Cricket 1901

2 3 4 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. J u n e 2 7 , 1 9 0 1 T h e follow ing extract from the annual report of the Georgetown C.C. will interest Cricket readers as indicative of probabilities of the visit of another English team to the West In d ies: — It is a matter for extreme regret that it was not found possible to arrange for the reception in the West Indies in 1901 of the team which Lord Hawke had proposed to bring out. In view, however, of a team having been sent to England from the West Indies in 1900, and of the fixtures for the Intercolonial Challenge Cup matches in September, 1901, it was considered more advisable, both by Lord Hawke and all the colonies concerned, that the visit should be postponed until 1902. W e hope that nothing will occur which will further defer the pleasure of welcoming his lordship back to the colony. H ow well they do things cricketal out there is shown by the fact that this same annual report of the Georgetown C.C. contains the full score and analysis of every match played by the West Indian team in England last summer. K . E. M . B a r k e r , the old Upping- hamian, who was tried for Cambridge University and has captained the second eleven of Surrey the last tw o years, is to be married at St. Mary A bbott’s, K en­ sington, on July 25, to K itty, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. E . F. B . Church, of 100, Airlie Gardens, Kensington. K e n t seems to be particularly fortunate in the possession of batsmen who, when their days of first-class cricket seem to to be over, can join the side when there is a difficulty in raising a team, or when they happen to be able to spare a day or tw o from business, and w ithout any practice to speak of, make a b ig score. Mr. W . H . Patterson was for years of the utmost service to his side in this way, and even now it is odds that he could play a good innings if he were to appear in any match. Mr. Rashleigh still turns up on occasions and nearly always meets with success (not the last time, however), and now we have Mr. Marchant, who did not play at all last year, appearing for Kent when the ’Varsity contingent was other­ wise engaged, and playing one of the most brilliant innings of the season. I t was a lon g time before the com ­ positors who set up the scores of cricket matches could be relied on to spell the name of Banjitsinhji in the orthodox way, the “ hj ” being especially liable to get out o f order. I f Mr. K . S. Singh ever comes to the front as a first-class cricketer, it is pretty certain that the “ hj ” and the “ gh w ill get m ixed up pretty often. U p to the present Banjitsinhji has by no means kept up his reputation this season. H e has a good average, and once Bcored 133, but for a batsman’s name to be in everybody’s mouth nowadays he must make hundreds in about every other match. Still, no one would like to prophesy that Banjitsinhji will not be at the very top of the averages before the season ends. Up to the present he has only scored 472 runs this season in ten completed innings, which would be very good indeed if so many other men had not done so much better. In the report of an interview in an Australian paper at the end of May with Mr. J. B. Wardill, the secretary o f the Melbourne C.C., on the subject of the expenses o f the last English team in Australia, the follow ing passages occur : “ Bat did not the amateurs get anything but expenses ?” asked the reporter. “ Cer­ tainly not,” retorted Major Wardill. “ Each of the five amateurs was given £50 ‘ pin money, ’ as we call it, but really to cover such incidental expenses as could not well be booked each day. Over and above this they received their legitimate expenses. They received first class passages out and home, and the whole of their hotel expenses. That was all. As a matter of fact, the amateurs cost us far less than the professionals.” There is not much doubt that the expression “ pin m on ey” is destined to make its way in the cricket literature of the future. ------- O f course, Mr. Wardill must be incor­ rectly reported in the above, for in a letter to a contemporary on June 7, Mr. Stoddart said “ No payments or allow ­ ances of any kind, direct or indirect, were made to any members of the team, except to the professionals.” T he Leicestershire wicket - keeeper, Whiteside, was brought into very promi­ nent notice at the beginning of the match against Essex on Monday, as he had the remarkable experience of stumping four of the first five men who were out, all off the same bowler, Geeson. In point of the order of going in the first four men fell victims to^Whiteside, so that the score read as follows :— E ssex . H . G. Ow en, st W hiteside, b Geeson ... 1 Carpenter, st W hiteside, b Geeson ................12 P . Perrin, st W hiteside, b Geeson ................24 C. M cG ahey, st W hiteside, b G eeson...............40 T he vast difference which the appear - ance o f Llewellyn makes to the South African team was well shewn in the match against Liverpool and District. On Monday he took eight o f the thirteen Liverpool wickets which fell, and scored 61 runs out of 127, and on Tuesday he took four more wickets. I t is quite a remarkable thing that although Mr. Sinclair was always con­ sidered in South A frica to be the best all­ round man in the country—-by friends and opponents alike—he has never got into his stride in England. We do not remember a similar instance of the best man in a team failing in this way in any previous tour, but it generally happens in any tour that some player or other who is looked upon as likely to distinguish himself very greatly, fails to do himself justice in any way. Mr. C. J. Eady and Mr. Mason may be instanced as examples. F r a g m e n t o f a conversation overhead when cy clin g : “ But we got him out at last, and J ones threw the ball u p ; and it fell on his head, and I ’m blowed if he didn’t appeal to the umpire—their um­ pire of course—for obstruction. And the umpire giv’ him in again, and ours said it was rot, and it ended by their captain taking his teamoff the field—thebounder. Of course we claimed the match, and the league will have to settle it.” I n the list which appeared in the Bombay Gazette of Public School cricketers who are at present in India, and which we quoted last week, the name of A. M. Latham, the old Wellingtonian, appears. Mr. Latham is however in London. We have reason to believe that other names in the list are inaccurate. H. S. and H. D. K e igw in , playing last Friday for Hadleigh v. Sudbury (Suf­ folk), on the ground of the latter, made between them 189 out of a total of 216 runs from the bat, and then took nine out of the ten Sudbury wickets that fell. The Sudbury total was 170. H. S. Keig­ win made 85 and took five wickets and ran out another. H. D. made 104 and took three wickets. Summary of what the other nine Hadleigh men did : made 27 between them and took one wicket. M r. T. F is h e r U nw in is publishing a series of booklets dealing with sports under the title of the Sports Library. The editor is Mr. Howard Spicer who has so far succeeded in producing three volumes. The Rev. T. F. Dale has contributed that on riding, driving and kindred sport. Messrs. J. H. C. Fegan, T. Lindley, H. J. Battersby, and J. C. Isard, all experts on their different sub j ectsareresponsibleforthatonfootball, hockey and lacrosse. The cricket volume for which Archdeacon Sinclair has penned an introduction, contains articles by Lord Harris, C. W. Alcock, F. G. Bull, Rev. T. C. Collings, P. F. Warner, M. A. Noble, Hearne (the ground superintendent at Lord’s), Albert Ward (the Lancashire cricketer), and others. T h e following are some of the latest hundreds :— JUNE. 19. E.H .D .Sew ell,M r.C .M .Tuke’sX I.v. Incogniti 147* 19. F. W oodm an, W altham stow v. Clapton ... 102 19. G . O . Smith, M r. A . T . B . D unn’s X I . v. E ton Ram blers ........................................................ 138* 20. C. Cuttell, Clapton v. Chingford .....................123 21. Q uaife (W . G .), W arw ickshire v . D erb y .. 117* 24. H a y es , S urrey v . O xford U xiversity ... 121 24. H olland , S urrey v . O xford U niversity ... 104 25. C. B . F r y , Sussex v. Cam bridge U n iv e rsity 241 26. K . O . G oldie , S ussex y . C ambridge U n iv . .. 109 25. F . M archant , K ent v . Y orkshire ..............I ll 26. C. R . H artley , L anos . v . G loucestershire 112 • Signifies not out. G O LD SM ITH S’ v. M A R LB O R O U G H .—Played at H onor Oak on June 22. G oldsmiths ’ W . F. D ray, b Lee ... 37 S. R . Best, not out ... 28 H . Fentim an, c M ea- M. W ood, ht w kt, b kings, b B a tes............16 H . M ayo, b Bates ... 0 W. S. M urrell, c Kent, b L e e .............................85 R. R . H enty, b Elcom b 17 Eloom b ............ ... 1 A. Baldwin, not out... 57 B 9, lb 1 w 1 ..........11 Total (6 w kts)*202 W . H . Joanes, A. E . M ouncher and R . W indebank did n ot bat. Innings declared dosed. M arlboro ’ . W . H one, not out R. Bates, b Fentim an 44 H . A. Bates, b Fenti­ m an .............................. 6 Elcom b, c Joanes, b F entim an.....................11 H ight, b H enty... Lee. not out B 2, lb 1... Total (I wkts) 112