Cricket 1899

42 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M a r c h 23, 189&. eight or ten paces, then advances with a run which increases in speed until you see nothing but a whirl, a huge spinning wheel, a great big capital O, and he only returns to normalisation after he has delivered what in most cases the other day proved ‘ a parting shot.’ ” H a r r y , the Australian professional who was at Lord’s in 1896, is now play­ ing for the Bendigo United C.C. near Melbourne. His scores this season are 86, 35, 67, 65, 17 not out, 19, 7, and 107, giving an average of 57. C ricketers who have played in India w ill hear with great regret of the death of Captain J. H . Vanderzee, who was very well known in Bombay some seven or eight years ago, as the best all-round player in the Presidency. The Captain lost his life in Burmah when bathing in the Maika river. H e was attached to the military police of Burmah. A M elbou rn e newspaper vouches for the follow ing “ fa c ts ” :— “ During the progress of a match in Albert Park, when the fast bowler was operating, a ball took the middle stump near the ground, drove it clean out of the soft soil, and the stump whizzed round twice in the air and stuck upright in the ground again in exactly the hole it originally occupied. The same bowler struck the wicket in another over, and the wicket-keeper had the novel experience of being wounded in five place.- as the result. One bail struck him over the left eye, the other on the righ t ear, one stump struck him on the thigh, the other on the wrist, and the ball hit him on the chin.” F rom a correspondent in Brisbane I have received the follow ing le tte r:— “ Dr. E. Macdonald, whose average for our club in the electoral competition this season is 281, is well known in Phila­ delphia and in Leicester, where he resided some years ago. H e is leaving Australia in a few weeks for England, and intends passing the summer in Leicester. Mac­ donald was not successful against Stod- dart’s last team in the one innings he had, but in the previous visit of Mr. Stoddart’s he was with Coningham and Percy McDonnell, the mainstay of the Queensland side. H is best effort in inter­ colonial cricket was 77 not out against M cK ibbin and Howell in the New South Wales match. In the seven innings played this season Macdonald has gone in first on every occasion and carried his bat through five times.” T h e follow ing anecdote, told b y Dr. H . J. H. Scott, the hitter, who came over w ith the Australian team in 1886, is taken from the Sydney M a il: — “ On the Braraall Lane ground when the 1886team were playing Yorkshire, the funniest thing I ever remember in a first-class match occurred. Wade had performed well a few days previously in a county match, and was played against us. It was a bad wicket, hut we were getting runs. The crowd at length cried, •Put on V\aad (Wade), put on Waad,’ andat last Lord Hawke (then the Hon.) did put on ‘ Waad.’ Wade bowled two overs for 4 runs and one wicket (Palmer’ s), and had almost howled me, so I made up my mind to hit him if possible. We then requited 20. The first hall I hit for 6, the second for 4, and the third pitched outside the oft stump and went for 6 to square-leg, and then the umpire, Carpenter, cilled over. The players had crossed over when it was noticed that the scorers had left their box and were calling out that but three halls had been howled. Carpenter at once saw his mistake and made the fieldsmen resume their places for the next ball to be delivered. It was, and it also went for 6, and the match was thus won by six wickets.” C ricketers who occasionally like to see a batsman hit out instead o f always playing for keeps,’ ’ will be glad to hear that Worrall, who is com ing to England with the Australian team, made 68 in fifty minutes for Victoria in the return match against New South Wales. As a contrast to this it may be stated that Giller made 87 in three hours and a-half in the same innings. T he Committee o f the Marylebone C.C. propose to make the next general meeting of the club, to be held in May, “ special,” for the purpose of making the follow ing alterations in the Laws of C ricket:— 33 (a). A batsman being out from any cause, the ball shall be “ dead.” 33 (b). If the ball, whether struck with the bat or not, lodges in a batsman’ s clothing, the ball shall become “ dead.” 46. They shall not order a bat>man out unless appealed to by the other side. N.B.—An appeal, “ How’s th at?” covers all ways of being out, unless a specific way of getting out is stated by the person asking. ONE-DAY MATCHES. 2. The match, unless played out, shall be decided by the first innings. Prior to the commencement of a match it may be agreed that the over consist of five or six balls. N .B.—A tie is included in the words “ played out.” It is to be feared that Law 46 will lead to indiscriminate appeals. As the proposed alteration to Law 2 (one-day matches) is ambiguously worded, it will doubtless be amended at the meeting. It is to be regretted that the Committee could not see their way to suggest dealing with “ time,” boundaries, and misunderstand­ ings. A t the present time it is left to individual umpires to decide whether the last over of the day must be completed or may be completed if required b y either side. As to boundaries and catches on the boundary disputes are innumerable, while misunderstandings such as that of the “ M cLeod incident ” are the cause of much heartburning. “ W h a t wonders a good old English ‘ pro,’ who could and would speak his mind, would work on Madras Native cricket,” says the Madras Times. “ But until the good old English ‘ pro ’ comes and a few more European bowlers of merit, for goodness sake let us keep quiet about the standard to which ciicket has risen in India, or w e shall have Kanji touring out here with W . G., C. L. Town­ send, P. S. Jackson, C. B. Fry, G. L. Jessop,Rhodes, Storer, Lockwood, Haigh, J. T. Brown and himself, and showing us just whereabouts us is ! ! Then, oh then, shall I prefer spectatoring to playing, i.e., sweating out for two and a-half out of the three days while our visitors see which brand of ball lasts best on an Indian ground.” F r o m the Tasmanian M a il '.— “ After Eady had made 64 without a chance for Southern Tasmania against New Zealand, he bad to retire in a very unsatisfactory manner. Reese was bowling, and appealed for a catch, and the umpire at his end gave the batsman ‘ not out.’ The umpire then asked the other umpire, who gave, the bats­ man out as caught. Eady demurred at leaving, because the umpire at the bowler’s end having given him ‘ not out,’ he could not possibly be out, notwithstanding the decision of the other umpire. However, the New Zealand captain threatened to take his team off the ground unless Eady went out. Eady, sooner than have any dispute, left the ground.” C a n a d ia n s are nothing if not inventive. Below will be found a new method of setting out the scores of a match, as suggested by a correspondent in a Toronto newspaper, and kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Lyndhurst Ogden. The idea is that much space would be saved, but it is not very easy to see where this comes in. Watson, c Johnson, b Smith, b Seymour ... 17 7 Burrows, c and b Smith, c Potts, b Smith ... 19 0 Buchner, b Williams, c Walters, b Seymour... 3 1 Garra.tt, b Seymour, b Williams ................... o 6 Elmore, h wkt, b Smith, b Williams ........... 2 11 Kos?, D. A., low, b Jones, b W illia m s...........23 8 Ogden, not out, c Sprague, b Sproul .......... 41 15 Hall, st Patteson, b Seymour, c Forlong, b Smith .................................................................. 4 39 Good, b Sproule, st Patteson, b Smith ...........29 10 Hartshorn, b Johnson, c and b Williams ... 9 17 Maclean, c Heudrie, b Davies, not out ... ... 4 6 E x tr a s ..................................................................12 8 Totals ........................... ...........................163 108 T he representatives of the first-class counties have selected the follow ing as umpires tor 1899 :—M ycroft (T.), Hearn (W .), Clayton (R.), W oof ( W. A .), Painter (J .), Tuck (J. J .), Barlow (R. G .), Y oun g (A .), Wheeler (J.), Richardson (C. E .), Thoms (R.), Burton (G .), White (A. A .), Sherwin(M .), Shrewsbury (W ), Daft (R .), West (W. A . J.), Titchmarsh (V. A .), Holmes (H .), Chester (A .), Street (J.), Lillywhite (J.), Hide (A.), Shaw (A .), Richards (W .), Smith (A . P.), H »ll (L .), Goodyear (E .), Porter (G .), (Jiarke (W.J, Moss (J.), Pickett (B .), and Milward (T.). S t il l another book of cricket rem i­ niscences. This time the chronicler is William Caffyn, the sole survivor bar one, M r. E. Dowson, of the famous Surrey eleven of the sixties. In the announce­ ment of the forthcom ing volume the publishers state that it will be edited b y a personal friend o f Caffyn. This rumour has it is no other than our old friend Richard Daft, himself responsible for a work of the same kind published a few years ago under the title of “ The K ings of Cricket.” T he Queensland sportsmen are responsible for the statement that Clem