FIRST-CLASS CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 21

FIRST-CLASS CRICKET

T. C. LOWRY'S RECORD

OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE MATCH.

(FROM OCR OWN CORItBSFONDENr.)

'LONDON, 12th July, Oxford won the University match at Lords this week by an innings and 227 runs—-tho heaviest defeat, it is asserted, in this history of the match. Misfortune fought against Cambridge from the start, for, in addition •to the injury which befell their best bowler, the tremendous thunderstorm of the night before the last day's play completely ruined the wicket. ' Oxford has in Bettington ; and Stevens two spin bowlers', whom the conditions suited to a, nicety, and between ■ them they accounted for 18' or the 20 Cambridge wickets that fell. Bettington in the whole match obtained eleven wickets for 85 runs, and Stevens seven: wickets'for 40 runs.

T. C. Lowry was one of the great hopes of Cambridge, but he had only scored a single in the first innings when he was out rather unluckily, hitting a ball hard on to his foot, whence it went into the hands of the man at short-leg. In the second innings, Lowry, on whom, with Ashton, so much depended, only scored three and was neatly caught low down at slips. '•Mr. P. F. Warner, givng a description of the match in the "Morning Post," says: "Lowry failed in this match, as so many great batsmen have failed before him, but he is a very fine player indeed, as is Ashton, who, as a fieldsman stands out as one of the best in England." A SUCCESSFUL SEASON. According to the "Athletic News," T. O. Lowry 13 revelling in' the best season, he has ever had.-: He: is the first amateur to complete 1000 runs aud up.wards—actually 1172—during the season —no- small distinction. His most remunerative efforts have been: 101 apinst Lancashire at Cambridge on IHV May; a maiden century in .this country; 101 against the Free Foresters at Cambridge on 12th June; 161 against the M.C.C. at Lord's! on 2nd July; and 151 against H. D. G. Leveson-Gowor'a eleven at Eastbourne' on sth and 6th July. No other gentleman has four tunes reached three figures during this campaign, and, of all these handsome scores have been made' for Cambridge University. . "The "best of these displays were against Lancashire and the M.C.C. At Lords he earned his runs out of 242 in less than three hours, and only gave one difficult chance when 54. In the great scoring against the Free. Foresters, Lowry hit 101. out of 130 in 85 minutes including a 6 and fourteen 4's. . At Eastbourne last week, his figures included a 6 and twenty-one is. There is no doubt that Tom' Lowrj benefited by the constant practice 'he had in Australasia with the M.C.C. tourists last winter, but even more has he reaped the advantage of playing his natural game, which is to hit. Last summer he persisted in trying to feel his way. Now he has discarded this cautious, tentative style, for at the beginning of his innings he advances boldy, and makes the ■bowler think. He is reaping the reward of his confidence—if not his audacity "