Cricket 1899

M a y 18, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 137 E. R. W il s o n , who, after making 60 in the Cambridge Freshmen’s match, sur­ prised everybody b y playing two fine innings of 117 not out and 70 for Mr. Webbe’s X I . against the University, is an old Rugbeian. He was in the school eleven in 1895-96-97 and gained a great reputation as a boy batsman and bowler. H is average in 1897 was 51*11, while he took 31 wickets for 463 runs—an average o f 14'93per wicket. Mr. Wilson bowls slow right-hand and is very accurate in his pitch. He is one of the very few men who have scored a hundred in their debut in first-class cricket, and he was not very far from scoring two separate hundreds in his first match. He is a brother of C. E. M . Wilson, last year’s Cambridge Univer­ sity captain. O v e r h e a r d at L ey ton : A : “ This wicket reminds me of a little girl I know. She is a fiery little thing, and you never know what she will be up to next, but if you can only get the right side of her she will do anything for you.” B : “ Well, Y oung certainly seems to have got the right side of this wicket.” S c e n e : Waltham­ stow. T im e : Satur­ day, 2 p.m . The result of the Essex match against the Australians has just become k n ow n :— Policeman, moralis­ ing on the uncertainty of cricket: “ Y ou can’t never tell what’s going to ’appen. Now I myself was playing yesterday in a match, and after a farst bow ler ’ad ’it me twice on the shins and doubled me up, he sends down a slippery little thing with no pace on her at all my bat and ’as a go at ’er, if she don’t jest creep under and jest dribble on to the sticks! Y ou never know your luck at cricket.” T h e result of the match between Surrey and Leicestershire again calls attention to the Bystem of scoring in the county cham­ pionship. Leicestershire, at ten minutes to five on Saturday, bad the smallest chances of making a draw, while Surrey, despite their handicap of losing the ser­ vices of Lockwood in bow ling, were within a measurable distance of adding a point to their score, and Leicestershire of per­ forming the impossible feat of deducting a point from no score at all. Down comes the rain and the match counts for nothing. O ur Spring Poet, who was greatly impressed with the bow ling of Trumble and Y oung last week at Ley tun, writes that he felt compelled to compose verses to their honour. Like a good many other poets, however, he has forgotten the obj ect with which he set forth, but we append his verses:— There once was a bowler named Trumble, Who was always exceedingly humble ; When eight wickets he took, In an innings, he shook Like a leaf, and said, “ Darling will grumble.” The Essex old sailor named Young, Whose praises the papers have sung, For his Spofforth-like bowling, Is—it’s very consoling— No relation to old Li Chang Hung. O v e r h e a r d on a tram car: — “ No, Jack didn’t get much out of ’is day’s cricket, he didn’t. ’Is railway fare was ten bob, and he lost the day’s screw, and ’e was fined a shillin’ for bein’ late this mornin’ , a n d ’e didn’t get no wickets, and ’e missed three ketches, and ’e got a couple of blobs. It was a fair take in.” In the last issue of Cricket it was stated that, from the state of the game on the last day but one of the match between South Austialia and West Australia, the former had a good chance of being (a) England (6) Australia ? Illus­ trate your remarks by references to Percy McDonnell, S. M. J . Woods, Midwinter, Albert Trott, and Ranjit- sinbji. A l t h o u g h Victor Trumper made any­ thing but a successful debut at Leyton, he created a very favourable impression by the way in which he played the half-dozen balls which he received. If he is a student of cricket records, he may remember that George Giffen’s first three innings against an English team were 0, 0, and 0, the two last 0’s being in the same match. Percy MacDonnell made 0 and 0 in his first Intercolonial match, and Clement H il nearly followed his example with 0 and 1 not out. A NEW game has arisen among the youthful population of the suburbs of Melbourne (says the Sydney Mail). Francis, the University cricketer of note a few years ago, was riding on a bicycle through Balaclava the other night, when something suddenly seized him b y the throat and threw him headlong on the road­ way. After searching for some time, the old cricketer discovered a piece of stiff cord stretched across the road from fence to fence. D r . R. M a c d o n a l d , the Queensland bats­ man who had an aver­ age of about 260 in electorate matches, left Brisbane for E n g­ land on March 31st. DELIGHT OF THE OLD LION AND THE YOUNG LION AT SAVING THE HONOUR OF THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. I ups with and blow me beaten. With 235 to make to win, they had lost five wickets for 143. But the two not outs, Rosman and Hewer, made such a fine stand on the last day that before they were separated the match was all but won. In the end South Australia won by four wickets. Against Thirteen of Freemantle South Australia had a narrow escape, the game being drawn when the former team had to make 24 runs with five witkets to fall. W h e n the wickets at Leyton were falling fast on Saturday morning the Australian captain may possibly have murmured to himself the words of the poet, slightly varied to suit the occasion: “ Oh, for a Lyons in this vast wilderness! ” Q u e s t io n s for examination: — (1.) If the Australians had won the toss at L'-ytun, by how much would they have beaten Essex ? Describe an imaginary second innings of Essex last Saturday morning. (2.) What qualification is a player re­ quired to have in order to represent B y a decision of the Managing Com­ mittee, the Electorate matches at Adelaide wereabruptly brought to an end when another round still re­ mained to be played. The averages of the best known men are as follow s:— BATTING. No. Times of not inns. out. Runs. Most in an inns. Aver. E. H. Leak ... ... 5 ... 1 ... 317 .. 2)3 .. 79 25 J. Darling ... ... 6 ... 1 ... 349 .. 158 .. 69.80 F. T. Hack ... ... 7 . . 2 ... 299 .. 117* . 59.80 A. Green ... 4 ... — ... 237 .. 148 .. 59.25 N. Claxton ... ... 7 370 .. 199 .. 54 F. Jarvis ... 9 . . 2 ... 340 .. 88 .. 48 57 G. Giffen ... ... 4 . . 1 .. 125 .. 58 .. 41.66 F. Hill ........... ... 6 . . — ... 231 .. 124 .. 38.50 C. Hill ........... ... 4 . . — ... 140 .. 7 1 .. 35 J. C. Reedman ... 7 . . — ... 222 ... 64 .. 31.71 J. J. Lyons ... ... 7 . . 1 ... 181 .. 64*.. 30.16 G. 8. P. Jones .. 6 . . 145 .. 78 .. 24.16 V. Hugo ... 9 . . — ... 208 .. 52 .. V3.ll A. H. Jarvis .. ... 7 . . — ... 159 .. 62 .. 22.71 E. Jones........... 5 . 109 .. 70 .. 21.80 BOW LING. O- Overs. Mdns. Rufcs. Wfcts. Av«r. H. C. Marrett .. 78.6 . . 24 ... 199 . 17 .. 11.70 J. Travers ... . . 189 . . 47 ... 467 . . 38 .. 12.28 F. Jarvis ... ... 14*23 . . 38 ... 361 . . 28 .. 12 53 E. Jones................ .. 124.1 .. 41 ... 317 . . 24 .. 13.20 V. H ugo................ .. 119.3 . 42 ... 299 . . 21 .. 14.23 A. E. H. Evans . . 189.3 . . 41 ... 460 . . 30 .. 15 33 G. Giffen ... . . 61 . 10 ... 276 . . 9 .. 30 66 R e m a r k a b l e as have been some of the first performances of Australian bowlers