Cricket 1900

A ug . 23, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 361 that he was, but his success against the K en t tail, after being hit about b y the first comers, was such that one is inclined to wonder why on earth some other lob bowlers of note have not arisen since his retirement from Sussex cricket. In bis last five overs and five balls he took five wickets for 20 runs. This was in striking contrast to the treatment measured out to his first six overs, off which 43 runs were made. A f t e r giving up the game for a year or two M r. G . 8 . Patterson, the captain of the Philadelphia team which last visited England, has reappeared in good cricket. H e recently scared 66 in excel­ lent style for Germantown against Merion (Philadelphia). A s t o b y from the American Cricketer : — Playing in Connecticut on July 4, a bats­ man of my team narrowly escaped being struck by a full-pitched ball in the face. A local umpire thereupon informed me that it was a no-ball, because the laws required that a ball “ must strike the ground between the wickets! ” became associated. Belmont’s efficient secre­ tary treated the first four balls sent to him with scant courtesy, dispatching all of them to the boundary. Borden kept his wicket up while big Ed. swung his bat with the force of a Chinese executioner with 10,000 Boxers’ heads to gather. Four after four followed his really fine strokes and when Borden got out, with a useful dozen to his credit, but 3 runs were needed. Frank Young was content to play the over out and then Leech, not to be denied, promptly made another 4 and the great victory was won. A f t e r the Surrey v. Lancashire match :— Lancashire M ech anic: “ W ell, what I always says is, * D o n ’t ’oiler till you’re out of t ’wood.’ N ow us Lancashire chapg ’ollered a little too soon.” Surrey ditto : “ ’O llered ! you say. It was a good deal more like a 6queak what a sparrer makes wben ’is tail is run over b y a w aggon. ’Ollered ! you call i t ! ” Lancashire M echanic: “ A h well, lad, at any rate we did get in t’wood. Y o u ’ve been was outside waitin’ for t ’fine weather.” B e n n e t t , the Merion professional, has scored very consistently for his club in the Philadelphia Cup matches. H is scores are as follow s:— 100 (retired), 65, 73, 6, 25, 24, 8, 70 (not out), 55 (not out), 0, and 6 4 ; total, 490 for nine completed innings, an average of 5 4'45. I n a recent match in Dorset a player of the name of Battrick made 102 out of 121 for six wickets (innings declared closed). The scores were as fo llow s:— 0, 0, 102, 0, 2, 7, 4, extras 6. Under the circumstances the gentleman’s name was singularly appropriate. A b e l has now played ten innings of 100 this season, and is thus on a level with K . S . Ranjitsinhji and H ayw ard, just as he is in having a total of over 2 ,0 0 0 . The list of his innings of 100 are as fo llo w s:— A t the Oval. 221, Surrey v. Worcestershire 165, Surrey v. Sussex 104, Surrey v. Gloucestershire 163, Players v. Gentlemen 120 not out, Surrey v. Kent 103 not out, Surrey v. Notts A t Lord’s. 136, Surrey, v. Middlesex A t Birmingham. 112, Surrey v. Warwickshire A t Leyton. 187, Surrey v. Essex A t Brighton. 110 , Surrey v. Sussex A m e r ic a n writers on cricket may generally be trusted to be up to date. The follow ing is an example of the way in which the war in China may be made useful. I t is from Cricket Club L ife :— Belmont won a great victory over German­ town at Elmwood. The visitors scored 126 and eight Belmont wickets fell for next to nothing when E . K . Leech and Joe Borden T h e latest account of a batsman leav­ in g his ground under a mistaken impression that he is out comes from America, and is referred to in Cricket Club Life as follows : — It isn’t very often, thank goodness, that a clear case of unsportsmanlike conduct hap­ pens on a local cricket ground, but if there ever was an unpardonable one it was when Harold Haines was deprived of his century through the “ smartness” of a corpulent Bel- monter. Harold had never made a century, and you know how every cricketer dreams of reaching the coveted three figures. W ell, the young Maroon had batted finely, reach­ ing 95, when on an appeal for leg-before- wicket Haines thought the umpire gave him out and started for the club house. Then after, as I believe, the wicket-keeper had refused to put the wicket down, the man above referred to did the nasty trick. Of course, according to the rules, the umpire had to give him run-out. The captain immediately asked him to continue, but hav­ ing been given out he declined— on the advice of some fellows who had yet to bat. I have been told since that the offender after­ wards was sorry, acted hastily, etc., but, as I said before, sharp practices on our cricket fields occur so seldom that when someone does oSend it seems all the worse. has won 3 m a'ches, lost 2, and drawn 13. The weather has many times been tue reason why the matches have not been brought to a conclusion. M r . G e o r g s s H a m b le d o n w rites:— “ I have not yet seen it mentioned in any publication that M r. A . H . C . Fargus was dismissed w ithout scoring in four consecutive innings recently. Details a re : — Gloucester v. Middlesex ........... 0 and o Gloucester v. Kent ................... 0 and 0 I believe I am correct in saying that this very rare performance has on ly one parallel, M r. G . Fow ler, in 1892, scoring : Somerset v. Lancashire ........... 0 and 0 Somerset v. Sussex .................. 0 and 0 L . Y . H a r p e r , the captain of the Ros­ sall eleven, who has been showing very prom ising cricket among the young cricketers of Surrey during the last fort­ night is going up to Cambridge. A . von Em sthausen, who was tried for Surrey’s first eleven as a fast bowler agaiost Hampshire at Bournemouth last week, has, I learn on good authoiity, gained a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. A . N . H ornby, I m ay add, has a high opinion of Harper as a batsman. M e n t io n of A . N . Hornby reminds me that tbe old Lancashire captain was prd- sent at the Oval last Thursday and Friday while Surrey men were punishing the Lancashire bowlers. H e had to leave London on the second afternoon for Southampton to meet his third son, who is invalided home after doiug excellent service with the Cheshire Regim ent in South Africa. A son of the H on. Chan- dos L eigh, who has seen any amount of fighting in the Transvaal, has also re­ turned home. W h i l e M r. MacGregor and M r. W ells were together on Tuesday m orning for the first wicket for M iddlesex a . ainst Surrey there were some curiosities in the way of scoring. A t first the latter scored more quickly than his partner, who, however, gradually overhauled him , until at 65 he was only four behind. The innings had now lasted 65 minutes. W hen the score was 75 play had lasted for 75 m inutes, each batsman having scored 37, while a n o-b all made up the total. Unfortunately for statisticians the partnership was broken when four more runs had been made. W a r w ic k s h ir e is the first of the counties to finish its season, which has been sadly interfered with by rain. It S u r r e y cricketers will find a good deal to interest them in the match, the last of the trials of the season, to be played at the Oval to-m orrow and Friday. Gentlemen of Surrey.— W . T. Grabum (captain), H . D. Thorbum, A . M . Pollard, S. W . Sproston, H . K . Longman, F . J. Wormald (Eton), A . L . Foster (Westmin­ ster), L . V . Harper (Rossall), B. T . Crawford, D . -M. Butcher, F . Holmes, L . Jackson. Public Schools.— J. Carr (Uppingham), B. W . Hopkins (Wellington), N . A . Knox, F. A . Nightingale (Dulwich), M . S. Rodgers (Dover), F. G-. Nichols (Forest School), E . G. Langdale (Eastbourne), J. B . Gammon (Sut­ ton Valence), E . Booker (City of London), W . J. Clayton (Cheltenham), D . N . Mile­ stone (Hurst), G . M . Gill (Lancaster), G. G. Bell (Leys), S. H . G. Lawrence (Surrey County School), and C. Bowans (Merchant Taylors). The teams include the captains of Eton, Rossall, W ellington, H urst, and City of London, as w ell as the deputy captain of the W est Indian team . U n d e r h a n d and round-arm in the same over form a very rare experience in a match of any importance nowadays. But the Bedfordshire captain, R . H . Orr, provided a little pleasing recreation o f the kind in the one innings of Surrey’s