Cricket 1900

M a t 31, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. mined bitter might nowadays startle the cricket community into something like admiration. T h e r e can be no possible doubt that the reappearance of Briggs in the Lanca­ shire team has strengthened it very considerably. He has played fine all­ round cricket since the beginning of the season, and last week capped his other performances by taking all ten wickets of the Worcestershire team at Old Trafford for 55 runs, besides BCoriDg 33 and 14 and taking three wickets in the second innings. May he continue to flourish. How is the following fora coincidence? SUBREY v. WORCES­ TERSHIRE. Oval, May 21, 1900. B u rrb y . First innings. Abel ...........................221 Brock-well ................... 2 H a y e s .......................... 150 Lockwood, not out ...104 Hayward ................... 5 Holland ................... 0 V. F. S. Crawford, not out ................... 1 E xtras...................12 Total (at end of day for five wickets) ..495 * Abel on the following day increased his score to 357 ; V . F. 8. Crawford his to 129. SURREY v. SOMER­ SETSHIRE. Oval, May 29,1899. S u r r e y , tirst innings. •At el, notout ......... .227 B rock w ell...................11 H a yes...........................56 I). L . A . Jephson ... 18 Hayward ... ... ...158 H. B. Richardson ... 1 *V. F. S. Crawford, not out ...................13 Extras................. 11 Total (at end of day for five wickets) .. 495 I n addition to the peerage conferred on Sir Richard Webster, the birthday list included new honours for two keen supporters of cricket, Col. F. J. Keen of the Indian Staff Coips, who gets a K.C., and Mr. A. E. Bateman, Controller- General of the Commercial Labour Department of the Board of Trade. The latter, who is a brother of Mr. E. L. Bateman of the Marylebone committee, used to play a good deal in his time for the Civil Service and other clubs. He formed one of the Gentlemen of England who played a series of matches in Hamburg somewhere in the sixties, the early sixties if I remember rightly. T he recent casualty lists from the front have brought bad news for the Somerset­ shire captain to the effect that his brother, who is with 1he New South Wales Lancers, has been wounded. H. O. L. Woods was in the Brighton College cricket eleven just after his big brother, the Cambridge double blue. Unlike him, he had not the opportunity of making his mark in first-class cricket, as he returned to Australia, where they were both born, soon after he went down from Brighton. “ A n O ld H arrovian ” writes: Lieut. - Colonel Sir Frederick Thomas Harvey- Bathurst died in London on May 20th, 1900, aged sixty-seven. He formed one of the Eton eleven in 1849 and 1850, con­ tending those years at Lord’s against Harrow and Winchester. He was at one time M.P. for Wiltshire and was also a lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards and participated in the Crimean War with his regiment. He was a son of Sir Frederick Bathurst, who so greatly excelled as a bowler in the thirties, for­ ties, and fifties. Both father and son were members of the M.C.C. for years. Mb. A. D. T a tl o r writes : In Cricket of May 17, Mr. Ashley-Cooper casually asks how often a Carpenter and a Hay­ ward have registered centuries on the same day, previous to the achievement being accomplished on the 14th inst. It occurred to me that the feat must be most rare, and I find that the surmise is correct. It has been performed but twice, the heroes being, of course, old Tom Hayward and Bob Carpenter. For Cambridgeshire v. Surrey, at the Oval, June 28, 1861— 100. R. Carpenter. 108. T. Hayward. For All England X I. v. Yorkshire, at Sheffield, July 17, 1865— 112. T. Hayward. 134. R. Carpenter. F rom what I can learn it is quite on the cards that W. L. Foster, who has been doing good service with Lord Methuen’s forces in South Africa, will be seen in the Worcestershire eleven before the season is over. This must not be taken for a suggestion that “ Oom Paul ” will have closed his innings in time to admit of the bulk of the forces getting home by the end of August. W. L. has had a good share of the ills that flesh is heir to in South Africa in the shape of fever; He has got over all the attacks well, but there is just a chance that he may be back before county cricket comes to an end for the year. It will interest Cricket readers, many of them at all events, to know that one of the younger of the Handy Men who represented “ H M.S. Powerful” in the siege of Ladysmith, and have had such a deservedly hearty reception on their return to England, is a son of that good “ Old Rug ” and Kent cricketer, as well as International Rugby footballer, Fred Stokes. Passing direct from the “ Britannia” into the “ Powerful,” young Stokes was one of the four middies selected to go up to Lady­ smith with the rest of the chosen band from the “ Powerful.” With them he took part in that memorable defeat. It is gratifying, too, to learn that he has been recommended for promotion. T h e West Indian cricketers who are to reach England next week will, it is said, go right on in the steamer to Southamp­ ton. The preliminary practice of the team, through the courtesy of the committee of the Hampshire C.C.C., who have kindly offered them the use of the county ground for the purpose, will take place there. T h e defeat of the Surrey Eleven on Saturday will be memorable in the his­ tory of Essex cricket. It is the first time Essex has beaten Surrey at the Oval. A thoroughly well-deserved victory it was, too. C olonel F r a n k R h o d es , who played an important part in the relief of Mafe­ king, was, some ten or more years ago, one of the heaviest scorers in military matches. While he was in Ireland he scored hundred after hundred. He was subsequently associated actively with even a more distinguished cricketer, Lord Harris, being on the letter’s staff when he was Governor of Madras. Still later, he will be remembered as one of the principal figures in that unfortunate Jameson R a i d . ------ T h e Richmond Club this year so far has been well represented in county cricket. Last week, G. W. Beldam, G. F. S. Griffin, and R. S. Lucas were all playing for Middlesex against Sussex at Lord’s, and this week against Lanca­ shire. There has been a fourth Rich­ mond this week in the field, too, in the person of G. J. Groves, who has already, as everyone knows, done good service for Notts. ------ I n our Correspondence columns will be found a letter from the captiia of the Brixton Wanderers C.C. pointing out in­ accuracies in two paragraphs which ap­ peared in Cricket last week, with reference to a match against Norbury Park. Tne question which was discussed in them is very interesting to cricketers, and we are very glad that Mr. Rider has put us right as to facts. ------ “ K ing W il lo w ” writes in the Nilgiri News as follows: “ As the question refer­ red to is, no doubt, of very considerable interest to many who will read these lines, at present in ignorance of the ban- nei under which E. H. D. Sewell is going to score, I may as well mention the fact that in the annual report of the Essex County Cricket Club the name of Sewell appears as one of the ground staff engaged at Leyton for the coming season. I cannot help feeling, as I have before stated in this connection, the very keenest interest in the Essex experiment. For was there ever such an experiment before; that of engaging a man altogether on hearsay, and hearsay that has travelled thousands of miles, for his reputed deeds of derring- do were done out on Indian cricket fields against opponents of entirely unknown quality ! ” ------ T h e following table shows the position of the Sydney clubs in the first-grade electorate competitions. A win counts two points, two are deducted for a defeat, and drawn games are ignored. Won. Lost. Drawn. Points 12 8 8 6 2 2 —2 —8 —14 —14 Central Cumberland ... 7 North Sydney ................... 5 South Sydney ................... 6 Waverley ........................... 5 Paddington ................... 3 Redfern ........................... 3 Burwood ........................... 2 Leichhardt.......................... 2 Glebe ................................... 0 East Sydney ................... 0 T h e r e is sound sense in the following remarks by the Sydney Mail on the subject of afternoon matches : — In matches of two afternoon’s duration it is more necessary to have a couple of first- class bowlers on your side, even though they may not know anything at all about batting, than it is in a match to be concluded. With a strong run-getting side there are seldom more than half of the team who get a strike, therefore, the batting ability of a howler is almost absolutely valueless. North Sydney does not possess any leading bowlers, and consequently has been unable to get wickets quickly enough to secure a win in the limited time.