Cricket 1897

A p r il 22, 1897. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. In the first two rounds of the Currie Cup competition the following were the best bowling analyses :— Overs. Mdna. Runs. Wkts. Aver. Rowe........... 90.2 ... 37 ... 169 ... 16 ... 10.5 Lohm ann... 79.1 ... 13 .... 192 ... 17 ... 11.2 Llewellyn..,. 110 .. 31 ... 236 ... 21 ... 11.2 Madden .. 81 ... 22 . .. 221 ... 14 ... 16 For the final tie with Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Transvaal chose tlieir team as follows: — G. Beves (Pirates), captain; B. A. Halliwell (Wan­ derers), J. H. Sinclair (Wanderers), A. B. Tancred (Pretoria), J. T. Hings (Pirates), L. Tancred (Wanderers), A. W. Seccull (Pretoria), C. J. E. Smitti (Pirates), J. J. Slatem (Pirates), A. E. Cooper (Wan­ derers), T. Boutledge (Barberton), andG. S. Ketnpis (Pirates). Most of these players are known to Englishmen. W i t h reference to the date of the dinner of the Emeriti C.C., to which we referred last week, Mr. J. G. O’Brien writes:— “ I am much obliged to you for kindly inserting the notice I sent you of our dinner, even in the enigmatical form in which it came to your hands. “ It’s the old story of 1more haste and less speed,’ and mine is another case of misplaced confidence in that arch-fiend of mischief, the printer. Having corrected one proof of the circular, I sent them all out as soon as they came in, in order to give as long notice as possible. Alas, I have given no notice at all, tho’ I am receiving a good deal of notice from members who are indignantly wanting to know why I ’ve not informed them of the date of the dinner. “ The date fixed is Monday, May 10th, at 7.45 o’clock, at the Sports Club, and if you will make an announcement of this further infor­ mation next week, I’ll be still more indebted to you. The Annual General Meeting will he held next Friday, the 23rd inst., at 6 o’clock, at the Sports Club.” A c c o r d in g to our latest information the Western Province, after making 170 for 7 wickets against the Transvaal in the final for the Currie Cup, finished up with a score of 308. The Transvaal had made 271 for 5 wickets, so that they had a fail- chance of winning the match. J. J. L y o n s has made eleven hundreds in first-class cricket, six of them against Victoria. A f t e r playing an innings of 67 for South Adelaide against Adelaide, Jones, the fast bowler, was allowed by his club —who thought that an easy victory lay before them—to go to tbe seaside for a holiday. It was not a little due to his absence that Adelaide was able to make within 84 of the runs required to win with five wickets still to fall. No doubt Jones was recalled before the following Saturday, when the game was to be decided. L u r in g a match at Durban a batsman named Hawes had a peculiar experience. A ball from Church, apparently light off the wicket, was allowed to pass, but it came very close to the wicket, and the bail fell. An appeal for bowled was made, but, as the umpire did not see the ball hit the wicket, the appeal was not sustained. It was agreed that the wind must have caused the bail to fall. Hawes was not so fortunate soon afterwards, for he was stumped off the wicket-keeper’ s pads. A lec B an n e r m a n ' recently scored 65 in a club match, and was batting duriug the whole of the afternoon—about four hours. His side, despairing of winning the match in the time at their disposal, sent out a deputation to him, asking him to retire and let someone have a chance of making runs quickly. This is an inter­ esting innovation in the game. But Bannerman, as captain of the team, could not very well give way when asked to do so, as ic would be admitting that he was not carrying out his duties. It did no.t occur to him to retire before he was asked, but tbe opposing side must have been alive to the situation, for they missed chance3 of disposing of the stonewaller in an otherwise unaccountable A SPARROW which accidentally got in the way of a drive by C. G. Wilson, a St. K ilia player (Melbourne), came to an untimely end. There would seem to be a chance here for any cricketer who requires a pun for use in the long winter evenings. S tr o n g com p lain ts h a ve b ee n m ad e as to th e co n d u ct o f som e o f the spectators a t on e o f the S y d n e y g ro u n d s. I t is said th a t occa sion a lly p lay ers iu th e field h ave been ston ed, as also h ave su ccessfu l b a ts­ m en in a v is iiu g team . I t hai been quite a common thing in this seisou’s cricket in Australia for the last two batsmen on a side to completely alter the appearance of the game. The latest performance was by Bush aud Brookes in a Pennant match for Carlton against Melbourne ; the ninth wicket fell for 110, and the two batsmen put on auother 61. It was iu accordance with several of the other performances for the last wicket that Rush had been promoted from the Second Eleven in this match. A f t e r having 44 runs hit off his bowl­ ing without taking a wicket, or appear­ ing likely to take one, J. Carlton, in a Pennant match at Melbourne, straight­ away took 8 wickets for an addition of 11 runs. M r . P. S. S y k e s writes:—“ In the last issue of Cricket it is stated by ‘ Old Harrovian’ that Notts, and Hampshire met twice in tbe year 1843. This is incorrect, as those two counties only met once that year, viz., at Southampton, on July 20 and 21. Earlier in the season, Nottingham played ‘ Seven of Hampshire and Four Players of England,’ but this match cannot be reckoned as Notts, v. Hants., because Hampshire had four given men on their side.” This seems to be taking a very strict view of what constituted a county match in former days. As th e r e h a s r e c e n tly b e e n s o m e m e n ­ tio n in th e c o lu m n s o f Cricket o f th e fa m o u s o ld K e n t e le v e n , I a p p e n d th e sco re s o f a m a tc h b e tw e e n K e n t a n d S u r r e y , ta k e n fr o m a m a g a z in e o f th e p e r io d . “ T h e fo llo w in g is a list o f th e noblem en and gentlem en cricketers w h o p la yed on M on d ay , T u esd ay, and W edn esday, J u ly 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1773, in B ou rn Paddock — S u rry against K en t fo r tw o thousand p ou n d s.” N ote .—Those marked thus—B, "were bowled ou t; C, catched out. S urry . NAMES. OUT BY WHOM. 1st. Lord Tankerville, b out by May .................................. 0 Mr. Bartholomew, c out by Simmons .................. ... 3 M r.Lew is,boutbytheD uke 0 Mr. Stone, b out by the Duke 12 Stevens, alias Lumpey, b out by Milter ... ................... 6 John Woods, c out by SlrH. Mann .................................. 6 Palmer, c out by M r. Davis 22 Tnomas White, b out by the Duke .................................. 5 Yaldin, last man in ...........17 Childs, b out by M a y .......... 0 Framis, b out by the Duke 5 isyes .......................... 1 Total.................. 77 KENT. Duke of Dorset, b out by W oods..................................25 Sir Horace Mann, b out by Woods.................................. 3 Mr. Davis, b out by W oods 4 Mr. Rut-sey, last man in ... 0 jililier, c out by Yaldin ...13 Simmons, b out by Lumpey 5 JU. .way, bout by Woods ... 0 Thomas May, b out by Lumpey .......................... 4 LoueU e uut by Mr. Stone 5 I'aiteudeu, c out by Mr. Lewii .................................. 0 W ood ot Seale, c out by W o o d s ............................... 1 H) e s .......................... 3 OCT BY WHOM. 2nd. c out by Mr. Davis 3 b out by Miller... 10 last man in.......... 21 b out by Miller... 24 b out by Miller,.. 8 c out by R. May 6 e out by the Duke 38 c out by Mr. Hussey ...........60 b out by the Duke 1 b out by the Duke 3 c out by W ood ... 36 Byes ........... 7 Total ...217 b out by Woods c out by Lord Tankerville .,. c out by Mr.Lewis b out by Woods run out ........... c out by Yaldin... last man in........... c out by Childs... 5 b out by Lumpey 26 b out by Lumpey 1 c out by Mr. Bartholomew 0 Byes ... 0 Total ... 78 Total ......... 63 Iu the same magazine appeared some scoies which relates to the match. One of the descriptions of a catch is worth quoting. A Templar he, who, in his turn, fco^n as the Earl did strike, Ilan stfriftly from his stopping-place, And gave him like for like. Full sharp and rapid was the ball, Yet without dread or fear, lie caught it at arm’s length, and straight i.eturned it in the air. W ith such a vehement force and might It struck his callous hand, The sound re-echo’d round the ring, Through every booth and stand. Mr. John Hawkins, who has kindly sent me the poem from which the above is taken, says that he saw Martingell, the only survivor of the original Kent eleven, last August Bank Holiday at Canterbury. M r . W. G. B r o u g h to n writes as follows :— “ I have found amongst my Cricket Scores another individual scoreof 300. I amunable to tell you the month, but it was in 1893, Middlesboro’ v Scarboro’ at Scarboro’— Middlesboro’ 490 for 6 wickets (innings de­ clared closed); K. W. -brank 309 (out) ; Scarboro’ all out 199.” W. H. L o ck w o o d , the second of the three Surrey professionals who spent tbe past winter in South Africa to return to