Cricket 1901

146 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M a y 23, 19 01. find that I had picked out one with something special in it. I had some frightfully narrow escapes, and then by good luck I got him to the boundary past m id-off. The next ball seemed just the same sort, so I went to hit it to the same spot, but there was something about it which I didn’t understand, and it went bang up against the fence to Bquare leg. When 1 got to the other end Trott said that it was one of the best hits he had ever seen, and though I looked very hard at him I couldn’t tell whether he meant it or not. However, I tried to look as if I had known all about it. And hang me if the other chap didn’t get me after a ll! ” There is always a flutter of interest among the spectators when it is Trott’s turn to bat, for although he sometimes plays a steady and painstaking innings, he is much more likely to hit hard and often. H e puts enormous power into his strokes, and when a ball does not g o to the boundary it is generally because one of the fieldsmen has done a clever bit of work. Trott can hit about as hard as anyone who is now playing, and his famous drive over the pavilion off M . A. Noble w ill be numbered among the most astonishing hits ever made. As a rule patience when batting is not Trott’s greatest virtue, and he sometimes loses his wicket from sheer inability to resist the temptation to make a b ig hit. Prob­ ably as the years go on he w ill not make this mistake, and then he will be a really great batsman. As a field he sets an example which m ight be followed b y a good many famous cricketers. H e very seldom misses a catch, and is just as lively at the end of a lon g day as at its beginning. When in the lon g field he does not waste time in returning the ball, and batsmen long ago learned that it was never safe to take liberties with him. As everybody knows, he is the brother of Harry Trott, the famous Australian captain. Once upon a time I read in an Australian newspaper an account of the way in which he was “ discovered.” I have forgotten the exact details of the story, and so I may possibly exaggerate some of the incidents, but it was at any rate something like the fo llow in g : “ One day the famous Harry Trott wandered on to the Melbourne ground, and saw his brother, who was then in his teens, prac­ tising at a single stump. Harry watched him for some time knocking it over with great regularity and then said, ‘ That’s all very well, but if there were a bat in front of the stump you would find it a different thing. Try it, and I ’ll come back in a couple of year’s time and see how you are getting on .’ A t the end of the appointed time Harry appeared as he had promised. He found that a single stump was set up with a bat fixed in the blockhole. ‘ Now then,’ he said to his brother, ‘ let’s see what you can do.’ Whereupon Albert proceeded to bow l an off-break which disconcerted the bat and knocked the stump out of the ground. The next ball was a leg-break, and again the stump was hit. Harry smiled with a certain amount of satisfaction, but said, ‘ That’s not enough.’ ‘ All right, sonny,’ replied Albert, ‘ you wait a moment.’ And to the surprise of Harry he circum­ vented the bat with a very superior curl, and again displaced the stump. ‘ Well, I ’m -------,’ began Harry, but before he could proceed further Albert remarked, ‘ The show isn’t over yet.’ Then bow ling his very fastest yorker he knocked the bat out of its place, and it crashed into the stump, break­ in g it into a thousand pieces. Harry was overwhelmed with delight and cried, ‘ M y boy, you’ll be one of the greatest bowlers in the world when you have learned a thing or tw o.’ And to prove that he meant what he said he got his brother placed in one of the sides which had to contend with Lord Sheffield’s team, and, as everybody knows, Albert astonished friends and foes alike b y his performances.” Such is the tale, which, as I have said, I may possibly, through forgetfulness, have slightly exaggerated. W . A. B ettesw o rth . HONOURABLE ARTILLERY CO. v. BRIXTON WANDERERS.—Played at Finsbury on May 18. B rixto n W a n d rre rs. F. Odell, b Watts ... 3 N. J. Burlington, c Leaf, b Bonser ... 0 W.A. Gilligan, c Bays, b Bonser................ 15 L. M. Simmons, b Bonser ................ 9 I. Faulkner, c Hays, b Bonser ........ ... 42 C. G. Smith, b Bonser 5 S. Thurston did not bat. C. Hogg, b Benge ... 20 E. I. Gale, notout ... 34 F. P. Rider, c Watts, b Benge ................ 9 J. Carmichael, not out ...................... 10 BIO, lb 1 ...11 Total (8 wkts.)...*158 *Innings declared cloeed. H. A. C. W. Baker, b Simmons 0 H. D. Lumby, c and b Simmons................ 6 A.D. Hays, b Simmons 18 J. G. H. Watts, b Smith...................... 1 W. J. Benge, H. Poole, C. W. Leaf, A. Inskipp, and H. Neumegan did not bat. H. J. Bonser, not out 5 I. Bourdas, c Faulk­ ner, b Simmons ... 0 B 4, lb 2........ 6 Total (5 wkts) ... 36 GOLDSMITHS’ INSTITUTE v. BROMLEY TOWN.—Played at New Cross on May 18. B romley T o w n . J.Green,cDray.bSykes 21 G. F. W. Gtdney, b Sykes.................. 0 S. A. Pearce, b Sykes 5 F. H. Gedney, b Sykes 2 F. J. Darbey, Ibw, b Baldwin ........... 0 E.J.Gedney,c Falkner, b Baldwin .... 2 h. Gedney, run out... 2 C. Neale, b Sykes ...16 C.E.Pearson,bBaldwin 4 A . Davis, not out H. Bailey, lbw, Baldwin ......... B 10, lb 3 ... Total ... 1 b ... 5 ... 13 71 G oldsmiths * I nstitute . H. Mayo, b Bailey ... 5 W. F. Dray, b Darbey 30 | W. Falkner, lbw, b Darbey ......... 5 R. R. Henly, not out 72 W. H. Joanes, b Neal 2 W. Murrell, c and b Neale......................21 1 R. Windebank, b Neale...................... H. Holmes, run out... S. R. Best, not out ... B 8 , lb 3, w 1 ... Total (7wkts) 154 A. Baldwin and C. E. Svkes did not bat. GOLDSMITHS’ INSTITUTE “ A.” v. BROMLEY TOWN (2).—Played at Bromley on May 18. B rom ley Tow n. L. Beaaton, c Good, b Green ................ 1 F. Allen, b Bowler ... 5 G.Menham, b Gilling­ ham ...................... 10 A. G. Leavey, not out 0 F. Green, run out ... 0 B 7, w 1 ......... 8 C.H. Pearson,cLander, b Green .............. 19 W.E. 8 harpe,b Gilling­ ham ...................... 4 W.W. Wilson, b Green 1 G. H. Payne,b Lander 11 A. D. Dyke, c and b Lander ............... 3 A. Spilman, b Green... 2 Total ... 64 CTomsfpontjnue . The Editor does not hold himself responsible lor the opinions of his correspondents . “ MAMOOL.” To the Editor o f C ric k e t . S ir , — In last Thursday’s issue of Cricket, your “ Pavilion Gossiper” asks, “ Now we wonder what ‘ mamool ’ may mean ? ” “ M am ool” means custom or habit, and the writer in the Madras Times, whom I think I know, was quite right in writing of it as being the mamool of the rain to come down on cricket days at Ootaca­ mund. I never knew a more hopeless place for cricket than Ooty, as the best hill station in India is known, i.e., during the peacocking season, April to October. It always rains when cricket is arranged, and in the old days if it didn’t rain the polo people came and cleared the cricketers off just when they were begin­ ning to warm to their work, about four p.m. H ow we loathed the sight o f those strings of clothed polo ponies arriving about 3'30 on cricket d a ys! Now that polo has been relegated to the other end of the Hobart Park, Ooty, it seems to rain instead with a regularity never seen in this country, where matches are stopped almost if a cloud appears ! Pardon this long digression, but it is, I fear, like the subject of this letter, my mamool — almost as bad an one as that at Ooty. Yours, E . H . D . S ew e l l . Leyton, May 17. * G oldsmiths ’ I nstitute . F. Bowler, b Payne ... 9 H. Knapton, b Pearce 10 P. Henty, run out ... 18 J. Green, lbw, b Allen 12 E. J. Lander, b Allen 5 J. A. T. Good, runout 3 H. Sales, not out ... 14 E.M.Medway, notout 40 J. S. Gillingham, b Allen............... ... 0 B 14, lb 2, w 2 ... 18 Total (7wkts)129 NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK v. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN BANK.—Played at Dulwich on May 15 and 16. N ational P rovincial B an k . A. S. Mtdway and E. B. Tolley did not bat. H. C. J. McConacby, b Mossop .. ......... 6 G.A. Cosser, b Mossop 0 J. Price, b Mossop ... 19 A. Harrison, b Manly 2 C. R. K. Symon, run out ...................... 20 J.W.Richards, c Man- by, b Goodall.......... 5 W. H. Fear, b Goodall 1 A. D.Phillips, c Man- by, b Mossop......... R. Stephenson, b Goodall ................ H.S Johnson.bMossop H. A. Bell, not out .. B 13, lb 3, w 5 ... 21 Total 83 L ondon and P outii W estern B a n k . Marriott,c and bJohn­ son ......................16 Manby, b Johnson ... 1 Lee, c Harrison, b Johnson ................ 9 Burlington, b Symons. 10 Wood, cPrice, bCosser 19 38 Goodall, not out Way, c Johnson, b Co*s»r ................ 2 Opperman, not out .. 5 Byes ................ 7 Total (6 wkt*) ...107 Mossop, Whiting, and Pitcath did not bat. GOLDSMITBS’ INSTITUTE v. BURGESS HILL. —Played at Burgess Hill on May 16. G oldsmiths ’ I nstitute . W. F. Dray, b Ca low 8 H. Burton, b Taylor... 79 J. C. Stone, b Callow . 30 R. R. Henty, b Callow 6 S. R. Best, b Taylor 12 C. E. Sykes, lbw. b Taylor ............. .. 1 W. Falkner, lbw, b Taylor ............... 20 J. A. T. Good did not bat. * Innings declared closed. E uroebs H il l . C. F. Woodhams, b Benty ................22 J. Duke, b Sykes ... 2 A. B. Taylor, c Sykes, b Henty ............... 27 G. Hammond, c Sykes, b Stone ......... . 15 J. W. Callow, c Best, b Henty ............... 32 H. Muling, b Baldwin 10 W. S. Murrell, not out ...................... 29 A. Baldwin, c James, b Taylor................ 5 H. Joanen, b Taylor... 0 B 19, lb 3, w 1 ... 23 Total (9 wkts)*213 A. Sadler, c Henty, b Baldwin ... ... 17 W. Bammond, lbw, b Baldwin .........13 L. James, b Murrell... 1 T. Holman, b Baldwin 0 T. Randell, not out... 2 B 11, lb 2, w 1 ... 14 .. 155 Total ...