Cricket 1901

J u n e 2 0 ," 1 9 0 1 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 2 1 7 T he follow ing notes are from the Sydney R eferee :— Now residing in Sydney after a few years at Gympie, 0. T. B. Turner is likely to remain here permanently. If he does so, he -will again take up cricket, in which he played hut spasmodically while in Queens­ land, never having an opportunity of working up form. Sydney Gregory intends playing lacrosse this winter. It will tend to keep S.E.G. fit during the cricketing recess, and leave him ready to begin the campaign in October, with no misgiving as to his condition. Victor Trumper intends having a rest this winter. He used to play Rugby football, but baseball was his weakness last winter. V . T. has well earned a good rest, by which he should be benefited. He has had a lengthy continuous innings dating from a few years before he went to England. He strained the muscles in one of his legs at Melbourne a few months ago and the rest should allow it to get thoroughly well. D e . R . M a cd o n a ld , who played for Leicestershire against Hampshire in this week’s match, represented the county some years ago, but went to Queensland, where he has for a lon g time been known as one of the best batsmen, if not the best, in Brisbane. I t is sometimes very difficult for the M.C.C. to raise a team when many of the counties are playing, and nothing shews this better than a comparison between the teams which represented the Club against the South Africans a week or two ago and against the Minor Counties this week. What would be the odds on the first team against the second ? The teams were as follows :— Against the M inor Counties. W . Payne-Gallwey Atfield A . Conan D oyle T . A . D. Bevington C . C. T . D oll C ox A . E. Leatham C. H . H ulls M urrell H andford M artin L a st week on the Monday and Tuesday Mr. C. B. F ry scored 244 for Sussex v. Leicestershire ; on the Tuesday and W ed­ nesday Captain Greig went a little better with 249 not out for Hampshire v. Lancashire; and on M onday this week Mr. A. O. Jones also made 249 for Notts v. Sussex. M r. J. B. W a r d i l l has written to the New Zealand Cricket Council, says the Sydney R eferee , stating he could not say for some tune whether it w ill be possible to send the English team to New Zealand, even if the Association can offer terms. The time taken, say, six weeks, would be an almost insuperable obstacle to the visit. The English cricketers, continued Mr. Wardill, seem to have a great dread of the sea, as they even objected to go over to Tasmania if it could be avoided. However, the trip to New Zealand would, no doubt, be looked upon as a holiday, and, with the excep­ tion of the sea trip, would be enjoyed b y them, but until further word is received from them he could not make any engagement. As a memento of his score of 249 not out for Hampshire v. Lancashire last week, Captain Greig was presented, during the luncheon interval on Monday at Southampton, with a handsome silver cigarette box on behalf of the clu b ; and Baldwin, on behalf of the professionals, handed him a silver sovereign purse. O n Monday morning K . S. Ranjitsinhji was practising at the nets on the Sussex County Ground at H ove, and as his name had been announced as form ing one of the Sussex eleven, it was naturally expected that he would play against Notts. But ow ing to the presence of an umpire with whom he had some unpleasantness last summer, he decided not to play for Sussex, but to take part in the match at the Crystal Palace between London County and Cambridge University. T he chief averages of the Tasmanian cricketers for the past season are as follows. I t will be noted that C. J. Eady has taken more than three times as many wickets as anybody else. BATTING. Tim es M ost M ost not in an in a Mths. Inns. out. inn. M tch. Rns. A v K . E. Burn ... 9... 11 ... 2 ...2C8* . 208 . 813...90*8 C. W . Butler ... 3 ... 4 ... 1 .. 139*.. 153...188 . 62*6 J .R . Byefleld ... 2 ... 2 ... 1 ... 62 ... 62... 62...62 O. D ouglas............ 8 ... 11 ... 5 ...200*...200 . 342...57 G. H . G atehouse 9 ... 12 ...— .. 247 .. 247...607...50*5 C. J. E a d y ..............10 ... 14 ... 1 ...104 ...113.. 596...45 8 H . Hale .............. 7 ... 10 ...— ...151 ...151.. 380.. 38 N . D odds ..............10 ... 14 ... 1 ... 70 ...127...469...36 Reg. H awson ... 8 ... 11 ... 2 ... 60 ... 68...320...35-5 H . L . Facy ... 4 ... 5 ...— ... 45 ... 56...151...30 2 E. J. Lucas ... 6 ... 8 ...— ... 78 ... 78...227...28*3 * Signifies not out. BOW LING -. N oA ver- O. M . R . W . W ds. balls age. A . M . H ayton 59’3... 13...150 ... 12 ... 3 ... 1 ... 12 5 C. J. Eady ... 439-3...120...1007 .. 70 5 ... 14 3 H . R . Reeves.. 23 ... 2...7 1 ... 4 1 7 * 7 N . D odds ... 153-2... 23... 454 ... 22 3 ... 20’6 S. Hawson ... 125 3... 16... 419 ... 16 56*1 E. M axw ell ... 120*4... 18 .. 322 ... 12 26*8 K . E . Burn ... 125 4... 15... 418 ... 14 1 ... 29 8 O f the cricket played during the season by C. J. Eady, by far the best all-round man in Tasmania, our contemporary says:— He is lower down in the batting averages than for some seasons past, and did not appear to strike his true form in batting. He made his big scores in big cricket, and got two or three blobs in pennant matches, which made all the difference to his average. He did a capital season’s bowling, however, by obtaining 70 wickets for an average of 14-3. In the North and South match at Christmas he captured 14 wickets out of the 20, including the whole 9 in the second innings, one man, Emmerson, being unable to bat owing to an injury to his arm. This is a record for Tasmania, no howler ever having obtained all the wickets before. In the return match at Easter he secured 8 out of the 13 wickets which fell, and in the Victorian match he succeeded in taking 9 out of the 15, which were secured in the match, while against New South Wales he was credited with 5 out of the 10. It will thus be seen that Eady has lost none of his ability as a fast bowler. In the course o f some severe strictures on the slackness o f some of the younger Tasmanian players in the field Nat Lee, in the Tasmanian M ail, says :— Last season I heard two or three young players say that they would not play with their club again, after a hard day’s fielding, because it wasn’t good enough to be chasing the ball all the afternoon. And it isn’t good enough either when it can be avoided, for not only does it discourage the fieldsman, but when chance after chance is missed, as was the case in the last North v. South, and a good many pennant matches, the bowlers get discouraged too. Some of them stick to their work like bricks, but others turn it up quickly, if a good batsman is missed off a chance. T h e question o f whether the score of a man who retires through injury should be counted as “ not out ” in the averages has cropped up again in the case of Mr. H. G. Owen, who after making 103 for Essex against Derbyshire at Leyton on Tuesday last week, was unable to resume his innings on the Wednesday on account o f an injury to his leg. Mr. Owen writes to the Sportsman that he consulted the Secretary of the M.C.C., who informed him that “ the M .C.C. ruling was that when a batsman retires either through illness or injury it counts as a not out innings.” This is a new departure in the policy of the M .C.C., Which hitherto has not recognised averages at all, except, by inference, in the rules of the county classification. The averages have been kept b y the Press (or rather a few energetic members of it) and issued by the Press, who count “ retired h u rt” as “ not out.” M r. J. E . R a p h a e l, captain of cricket at Merchant Taylors School, has up to the present made six hundreds for his school this season, viz. :— M ay 18, at St. Q,uintin’s Park, v. K ensington Park C .C., 175 not out. M ay 22, at H erne H ill, v D ulw ich C.C., ICO. June 1, at Cam bridge, v. Leys School, 146. June 10, at Leatherhead, v. St. John’s School, 110. June 12, at B edford, v. B edford M odern School, 101 not out. June 15, at Shoreham , v. L ancing College, 156 not out. As he has got a scholarship at Oxford he is not so tied to his scholastic duties as he was, and there is a chance of his being seen in Surrey’s second eleven against Yorkshire’s second, at the Oval next Thursday. An ex­ ceptionally good all-round athlete, Raphael had the rare distinction in R u gby football o f playing for the old Merchant Taylors Club as well as for Surrey last winter while still at school. W e have received the balance sheet of the Forest H ill Cricket Ground and Athletic Club, Ltd. The Company has been able to reduce the loan from the bankers from £1,000 to £850. The net profit of the year amounts to £69 11s. 6d., and the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, less income tax. A new ladies’ pavilion is in process of erection. Against the South Africans. W . G. Grace H . B. H aym an K . S. B anjitsinhji W , L . M urdoch H . B. Chinnery Storer Capt. H . C. M oorhouse A . E . Trott W . W illliam s M ead Y oun g