Cricket 1900

F eb . 22, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 27 S otjth A u s t r a l ia placed two men new to intercolonial cricket in the field against Victoria, at Melbourne, at the end of December. They were Percy Stuart and E. H. Kekwich. The former plays for the East Torrens Club, of which J. Darling and J. J. Lyons are members. He is also a representative footballer, having played for South Aus­ tralia v. Victoria in 1895, or thereabouts E. H. Kekwich plays for North Adelaide, and has been scoring consistently this season. He is a little fellow like Sid Gregory, and, like him, is a brilliant field at cover point. The piece of field­ ing by which he ran out H. Graham in his first match was, according to the Australasian , one of the finest ever seen in the Melbourne Ground. In this his first intercolonial he was unlucky enough to get a pair. I n the huge score of 807 made by New South Wales against South Australia at Adelaide last December there were only five byes. Tue wickets fell thus :— 1 for 10, 2 for 201, 3 for 201, 4 for 278, 5 for 564, 6 for 588, 7 for 694, 8 for 744, 9 for 763, 10 for 807. Donnan and Trumper put on 191 for the second wicket, Noble and Gregory 286 for the fifth. S o m e t h in g , the war no doubt, has been playing havoc with the gates at inter­ colonial matches in Australia this season. At a meeting of the New South Wales Association at Sydney on January 15th, a letter was read from the secretary of the South Australian Association to the effect that the New South Wales share of the receipts, one-third of the profits, would be £3 17s. ! V ic t o r T r u m p e r , the Australian cricketer, can hardly do wrong this season. The Saturday following the intercolonial match between New South Wales and South Australia, at Sydney, he contributed 118 to Paddington’ s total of 417 for six wickets against Redfern. On the same day H. Donnan, also of New South Wales, scored 133 (not out) out of 272 for six wickets for Bumwood v. Glebe. I n a second grade match played at Sydney in the New Year there were 72 extras in an innings that did not exceed 200 runs. Hardly Australian form ! B y the addition of home and home matches against Staffordshire to the programme of the Yorkshire stcond X I., the team will be able to take part in the second-class county championship. J a m e s L il l y w h it k ’ s “ Cricketers’ Annual ” for 1900 contains, as usual, a complete record of the past season’s cricket. “ A Secretary” writes sensibly on Cricket Reform, and “ Incog.” fully describes the cricket of 1899. The pages given to “ a few loose strings ” have been considerably increased in number, while the list of scorers of over a hun­ dred runs now tills nearly thirty pages, which speaks volumes for the weather of 1899. T h e Adelaide Observer publishes some interesting tables giving the full doings of George Giffen and J. J. Lyons in Australian cricket—that is first-clas 9 cricket of course The figures, wLich are given below, show that Giffen has scored in all 11,329 runs and taken 1,000 wickets. The Intercolonial matches of the present Australian season prove, too, that Giffen is still, at all events, the most reliable bowler South Australia has. A list of his performances follows :— G. GIFFEN’S BATTING. For. Inn. N.O. Runs. H . 8 . Avg. Combined A us X I.’s ... 6 1 94 53 18 80 Aus. X I .’s in England ... 268 16 5,806 180 23 03 Aus. X I .’s in Am erica... 10 — 406 96 4060 8 .A, v. England ........... 10 2 655 203 69 37 Tt st Matches in Australia 30 — 850 161 28 3 3 Smok-rsv Non-Smokers, Lord’s. ’84 ................... 2 — 21 15 10 50 8 .A. v. Victoria ........... 44 2 2,187 271 52 07 8 .A. v. N .S.W ................... 34 1 1,214 205 36 7 8 Rest of Aus. y. Aus. X I. 6 1 196 67 39 20 Grand totals ... 410 23 11,329 271 29 27 G. GIFFEN’ S BOWLING. For. O. M. R. W . Avg Combined Aus. X I.’s 168'3 74 371 58 13 25 Aus. X I.’s in E n g.... 4813 3 1641 9889 532 18 58 Aus. X I.’s in Amer. H4 29 408 14 29 14 S.A. v. England ... 405 1 101 10 9 38 27 34 Test Matches in Aus. 768-1 247 1783 70 25 47 Smokers v. Non- Smokers, Lord’s ,’84 7 218 — — S.A. v. Victoria ... 1 6 8 1 427 3988 206 19 35 S .A .v N .S.W ............ 1059 3 260 2714 102 26 60 R. of Aus. v. Aus. X I. 87 2 10 303 10 30 30 Grand totals ... 9C9L2 2791 20513 1000 20 51 L y o n s , though as an all round cricketer not to be compared with Giffen, has still a fine batting record as the following statistics will show. He has been such a regular participator in intercolonial cricket that the Suuth Australian Eleven must have felt quite strange in their last match v. New South Wales without him. He went to Sydney with the team, but deemed it advisable, as an old strain in his leg was troubling him greatly at the time, to stand down. Here are his figures :— J. J. LYONS’S BATTING. For. Inn. N.O. Runs. H.S. Avg. Combined Aus X I.’s ... 17 1 *09 101 18'fc8 Aus. X I.’s in England ... 16tf 9 3,236 149 20 61 Aus. X I.’ s in America 5 - 84 30 16-80 S.A. v. England .. ... 12 — 304 56 25 33 Test Matches in Australia 16 — 533 134 33*31 S.A. v. Victoria ... 38 2 1,561 135 43 36 S.A. v. N.S.W . ... ... 35 — 976 145 27-88 Rest of Aus. v. Aus. X I. 4 — 116 42 29 Grand Totals ... 293 12 7,109 149 25 29 J. J. LYONS’S BOW LING. For. O. M. R. W . Avg. Combined Aus. 495 10 97 2 48 50 S.A. v. England ... 146*5 44 374 15 2- 93 Aus. X I.’s in Eng.... 5684 173 1,597 63 25 34 Aus. X I.’s in Amer. 26 14 77 4 19-25 Test Matches in Aus. 22 7 58 1 58 R .of Aus. v. A us.X I. 4 — 14 — — S.A. v. Victoria ... 274*5 74 731 24 30-45 S.A. v. N .S.W . ... 126 30 308 4 77 Grand Totals... 1.220 352 3,256 113 2881 J. J, LYONS’S CENTUBIES. Eleven : Australian X I. v. M.C.C., June, 1893, Lord’s ... 149 S.A. v. N.S.W ., January, 1892, Sydney...................145 S.A. v. Victoria, February, 1895, Melbourne ... 135 Australia v. England, February, 1892, Sydney ... 134 S.A. v. Victoria, December, 1889, Adelaide.......134 S.A. v. N .S.W ., December, 1892, Adelaide ... ... 124 tt.A. v. Victoria, February, 1897, Adelaide . ... 113 S.A. v. Victoria, January, 1897, M elbourne.........110 S.A. v. Victoria, Novemoer, 1 891, Adelaide.......... 104 S.A. v. Victoria, March, 18i 4, Adelaide ...........101 Australian X I. v. N .S.W ., Dec., 1888, Sydney ... 101 T h e death is announced of Captain H. Holden, J P., at Bramcote Hills House, Nottinghamshire, on February Is*’, in 1 is 77th year. Capt. Holden was secre­ tary of the Notts County C.C. for about nine years previous to 1883, when lie resigned, and was presented with a testimonial. A f e w additions have to be made to our last month’s list of well-known cricketers in, or on the way to, South Africa. The list, which is doubtless still incomp’etft. is now as follows :— Major Pooie (staff). Captain E. G. Wynyard (Welsh Regiment). Mr. K. S. J.tkson (4th Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment of Militia). Mr. C. B. Fry (for hospital work). Air. J. J. Ferris (with Col. Byng’sS.A. Light Horse). Mr. F. W. Milligan (at MaclutsiFort, Bechu- analand). Mr. J. l‘\ Byrne (Warwickshire, besieged in Ladysmith). Dr A. Conan Doyle (for hospital work). Mr. R. P. Lewis, the old Oxford and Win­ chester wicket-keeper (City’s Own). Mr. R.W. Fox (Oxford and Sussex), Dragoons. General N. G. Lyttelton (commanding North of the Tugela). Captain W. C. Hedley (17th Field Co. R.E.). Mr. G. Kemp, M.P. (the old Cambridge and Lancashire amateur). Mr. G. Hornby, son of Mr. A. N. Hornby ( 22 nd Cheshire Regiment). Mr. E. A. Halliwell (the well-known South African wicket-keeper, war correspondent at Mafeking). Air. A. J. Turner (R.A.), Col. Baden-Powell (besieged in Mafeking, formerly hon. sec. Old Carthusians C.C. and F.C. in India). Lieut. W. L. Foster (R.A.). Mr. R. O’H. Livesay. Mr. E. I. M. Barrett (2nd Lancashire Fusiliers). Lieut. A. H. de Boulay (at the front). Mr. H. G. Pechey, hon. sec. Esher C.C. (Imperial Yeomanry). Mr. C. 15. Pechey, Esher C.C. (Imperial Yeomanry). Colonel Spens. Captain Barton. Mr. W. E. Sprot. Captain Bradford. Mr. H. W. Studd. Mr. A. T. Jones (Shropshire). Captain VV. MacFarlan, Adjutant, Black Watch (killed at Magersfontein), wras in the Loretto School XI. and was captain of Sandhurst XI. Lieut. H. P. Paton (Loretto XI.). Mr. W. L. Foster (with Lord Methuen at the Modder). Mr. L. J. Le Fleming (at Willow Grange). Prince ChristianVictor (with General Buller, aide-de-camp). Colonel Frank Rhodes (besieged in Lady­ smith), in the Eton XI. Mr. C. Heseltine, the Hants fast bowler (Hampshire Yeomanry). Mr. F. Mitchell (Yorkshire). T h e r e is little news from the front as far as cricket is concerned, but on Christ­ mas Day, when there was no fighting,