Cricket 1901

J u n e 1 3 , 1 9 0 1 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 201 So far Yorkshire has had an unin­ terrupted period of success in the county championship, having won all its matches, except those against Somersetshire and Surrey, with the greatest ease. D erby­ shire, Leicestershire, and Hampshire were beaten in an innings with a large margin, and Gloucestershire, Lancashire and M id­ dlesex by from 7 to 10 wickets. The result of the season up to date is as follows :— G loucestershire: Yorkshire w on by ten w ickets (finished in tw o days). Som erset: Yorkshire won by one wicket. W orcestershire : Yorkshire won by 90 runs. Derbyshire : Yorkshire w on by an innings and 282 runs (finished in tw o days). Lancashire: Yorkshire w on by nine wickets (finished in tw o days). L eicestershire: Yorkshire w on by an innings and 128 runs (finished in tw o days). Ham pshire : Yorkshire won by an innings and 82 runs (finished in tw o days). Middlesex : Yorkshire w on by seven wickets. Surrey : D raw n in favour of Surrey. I t w ill probably, in course of time, occur to all tbe counties that it is a good thing not only to have a bowler in the team who has some peculiarity about him, but, what is of even more importance, to give him a chance. W ith Mr. Jephson, Willie Quaife, Vine, Mr. McGahey, and Mr. A. O. Jones all getting rid of famous batsmen in recent matches it would certainly seem that peculiarities in b ow l­ ing are useful when wickets are perfect. The worst of it is that if a man fails to come off once or twice— he is hardly ever put on until things are pretty hopeless— he often does not get tried again. I n the match between Middlesex and Yorkshire Hunter was out for the first time this season. He had previously played seven innings. M r . E r n e s t J. Y e n d e ll, the assist­ ant hon. secretary of the Marcians C.C., writes: “ On Saturday in the match Marcians v. West W ing (Somerset House), played at St. Quintin’s Park, Mr. M . H. Dwyer, of the former club, scored 101 not out, follow ing this up by taking six wickets for 19 runs, including the ‘ hat trick.’ The Marcians declared at 161 for four wickets, winning the match b y 111 runs. I believe the century and the ‘ hat trick ’ is a record, at any rate for Saturday afternoon cricket.” M r. C. B. F r y on Monday and Tuesday made the highest score of his career, 244, his previous highest being 229 for Sussex v. Surrey last year at Brighton. T he total of 692 made b y the South Africans at Cambridge is a record for the University Ground (the old Fenner’s), as is also the 239 of Mr. Hathorn’s. D esp ite all the b ig scores made in the matches which have taken place this week the most noticeable achievement (Captain Greig’s wonderful effort notwithstanding) was the stand made b y Abel and H ay­ ward in the second innings of Surrey against Yorkshire. They came together when their county was in an almost hopeless position, for having a balance of 118 to clear off Surrey had lost Brock­ well, Hayes and Lockwood for 34. Then without making a mistake of any kind the two famous batsmen who have so often come to the rescue of their side played themselves in and put on 135 runs in partnership, and once more brought victory within the range of possibility, if not probability. W hen Surrey went in a second time Abel required 67 and Hayward 66 to complete their thousand runs for the season. Abel had a short start, but Hayward made the necessary runs a few minutes before his partner, the two men being the first to reach the thousandth run this year. T h e r e were two remarkable break­ downs just after luncheon in the match between Essex and Derbyshire at Leyton. In their first innings Essex on Monday stood at 173 for one wicket when luncheon was taken. After lunch five wickets fell for an addition of 45 runs. On Tuesday Derbyshire were at 201 for five wickets at lunch time, but at 234 Reeves was tried again and dismissed the remaining five batsmen in eleven balls without a run being obtained off him. This recalls the feat of Pougher in the match between M.C.C. and the Australians at L ord’s in 1896. Pougher was put on with the total at 18 for five wickets, and promptly took the remainder without an additional run being scored. In the Essex match one run was scored off the other bowler after Reeves began his great performance. T h ese sudden collapses are becom ing remarkably frequent, and it is not very easy to discover a reason for them. On Monday there was the famous collapse of Surrey at Bradford— three wickets for 4, and five for sixteen, and at L ord’s on Tuesday afternoon Notts had scored 130 for five wickets when Trott and Mr. More suddenly dismissed the remaining five for 10 runs. Again at Leicester on Tues­ day Leicestershire had scored 235 for four wickets, and the whole team was out a few minutes later for 253. M r. M a cL a ren has announced that he has received promises from Mr. Jessop, Hayward, and Lilley to go to Australia in the autumn with the team which he is taking out. ------- I n his last three matches Mr. Frank Mitchell has scored 100, 100 and 4 not out, and 104 not out, and 12. H e has therefore just missed the sequence of three hundreds in succession. A b ook entitled “ Curiosities of First- Class Cricket ” is shortly to be published by Mr. E. Searle, 10, Imperial Arcade, Ludgate H ill, E.C. Its compiler is Mr. F. S. Ashley-Cooper. The book treats of the uncommon events connected with first-class cricket for the past 170 years in all parts o f the world. Among the many notable performances already recorded in public school cricket this summer, that of the Forest School on June 4th against Marylebone Club and Ground deserves at least a prominent place. The Foresters, after closing their innings with 333 up for eight wickets dismissed Marylebone for 123, a credit­ able achievement with Relfe, Chatterton, Carlin, and T. A. D . Bevington on the side. O f Forest’s total of 333, J. R. Bonsey contributed 112 and C. D . M clver 102 not out. The latter is qualified for Essex, and may be of use to the county in the future. He is going up, I learn on the best authority, to Cambridge University, where it is more than likely he may make his mark. Some very rapid scoring took place last week in the match between Crouch End and Lauderdale on the ground of the former club. After dismissing Lauderdale for 100, Crouch End scored 390, of which the first 300 were made in an hour and three-quarters. The score of this incompleted innings is as follow s: C rouch E n d . E . Perrin, not out ..................... 247 A . E. C r a n g ...................................... 123 S. Brady, not ou t............................. 6 Extras .............................. 14 T otal ............ 390 F rom the Sydney Referee :— I think the performances of J. R. Mackay the Uralla C.C. (N.S.W.) for this season are well worth recording. He has played won­ derfully consistent cricket right through the season, as the following scores will show :— 108, 240 not out, 27, 71 not out, 69, 92, 17, 39 not out, 116, 34, 106, 66, 29, 16, 142, 40 not out, and 86, giving him a grand total of 1,338 runs for 13 completed innings, and an average of 102-92 for the season. New Eng­ land cricketers will be pleased to see him get a show in big cricket next season. W e have this week been inundated with conundrums of the fashionable variety. Some of our correspondents after giving us samples of their in­ genuity, inform us that they could make such things by the dozen, and we arenot at all suprised to hear it. But we are much more concerned to hear whether they would mind sending us a good one or tw o . In a newspaper article which appeared on Monday, Mr. C. B. Fry said :— “ D e­ fend me from the bow ler who, on a good pitch, bow ls hitable balls, with his field well-placed.” W e do not know whether the Leicestershire bowlers took him at his word “ just to show their confidence” when he went in for Sussex on the same morning, but at any rate they managed to make rather a mess of his theory, for his hitting was altogether remarkable after he had made his first fifty runs. I t was bright and sunny in London on Monday, but it seemed a gloom y world to Surrey men when the Special Editions began to appear. For, turning to the “ latest telegrams” to see how the match between Surrey and Yorkshire was pro­ gressing, they saw with alarm the follow ­ ing re p o rt:— BRADFORD—-Surrey 4 for 3 Abel n 1 Brockwell 0 Hayes 0 Lockwood 2 Nor was their anxiety much lessened when a somewhat later “ Special” gave the news that Surrey had lost five wickets |for 16.