The cricket Beason came to an end with two matches
which will live long in cricket history. After it had seemed that Surrey were well on the way to beat Middlesex in the final for the County Championship, Middlesex unexpectedly collared the Surrey bowling, which at first had mastered them, and gradually built up such a score that, after all, they won by six wickets. Mr. " Plum " Warner is happy in his cricket children. A more extraordinary match, however, was that played by the Australians against a side of amateurs at Eastbourne. In the first innings the amateurs failed almost to the point of looking ridiculous. Nevertheless, they bowled, fielded and batted afterwards to such purpose that they ultimately inflicted on the Australians the only defeat which these giants have suffered during their visit. Thus those who have pleaded for an English eleven of youth and dash were justified in the event. No wonder that in a season which has yielded such matches we bear less about ways of producing " brighter cricket."
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