Cricket 1900

330 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 9, 190<X S cene : Sussex v. Gloucestershire, at Bristol. Mr. Jessop is just walking t6 the wickets. Enthusiatic G' ucestershire Man, to his neighbour from Sussex : “ Now you’ll see some batting! ” (Jessop is caught off the first ball). Sussex man : “ Well, I ’ve seen i t ! ” E. G. M. : “ At anyrate it’s the finest innings you ever saw played for a duck’s egg •” I n the match on August 6. Crofton v. Bisham, at Bisham, W. E E. Wills >n, of the first-named side, took the last five wickets in the first innings in six balls, clean bowling four batsmen with conse­ cutive deliveries. His figures were:— First innings: 4’5 overs, 2 maidens, 13 runs, 7 wickets ; second innings : 9 overs, 4 maidens, 16 runs, 6 wickets. Scores: Crofton, 55 and 41; Bisham, 16 and 40. W riting to the Daily Telegraph, a lieutenant-colonel says:— On Friday last I paid a visit to the Public Schools’ Volunteer Camp atAldershot, and a more exhilarating spectacle could hardlyhe conceived. All sorts and conditions of hoys were there, learning invaluable lessons of discipline, self-denial, and reliance with cheerful indifference to the small dis­ comforts inseparable from camp life. Side by side with fatigue parties and orderlies could he seen cricket, played with such slight materials as broom-handle bats and tin-bucket wickets; skylarking everywhere, hut, dominating the whole— though not fussily obtruded—just the right soup f on of discipline. M r. J. H olcombe writes :— I forward you the following piece of information: Playing for the Leys School v. Old Leysians, on July 29 and 31, at Cam­ bridge, H. M. Carrick, for the former, took seventeen wickets for 120 runs. He secured nine wickets in the first innings, the other batsman being run out, and the remaining eight in the second innings. Is not this nearly a record number of wickets taken by a bowler inonematch, at any ratethis season P I t was the very irony of fate that Surrey’s defeat by Middlesex on Satur­ day should have been, at the close, mainly the work of three players who have been actively identified with Surrey cricket. The brothers, E. N. and J. Douglas, first played for Surrey, in which they have lived most of their lives. W. Williams, who settled the matter decisively for Middlesex at the finish, though his home is on the other side of the Thames, has been for years one of the most prominent members of the Eichmond Cricket Club. B y the way, it is fifteen years since the Eichmond cricketer just mentioned took art in a first-class cricket match on the urrey ground. Now played for his bowling, on that occasion he acted as wicket-keeper for Middlesex. E ei ' brence above to E. N. and J. Douglas reminds me that the elder mem­ ber of the brothers, A. P., who played for Surrey, is also getting runs consistently in India. The last number of the Bombay Gazette gives full particulars of a match between the Poona Gymkhana and Southern Maratha Country, in which A. P., who is a captain in the Eoyal Artillery, not only batted but bowled with success. S urrey seems to have quite an em­ barrassment of riches this year in the matter of Public School captains. Four are playing for the Young Amateurs against the Young Professionals of Surrey at the Oval to-day and to-morrow. There are E. C. Smith (Haileybury), L. Y. Harper (Eossall), E. Booker (City of London), and J. E. Eaphael (Mer­ chant Taylors’). Besides these, H. K. Longman (Eton), H. C. McDonell (Win­ chester), H. W. Hopkins (Wellington), A. C. Von Ernsthausen (Uppingham), and P. Eglinton (Sherborne) are all qualified for Surrey. T he elevens—or rather twelves—for the match between Young Amateurs and Proiessionals just referred to will be as follows:— Amateurs: A. L. Foster (Westminster), S. S. Uarris (Westminster), L. V. Harper (Rossall), E. C. Smith (Haileybury), A. L. Whiteley (Dulwich), G. le B. Smith (Kadley), E. Booker (City of London), 0. T. Norris (Charterhouse), J. E Raphael (Merchant Taylors’), J. R. Gannon (Sutton Vallance), F. L. Nightingale (Dulwich), and R. T. Crawford (capt.). Professionals: Goatly (Kew), Black (Dul­ wich), Rook (Brixton), Batt (Mitcham), Bale (Mitcham), Moulder (Richmond), Davis (Wim­ bledon), Peters (Wandsworth), Eawards, G. (Reigate), Hardy (Kennington), Harris (Ken­ nington), and Gooder (capt.). Cricket readers will be pleased to hear that F. S. Jackson is back in England again. He had to retire hurt after facing the bowling of the Boers for a fairly good knock. He is recovering rapidly from the enteric fever which closed his innings, and hopes to be quite fit very shortly. He was watching the cricket at the Oval on Tuesday, With a due sense of the fitness of things, E. P. Lewis, the old Oxford wicket-keeper, one of the earliest of the C.I.V.’s to go to the front, who also had to return home invalided, was on the spot to compare notes with him on their respective experiences in the Trans­ vaal. L ord H arris will preside at the dinner to be given by the West Indian Club to tbe West Indian Cricket team at the Grand Hotel on Mondav. A more appro­ priate selection could hardly have been made, as Lord Harris is hiiuself a West Indian by birth. He was bom in Trinidad. T he following notes on English cricketers in India from the Indian Sporting Times will be read with interest. “ Simla cricket has sustained a great loss in R. L. Ricketts, who has been appointed tutor to some Maharajah in his minority, and Captains J. L. Rose and E. Norie, who are both in Calcutta en route to China. 1 have been going into the strength of the different teams now taking an active part in the game, of which the principal are Simla, Shillong, Ootacamund, Bombay Gymkhana and Poona Gymkhana, and have come to the conclusion that the latter, on paper at all events, could give points to any of the others. ihe Bombay Presidency champion, Captain G. J. Greig, is a host iu himself, and there can be no doubt that he is the most finished and reliable European batsman in India at the present time, though there are, of course, a great number of other players scattered throughout India who would run him very close for first honours if they could find as many opportunities of participating in good matches. The best known of these are P. K. Creed, the old Marlburian; H. D. Watson, the Oxford Blue; B. N. Bosworth-Smith; W. S. Gosling; W. J. Marsham, of Behar Wanderer fame ; E. B T. Studd, also of the Behar Wan­ derers, and one or two others. In the course of my wanderings 1 have only met one bats­ man whom I consider Grieg’s equal in India, i e., C. Wigram, the old Wykehamist, who is now in South Africa. There is some talk of getting up a team of old Etonians this season to play .-imla. but I fancy the promoters will find the task a somewhat difficult one, as the few old Etonian cricketers out here are scattered all over the country. The principal players are C. T. Allen (Cawn- pore), G. R. W. Brewis (Madras), E. C. Lee (Punjab), E. B. T. Studd (Behar), Lord Ronaldshay (Simla), and W. S. Gosling (Rawal Pindi). A combined Eton and Har­ row XI. would be easier to put in the field, as B. N. Bosworth-Smith, H. D. Watson, C. S. Rome, R. L. Kindersley, and one or two other old Harrovians would be available. An attempt was made last season to raise a team from old Eton, Harrow, Winchester, and Marlborough cricketers, but it failed; and I fancy a similar fate will befall the attempt to raise an Eton team. T he Middlesex men have certainly had a curious experience in the week since our last issue. They won the Surrey match by a wicket, which was excitement enough in all conscience, and now they have beaten Somerset by the same margin. A c u r i o s it y :— Mr. J. A. Dixon began the bowling for Notts against Surrey yesterday after- Doon. Off his first ball Brockwell was caught by Mr. Groves. Then for over after over Mr. Dixon, unchanged, tried to induce Hayes to give a catch, and at last, when exactly a hundred runs were on the board, succeeded in his object. No other wicket fell in the interval. T he following are some of the latest hundreds:— JULY. 27. 8. Colman, The Wanderers v. St. Lawrence... 146 30. 8. Colman, The Wanderers v. Tonbridge .. ICO 30. D. L . A . Jep h son , T h e W an d erers v. T o n ­ bridge ................................................................. .... 31. J .L e F lem in g, T on b rid ge v. T h e W an d erers 100 81. F . G u lly, T on brid ge v. T h e W an d erers .. 172 A U G U S T . 2 . J . D ix o n , N o t t s v . L e ic e -t e r s h ib e ............. 126 2 . A r n o ld , W o r c e s t e r s h ir e v. B u ssex ... .. 112 7 . K in n e ir, W a r w ic k s h ir e v. W o r c e s t e r .. l 2 * 8 . C. B . F r y , S dssex v . G lo u c e s te r s h ir e ... 1 C 6 8 . K . 8 . R a n jits in h ji, S u ssex v. G lo u c e s t e r 109 8 A r n o ld , W o r c e s t e r v. W a r w ic k s h ir e ... 113 8 . A b e l, S u rb ey v . N o t t s ............ ....................’’ iq 3 * 2. S- W . Sproston, W est In dian s v. L iv e rp oo l an d D istrict ............................. ............. u g 4. F. S. L ew is, S ou th gate v. M r. W h ite’s X I I . 115 4. B . H ay-C oop er, W im b led on v. H am p stead 103* 4. A . S. Joh n ston , E lth am v. G ranville ............ 137 *