Cricket 1896

346 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g . 13, 1896. once ani caught him three times. It makes a vast de il of difference to the wicket-keeper if the wicket is perfectly true, for he does not get so much knocked about, and from my own experience I should say that you could not have better wickets than those at Brighton, Taunton and Birmingham, although I really think we have as good a wicket as any ground in England, which we entirely owe to our groundman Martin, whom the Surrey Com­ mittee let us have from the Oval. There was something radically wrong with the Leyton ground when we played there this year. To look at, the wicket was perfection, and froma distanceit might seemthatmengotout through bad cricket, but the ball did all sorts of curious and unexpected things, against which bats­ men were quite unable to provide. Possibly Essex in their second innings may have not done themselves justice, but Soar was almost irresistible. “ Do you keep wicket in club matches ? ” “ Not if I can possibly help it. I like to take a rest when Tcan, and, besides, I like to bowl too. I am very proud of having once bowled Jack Shuter in a match at Bexley, and Herbert Whitfold at the Dripping Pan, Lewis, in the first year that he got into the Cambridge Eleven ; but I am still more proud of having once bowled Stoddart at Hampstead. I need hardly say that I get ‘ rotted ’ about these bowling feats of mine. I still play for the Hampshire Hogs and Trojans, but I don’t get much club cricket now. I like whole day matches, and in my opi. ion, half day matches are absolutely unworlhy of consideration, chiofly because of the \ant of punctuality, which is so conspicuous :.t the j ivsent day. The club which was r. oie remarkable for punctuality than any ot. «r I know was Esher in the days when Charlie Clarke was captain. If a man came late, Clarke used to s iy ‘ You will go in last.’ Occasionally a man, if he happened to be a good bat, kicked at this and perhaps left the club, but in the en.l tlis severity paid extremely well.” “ Don’t you think that there have been more men run out than usual this year? ” “ I don’t know—if this were so, perhaps the difficulty of judging the pace of the ball on the hard ground might account for it. The very best j udge of a run that I know is Murdoch, and he runs it well too. Standing behind the wicket I have seen some remark­ able batting this season. I never knew any batsman who had so many strokes as Ranjit- pinhji. Palairet’s innings at Southampton was made by superb cricket, and we were very sorry that he did not get his 300 not that any of us were sorry to sse him get out. Ward, who is a better bowler than he seems to be, bowled him with a ball which came a little b’t quicker off the pitch than usual; it was a very good ball too. To show you what a lot of luck there is in cricket I may mention that when Palairet had made 59 I caught him at the wicket, but unhappily for us the umpire didn’t see the catch.” “ Who is the best bowler you have played ag linst ? ” ‘ ‘ I was talking to Murdoch the other day about Morley, the old Notts bowler, and we were saying what a greit bowler he was. I then asked him what he thought about Peate, the Yorkshire l)ft-hand bowler, and he said : ‘He wasthe finestbowler I ever played against, and sometimes—well, don't talk to me about l’eatc, there are too many reminiscences con­ nected with the times that I met him.’ I quite agreed with him. Tno Yorkshiremen seem to have got hold of a good bowler in Hugh. I wasn’t playing against him at Southampton, but all our men say that he shows very great promise. I should doubt if Yorkshire are as strong as they were in 1881 when they had Peate, Bates, Emmett and CJlyett as bowlers. Surrey seems to me to be the strongest county at present*, but after Surrey, Yorkshire and Lancashire, I really don’t think there is a very great deal of difference between the other counties.” ‘ *Are Hampshire men satisfied with the performances of the team this year ? ” “ Oh ye3, I think so. I am afraid, how­ ever, that Captain Wynyard will only be able to play in two or three more matches, which is a great disappointment to us; in addition to being such a fine bat, he is as keen as possible, and never becomes in the least deuree slack at the end of the longest day’s fielding. All Hampshire men owe a deep debt or gratitude to Bencraft for what he has done fur the county ; he has stuck to it under the most disheartening circumstances. He has for the present, at any rate, quite given up the game, but I don’t think such an enthusiastic cricketer can drop it for long. The Hampshire professionals of the present day are all men with whom it is a pleasure to play ; indeed the same thing may be said of professionals all over the country.” Mr. Robson was at school at Bruce Castle, Tottenham. “ H. F. Ward who is now in the Hampshire eleven, and E. J. Taylor who played for Lancashire some years ago were also,” he said, “ at Bruce Castle, I think Ward was there some years after me ; Charlie Tebbutt who has done so much for Essex was also there. Dr. Hill was the headmaster. 1 was only in the eleven for one year, for when I was still very young I left to go to Chatham House School, at Ramsgate, where I had two younger brothers. We had a very good eleven at that time ; R. S. Jones, who was afterwards a C imbridge Blue, was the captain. After I left Chatham House I did not play much cricket for two or three seasons, fi r I had then the idea of going into the Law, and did not get much time to spare. About the year 1879 some of us started a club called the Old Brucians, consisting of members of the old school, and with them I had some most enjoyable cricket. This may have been partly because I got most of the runs for them and took most of the wickets, but at the same time we had a host of good fellows in the club, who tried to make things as pleasant as possible, and succeeded in doing it.” * July, 1896. W. A. B e t t e s w o r t h . WILT/ESDEN v. BROOKFIELD. - PJayed at Willesden on August 3. B r o o k f ie l d . First innings. G. Farker, c Whittington, b Barron ........................ 5 R. G. Prail, c WhitliDgton, b Dornton........................15 C. Johnson, b Barron ... 0 C. Barron, b W. Cooke ... 21 C. S. Ball, c and b Barron 11 A. A. Poole, c Dornton, b Second innings. c C, Cooke, b Dornton.......... ; c Whittington, b Dornton..........l! b Dornton ... ... : b Barron .......... b Dornton.......... W. Cooke A. Armitage, Barron........ c Lacey, b 25 b Barron H. E. Swift, b Dornton E. Stock, b Dornton ... L. Ililbury. b Dornton E Ball, notout .......... Extras .............. Total ... . W il l W. B. Whittington, c Parker, b Armitage 24 W. Cooke, c Swift, b Stock........................ 6 F.J.Potter,b Armitage 1 W. P. Williams, c Ilil­ bury, b Armitage ... 7 C. S. Marshall, b Armitage................ 9 A. A. Barron, b Annitage......... .. 7 c W . Cooke, Dornton ... not out......... b Barron ... run out b Barron ... Extras ... Total ... 46 ..127 ESDEN. T. P. Bull, c Itilbury, b C. Barron ...... 34 C. Cooke, c Hilbury, b Armitage............... 5 H. F. Hudson, lbw, b Johnson ............... 4 A. S. Dornton,run out 11 E. Lacey, not out ... 6 Extras ...... 16 Total ...130 ETON RAMBLERS v. MR. D. FOWLER BURTON’S X I.—Played at Sandhutton on July 30 and 31. D. F o w l e r B u rto n ’ s XI. First innings. ^Second innjngs. E. C. Marsh, b Foljambe.. H. J. E. Mai’sden, c R. Go-ling, b Hoare ......... R. H. Fawkes, b Hoare Maj. Steele, b Foljambe ... C. P. Sykes, c S. Gosling, b Hoare .............................. R. Johnson, b H oare......... W. H. Garforth, b Hoare... H. M. Walker, b Hoare ... C. McKee, b Foljambe D. F. Burton, c R. Gosling, b Foljambe........................ E. M. Young, not out.......... B 3 ,lb 2 ................. Total .................... First inning*. R. C. Gosling, c McKee, b Garforth ........................ H. F. Meeking, b Johnson Hon. N. M. Farrer, b Gar- forlh ............................... Rev. A. R. Hoare, c Steele, b Garforth........................ S. F. Gosling, b Garforth ... F. H. AValker. b Johnson ... A. E. B. Ind. b Young G. A. Foljimbe, b Young .. C. H. Rodwell, b Young ... J. H Walker, c Marsden, b Y ounr............................... E. R. Walker, not out Byes ........................ Total ... 2 c Hoare, b Fol­ jambe ......... 23 14 b Foljambe........ 13 . 0 b Hoare .......... 0 12 run out .......... 9 6 ht wkt, b Hoare 20 9 b Hoare .......... 4 8 lbw. b S. Gosling 6 0 lbw, b Hoare ... 6 0 c R. Gosling, b Hoare .......... 5 6 not out .......... 41 2 csub., b Hoare... 2 5 B 6, lb 4, w 2 12 64 Total ...141 MBI.ERS. Second innings 35 c Marsden, b Gar­ forth .......... 10 6 c sub., b Garforth 17 0 b Johnson .......... 0 3> b Johnson.......... 9 5 b Johnson .......... 0 39 b Johnson.......... 6 5 lbw, b Garforth... 1 2 not out................. 16 1 2 not out................. 11 2 Byes .......... ..140 Total (7 wkts) 69 FOREST HILL (3) v. LONDON & WESTMINSTER BANK. —Played at Forest Hill on August 1. L ondon & W estminster B ank . B. A. Newman, Taylor, b Russell ... 10 A. W. MacLean, c Taylor, b Russell ... 11 T. Briggs, b Russell... 3 A. E. Bassendale, c S^lfe, b Moore ... 2 A. W. Ranee, c Moore b Russell................. 1 A. H. Bissendil*1, run out ........................ 0 H. C. Wetherall, b Cockell H C. Brenner, b Moore M. H. Jacobs, bMoore T. C. Sampson,bMoore D. K. Hole, b Cockell II. M. Reid, not out... Extras................. Total F o r e st H il l . L. J. Selfe, c Hole, b A. E. Bassindale ... 3 P. Gibbon, b A. E Bassendale ..........19 H. Rew, b A. E. Bas­ sendale ................. 8 C. Moore, not out ... 61 A. Cockell, b A. E. Bassendale ..........17 W. G. Frowd, b Mac- Lean ........................ 6 1*. Rogers and L. Basktt: A. Willis, c A. E., b A. H. Bassendale . . 9 B. Close, st Brenner, b A. H. Bassendale ... 0 P. Russell, b A. H. Bassendale .......... 0 R. Taylor, not out ... 16 Extras................12 Total did not bat. ...151 HAMPSTEAD July 27. H am pstead .— First innings J. G. Q. Besch, b Handford ..........21 P. F. Wilson, c and b Richardson ..........14 S. H. Williams, b Richardson ......... 0 W. S. Hale, c Rich­ ardson, b Handford 1 H. Woodall, c and b Handford .......... 0 E. Whinney, lbw, b b R ussp I I ...................... A. C. Robertson, c Richardson,b Iland- ford ........................ Second Innings: Wilson, not out, 14; Richardson 23; Woodall, not out, 78; Williams, run out 0; ’ wickets), 124. . M.C.C. —Played at Hampstead on E. L. Marsden, st Carlin, b Richard- eon ........................ 1 A. A. Carter, st Car­ lin, b Richardson ... 1 G. B. Bell, c Carlin, b Turberville ..........13 H. G. Price-Williams, 9 not out B 5, lb 3 Total 22 nale, b Piice- b 3, lb 3, w 3.—Total (two M.C.C. A. Priestley, run out 7 G.M. Maryon-Wilson, b Marsden .......... 0 Carlin, c Whinney, b Wilson .................33 P. Russell, b Marsden 1 A. Page, b Marsden .. 0 Handford, b Marsden 51 M. Cloete, b Marsden 4 H. Smith-Turberville, b Marsden ... 4 Richardson, not ou t... 22 Major Hawksl.aw, b Marsden ................. 0 C.E.Stevens,bMarsden 19 B 14, lb 3, w 1 ... 18 Total ...155