Cricket 1899

CHICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g . 24, 1899. shire do not suffer a fourth defeat, it will be incumbent upon Surrey to win at least three more successes. The Oval team have to play Gloucestershire at Clifton to-day (Monday), Lancashire at the Oval on Thursday, Kent at Blackheatb, and Hampshire and Warwickshire at the Oval — the last-named in September.” T he following table, of which we cannot guarantee the accuracy, has been sent by Mr. R. H . Eckersley, who writes : This is a list of runs compiled during the present year up to August 13th, by each county and the Australians :— Yorkshire........................ Runs. .......... 11,543 Australia........................ .......... 10,366 Sussex............................... •......... 8.8 8 Surrey............................... .......... 8,785 Lancashire........................ .......... 8,384 Hants............................... .......... 6,751 E ssex............................... .......... 6,648 Kent ................................ .......... 6,599 Gloucestershire .......... .......... 6,466 N otts............................... .......... 6,200 Somerset; ........................ .......... 5,597 Leicester ........................ .......... 5,417 Derbyshire........................ .......... 5,132 Warwickshire................. .......... 5,113 Middlesex........................ .......... 4,413 Worcestershire................. .......... 4,231 M.C.C................................. .......... 4,217 Total ... .......... 115,371 W e have been requested to state that owing to the numerous applications to be present on the occasion of the Australian X I . “ farewell” dinner here on the 7th September, and the inability of the secre­ tary, Mr. Blackley, to answer all en­ quiries, there are no tickets for sale, as the gathering is a private one. D u r in g the long innings of the Aus­ tralian captain at Lord’s on Monday— he was at one time batting three hours for 38 runs— the crowd became very restless, until at last some of them broke out into a melancholy rendering of the “ Dead March ” in Saul, following this up with “ W e won’t go Home till Morning ” and “ Poor Old Joe.” It was a most reprehensible thing to do, of course, but we regret to have to say that it was irre­ sistibly funny. T h e mention of the “ Dead March ” in Saul reminds us that in an article which appears in this week’s Lawn Tennis and Croquet, the following reference is made to the Hon. Ivo Bligh : “ Croquet has evidently taken a great hold in the district of Saxmundham. Names which have become familiar in other spheres of sport figured on the programme............... There, too, was the Hon. Ivo Bligh, a cricketer of great renown in the days when he captained the Cambridge eleven — the period when the Studds and the Steels were at their best.” J. D . M . writes:— “ The parag**ph in last week’s Cricket stating that ‘ The only men who have twice made a hundred in England in matches between England and Australia are Dr. Grace, Shrewsbury, F . S. Jackson and Hayward ’ is incorrect. The feat has also been accomplished by W . L . Murdoch (who alone has reached 200) and S. E . Gregory. Hayward alone has accomplished it in one season.” K . S. R a n jit s in h ji and Mr. Townsend have now each scored eight hundreds this season, while Major Poore comes next with seven. Mr. Townsend’s are as follow s:— For Gloucestershire v. Essex................. ]8l* For Gloucestershire v. Warwickshire .. 167* For Gloucestershire v. Kent................. 1 V 2 * For Gloucestershire v. Notts................. 141 For Gloucestershire v. Australia.......... 135* For Gloucestershire v. Notts................. 114 For Gloucestershire v. Somerset.......... 114 For Gentlemen v. Players ................. 112* * Signifies not out. Ranjitsinhji’s hundreds are :— For Sussex v. Middlesex........................ 120 For Sussex v. Notts............................... 178 For Sussex v. Cambridge University ... 107 For Sussex v. Surrey ........................ 197 For Sussex v. Surrey (return) .......... 174 For Sussex v. Gloucestershire .......... 154 For Sussex v. Essex............................... 161 For Sussex v. Lancashire ................. 102 It may be noted that Ranjitsinhji made his first hundred of the season on June 8th. McLeod, He vowed, (When Fortune seemed to flout him) That he’d some grit about him, And was not cowed. And so the crowd, At Lord’s, saw wickets falling, With quickness most appalling :— McLeod Was proud! W e do not profess to be immaculate, but after we have several times referred to the scorers of a thousand runs during the season and the takers of a hundred wickets, we feel quite virtuous when we receive a letter like the following: “ In the numbers of Cricket last summer fre­ quent mention of people who have made a thousand runs and taken a hundred wickets was made. But this year there has been no mention of them.” If our correspondent will look at his back num­ bers he will find that we have not for­ gotten to keep an eye on the matters to which he refers. Possibly, however, he means that we have not given a list of men who have done both feats during the season, which we could hardly do, as no one had succeeded until the end of last week. N e v e r t h e l e s s , to bring the record up to date we only give the names of the men who have (all within the last few days) performed the double feat of taking a hundred wickets and scored a thousand runs: — A. E. Trott........ 1109 runs ... 207 wkts. H. Trumble ... 1006 .........'SO „ W . Lockwood ... 1025 „ ... 105„ Brockwell has made 1413 runs and taken 97 wickets. W h e n Banjitsinhji went in on Tuesday morning he was 45 runs short of the record for a season— 2,780, made by him­ self in 1896, and 265 short of 3,000. He made 102, and thus brought the record— an incomplete record— for a season to 2,837 runs. O ne of the most noticeable points about the match between Lancashire and Middlesex was the number of extras. There were 36 in the first innings of Middlesex, none in the second (no wickets fell), and 26 and 40 in the two innings of Lancashire. Total 108, of which 82 were byes. The total of runs during the match was 884, so that Extras did uncommonly well. O w ing to the illness of his father, Mr. A . E . Johns has been obliged to return to Australia. He leaves Loudon to-day (Thursday). A special general meeting of M.C.C. will be held at Lord’s on Thursday, September 7th, to confirm alterations in the Laws of Cricket, as follows:— “ L aw 10.— T he hall must be h ow led ; if thrown or jerked either umpire shall call ‘ N o-ba ll.’ “ L aw 48.— I f either umpire he not satis­ fied of the absolute fairness of the delivery of any ball, he shall call ‘ .No-hall.’ ” B atsmen have had their day for so long that the bowling feat of McLeod and Jones at Lord’s on Tuesday is a welcome change. The two men bowled right through each innings, with results which were almost exactly the same, although Jones was the more successful in the one innings and McLeod in the other. Their analyses are as follows:— M id d le se x . Firstinnings. Second innings. O. M. E. W. O. M. E. W. Jones....... 2 /2 5 44 S .......... 20'1 5 40 7 McLeod ... 20 4 57 7 ......... 20 7 68 3 Jones bowled a no-ball. It must be quite a long time since two bowlers were unchanged throughout a first-class match. H . C. P hetty , who seems to have won a regular place in the Surrey Eleven at the first attempt, was in the Epsom College Eleven of 1892, 1893 and 1894. Since then he has been actively identified with the Wanderers, a club which has supplied several amateurs— Stanley Colman, D . L . A . Jephson, R. B . Brooks to wit— to the Surrey Eleven at different times. He has latterly, too, done good service for the Surrey Club. His high scoring in the early matches of the recent Northern tour of Surrey’s second team practically secured him a trial for the county. He is also a good Rugby footballer. T he following are some of the latest hundreds:— AUGUST. 1. J.B.Challen,J.B.Challen’s XI.v. Nondescriptsl02 4. J. S. Haycraft, Nondescripts v. Lynton and Lynmouth .....................................................124 8. J. B. Challen, North Devon y. Nondescripts...100 9. H. H. Cobb, Nondescripts v. Rev. R. W. Sealey’s X II...................................................124* 10. H. H. Cobb. Nondescripts v. Rev. R. W. Sealey’s X U ....................................................121 10. C. Hunt, Burleigh Park, v. Granville .......... 115 16. A. E. Stoddart, Hampstead v. West Herts 163 J 16. H. W. Williams, West Herts v. Hampstead...113 19. H. Lomas, Wimbledon v. Streatham ......... 175 19. Hayward, Eltham v. Hampstead ...................102 12. T. C. Stafford, Dulwich v. Panther.................118* 12. F. Huntley, Dulwich v. Panther .................107* 16. J. W . Mayo, Seaton v. Iacogniti .................127 16. H. F. Fox, Seaton v. Incogniti .................128 17. F. L. F ane , E ssex v . S ussex .......................116 17. B abton , H ampshire v . L eicestershire ...126 18. C.E. D e T bafford , L eicestershire v . H ants 107