Cricket 1899

26 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. F eb . 23, 1SP0. the single wieket match which I sent you. The initial o f Mr. Cooke, who played as H inkley’s partner, should bs ‘ G .F .’ both in the score and in the bow ling analysis.” T h ere are indications that the univer­ sities of Princeton and Yale will both put a cricket team in the field this year for the first time in their history. Many far-sighted Americans are inclined to think that in a few years all the univer­ sities in the States will make cricket their chief summer game. M r. G. 8. P a t t e r s o n , the well-known Philadelphia cricketer, has been appointed general assistant to the District Attorney of Philadelphia. F rom the Queensland Sportsman :— “ What was the most sensational incident in the career of Jonah ? ” ■asked the teacher of a class in a suburban school; and a youngster of 11, who was accustomed to speak of Charley M’Leod as “ Lightning,” Sid Gregory as “ Tich,” Jones as “ Jonah,” Hugh Xrumble as “ Little Eva,” and soon, promptly replied, “ Being no-balled by Jim Phillips.” C. J. E ad y has at last got into his true form once more. On January 7th, he made 231 not out for the Break o’ Day against Darwent at Hobart, and as there was still another wicket to fall he may have increased bis score on the follow ing Saturday. A mong cricket curiosities the follow ing must ceitainly be r< ckoned. A corres­ pondent of the South Australian Register has noticed certain coincidences in the scoring in the Intercolonial match between South Australia and New South Wales on the Adelaide Oval First Innings. Hill 73, Darling 27, Jones 82 ........... 182. Second Innings. Hill 109, Dar'ing 70, Jones 3 ................... 182 Hill 73 and 109 .......................................... 182 Darling 27 and 70, Jones 82 and 3 ......... 182 A n o th er record of two separate hundreds in a match has been made in India. The batsman is Sargeant Green, of the 19th Hussars, for whom he made 104 and 105, not out, against the Golconda Brigade during a cricket tournament at Secunderabad. The match was played on January 26 and 27. A complete list of scores of two hundreds in a match was given in Cricket of April 14th, 1898, but since that time it has been considerably increased. It may be added that the performance of Sergeant Green is not unique as regards India, for in 1885 Captain Wynyard made 123 and 106 at Naina Tal, while Colonel Piercy is credited with 151 and 109. B om bay Sport accredits M ajor L im b with a similar performance in the same ties for the Cheshire Regiment against the Lincoln Regiment. But as the Cheshire Regiment won b y an innings, according to the published score received b y Cricktt, there would appear to be a mistake. Major Lamb’s one score was 127. As the first iater-county match at the Oval is drawn for May 1st, the Surrey Eleven will have to get into form betimes this year. To this end the trial match (County Eleven v. N ext Fourteen), which has opened the Eeason during the last two or three years, w ill take place on Friday and Satur lay, April 28th and 29 th. Members of the Surrey County C.C. hardly need the reminder that the Oval is now opened for practice on April loth. Tw o public school cricketers who made b ig reputations three or four years ago, so Bombay Sport tells us, are now stationed in Bengal. The better known of the pair is C. C. Pilkington, the best all-round cricketer in the Eton Eleven of 1896, who went up to Oxford in 1897, but failed to get his blue. He showed decidedly good form in the few matches in which he played for Larcashire that year. The other old public school boy in question is S. R. Hignell, one of the most u?erul members c f the Malvern C ollfge Eleven of 1895. H e also scored well for Oxford, but his successes were chiefly in college matches. “ S po rt ” points with a good deal of reason to the strength of the team Indian cricket could place in the field or would have available in case of an emergency. Am ong the Europeans it names B. N. Bosworth Smith, H . D . Watson, C. C. Pilkington, J. A. Bush, E. P. Chapman, the Brothers Marsham, E. H. D . Sewell, W . R. Troup, A. H . Newnham, M . R. Jardine, J. G. Greig, E. B. Raikes, and Captain Hutchinson. Among Par- eees and Natives there are Mistry, Jayaram, S ju d Ali Hassan, Chonkar, Billimoria, Mehta, Badesi Ram, Nanak Ram, Rajagopaulachari, Bbide, Bhan- dare, Naran Row , and several more of hardly lesser merit. T h e bright particular stars of the Surrey eleven are, as far as appearances go, likely to be pretty busy this Easter­ tide. Richardson and Hayward are going to coach at Mr. Hollins’ place, at P reston; Lockwood to Mr. C. Awdry’s, in W iltshire; Abel to Mr. McCorquodale’s at Northchurcb, Berkhampsted; Bald­ win to Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, at Thirsk. Wood and A. E. Street are also both likely to be engaged, and the latter in addition goes to Tonbridge School for May. As Brockwell, Holland, Hayes, and Lees are all abroad, there is hardly anyone else to account for. F r o m a thoroughly reliable source comes the information that F . A. Iredale, of N .S .W .; A . E. Johns, of Victoria; W. Howell, of N .S .W .; and T. R. McKibbin, of N .S.W ., are pretty well certain for four of the remaining places in the Australian Team to leave Adelaide on the 23rd of next month, with Mr. B. J. Wardill, the secretary of the Melbourne C C ., as mana­ ger. In this case the thirteen will be : - J. Darling (S.A.) S. E. Gregory (N.S.W .) K. Jones IS.A ) J. J. Kelly (N S W .) C. Hill (S.A.) M. A. Noble (N S.W .) H. Trumble (Viet.) F. A . Iredale (N.S.W .) J. Worrall (Viet.) W . Howell (N.S.W .) C. M cLeod (Viet.) T. R. McKibbin (N.S.W .) A . E. Johns (Viet.) If a fourteenth is to be taken, as is most likely, the Adelaide Critic suggests V. Trumper (N .S.W .) or H . Graham (Viet.). The Critic goes boldly for Darling as captain. I t was J. Worrall’s splendid score of 109 out of 189 for Victoria against New South Wales on a b o ile r ’s wicket at Christmas that ensured him, and with reason, a place among the nine certainties for the Australian Team. Nor would it seem to be undeserved praise to style him, as an Australian paper does, th e best sticky wicket batsman Australia has. This is what the Adelaide Critic, of January 7th, which, by the way, published excellent likenesses of the nine certainties, says of the Worrall of to-day : — “ Twice in successive seasons has the sturdy Carltonian reached the century on a wicket so bad that 100 for the whole side would have been a good score. When he went to England in 1888 he was what might be termed a rough and tumble cricketer. He was a slogger, and a green one at that, but now he hits judiciously, and the English folk who, remembering the rough hitter of 1888, expect to find in him a soft snap will be dis­ appointed. Worrall has a great heart. When be has been out of employment for months, and that a trip to England now would set him on his legs, you can imagine how he must have nerved himself for that effort against N .S.W .” B om bay and Madras are to try con­ clusions at cricket during the Easter holidays at Ootactmund. Is this the out­ ward and visib’e sign of a general development, a com ing boom in fact, making for a better class of fixture for Indian cricketers r T. W a r n e , who made 402 recently for Carlton against Richmond, at Melbourne, is the curator of the Carlton Ground. He has also played for Victoria against New South Wales and Tasmania. In Pennant matches he has this season scored largely. E v e r y good wish to T. Westray, junr., who was married at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, on St. Valentine’s Day, to Phyllis M iry, daughter of B. Overbury, late of Brighton. T. W ., junr., as cricketers will hardly need to be reminded, is the Old Uppioghamian, under whose care two amateur teams have visited Portugal in cricket’s manly toil. In another branch of sport, hockey to wit, the Westray brotherhood has been even more conspicuous. Both Tom and F red have indeed played for the South against the North for several years, and also repre­ sented E nglau d v. Ireland. O w in g to the impossibility of securing anything like a representative team, the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia have been obliged to decline an invitation from the Qaeen’s Park Cricket Club, Triniiad, to visit the West Indies during this spring. O n l y one of the four dates left vacant on the Australian programme arranged at Lord’s on December 6 has as yet been