Cricket 1897

Geo. G. Bussey & Co., THE LEADING CRICKET AND SPORTS MANUFACTURERS, £ 6 8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r il 15, 1897. G O . Q - I t c o h i X h c c 111 > o _ l - I < CO H Z Ul O < C O BETWEEN THE INNINfcS. I have blundered sadly over the Vic­ toria v. Tasmania matches, referred to in my notes in the March number. I could not remember ever having heard of the games before; and, as my friend Moody announced them as a find, I took it for granted they were so, whereas they are to be found duly chronicled in Scores and Biographies. So Mr. A. J. Gaston, than whom there is no greater authority on the history of cricket, writes to tell me. I have not by me the volume of Scores and Biographies referred t o ; if I had had it at the time I might have saved myself from a stupid blunder. Next time I hear of a find of the sort, I think I shall write to Mr. Gaston to get it verified. in New Zealand, between the Queens­ landers aud a representative New Zealand team ? The Australian papers I have seen do not give i t ; but if anyone who reads this is in the habit of getting the Bris­ bane Courier or anv New Zealand paper, doubtless he would find it therein. I should be greatly obliged to anyone who would furnish me with it. {Continued on page 77.) CR ICK ET IN TA SM AN IA . NORTHERN TASMANIA v. GEELONG NON­ DESCRIPTS.—Played at Launceston. Two more scores of 300 have to be added to my list—Donnan’s 308 in Syd­ ney, and the 301 of J. EL Sinclair in the Transvaal. The last is a real record, the highest score ever made in Africa—there seems no necessity to confine oneself to South Africa in speaking of it. Donnan’s 308 is said to be “ a record in club cricket in New South Wales.” But this is beat­ ing the record business just a little too fine. Murdoch’s 321 is, of course, record for the Colony; it is also a record for Australian first-class cricket. Had Don­ nan’s score been 322 or anything larger it would have had genuine claims to a place in the lis t; as it is, being below Murdoch’s, and altogether out of court as an Australian record—Clem. Hill, Worrall, Bob McLeod, Laver and Bruce have all scored more in a single innings, as well as Murdoch—it should simply be given a place among the big scores with­ out special pretensions to record rank. By the way, I have just remembered that Clem Hill’s 360, retired, is no longer the South Australian record, it having been beaten lately by a young player named Carrington, who scored 362, not out, in a match between two country clubs. I fancy that Poidevin, one of the promising youngsters in Sydney who have not yet attained intercolonial honours, scored a 300 innings some time this season ; but a hasty search through my pile of the Adelaide Observer has failed to verify my idea; aud it is possible that it was Walford’s 307 that I was thinking of. By the way, how many records did MacLaren smash when he made his 424 at Taunton in 1895 ? W. G’s. 344 (record in a first-class match) went by the board, of course, as did his 318* (record for a first-class county match), and F. E. Lacey’s 323* (record for a county match of any description.) If we are to have as many records as some seem to admit, we may also say that he beat the record for (i) the Taunton Ground; (ii) for Lan­ cashire; (iii) against Somerset; and of course all these are genuine enough in their way. Can any reader furnish me with the full scores and analyses of the match played during the recent Queensland tour N orthern First Inninsrs. H. J. Braddon, b Bell A . Douglas, b B ailey........... C. P. Hammond, b Bell ... Dr. Ramsay, b Bell ........... L. R. Sams, b De Little ... J. S. Clemons, c McKinnon, b B e ll.................................. O. G. Douglas, b Bailey .. ! A. Hall, b Bailey.................. J. E. Wall, b B a iley........... O. C. Williams, b Bell W . L. Sidebottom, not out Extras ........... Total ...12 T eam . Second Innings. 12 b Crooke ........... 2 57 run out ...........13 5 c and b Crooke ... 22 9 c Bailey, b Crooke 1 17 not ont... c Bailey, b Crooke b B e ll ................ c and b Crooke. b Crooke ... . st Bulliyant, b Crooke ........... b B e ll................. Extras Total ... 64 G eelong N ondescripts . First Innings. J. R. W ood, b Hammond ... 1 H. De Little, b Clemons ... 9 J. I. Orr, run o u t.................. 13 J. E. Crooke, b Clemons ... 7 J. L. Lempriere, b Clemons 13 J. C. Mackinnon, c and b Clemons ........................... 0 H. Bullivant, b Clemons ... 3 J. Bailey, b H a ll................... 9 W . Bell, run o u t ................... 0 J. Bell, b Clemons ........... 3 T. E. Bostock, not out Extras ................... Total Second Innings. not out.................. 86 lbw,b Sidebottom 23 .c Sidebottom, b Hammond ... 0 run out ........... 5 not out........... b Hammond ... 10 E xtras........... 4 74 Total (for 4wkts) 130 N orthern T eam . First innings. B. M. R. W . Cro >ke ........... 30 0 32 0 ... B e ll.................. 104 0 62 5 ... D eLittle........... 48 2 29 0 ... Bailey ........... 30 0 16 4 ... Woods Second innings. B. M. R. W . ... 45 2 23 7 ... 48 2 16 2 24 18 G eelong N ondescripts . Clemons .. Hammond Hall ......... First innings. B. M. R. W . 84 60 22 6 30 1 ... 8 1 ... Douglas Sams... Second innings. B. M. R W . 54 72 Sidebottom 48 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. M AY. 20. Northampton, v. Notts County. JUNE. 7. Northampton, v. Staffordshire. 9. Northampton, v. Worcestershire. 28. Northampton, v. Staffordshire. JULY. 8. Northampton, v. Northumberland. 15. Oval, v. Surrey 2nd X I. 19. Lord’s, v. M.C.C. 23. Northampton, v. Durham. 26. Northampton, v. Uppingham Rovers. 29. Trent Bridge, v. Notts. County. AUGUST. 4. Newcastle, v. Northumberland. 6. Gateshead, v. Durham. 9. Worcester, v. Worcestershire. 27. Northampton, v. Surrey 2nd X I. All two-day matches.