Cricket 1900

58 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r il 12, 1900. times even they are required for their New Town match, and then it is a matter of great difficulty to obtain others. If only two or three supporters would come forward and take their turn, for they would not be required every Saturday, all the delay which now occurs at the start of the game through having to ask umpires to stand on the off chance would be prevented. Arrangements should be made by the clubs beforehand, and not left till the men get on the ground to do it. H arry T rott still continues to show that he is recovering his form as a cricketer. After bis innings of ninety odd for the Eew Asylum he made ten against the Fitzroy Rovers by a six and a four, and took four wickets for 42 runs, besides fielding brilliantly at point. F r o m the Australasian : — On Wednesday, March 21, at the practice nets on the Melbourne ground, the well- known footballer, M’ Guinness, received a very nasty blow on the nose from a ball driven hard through a side net. Mac was bowling, and just after deliveiing the ball he was knocked clean over, and had to be carried in. It seemed to me that his nose was broken, it being put clean out of shape. Major Wardill was present, and gave the necessary instructions to Culpitt to have Mac conveyed to the city for proper medical attention. On Saturday, the 17th, another cricket accident occurred. At Lower Norton, up Horsham way, Mr. J. Phillips, while fielding, received the full force of a hard drive on the forehead. He had to be carried off the field. I n the morning papers yesterday (Wednesday) it was variously reported that Lieutenant Frank Milligan, the well- known Yorkshire cricketer was killed, fatally wounded, wounded, and taken prisoner. Happily, later news goes far to show that although he was wounded and taken prisoner, his life was not despaired of. All accounts state that he conducted himself nobly in the action in which he received his wound. He was with Colonel Plumer’s force when it was steadily retiring in face of overwhelming numbers. T h e Sportsman states that Mr. W . L. Foster, who has been acting as galloper to Lord Methuen, had nine horses shot under him in one day. Onoe upon a time, says “ The Tice ” in the Indian Sporting Times, a Foresting cricketer at Arkonam got a large ball of clay and rolled it flat, and invited all his friends and neighbours to play cricket on it. And they came, and they played, and they won, and that was the first and the last of the Arkonam cricket ground—rest its ashes. R e f e r r i n g to a score mentioned in Cricket , of an Australian batsman named Ebsworth, who made 69 in eighteen hits, in which were a sequence of five 4’s and one of nine 4’s, “ The Tice,” in the Madras Times, asks, “ Will some kind statistician let me know what is the record number of 4’s consecutively hit P I have seen B. Tayaram hit twelve.” A TEAM of the Melbourne C.C. has been touring in New Zealand. In the princi­ pal match, against Auckland, they scored 554, of which Trumble made 135, Mailer 105, Harry Graham 67, Jacobs 54, Russell 68, Ross 42, and Aitken 46. Auckland made 85 and 84. Trumble took four wickets for 28 and two for 26, Cave six for 47 and four for 20. H. Graham got three wickets for 23. F r o m the Madras Times :— Ask the leading native cricketers them­ selves whether they would not infinitely pre­ fer to go to England with some Europeans in the team, and every one of them will answer “ Yes.” Ask them who they would rather be skippered by, nine out of ten replies will be “ By an European.” And as for any cricketer calling himself an Englishman hav­ ing any scruples whatever against going home and playing with natives, out upon him for an undesirable cricket club fake and no thorough sportsman. A BOY of nineteen, whose left arm has been amputated considerably above the elbow, has, according to the Australasian, astonished Melbourne cricketers by going in first and carrying bis bat through the innings against six bowlers who take part in the Pennant matches. He scored 55 runs out of a total of 119. A l e c B a n n e r h a n received a very severe blow on the knee while practising at the nets at Sydney on the day before one of the electorate matches. By the aid of a doctor he managed to take his place at the wicket on the following day, only to find that his opponents would not allow a substitute to run for him. K. E. B urn has always shown such a fancy for the establishment of records in Tasmanian cricket that one more or less hardly matters. Last month, however, he went one better than the rest of the Colony in a new line. With his 149 on March 7th, for Wellington v. Break of Day, he completed his thousand runs for the season in first-class matches. He is the first batsman in Tasmania to accomplish the feat. T h e making of cricket books just now seems to be going on apace. Mr. W. J. Ford’s “ History of Middlesex Cricket” is well on the road to publication it is said. Another Middlesex player, Mr. P. F. Warner, report is also it is said, or words to that effect, about to publish some of his experiences. The title, I understand, is to be “ Cricket in Many Climes.” T h e amateur singles rackets champion­ ship for 1900 was won on Saturday last by Mr. H. K. Foster, the Worcestershire and Oxford cricketer, who defeated Mr. P. Ashworth in the final by 15—11, 15 —13, 15—1. Mr. Foster was the holder of the title. Mr. A. J. Webbe was one of the umpires. On Monday Mr. Foster and Mr. P. Ashworth, the holders, beat Mr. F. Dames-Longworth and Mr. W. G. H. Price in the final of the doubles after brilliant play, by 15—12, 15—2, 12—15,15—10, and 15—4. This is, unless I am mistaken, the seventh year in succession that Mr. Foster has won the championship. A n innings of under twenty is the rarest of occurrences in Australian cricket. Hence the small score of Carlton against Fitzroy at Melbourne, on March 14th, is the more noteworthy. It was in a Pennant match too, that Fitzroy dismissed Carlton for thirteen in the second innings. Only two batsmen made runs, and extras accounted for six. But here is the score:— Warne, st Hopkins, b Mitchell ... 0 A mphlett, c Beacham, b F. Tarrant... 0 Holden, lbw, b F. Tarrant ............... 2 Fox, c Mitchell, b F. T arrant............. 5 Saunders, c Cogle, b Mitchell ........... 0 Pullar, c Mitchell, b F. Tarrant ... 0 Eastings, st Hopkios, b Mitchell ... 0 B etherington, b Mitchell ............. 0 Delves, st Hopkins, b Mitchell ... 0 Griffiths, not o u t................................... 0 Collins, c Ellis, b Mitchell ............. 0 Extras ................................... 6 Total ...........13 The figures of Mitchell and Tarrant were remarkable:— B. M. R. W. Mitchell ... 36 ... 4 ... 2 ... 6 Tarrant ... SO ... 3 ... 5 ... 4 In the two innings Mitchell took ten wickets for 3 7 ; Tarrant six for 18 runs. T h e Notts team which will play against the Colts at Trent Bridge has been chosen as follows :—A. O. Jones (capt.), Hon. J. S. Tufton, W. B. Goodacre, Gunn ( W .) , Shrewsbury (A.), Wass, Gunn (J.), Dench, Oates, Mason (P.), and Carlin. I t may truly be said that the book which is annually issued by the Yorkshire County Cricket Club as a record of the past season is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. The eighth volume, for 1900, is well and neatly bound; its opens like a sumptuous volume from the Kelmscott Press; it is printed clearly on excellent paper. Therefore the printer, Mr. J. Robertshaw, is to be congratulated. As for the editors and compilers, Mr. J. B. Wostenholm, the secretary of the county club, and Mr. H. H. Stones, the assistant secretary, they have done their work nobly, and they also are to be greatly congratulated. The book not only con­ tains a complete record of the past sea­ son’s doings, but information of the most useful and interesting kind about previous Yorkshire teams and cricketers, as well as a diary for the present year, and a com- list of players who have ever represented the county. It is decidedly a book to be kept. T h e team which has been chosen to represent Yorkshire in the early matches of the season is as follows : Lord Hawke, Mr. Ernest Smith, Tunnicliffe, Rhodes, Wainwright, Hirst, Denton, Haigh, Hunter, Brown, and Brown (of Dartield), with reseives in Pollitt and Washington. O n another page will be found a letter from the honorary secretary of the Auck­ land (New Zealand) Umpires and Scorers’ Association. It deals with an interesting point in the laws.