Cricket 1901

M a y 30 , 19 01. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 169 Q u it e a la rg e n u m b er o f b atsm en p la y e d tw o fine separate inniD gs in a m a tch at th e en d o f la st w eek . Mr. E. E. More madel33and 60for Oxford v. Surrey. Mr. 1.. Walker made 84 and 60 not out for Surrey v. Oxford. Abel made 83 and 58 for Surrey v. Oxford. Mr. McGahey made 114 and 145 not out for Essex v. Gloucestershire. Carpenter made 136 and 60 for Essex v. Gloucester. Hale made 109 not out and 53 for Glo’ster v. Essex. Mr. Burnup made 50 and 70 for Kent v. S. Africans. Mr. T. L. Taylor made 53 and 51 not out Yorkshire v. Cambridge. I t is seldom that a county has begun a season more disastrously than D erby­ shire, whose record at present is as follow s:— y. London County—beaten by an innings and 119 runs. v. Rurrey—beaten by an innings and 111 runs, v. Yorkshire—beaten by an inniD gs and282runs, v. M.C.C.—beaten by nine wickets, v. Hampshire—beaten by two wickets. In quite another part of the world, viz , Gloucestershire, the Rev. W . Rash- leigh, the well-known Kent amateur, who is a minor canon of Gloucester Cathedral, scored 128 for Gloucester v. Cardiff on Saturday. Mr. S. Lane, who recently made his dibut for the county, disposed of five of the Cardiff men for 36 runs. I n a match at Tonbridge on the same day between Tonbridge and Hastings, Mr. J. F. Reynolds scored 214 not out and Mr. J. H . Kelsey 119, putting on 309 for the first wicket for the former club. The innings was declared with the total at 404, which was put together in three hours. The score of this innings was as follow s:— T o n bridg e . H. C. Stewart, not out 24 J. F. Reynolds,notout 214 J. H. Kelsey, c Fox, b Bennett .................119 E. Beeching, st Rome, b Butt ...................18 •Innings declared closed. Hastings made 203. Extras Total (2 wkts)...*404 A ccording to the Sportsman Mr. G. L. Jessop has promised to make one of the team which Mr. Maclaren has been asked to take to Australia in the autumn. O n Wednesday last E. H . D. Sewell made 183 in about tw o hours and a quarter at Ilford, for Essex Club and Ground, after getting six wickets for 34 runs in an innings of 158. H e hit twenty- one 4’s and two 6’s. Two square-leg hits off the lobs must have pitched over 150 yards. ------- O f the cricket ground at Durban the N atal M ercury says:— “ L ord’s ground seems to be in a terrible condition, but what can we expect ? Troops of horses never did improve a ground in wet weather, and the wonder to me is that Lord’s can be played on at all. But the Corporation can work wonders sometimes, and I trust our Municipal Fathers w ill do so at the Show -ground.” Charlio M’Gahey, (The Essex men say he Is equal to Stoddart of Middlesex fame) In the words of the coster, Had a beano with Gloster, And two noble hundreds went down to his name. A n Indian paper to hand b y last mail contains the follow ing in an account of a match at Simla :— Captain Onslow then came in, and after making 23 was out in a most extraordinary manner. He received three halls running which he should have cut to the boundary, but he missed them all. This so annoyed him that he stamped his foot and said “ ------ .” In the moment however that his foot was off the ground Tandy whipped off the bails, and Captain Onslow was stumped! M. O ’C. Tandy w ill be remembered b y old Tonbridgians of the late eighties and early nineties as a member of the X I. and X V ., and later at “ The Shop,” where also he was, I believe, in both teams. T h e r e is a boxer in Sydney named Jessop. He seems to have some of the characteristics of his famous English namesake, the well-known Gloucester­ shire cricketer, for we read in an Austra­ lian paper that he “ made frequent wild rushes,” and that he “ fights hotly and in a determined manner.” T he follow ing little note by J. Worrall in the Sydney R eferee is charmingly naive. He is referring to a match between Carlton and a country team, and says— “ Hamson is the best matting bowler I have ever seen. Worrall was bowled by him first ball.” M r . M c G ahey ’ s scores this season are 77 not out, 125, 63, 77, 114 and 145 not out, 74, and 25 not out. I n a three days’ match between Nilgiris and Bangalore, at Ootacamund, Mr. C. T. Studd scored 106 not out and 17, and took three wickets in the second innings. The match was drawn, Bangalore manag­ ing to prevent a defeat with the last two men in. T he above match was frequently inter­ rupted b y rain, and on the last day Bangalore might, with the utmost ease, have made a draw, instead of fighting desperately for it, if they had chosen to take advantage of the rain. But, in the words of the Madras Times, “ notw ith­ standing that the rain was com ing down heavily, Colonel Peterkin (as captain) most sportingly stuck to the wickets, and would not give in,until absolutely forced in by stress of weather. Five overs were played in pouring rain, and shortly after the field bolted into the tents the pitch was quite a pool.” As Jones, the Australian fast bowler, has played such a prominent part in the matches against English teams of late years, the follow ing remarks about him by “ Felix ” are of interest now that another team is spoken of. * ‘ ‘ The one thing that worries me is the probable want of a fast bowler to help Aus­ tralia next season. With Jones laid aside by a strained leg, we have lost a man whose fast bowling was singularly successful against English batsmen....................Jones, it is said, had lost a good deal of his pace before he strained his leg, and any cricketer can tell you what a strained leg is likely to do to a fast bowler in lessening his pace. Still, Jones is only 31 years of age, and possessing as he does superb physique and stamina, it may be that he will thoroughly recover from the strain, and by training down into his old splendid condition he may yet be of signal service as an “ express ’ ’ bowler against the Englishmen. I hope so. O n the same subject “ Not Oat ” writes in the Sydney R eferee: My own opinion, as far as one can judge at this period, is that Australia is likely to be represented by a sounder bowling combination than that of the 1899 team. Prior to the last appearance of Jones in Sydney we were told by certain newspapers that the fast bowler had lost all form, and would never again be a great bowler. . . . Prior to that Jones was simply too fat, through lack of work and practice. In an Australian Eleven Jones is neither asked nor expected to bowl con­ tinuously through an innings. He is hu­ man, and therefore enjoys with greater zest the Australian v. England matches than his South Australian matches. And unless some serious injury incapacitates him, I expect to see him trundling against the Englishmen in the next series of Test matches. But even if Jones be not able to play, Australia will have a fine bowling side. Saunders is a great addition to our list of first-class bowlers ; he adds the sort of variety needed since Perris dropped out of our big cricket. And it must be recollected that no other Australian trundler has deteriorated, not even Howell, despite his dropping out of the New South Wales eleven. I t would seem that even in Australia, where they grow such good fieldsmen, everybody is not satisfied with things as they are, for Mr. A . C. J. W ood speaking in praise of Sydney country cricketers, at Bathurst, during a visit of Sydney cricketers, among whom was M. A. Noble, said : “ I am sure that Mr. Noble, an International and Intercolonial player, would agree with me that some of the Sydney cricketers want sharpening in regard to their fielding.” To which Noble diploma! ically replied : “ In regard to the example set Sydney men by country players in fielding, I will not say the former are better in that department, but they are certainly better triers.” T h e r e were several accidents at Lord’s on Whit Monday. Mr. F . A. Phillips in stooping to pick up a ball when fielding stepped on one of his fingers with his spikes and broke a b on e; after play had proceeded for some little time, the Middlesex captain at once allowed Mr. Fowler to take his place in the Somerset­ shire team. Then Braund dislocated one of the fingers of his left hand in trying to stop a hard return by Mr. Bosanquet, and Mr. R. C. N . Palairet’s knee again gave way. In the Match, Maldon v. Colchester, played at Maldon on Monday, Colches­ ter scored 54 and 36, Maldon 43 and 94 for two wickets. In the first innings of Colchester, W . J. Samms took all nine wickets, cleaned bow led (Colchester were one man short). He took three wickets with the last three balls of an over, follow ing with the first three in the next