bad strokes, and only when well over the 200 did he give the fielders any chance, twice escaping from huge hits to tne extreme boundary. His total of 246 is not only his own highest on an English wicket, but is the highest ever made either for Worcestershire Or on the Worcester ground. Following are the centuries scored during the tour of the Australian cricket team at present in England: , CENTURIANS. | AUSTRALIANS. Noble, v. Gentlemen ■ 182 Armstrong, v. Nottingham 112 •Armstrong, v. Gentlemen fretnrn) 248 •Parting, v. Gentlemen (return) 11" Hill v. Lancashire l< 9 Noble, v. Warwickshire* _ 125 Tranipcr, v. Gloucestershire t 108 Grejory, r. Hampshire 134 HiJl. v. Hampshire 115 Nf>ble v. Hampshire 101 *Anu«trong, v. Somerset 303 Noble, v. Somerset 12T Hill. v. Surrey 104 Noble, r. Sussex 257 Trumper, v. Worcester 110 Noble, v. Worcester 313 Dnff, Fifth Test 146 Hopkins, v. Northamptoniihire IS4 Armstrong, v. Northamptonshire 122 Darlins, v. Kent 114 mil, v. Thornton's Eleven 181 ENGLISHMEN. Jones, for Notts , j> >«..jj^lu3. •Ha.TwartL tor- Surrey: rvU , .... MacLarctX "First TeatsCvX'.....-:':..... «•» •Denton. for Yorkshire. *. 13M •Jackson, Third Test : 144 Tyldesley. Third Test 100 , Braund, lor Somerset 117 , •Martyn for Somerset 130 Jaeteon, Fonrth Test 113 Fry, Fifth Test 144 •Tyldeeley. Fifth Teat 112 Jackson, for Thornton XI 123 • Not Out.