Cricket 1900

O ct . 25, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 441 a silver cup as a memento of the success of the county in winning the champion­ ship without losing a match; and to place in the Cricketers’ Investment Fund a sum of £20 to the credit of Brown, Tunnicliffe, Denton, Haigh, Ehodes, Wainwright, Hirst, Hunter, and White­ head. The Frank Milligan Fund, which now amounts to about £450, will be closed at the end of November. T. W. G a r r e t t , the old Australian bowler, has been appointed as one of the three representatives of the Department of Justice on the Council of the Public Service Association of New South Wales. K . S. E a n jit s in h ji ended the season by scoring 122 not out, including eighteen 4’s, for Mr. Whitley’s Team v. Tom Hayward’s Team, at Parker’s Piece, Cambridge, on September 29th. Hay­ ward scored 93. T h e annual meeting of county secre­ taries to arrange the programme for 1901 will take place at Lord’s on Tuesday, December 11th. At present the dates of the following matches have been fixed:— Thursday, July 4, Oxford v. Cambridge. Monday, July 8, Gentlemen v. Players (Lord’s). Friday, July 12, Eton v. Harrow (two davs). Wednesday, July 31, Rugby v. Marlboro* (twodayB). Thursday, July 11, Gentlemen v. Players (Oval). M r . F r a n k M i t c h e l l and Lieut. Turner are among the cricketers who have returned invalided from South Africa. They reached Southampton on October 5th, both having derived much benefit from the long voyage. M r. Turner, who was wounded three times at Krugersdorp, still carries his arm in a sling. B r o c k w e l l and J. T. Hearne left London for India on October 4th. They have again been engaged by the Maharaja of Patiala for the winter months. We understand that the match reported in Cricket of August 23rd as “ Canada v. United States” was only so-called by courtesy. The Canadian team was really composed of Manitoba players, while the United States had a scratch team. The result was given in Cricket as drawn, but as it was a one-day match, it was a victory for Manitoba by 33 runs on the first innings. T h e return match (two days) between Bombay and Poona was productive of some remarkable scoring, Bombay de­ clared with 423 for eight wickets, Messrs. Powell, Cheetham and Tompkins having each made a hundred. Poona replied with 508 for seven wickets. Captain Wood, Captain Bond and Mr. B. N. Bosworth-Smith also making a hundred each. The scores will be found on page 443. “ P o s s ib ly the following m ay interest some of your readers who have many friends on this side of the water,” writes Mr. William Bain, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. “ For years the Canadian Cricket Association ignored North- Western Canada in the selection of international teams, and the American Cricket Association treated the Western States in the same way. Consequently the North-West Cricket Association was formed, and, as at present constituted, meets in Chicago for two consecutive years and in the third in Winnipeg. This year’s meet was in Chicago, and the team which I took down nearly one thousand miles for a week’s cricket was almost exclusively a Winnipeg team, the only outside member being Mr. Page, from Moosomin. I enclose a memo of our week’s cricket so far as our local team was concerned, and the record is one of which Manitoba is justly proud, especially the international, considering that the United States had the choice of the best players from so many clubs. It is a curious fact, but to the best of my knowledge the American International Team are all Old Countrymen and Canadians, and the Manitoba Team all hail from the Old Country, with two exceptions, Canadians. A CORRESPONDENT has kindly sent particulars of a match between two elevens, captained by Messrs. Shoesmith and Noakes, played at the Saffrons, Eastbourne, on September 20th. It was remarkable for another tine bowling per­ formance by M. E. Pavri. Mr. Noakes’ eleven, after the other side had declared for 240, were left with two hours and a-quarter in which to make the runs. In the first hour they had made 120 for the loss of only two wickets, when M. E. P., who had not been previously tried, was put on to bowl. His first over was a maiden; in the second he bowled H. Addison, who was hitting very vigorously for his 53, in the third he got two wickets and gave five runs, and in his fourth over he clean bowled three men in three successive balls, thus performing the “ hat-trick.” The whole side was out for 130. Pavri’s analysis read:— Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 4 ........... 3 ........... 5 ........... 6 F rom Mr. C. F . E. Cobb, of Toronto, comes an account of an extremely good bowling feat accomplished in a match between the Toronto- Eosedale and the Hamilton Club, played on the ground of the latter on September 5th. The hero was H. B. McGiverin, of Hamilton, by repute the best bowler in Canada. The Australian team of 1896, who played against him at Toronto, were very strongly impressed with his style, and indeed were unanimously of opinion that he was the best bowler they had played against on that side of the water. He bowls medium-pace overhand, has a great command over the ball, rarely sends down two consecutive balls alike, and varies his pace and pitch well, sending down at times a very fast one. In style and method he rather resembles A. G. Steel, and many of the best judges in Canada think he would have made a great name for himself if he had had a chance in English cricket. M c G iv e r in ’ s performance is thus re­ corded in the Hamilton Times :— With four wickets down, Toronto-Rosedale had 56 runs, and seemed to he in for a very fair score, yet one over disposed of five of the six remaining men, and only two runs were added to the total score. It was McGiverin’s last over that shattered the visitors’ hopes. The first hall bowled was hit for one run, the second found Livirgston’s wicket, the third disposed of Wadsworth in a similar way, the fourth was caught hy Glassco, the fifth resulted in Reid being stumped by Counsel, and the sixth clean howled Jennings for a duck. Thus McGiverin performed the feat of capturing five wickets with five consecu­ tive balls, three of which clean howled the batsmen McGiverin in all secured eight wickets for 23 runs, clean howling six; in itself a remarkable performance against such a strong team as Toronto. T h e Hamilton Evening News adds, in reference to this feat:*—“ If Cricket, London Sportsman, or any of the leading sporting papers knows of a record that equals this one we should like to hear it.” We may fay that there are many authenticated instances of men taking six and seven wickets with consecutive balls, and we believe that J. Walker, in 1882, for Ashbourne Park v. Tunstall, took eight wickets with consecutive balls. E. H. P a t t o n , who made such a sen­ sational debut in Euglish cricket for Haverford College last season in their opening match v. Cheltenham College, by scoring over eighty, his first twelve hits of which were all fours, has been adding to his reputation as an all-round cricketer since his return home. He has been the star bowler of the Merion Club, and indeed, practically won the important match against the Germantown Club by his bowling, which showed seven wickets for twenty-three runs. This performance gave him a place in the United States eleven which met Canada at Philadelphia on September 21st and 22nd. In this match he scored eleven and one, but was not put on to bowl till quite the end of the Canadians’ first innings. He took the last two wickets for four run*, and in the second innings got one at a cost of sixteen runs. C a n a d ia n cricket was honoured rather than disgraced by the result of the last International match with the United States. On such a cruel wicket as that provided on the ground of the German­ town Club at Philadelphia, on September 21st and 22ud, anything might happen, and as it was the Canadians did very well only to be beaten by fifteen runs. The show they made was the more creditable, as several of the best Canadian cricketers were unable to make the journey to Philadelphia. Henry, of Halifax, who played iu England in 1887, at the last moment had to cry off, as had H. McGiverin, the best slow bowler on the other side of the Atlantic. D. W. Saunders, who made a great impression as a wicket­ keeper when in England some years ago with the Canadians, was also absent, and last of all, George Lyon, the hero of many an International match,