Cricket 1899

422 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t. 21, 1899. one or two in the Oval match the other week, butI found it wasnot appreciated by some of the critics. But what could I do. Here were Abel, Brockwell and Hayward making runs with a certainty which must have been charming to Surrey men, and goodness knows where it would have ended. As a last resource I put on Willie Quaife to bowl about six inches cff the leg stump, placing nearly all the field on the on side. The result was that neither Abel nor Brockwell would touch a ball, but that was none of my business. I wanted to keep down the runs by hook or by crook. After all Quaife got rid of Brcckwell and Pretty, and ought to have had Lockwood, and only forty-five runs were hit off him. If the batsmen chose to play slow cricket that was their own look out. If you have a lob bowler he bowls to leg, so why shouldn’t a round arm bowler do the same ? ” “ You ought to be a good judge of slow cricket ? ” “ I have seen some of it of late years. When I first played for Warwickshire I disliked being in with Willie Quaife very much, because I thought tbat I ought to try to make about ten runs an over to keep up appearances. But I have got over that feeling, and like to be in with him now ; for he runsvery fast, and is a not a bad judge of a run. Moreover he is a pretty player to watch. Teams come up to Edgbaston and slang Quaife. But he is not a regular blocker; he plays all the time, and it is a pleasure to notice how he manages to make runs off balls which get up almost as high as his head. He has one stroke which I have never seen anyone else make—a stroke to square-leg off an over-tossed ball. I can assure you that he is a good little sports­ man, and when we have wanted to get out he has slogged like the rest.” “ Would you like to see the rules altered in order to make scoring quicker ? ” “ I don’t see what can be done. None of the proposals which have been made seem to me to be at all feasible. Most of the huge innings of modern days are the result of bad fielding, brought about by continuous playing on hard grounds. If anything were done in the way of alter­ ing the laws I think that it should be in the l.b.w. rule, to stop men from getting so often in front of the wicket.” Although Mr. Glover does not profess to be a bowler, he had the pleasure of getting rid of Dr. Grace the first time that he went on against him. “ People always laugh at my bowling,” he said, “ and once before a Gloucestershire match some friends of mine were chaffing me about it. So I said in a joke, ‘ What will you lay me that I don’t get W.G. out in this match ? ’ They showed their opinion of my skill by promptly offering me 50 to 1, and at the end of the evening I had £23 to six shillings about getting him out. It was agreed that I was to have a run for my money, and that the thing was not to count if I did not bowl. As luck would have it I was put on when W.G. had made about forty. At that time I bowled pretty fast. In bowling the first ball to him I slipped and fell down, with the result that the ball was a sort of Townsend slow, W.G. looked at it, and whether it was the fall that put him off, or whether he thought that there was something mysterious about the ball, he played it carefully. The next ball was as fast as I could make it, and I suppose that it took W.G. by surprise, for he was caught at the wicket. The bets were all paid, and I still have a cigarette case as a memento of the occa­ sion. This Gloucestershire match was a good one for me, for I also made 70 runs and took four wickets in the second inn­ ings. W.G. telegraphed for me j ust after the match to play for the Gentlemen against the Players at the Oval, but I didn’t get the message in time.” “ Did you often bowl afterwards ? ” “ Not very often. But I once got Brown out twice in a Yorkshire match neck and crop with a full pitch, which pleased me immensely. I have often been amused by Yorkshire crowds. It is very dangerous work to happen to make a good catch close to the boundary, for unless you can get away very quickly the crowd are sure to insist on your having a drink from their jars of beer, which they always seem to take with them. They are thorough sportsmen in Yorkshire, and it is one of the greatest compliments that they can pay you to ask you to have a drink from their jars, for it implies that you have done something which is by way of being a feat.” “ Will you tell me the exact details of the way in which Straw, the Worcester­ shire professional, was given out for obstruction a few weeks ago p ” “ It was a funny case. Strawhad been steadily blocking, and I had crept up nearer and nearer in hopes of catching him, until I was within a couple of yards of his bat. He cocked up a ball which I could have caught, and, of course, I went for it. He charged me with his shoulder down and prevented me from making the catch. Of course, I appealed. Mycroft gave him out, saying that there was no doubt about it. If he had started to run and kept on nothing would have been said—it would have been a mere accident if he had encountered me. But, as it happened, he hesitated, andwent towards me and charged me. At the time that the thing occurred I thought of nothing except that I could have reached the ball. But I have no doubt now that Straw was in exactly the same position—he thought of nothing except that someone was running into him, and, therefore, in self- defence, put himself into a position to receive a charge.” Mr. Glover has a vivid remembrance of a certain match which he once played in Wales. “ The local postman was umpiring for our opponents,” he said, “ but he did not give his side any satis­ faction. I had got nicely set and we looked like winning. At this interesting period of the game the umpire was changed. I hit a ball and ran three, and was well behind the wicket when the ball was thrown in and the bails whipped off. What is known as ‘ a confident appeal ’ was made, and I was given run out, the umpire, anxious that I should be under no misapprehension, remarking, *If you will run so wide you deserve to be out! ’ Which shows that it is always possible to make an excuse if there is a necessity for it.” W. A. B e t t e s w o r t h . GRANVILLE (Lee) v. STBEATHAM.—Played at Lee on September 9. G ra n v ille . First innings. W.Morris,c Miller,bDawson 11 C. H. Mason, b Dawson F. E. Lander, b Lawson ... 3 C.J.M Godfrey,lbw, b Miller 4 L. R. Havers, c Miller, b Dawson .. ................... 8 P. P. Lincoln, b Dawson .. 45 J. P. Clarkson, b Miller ... 2 F. G. Bull, b Hooper ... 22 W . S. Pate, st Scott, b Miller 6 J. Rae, lbw, b M iller........... 0 A. B. Layman, not out .. 0 Extras.......................... 5 Second inrings. not out....................103 b Hooper ........... 3 not out.....................i0 b Hooper ..............10 Total ...118 c Hooper, b Leaf £0 c Kerr, b Hooper 2 Extras.......... 8 Total(4 wk(s)176 S tkeath am . N. Miller, st Layman, b Bull ..................: H. M. Leaf, b Bull ... H. H. Scott, b bull ... E. Field, c Lincoln, b Bull .......................... H. L. Dawson, b God­ frey .......................... E.L.Pulbrook, run cut S.Lloyd-Jones, c Pate, b Bull JF .W . Hooper, b Bull V. F. Feeny, not out D. O. Kerr, b Bull ... Miller, b Bull .. Extras.................. Total ........... B. ABEL’S X I. v. EIGHTEEN OF BERMOND­ SEY AND ROTHERHITHE.—Played at South­ wark Park on September 18. E ig h te e n . Parker, b Bailey........... 0 A. Millwood, run out 9 H.Smiih.cand b Bailey 15 E artshorn,cAshdown, b Eailey ...........21 Adams, c and b Butler 4 Boolh, b Butler.......... 10 L. J. Bichardson, b Bailey ................... 0 J. Carter, b Abel ... 3 P. Weaver, b Abel ... 16 C. Lunn, b Ashdown... 7 Stevens, b Ashdown .. 0 W . Matthes (capt.), not out ................. G. Aggis, b Ashdown Horace Smith, st Brand, b Abel Juniper, b Ashdown Webb, b Abel ........... H. Field, b Abel W . Millwood, st Brand, b Ashdswn Extras.................. Total ...111 R. A bel ’ s X I. S. Smith, b Parker ... 21 S. J. Dibbs, b Parker 7 A . E. Palmer, c Smith, b Parker................... 7 G. F. Dell, c Booth, b Parker ...................10 R.Abel,bHoraceSmith 52 Ashdown, b Parker ... 0 W . Butler, c and Horace Smith... . E. Bailey, not out W . Brand, not out . Extras................ 17 lit , 14 Total (7 wkts) lEi DRUMLARGAN v. MR. J. LUBE’S X I. D ru m larg an . C. F. Bomford, c M. Holme8,b T. Lule .. R. Parsons, c and b T. Lube.................. ... { T. B. Bomford, run out T. Corn,oily, c C. Roch- ford, b T. Lube J. White, b T. Lube ... G. Bryne did not bat. J. Kelly, not out ... 24 W . H. Bomford, c J. Lube, b Matthews.. 1 J. Beylin, b Anderson 19 A. Magan, not out ... 0 Extras................... 5 Total (7wits.)* 100 InniDgs declared closed. M r . L u b e : First innings. T. Lube, c and b Bomford.. J. Hughes, not out ........... M. J. Anderson, run out ... M. Holmes, b C. Bomford .. J. J.Lube,candbT.Bomford E. Matthews, b 0. Bomford C. Rochford, b T. Bomfoid. P. Connolly, b T. Bomford J. Boilse, c and b Bomford.. M. Rochford, bT. Bi mford T. Burke, c Parsons, b T. Bomford .......................... Extras........................... Total ................. XI. Second innings. cMagan,bJ Byrne bJ. Kelly b T. Connolly ... cJ.Beylin,b Kelly not ou t................ b C. Bomford ... b T. Connolly ... lbw, b Magan ... b J. K e lly .......... b T. Connolly ... 0 b T. Bomford 1 Extras Total 20