Cricket 1901

98 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M at 2, 1901. The late Prince Christian Victor played against us when we were stationed at Malta. It is somewhat curious that was on H .M .8. ‘ Hawke,’ a first-class cruiser named after an ancestor of the present Lord Hawke. I little thought that I should ever bow l against his lord­ ship. When I left the fleet to come home I went through the gunnery school, where I had no chance for cricket, and then I had to go to the battery at Hove as instructor. Here I got a few matches, and occasionally managed to get to Leyton to play in a few minor games I finished my time on the ‘ Swordfish,’ a torpedo boat destroyer, and from my experience I should strongly recommend anyone who thinks he has a particular qualification for service on the sea to try a couple of months on a destroyer; if he can survive that test, by all means let him go to sea. Nevertheless, I had some very fine times on the ‘ Swordfish,’ despite the fact that you were generally wet through and always as black as soot A ll the time that I was in the Navy I followed the big matches very carefully in the papers, for I was always exceed­ ingly fond of the game. Unfortunately I had the fever when I was at Malta, and this has left me with acute muscular rheumatism, which I always feel very much at the beginning o f the season, and when the weather is very cold. I don’t mind how hot it is, but cold handicaps me very considerably.” “ Y ou spoke of other matches with the Mediterranean Fleet, besides those at Malta ? ” “ Once we played at Gibraltar, and once at Thasos, when we were ciuiting about the Archipelago. We had arranged to play H .M .S. ‘ H ood.’ We landed and wandered about a lon g time before we could find any spot on which we could possibly play cricket. But at last we settled down on a slope at the edge of a forest. It was a fine wicket for a bowler, with patchy lumps of grass here and there upon it. As for the batsmen, all that they could do was to take care that they were not hurt more than necessary. We got 26 ; they got 10. The outfielding was about as bad as it could be— but it didn’ t come to much fielding. A fter the match was over we borrowed guns from some Turks who were out shooting and got son: e birds of a foreign kind—a little bigger than a starling.” “ What is your own opinion about the state of the wicket in the match at Leyton in 1899 when you and Mead g ot rid of the Australians so cheaply P” “ I thought it a fairly good wicket— certainly as good as it was bad. It had a bit of fire in it, and for my part I prefer bow ling on such a wicket rather than on a dead one. But it was no worse than it was for Essex, and our side made runs against their bowling, which was on the face of it better than ours. But Mead kept a splendid length all through the innings and kept the runs down, besides taking wickets, while 1 had most of the luck and got one or two of them out.” Y oun g relates an amusing incident which occurred in one of the Essex matches against Warwickshire at Bir­ mingham. “ I had bowled a ball to Diver,” he said, “ and the next thing that I saw was Russell standing up behind the wicket laughing heartily, with his arms spread out horizontally. I couldn’t understand what had happened. I turned to the umpire, who was as much mystified as I was, for we couldn’t fee the ball anywhere. The umpire, Richardson, of Leicestershire, stepped aside and the mystery was solved. It turned out that Diver had just touched the ball, and that Russell had caught it between his legs. But it was hard lines on Diver to be out in such a way. In conclusion, Y oung said, “ I hope that Essex will have a good season, and especially that the weather will be fine when we play Lancashire at Leyton, for that is Bob Carpenter’s benefit. I should very much like to see the Essex men come up to the scratch on that occasion. Which reminds me of an snecdote about Carpenter. He was out in the long field in one of the Yorkshire matches at Sheffield, and had to run after a ball which looked like reaching the boundary. He was travelling at a tremendous pace, when he suddenly found himself in the middle of half-a-dczen Yorkshiremen, whom, of course, he bowled over right and left. Naturally, he was afraid that they would be wild, but they took it in very good part, and one of them said, ‘ That’s the way, lad, to bow l us out. Pity your bowlers can’t do as w e ll! ’ ” W . A. B e t t e s w o h t h . CR ICK E T IN SOUTH A FR IC A . ARM Y AND N AV Y v. WESTERN PROVINCE.— Played at Newlands on March 16. A rmy and N a v y . Hollins(R.N.),cChiap- ini, b Bissett .......... 19 1 ieut. Phillips, c Glen­ nie, b Smith ...............32 Lieut. Saiel,bRichards 79 PttCarolin,c Chiappini b S m it h ..................7 Lieut.Kennard,(R.N.) b Smith ........... 3 Lieut.Hoare,cWallach b Routledge ........... 1 Maioprice(R.N.)cReid b B issett.................. 18 Lieut. Perry-Ascough (R.N.), b Smith ... Lieut. Paterson, not out .......................... Lieut Harvey, b Reid Drum-Maj orO’Sulliv- an,cChiappini,t>Reid Exti as.................. Total .. 1 W estern P bovince . A .H.Harrison,b Main- p r ic e ..........................22 Richards, c Sarel, b Carolin .................. 0 A. Bissett, c Phillips, b O’Sullivan ......... 63 A . Reid, c Harvey, b O’Sullivan ...........25 P. Chiappini, lbw, b Sarel .......................... 4 T. Routledge, b Main- p iic e .......................... 36 A . Difford, not out ... 15 Extras.................. 6 Total .171 Wallaoh, Glennie, V. Van d*r Byl, and Smith did not bat. THE NOTTS COLTS MATCH. Played at Trent Bridge on April 24 and 25. Drawn. As usual in the Colts matches at the beginning of a season, several of the young players had not been able to get any practice, so that although the con­ ditions under which cricket took place were much more favourable than was often the case when the match was played at Easter time, few of the colts had much chance of distinguishing them­ selves. Anthony’s innings of 69 was the highest and best that has been played b y a N o tts c o lt in th e se m a tc h e s fo r y e a r s ; it w a s a b o ld a n d v ig o r o u s in n in g s , m o r e a fte r t h e m e th o d s o f M r . J o n e s th a n t h e o ld e r s c h o o l o f N o tts c rick e te rs . V e r y s o u n d c r ic k e t w a s p la y e d b y th e H o n . M . H e r b e r t, w h o is still a t s c h o o l a t E t o n . I n th e s e c o n d in n in g s t h e c o lts h a d n o re a l c h a n c e o f s h o w in g th e ir sk ill, fo r H a lla m , w h o h a s r e tu r n e d t o h is n a tiv e c o u n t y a fte r p la y in g f o r L a n c a s h ir e f o r s o m e y e a rs, fo u n d a w ic k e t w h ic h e x a c t ly su ite d h im , a n d w a s irre s is tib le . C h a m b e rs s e e m e d t o b e th e b e s t b o w le r a m o n g th e c o lt s , b u t as it is th e p r a c tic e in th e s e m a tc h e s t o c h a n g e th e b o w lin g fr e q u e n tly , h e o n ly h a d a fe w o v e r s . T h e re w a s s o m e g o o d b a t t in g b y th e c o u n t y te a m , n o t a b ly b y M r . V . H . C a r tw r ig h t, a R u g b y s c h o o l b o y , a n d s o m e h a r d h it tin g b y W a s s a n d C a rlin . X X n . C olts . First innings. Second innings. Anthony (G.), c Dench, b Wass ..................................69 c Carlin, b Wats 2 T. C. Wilson, run out ... 0 b Hallam .......... 20 Pepper (C.), b D ench........... 5 c and b Hallam... 2 J. Armitage, c Dench, b Irem onger..........................19 st Carlin, b Hal­ lam ................... 4 Twells (H .), b Gunn ........... 1 lbw, b Hallam ... 0 Hon. M. Herbert, c and b D ix o n ..................................39 b Hall^m ............. 1 Ellis (J. G.), b W a s s ........... 0 lbw, b Hallam ... 0 Harrison (I.), c Dench, b Wass ................................ 6 b Hallam ............ 2 Harrison (P.), b Wass ... 0 b Hallam ............ 0 Buxton (T.), lbw, b Wass... 0 b Hallam ............ l Atkinson (J.), c Dench, b Wass ................................10 b Wats ............ 3 Stewart (J.), run o u t ........ 2 b Hallam ............ 7 Staton (C. E ), b Wass ... 0 b Hallam ........... 3 Gr. gory (R.), b Hallam ... 3 b Hallam ............ 0 White (J. W .), c Hallam, b Wass ........... ................... 2 b Hallam ........... 4 Stapleton (J.), c Dench, b Wass ................................ 3 c Carlin, b Was< 0 Chambtrs (G. H .), run out 3 b Hallam ............ 0 Heath (A.), b Hallam ... 3 b Hallam ............ 0 Harrison (M .H.), b Hallam 6 notout...................15 Butler (B ), b Wass ........... 0 run out ........... 9 Truman (H. J.), not out ... 10 b Hallam ........... l Marshall (W .), b Ballam ... 6 cCarl n,bHallam 16 B 6, lb 1, nb 2 .. 9 B 3, lb 3 ... 6 Total... Total ...........95 N otts . A.O. Jones, c Gregory, b Chamt ers ........... 7 Shrewsbury, st White, b Heath .................. 29 Gunn (W .), c Pepper, b Gregory.. ... ... 25 V. H. Cartwright, c and b Truman.......... 45 J. A. Dixon, b Buxton 0 Dench, b Pepper.......... 33 Gunn (J.), c Herbert, b Heath ...................21 Iremonger, c Atkin­ son, b Pepper... Hallam, b Armitage.. Carlin, not o u t ........... Wass, b Truman B 9, lb 5, w 1, nb 5 20 Total .256 Second inniogs: J. A. Dixon, c White, b Gregory, 5 ; Iremonger, not out, 8.—Total (1 wkt.), 13. X X II. C olts . First innings. O.M. R. W . D en ch .................. 11 4 25 1 ... Hallam .......... 24*5 9 46 4 ... Gunn (J.) .......... 8 3 i8 1 ... - 2 22 1 . Second innings. O. M. R. W . 30 14 48 17 Iremonger Wass ... Dixon ... Jones ... 3 53 10 ........... 13 6 21 3 .......... 7 3 13 1 ............. ........... 17 9 20 0 ........... Wass delivered two no-balls. N otts . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M . R. W . Chambers ........... 8 3 11 1 .................. Staton .................. 7 2 22 0 .................. Gregory.................. 10 1 30 1 .................. 12 2 Harrison ........... 13 1 34 0 ................... B u xton .................. 9 5 6 1 .................. Heath .................. 9 1 23 2 ................... Twells .................. 8 1 21 0 .................. Truman.................. 13 5 25 2 .................. 20110 Armirage ........... 7 4 9 1 ................... P ep p er................... 10 2 15 2 ................... White .................. 5 0 22 0 ................... Atkinson ........... 7 0 18 0 ................... Buxton delivered three no-t alls and Atkinson two, and Pepper bowled a wide.