Cricket 1892

442 CBICKET: A WEEKLY RECOED OF THE GAME. s e p t . 15,1892 THE LITERARY CRICKETERS, From the Morning Leader of Sept. 8. How THE MEN OP THE Idler WIELDED THE WILLOW AT NORWOOD. T ik e d of spending their lives with their feet on the mantelpiece and with curls of tobacco round their heads, as you see them in the woodcut in their magazine, the young men of the Idler yesterday arose in their might and in their flannels and journeyed over to meet the Norwood Club at cricket. The stalwart Dr. Conan Doyle, himself a member of the Norwood Club, and a capital cricketer, captained the eleven who thus dropped the goose quill for the willow, and although his side were strengthened by the inclusion of his brother and several other gentle­ men not strictly contributors to the magazine, except to the extent of 6d. per month per copy, the backbone consisted of indisputable “ littery gents.” Mr. Jerome K. Jerome was on the ground, but did not take part in the cricket. He wanted to give the Idlers a chance, he said. But he was not allowed to play his favourite role of “ idle fellow,” for he was put in charge of the scoring book. Mr. I. Zangwill also stood out of the eleven—he preferred to display his humor in another form, he explained. The Idlers went first to tho wickets, and played excellent cricket. They made runs as easily as epigrams. It must be admitted that they received invaluable assistance from Mr. G. B. Burgin. As the sub-editor of the Idler, Mr. Burgin was expected to do a lot of cutting, and all the field were stationed around point and the slips. Burgin’s individual score was, therefore, small, but that does not represent anything like his full value to his side. The Norwood Eleven being one Bhort in the field, Burgin consented to stand at third man. The consummate skill with which he let everything hit by his colleagues go by him was deserving of all praise. At length a ball came which he could hardly avoid. But those who thought so little knew Mr. Burgin’s resources. Just as it reached him he stood on his head very cleverly, making an antipodean cricketer of himself, and let the ball go to the boundary for four. By the aid of Mr. Burgin’smasterly tactics the hard hitting of Dr. Doyle and his brother, and Mr. Hatt, the century went up amidst great cheering from the Idlers. “ Don’t applaud so much,” said Mr. Jerome, in a state of alarm, “ or they’ll think we never made a hundred before.” Considering the Idlers have never played a match before, it was obviously wrong to create such an im­ pression. It might be as truly said that they had never made less than a thousand. At any rate, their full score on this occasion reached the respectable total of 150. They could have made more, they thought, but they preferred to stop at a nice even number. Among the extras were nine byes, and on observing that fact Mr. Zangwill was seized with a keen remorse for not having gone in. “ I could have made those byes, I feel certain,” he confided to our reporter. If the literary eleven had shaped well with the willow, they certainly fielded in a manner which led onlookers to wonder where they got their practice, and to mentally depict them giving each other catches with the office ink-pots all day long. Rain fell the greater part of the afternoon, and the dry humour of these witswas not much of a preventive against the penetrating drizzle. They stuck to it manfullyhowever, althoughthe ball got as large almost as a pudding with the mud and the sawdust which attached itself. The Norwood Club is a veiy strong cricketing organisation, but although they had a giant’s strength they did not use it like giants, inasmuch as they did not put their strongest eleven into the field. It was a formidable eleven, how­ ever, and Mr. Gould, who went in first, treated the bowling with scant respect. Dr. Doyle sent down over after over, but wanted his friend Sherlock Holmes with him to unearth the mystery attaching to the manner in which Gould was to be dismissed. Burgin early in the innings treated an easy chance which* Gould gave as if it were a manuscript contri­ bution, and rejected it; but later on in the day he atoned by holding a difficult one from Loud. Hornung kept wicket in workmanlike style, but was a terrible example of the awful things which may happen to a man through teetotalism, even of a temporary order, for he had cut his hand with a soda-water bottle, and had to a slight extent limited his usefulness. Taking it all round, tte fielding was much smarter than could have been anticipated from repre­ sentatives of the Idler, and the light which failed made the match a draw, strongly in favour of both sides, according to the respective captains of the two elevens when interviewed by ourreporter. The M.C.C. may look out for some practical suggestions from these brainy cricketers, for Mr. Jerome, for instance, could not understand why batsmen should not make their runs bymeans of a tram line along the wicket, or a mov­ able platform, or something of that des­ cription. I dlers . A. H. Wood, b Scott _ L. H. Doyle, c Loud, b E llis ........................25 J. B. Batt, b Gould... SO Dr. Conan Doyle, st Loud, b Feather- stone . E den Philpotts, McCausland ... E. W. Hornung, E llis ................ 17 James Barr, b Mc­ Causland .......... 0 B. Clarke, not out... 27 G. B. Burgin, b Mc­ Causland .......... 2 R. Grey, run out ... 5 C. V. Williams, b McCausland......... 0 Extras.................17 74 R. Gould, not out E. McCausland, Wood, b Hatt ... 14 W. C. Scott, b Hatt... 8 G. Ffatherstone, b H a tt........................ 0 P. A. S h arm an , run out ................. 0 S. Ellis, b Dr. Doyle 2 P. Wiltshire, b Hatt 13 ... 10 N orwood . Total , ...150 W. Duffit, c Clarke, b Hatt ................. 8 G. H. Gordon, b Dr. Doyle ................. 0 J. Loud, c Burgin, b Dr. Doyle ..........10 Gen.Bedford,notout 0 Extras............... 8 Total . ...137 CLAPTON y. LUTON TOWN.—Played at Luton on September 7. L uton . 9 J. W. Thurnham, b Waterer ... F. LaDgridge, b Waterer ......... A.Crawley.b Waterer O. Small, b Waterer T. Rosson, b Waterer B 7, lb l... Brown, c Miilership, b Mead ................. R. C. Dalton, c Trafford, b Mead... 1 Dr. Beresford, b Bis­ hop ........................ 3 Field, not o u t ..........65 J. J. Thurnham, lbw, b Mead ................. 2 H. WilkinsoD, b Waterer ................ 39 C la pt o n . F. A. Bishop,bBrown 6 Mead, c sub, bBrown 0 H. E. Trafford, c Wilkinson, b Field 0 J. H. Douglas, P. R. Watorer, W. E. Hall, W. H. Beedall, Dr. T. Jones, Millership, and Goodyear did not bat. Total ...132 W.A,Stevens,not out 0 B ........................ 2 Total BICKLEY PARK .—Played 32—Won 15. Lost 9. Drawn 8. BATTING AVERAGES. Times Most in Inns, not out. Runs, an Inns. Aver. F. De L. Solbe 10 ... 1 ... 436 ... 106 ... 48.4 E. R. Bouch ... 5 ... 0 ... 183 ... 96 ... 36.3 Rev. R. T. Thornton ... 3 .... 0 ... 99 ... 47 ... 33. C. V. B. Davy 20 ... 0 ... 573 ... 110 ... 28.13 H. E. Bouch ... 19 ... 2 ... 476 ... 86 ... 28. P. Janson ... 6 ... 1 ... 139 ... 64 *..27.4 J. N. Tonge ... 19 ... 0 ... 479 ... 104 ... 25.4 L. A. Shuter... 13 ... 0 ... 321 ... 93 ... 24.9 T. P. Hilder ... 16 ... 3 ... 314 ... 127 ... 24.2 W. B. Pattison 7 ... 0 ... 145 ... 62 ... 20.5 C.A. W. Gilbert 8 ... 0 ... 162 ... 48 ... 20.2 E. Fisher......... 11 ... 1 ... 188 ... 42 ... 18.8 G. R. Clarkson 16 ... 2 ... 253 ... 38* ... 18.1 G. C. Boosey... 16 ... 1 ... 258 ... 57* ... 17.3 A. P. Simon ... 4 ... 1 ... 52 ... 24 ... 17.1 G. Hilder.......... 4 ... 0 ... 67 ... 82 ... 15.7 C. H. Hunter... 18 ... 2 ... 237 ... 54 ... 14.13 C. Simmonds 9 ... 0 ... 131 ... 44 ... 14.5 M. Baker......... 8 ... 2 ... 86 ... 28 ... 14.2 W . I. Living­ stone .......... 3 ... 1 ... 29 ... 19 ... 14.1 A. Latter......... 7 ... 0 ... 95 ... 32 ... 13.4 B. H. Latter ... 12 ... 3 ... 109 ... 22* ... 12.1 W. B. Friend... 8 ... 0 ... 35 ... 21 ... 11.2 C. T. Boosey... 12 ... 1 ... 117 ... 50 ...10.7 W .C. Tonge... 3 ... 0 ... 30 ... 18 ...10. R. S. Jones ... 8 ... 2 ... 55 ... 25 ... 9.1 A. G reig.......... 8 ... 2 ... 7 ... 6 ... 7. W. C. Gregory 5 ... 1 ... 28 ... 17 ... 7. H. B. Smith ... 4 ... 0 ... 25 ... 13 ... 6.1 P. F. Buckley... 3 ... 0 ... 19 ... 11 ... 6.1 C. A. Smith ... 3 ... 0 ... 17 ... 10 ... 5.2 A. Boosey ... 11 ... 1 ... 39 ... 20 ... 39 R. pilder......... 5 ... 1 ... 12 ... 7* ... 3. R. B. Aitken ... 3 ... 0 ... 8 ... 5 ... 2.2 C. F, Wood ... 5 ... 0 ... 9 ... 7 ... 1.4 The following played in less than three innings , —J. Dives, 68*; H. Baker, 43, 4*; S.JChristopherson. 86, 37; H. B. Rutherford, 25, 12; A. Jeffery, 19, 6*’ J. H. Kepey, 10, 4; S. A. Smith, 11, 2; S. D. Greig, 9, 0 ; Rev. R. H. Hodgson, 7; H. A. Hutton, 3; C. S. Good, 2; W. H. Patterson, 6; E. H. Green, 0; A. E. Willett, 6; J. Gibson, 11; C. M. Baker, 0. BOWLING AVERAGES. A. Boosey E. Fisher... C. A. Smith G. Hilder... R. Hilder... J. N. Tonge S. Christopher­ son.............. C. V. B. Davy C. T. Boosey . Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. 57 ... 15 ... 137 ... 13 ..,. 10.7 . 171.3 ... 35 ... 397 ... 37 .... 10.27 } 6.2 ... 16 ... 63 .... 5 ..., 12.3 . 54 ..,. 7 ... 153 ... 12 ..,. 12.9 . 31 .,,. 6 ... 73 ... 5 .... 14.3 , 189 .,.. 53 ... 466 ... 31 .... 15.1 , 55 ... 14 ... 132 ..,. 8 ... 16.4 . 465.1 ..,. 124 ... 1076 ... 64 . 16.52 136 ... 32 ... 341 ... 19 ..., 17.18 . 330 .,.. 87 ... 873 .. 44 .... 19.37 , 178.3 ... 31 ... 508 ... 22 ..., 23.2 LONDON & WESTMINSTER BANK.—Matches played 23—won 16, lost 2, drawn 5. BATTING AVERAGES. Times Most in Inns, not out. Runs.an Inns.Aver. C. S. J. Douglas.... 21 ,... 4 ... 659 ... 138*... 38.76 T.W.Mackintosh. .. 10 ,... 4 ... 183 .. 47 ... 30 50 G. Raby.............. .. 36 ,... 4 ... 285 ... 54 ... 23.75 C. A. Goodchild ... 16 ,... 2 ... 300 ... 50 ... 21.42 A. Podmore ... . 15 ,... 5 ... 165 ... 87 ... 16.50 C. T. Lawless .. 4 . ... 0 ... 66 ... 24 ... 16.5J F. F. Musson .. 10 ,... 3 ... Ill ... 20*... 15.85 P. W. Brooks .. 12 ,... 3 ... 130 ,... 33*... 14.44 C. A. Snell ... ... 20 ... 4 ... 183 ,... 49 ... 11.43 J. H. Horschell ... 12 ,... 3 ... 87 ,... 42 ... 9.66 L. Pitt Brook .. 18 , ... 0 ... 155 , ... 88 ... 8.6L E. B. Manfield ... 14 . ... 1 .. . 112 ... 22 ... 8.6t H. B. Squire... ... 11 , ... 1 .. . 54 ... 14 ... 5.40 BOWLING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. A. Podmoro.......... 3*9 .,.. 107 ... 723 ... 107 ... 6.75 O. T. Lawless ... 50 ... 17 ... 83 ... 11 ... 7.54 G. B. Stopford ... 43 ... 12 ... 91 ... 11 ... 8 27 C. A. Goodchild... 40 ... 9 ... 107 ... 11 ... 9.72 T. W. Mackintosh 163 ..,. 49 ... 322 ... 31 ... 10.38 J. H. Herschell... 123 ... 21 ... 321 ... 22 ... 14.59 WICKET-KEEPINQ. L. Pitt-Brook caught out 9 and stumped 6. FOR. AGAINST. Runs. Wkte. Aver. 5803 ... 164 ... 17.09 . Rons. Wkts. Aver. .. 1995 ... 212 ... 9.41 ( r ic k e te r s not satisfied with the Balls and Bats they have used are advised to try the -*-€-£0 <0 brand made by Geo. G. Bussey & Co., Pec&ham Rye, S.E.—Advt.