Cricket 1900

370 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 30, 1900. members of the team were a little amazed at decisions which seemed to them very bad, and when Shuter, in the Surrey match, was given not out, W oods, who was bow ling, was considerably excited at what he thought was a fearful m istake on the part o f the umpire, and com ing up to me he said, ‘ M r. Sproston, if it had been in Trinidad, I should have lick he dow n,’ at the same time pointing to the umpire. Bu t his anger was over in a m om en t.” “ Y o u r earliest cricket was played in E ngland ? ” “ I was at school at S t. George’s Col­ lege, Eastbourne. W e had no coaching, but I played a good deal at the Saffrons, and so saw good men batting. B u t at that time I gave very little thought to batting. I was a m edium -paced bowler, w ith a slight break when the ground helped me, M y first hundred was made for the school against an eleven of the town ; it was the first ever made for the school.” “ D id you remain in E n glan d after you left school ? ” “ N o . I went straight from school to British Guiana, which is, I suppose, not really in the W est Indies, although for the purposes of cricket, at any rate, it is always considered so. I was fortunate in escaping fever for five years, and on the whole I never found the climate disagree with m y health.” “ D id it disagree w ith your cricket ? ” “ N o , but I soon found that to make fifty runs over there was nearly as hard work as to make a hundred in E n g la n d ; the heat takes it out of you so quickly, and a man who is at the wickets for tw enty minutes is m a bath of perspira­ tion. W e never get a dead wicket in Demerara, for there is nothing between a flooded wicket and a dry one. The sun is so powerful that if rain comes in the night the wicket is as dry next m orning as it was the day before.” “ Y o u have a series of intercolonial matches in the W est Indies sim ilar to those in Australia ? ” “ There is an intercolonial cup which is played for every second year by Barbados, Trinidad and British Guiana. A t present the holder of the cup plays the winner of the m atch between the other two colonies, but I think that the holder should play th ro u g h ; it would make the m eeting much more interesting, and would on the whole be fairer all round. Jamaica would like to make a fourth in these matches, but at present I don’ t see how this could be done, for although the gates are good the expenses are heavy, and a trip to Jamaica would be almost prohibitive.” W . Ai-BlSTThSWORTH. ( i o i r f s p o u o t n c e . The Lditordoes not holdhimself responsible tor the opinionsof hiscorrespondents. T H E S E W E L L C L A N . To the Editor of C r ic k e t. S ir ,—W ith such a large num ber of Sewells n ow p layin g cricket all over the coun try, it is easy to see that m istakes m ust frequently arise in regard to their identity by means o f initials. The latest m istake however, sad to say, is contained in last week’s Cricket, where in the report of the match between London County and Warwickshire the credit of helping M r. G ilman to save the game for the London County side is awarded to “ C. O .” Sewell, by which, of course, most readers of your paper will recognise the South A frica n -M .C .C .- Gloucestershire amateur, who earlier in the season, I believe, did play for the London County once or twice. The S swell who played last week at Palace, however, was E . H . D . Sewell, the O ld Bedford Grammar School- M adras-E ssex cricketer about whom your M r. Bettesworth “ chatted ” so pleasantly but the other week. A s, too, this was only the second occasion in which this Sewell has appeared in first class cricket, and as in it he took his first wicket and made his first score (for his 32, though not of itself valuable so far as runs go, was simply priceless to his side, com ing as it did) I am sure you will see the importance of correcting your little error. A s I have heard it said once or twice by A n glo-In d ian friends who expected, perhaps, too much from Sewell’s first season, “ H e’s not done much this year,” it m ay not be uninteresting to mention that u p -to -d ate this year Sewell has scored 1,395 runs in 39 innings, and has taken 100 wickets for 1,400 runs, and has an average of but a decimal under 50 for Essex Club and Ground. Yours truly, “ K ing W il l o w .” C R IC K E T C O IN C ID E N C E S . To the Editor of C r ic k e t. S ir , — The return match between Surrey and E ssex at L eyton was full of 8 > many curious coincidences that it deserves more than a passing notice. In the first place E ssex’s first innings score of 187 was exactly equal to their first innings’ score in the first match at the Oval. E ssex’s score of 172 in the second innings was again exactly equal to Surrey’s first inn­ in gs’ score at the O pal. Surrey’s margin of victory, 261 runs, was exactly equiva­ lent to E ssex’s margin of victory over Gloucester at L eyton. The coincidences do not end here, for against Essex Surrey repeated the eastern county’s performance against Gloucester at Leyton of declaring its second inuings closed after having scored over 300 for eight wickets and thus winning the match. Y ours faithfully, A . J . W a d ia . I N D IV ID U A L R E C O R D SCO R E S . To the Editor of C r ic k e t. S ir , — Being in a country, in the north part of which cricket is hardly ever spoken of, and still less played, m y memory had to suffice a good deal in in draw ing up the list of record ground scores. In the first place, m ay I take the liberty to point out that it is not a list of batsmen’s Individual Record Scores, as the correspondence column is headed, and as M r. Edward W . George seems to im ply, for he mentions H ayw ard’s 315 for Surrey v. Lancashire in August, 1898. Truly, this is H ayw ard’s highest score, but A bel’s 357 not out for Surrey, in M ay. 1899, still remains the record score for K ennington Oval, which it is the object of the list to show. Again, M r. Taylor refers to M r. W . Ward’s 278 for M .C .C . v . Norfolk at Lord’s. B y some ‘ ‘ old h a n d s” at the national gam e, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, this same gentleman’s score and W . Barnes’ 266 against Leicestershire in 1882, also played at L ord’s, are not considered as strictly first-class. But various people have various opinions. In order to be per­ fectly safe, therefore, I gave R anjitsinhj’s 260, for no one can deny that it was played in a first-class match. W ith regard to the others I own I am gu ilty of two mistakes, which m y memory did not recall to me. H oping this w ill clear up any m is­ understanding on the subjoct, I remain, Y ours, etc., F r a n c i s J . C u n y n o h a m e . Ross-shire, N .B . [M r. W ard’s historical 278 has always been reckoned first-class. The sport­ in g magazines at the time the score was made stated that N orfolk was the second strongest club in the laud. Moreover, M r. E . H . Budd played for the county as a given man when M r. W ard made his big score.— E d .] BOURNEMOUTH v. INCOGNITI. — Played at Bournemouth on August 2 2 and 23. B o u r n e m o u th . A. H. Jackson, b Port- man ...........................20 C.E.Brownrigg,cHolt, b Abney ........... ... 17 E. A . Andrews, st Pol­ and, b 8nalth ...37 W .H . Bu^ge, b Abnev 6 C.E. Sismey, c Poland, b Abney ................... 0 Hooton, lbw, b Abney 6 Hon. R. Tollemaehe b Banks .......... .. D. H. Macdonell, b Smyth ...................11 F. de Zulueta, not out 28 A.R.Ainsworth, c Pol­ and, b West ........... 6 Head, c West, b Smyth 2 Extras ........... 9 Total ...163 19 I n o o o k it i . Rev. F. W . Poland, c Maedonell, b Head 13 M. K.Quin,e Brownrigg b Head ...................24 E. C. Smith, c Budge, b Macdonell ...........23 O. L. C. West, c Head, b Sism ey...................22 J. C. Snaith, A . E. Holt, M. L . Banks, L. E. G. Abney, and Captain W . C. Smyth did not bat. .F. J. Fortman, not out 19 M. Cloete, lbw, b Sismey ...................21 Extras...................11 Total (5 wkts) 133 HAMPSTEAD v. HAMPTON W ICK . — Played at Bushey Park on August 22. H a m p s t e a d . H. B. Hayman, c and b P rice.......................... 4 Ahsan-ul Hak,c Sedg­ wick, b Eady ..........27 J Stephens, b Russell 1 W . S. Hale, not o u t.. 130 H. R. Hebert, c and b Russell ................... 2 C. D. McMillin, b Rus­ sell ...........................21 K. Robinson, b Russell 28 A . Eiloart, b Russell .. 0 E.Ford-8mith, bEady 2 H. G. Price-Williams, lbw, b Leathes ... 0 Mohamel Said, not out ... ...................21 B 10, lb 4, w 1 ... 16 Total (9 wkts)*255 * Innings declared closed. H a m p to n W ic k . W . Walbank, lbw, b R obinson...................0 F. D. Head, not out... 11 B 2, lb 5 ........... 7 J. Price, c P.Williams, b H ebert........... ... 0 D r.Se' gwick,b Robin­ son .......................... 32 R.J. Sivers, c Hayman, b Robinson ...........80 Total (4 wkta) 99 D. 3.Williams, notout 19 W . Campbell, H. Stanger-Leathes, Eady, H . R. Russell, and J. Fitzgerald did not bat.