Cricket 1900

S ept . 13, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 409 by him even if each of them is separately eclipsed. But it is impossible to resist the opinion that better batting than that of Ranjitsinhji has never been exhibited in any single campaign. The testimony of figures is in this case supported by that of connois­ seurs. Occasional bad wickets have afforded Ranjitsinhji the opportunity of showing that he is superior to difficulties which to others are insuperable. He has not only compiled hundreds and double hundreds ad libitum against the best bowling of the country, but has made his runs when they were most wanted in hopeless matches and in matches that would have been hopeless to anybody but bimself. It is scarcely conceivable that Mr. Grace or any hero of a past generation could have done better. T h e follow ing scores show a good per­ formance by two German brothers in the way of bow ling and catching, which would not be easy to beat. It w ill be noticed that the brothers, K lar I and K lar I I , had a hand in getting each of the tw enty wickets of their opponents. W e are afraid that, as a batsman, K lar II is a “ stonewaller” of a pronounced type, for in the first innings of his side, the Verona P .O ., he went in second wicket down and carried his bat for 0 out of a total of 51. The match was played at Berlin on A ugust 22 :— Hoii KN/OUKRN. 1. Gang. Laufe. 2. Gang. Laafe. Hagen geb. Klar I gef. Klar II 4geb. Klar I ........ 0 Jungnickel geb. Klar I ...1 0 geb. Kjar ......... 0 Weimann I geb. Klar ... 1 geb. Klar ... ... 6 Richter geb. Klar ............... 4 geb. Klar ... 7 Schulz geb. K la r................... 5 geb. Klar gef. W iillnitz........... 6 Horn nicht aus ...................... 0 geb. Klar ... ... 1 Jakob geb. Klar I ... ... 11 ^eb. Klar ......... 1 Schwarz geb. Klar I gcf. Klar II .............................. 1 geb. Klar ......... 3 Diialert geb. Klar .................... 0geb. Klar ......... 0 Belisch geb. Klar................... 1 geb. Klar gef. Klar II ........... 0 Lange geb. K la r ................... 6 geb. Winkler gef. Klar I .......... 8 Sa................ ... 43 ... 31 A c le r g y m a n and one or two reporters at the Corporation cricket match on Wednesday were sitting at the table placed for the scorer and reporters, when, says the Brighton Herald, a smart tap came, and then another, accomp mied by a sort of whirr. A reporter looked up. H e saw a flash of light, and there, in the ground three yards or so directly in front of him , quivered an arrow. Auother dropped just short of it. The party then became aware that some eight or nine yards away was a target, anrl fifty yards lurther away stood a lady with bow and quiver, gazing expec'antly at her last shot. Regardless of the saDCtity of the clergymeu, not to speak of the reporters, the fair marks woman coolly walked up, and gathered up the arrows just as if precious eyes and precious lives had not been imperilled. “ R eally,” said the clergyman to an attendant, ‘ * I hope she isn’t goin g to do any more shooting at us.” “ Oh, n o ,” the man answered cheerily; “ besides, she’s a good shot.” The errant arrows that continued to come seemed to belie this statement, and it was a relief when the groundsman hurriedly removed the target on one side, while D iana picked up her shafts and swept majestically away. W e suppose she knew the exact range of her bow. B u t mistakes may happen, even in the best regulated archery. O f the sixteen matches between B un- bay Presidency and the Pars»es, the former have now won eight and lost five, while three were drawn. R e f e r r i n g to the recent match between these teams, of which the scores appear on another page, the Bombay Gazette says: “ The English team included Captain Douglas, who has played for Surrey, Captain Greig, M r. M . R . Jardine, M r. E . B . Raikes, ’V arsitym en ,M r.B osw orth - Sm ith, who has successfully appeared for M iddlesex, Lieutenant W ood, whose bril­ liant performances at Sandhurst are well- known throughout the A rm y, and the remainder are all sound players. It is certainly a stronger batting team than has ever been got together before; its weakness is in b ow lin g— the lack of a good fast trundler. The Parsees were weakened b y the absence of Gagrat and M istri, the latter being the best man the Parsees possess.” “ T h e weather,” continues our con­ temporary, “ was very trying to the players, and it is rather a curious pheno­ menon that in India a w ell-set batsman does not hesitate to call for a drink, whereas in England the man who wants but a few runs to complete ‘ the coveted three figures’ would not imperil the swift directness of his glance for all the nectars that were ever dreamed of in Parnassian shades. Am ong the varied annals of cricket there is more than one record of a batsman who purposely ‘ got himself o u t’ in order to enjoy the luxury of a drink; but the instances are innumerable in which, on his own admission, he was out because he had had one.” A w e l l - i n f o r m e d correspondent w rites:— “ The Duke and Duchess of York have made a cricket ground for their servants at M ar Lodge, but as the golf course goes over it, and considerably interferes w ith the game, the Duke has given instructions that a new cricket ground shall be m ade.” P h ilip N e e d having served the M .C .C . for upwards of tw enty-one years, the Comm ittee granted him the use of the ground for a benefit match, and he selected N orth v. South for the title. Although he has not been much of a cricketer himself, he m ay claim to belong to one of the best cricketing counties of E ngland— namely, N ottingham . Before he was engaged by the M .C .C . he was iu the service of the Walkers of Southgate— for nearly seven years with the late Mr. A . H . W alker. The Walkers afterwards were chiefly instrumental in placing him in his present position at Lord’s —viz , that of pavilion attendant. P rom the Daily Telegraph : — The County Championship has, no doubt, improved cricket, as a game, wherever it is played. Certainly it has not put a stop to those minor developments of the sport which have spread its benefits and popularity among so large a proportion of the English-sneaking race. Nor has it introduced a financial element into the game which has spoilt the chances of an eleven by limiting its powers to the purses of its club-mttes. W e hear nothing about Yorkshire bting wealthy enough to ensure success by her unrivalled pick in the professional market, or of Surrey being so crippled in her pecuniary resource* that all hopes of her winning the champion­ ship must be abandoned . . . . But what cricket and rowing have escaped, foot­ ball has apparently been unable to avoid. T h e estate of the late M r. W illiam W righ t, who was for so many years identified with N otts cricket, has been valued at £222,974. T h e details of the performances of the three men who have taken 100 wickets in a season and scored 2,000 runs are as fo llow s:— Year. Runs. Wickets. W . G. Grace .. .. 1876 ... 2«22 ... 124 C. L. Townsend ... 1899 ... 2440 ... l‘»’ *G .L . Jessop ... 190) 2117 ... 103 * Up to to-day. F or the last match of the season, North v. South at Lord’s to-day, tbe sides are at present as follows :— N o r t h (selected from ): Lord Hawke (Yorkshire), A. O. Jones (Notts), and E. Smith (Yorkshire) ; with J. T. Brown, sen., Hirst, and Rhodes (Yorkshire), W. Gunn, J. Gunn, and Attewell (Notts), Lilley (Warwickshire), Briggs (Lancashire), and W. G. Quaife (Warwickshire). S o u t h : W. G. Grace (London County), A . E. Stoddart and P. F. Warner (Middlesex), C-pt. E. G. Wynyard (Hampshire), D. L. A . Jephson (Surrey), G.L. Jessop ('Gloucestershire), and W. P. Kobertson (Middlesex-) ; with Abel, Hayward, and Lockwood (Surrey), and Trott (A. E.) (Middlesex). I f the K ent captain was not in evidence at the Hastings Festival, he had good reasons for not being there, at all events at the commencement on Thursday last. A s a matter of fact, he was acting as best man at St. M ary’s, Waliner, to his eldest brother, C. E . S. Mason, on the occasion of the latter’s marriage to M iss M ary Oakley-Forbes, of the Glen, W alm er. T h e Eastbourne Club seeun to have found a tower of strength, this season, in M .E . Pavri, the Parsee cricketer. In bat­ ting and bow ling, to judge by the scores, he has been equally successful. W hat his complete record will be at the finish X have, at the moment, no means of telling. But I do happen to know that up to the 31st of August his figures at Eastbourne s h o w lo l wickets for 2073 runs, giving an average of 13‘ 110, and 865 ruus f >r tw enty-five completed innings, an aver­ age of 3 4 1 5 . W ith still a few matches at the time to play, he ought to have got very near, if he did not reach, his thousand runs. T h e report presented at the annual m eeting of the N ew South Wales Associa­ tion, held in Sydney ou J uly 30, noticed with justifiable pride that the colony had won six of the seven inter-colonial matches it played last seison. T oe total of 807 against South Australia, M . A . N oble’s three centuries, the success of I young players, notably R . A .D u ff, A . J.