CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 15

CRICKET

the English tour SOME PLAYERS OF NOTE' Although the. English' team to tour Australia and New Zealand contains few players Vho, are well-known: in' thi* part of'; the worM ■ the Australian opinions of the aide /are not confirmed by! details in. recent cricketing files tij? hand from Eng' j land..':-:?■■■::' /.k-. '■".'■■i;V,;;Cl / Writing in■?the' "Oricketer,^ ; P./F. Warner »ay«:--"It was pleasant to find C'apt. R. ;St;, L. FowleA tbie heiro ot the historic Eton-Harrow match of 1910, playing in first-elMs cricket again, and meeting .-with; success/, Foria player iol his skill heis seen in important matches all" too seldom. In the Army' 3 first innings against' Cambridge last week, he scored 82 at a time when1 runs ware needed. " ;His bowling:: was subsequently treated somewnat seyer«lV/by theiGambridg* men;' especially Hubert Ashton, who,carried but his bat for 164 (Fowler took .one picket for 60), but he made a j^jjful 29 ,in his second' innings, and so . did few iide good service.' Against Oxford s tJniveraity, ■ Fowler i scored '6 ;and 31 and took1 one wicket for 59 and three foir,32. ■'I:••■• '■ .■ ■: ;■■ ■■•;. >/. -\ ".K ' '

Playing in the. same match, Lieut. A. Wilkinson made. 104 against Cambridge, and ..followed this up by scoring 123 against Oxford a day or two later. D. L. A. Jephood," writing la the "Cricketer," at- the beginning of the season, stated :—"T..C. Lowry, who is one of those .rough-and-ready, cricketers that can generally be relied upon when things are going wrong,', is certain to punch the' ball on any sort ofv wicket with refreshing-vigour.'. Hill-Wood is a useful, 'toas-itrup' slow bowler, who is iHabfe at times to tempt the most stolid baUman. Of the Cambridge batting he stated, that it ranged from the pyrotechnics of Chapman to the solidity'of the "low-Btaneed" Hill-Wood. A« both .theae. playem are in the English team) preßamahly the English batting may be eimilarlv described. ' ,

Yorkshire is decidedly forton»U in obtaining the services. as captain of so sound.» player as' Geoffrey. Wilson in succession to D. C. F. Burton, who hi* mined the dwWes after three yeax** good work (sUtes "The: Cricketer."). The .new 'leader is. now -in his twentyseventh year, and. playing Ngnlarly, is almost bound to make his /presence fell in the bast company.' For Harrow ha performed 'great things, especially in 1913. when, after scoring 58 against M. O.V Kemp's eleven, and 106 at the expense of I. Zingari, he made'B and 173 against Eton; It was a wonderful innings for & small boy to .play, especially as an uphill game confronted the side. He showed restraint until -he had obtainedthe meeauTe of the bowling, and then he hit hard and surprisingly well for one of his inches—or lack of them. In 1914, when he was captain, and won/ the Bbrington cop* for both batting and fielding,l the Eton match* again' marked his ' (rneieat triumph, for he obtained the highest score in each1 innings, making 65 'and' 58.' At Cambridge he did not do much, hot there -is nndoubtedly' much cricket in him, aa various sides will1 probably experience before the stetson* closes.