Cricket 1901

J u ly 4, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. 249 M b . F r y 's two big innings of 241 for Sussex v. Cambridge University, and 219 Dot out for Sussex against Oxford University, placed him easily at the top of the averages which appeared on Monday morning, with 90-50. He had then scored an aggregate of 1,267, the only men who had beaten him being Abel with 1,444, and Hayward with 1,346, although Tyldesley with 1,248 and Mr. Jessop with 1,241 ran him very close. As the Oxford and Cambridge bowlers are generally considered as being moderate this year we wonder whether Mr. Fry has altered his opinions about the danger to a batsman of meeting bowlers who bowl balls which can be hit. N e v e r t h e l e s s Mr. Fry’s performances this year have been altogether remarkable, and since he got thoroughly into working order he has played innings of 170, 244, 241, and 219, not out, a wonderful record. O n another page will be found the score of a match in which eleven Lovells played against a team chosen by Mr. G. A. Eing. The family eleven consisted of Mr. J. C. Lovell, who has for many years been a keen cricketer, his eight sons and two nephews. Another of his sons was not available, being abroad. The youngest son, Anthony, a boy at Charter­ house School, was the most successful bowler for the family, taking 4 tickets for 41. Mr. J. C. Lovell has a ground of his own at Tulse Hill on which some twenty matches are played annually up to the end of July, after which another series of matches is entered upon on his second ground at Eddington in Kent. He seldom takes part in matches nowa­ days, but invariably attends the Be in which his teams are playing; he is as popular with opposing teams as with his own side. M r . L. B. Thomas writes as follows, his letter being dated June 27th, from Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy : “ A curious cricket match was witnessed at Winchester yesterday, Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy v. Peter Symond’s School. It was only a small match. Eastman’s won the toss and made 52 all o u t; then Peter Symond’s went in and also made 52 ; Eastman’s went in again and made 26, and Peter Symond’s also made 26. So it was not only a double tie, but the second innings of each side was exactly half the first.” We should very much like to see an authenticated score of this match. S ir T. C. O ’B rie n , who made his first appearance of the season in first-class cricket at Lord’s, on Monday, against Oxford, scored 130 and 67 on Saturday atiWoolverstone Park for Mr. Berners’ team against Mr. A. J. Archer’s team. On the previous day one of his contem­ poraries, Mr. K. J. Key, made 106 for Old Cliftonians against the College. I n the Clifton College match against the Old Boys, A. E. J. Collins, the school­ boy who made the record score of 628 not out in June, 1899, in a house match, scored 112 and 63 for the school eleven, so that the prophesies which were made that he would become a famous cricketer in first-class matches seem on the way to be fulfilled. Th e teams for the match between Gentlemen and Players at Lord’s next Monday are announced as follows, as far as they are completed :— G en tlem en . G. Macgregor (Middlesex) D . L. A. Jephson (Surrey) J. R. Maeon (Kent) A. 0 . Jones (Notts) G. L. Jeepop (Gloucestershire) K . S. Ranjiteinbji (Sussex) C. B. *ry (Sussex) R . E. Foster (Worcestershire) W . M. Bradley (Kent) P. F. Warner (Middlesex) and another. P l a y e r s . Abel (Surrey) Hayward (Surrey) Lockwood (Surrey) Tyldesley (Lancashire) Birst (Yorkshire) Rhodes (Yorkshire) Braund (Somerset) Gunn (J.) (Notts) Trott (A. E.) (Middlesex) Storer (Derbyshire) Carpenter (Essex) W. G. Quaife and Lilley would have been included, but Warwickshire requires their services. . F o r as long as ten minutes the match between the Artists and the Musicians at Kensington Park on June 28th stood at a tie, the last two Artists being at the wickets. At the end of that time Mr. C. M. Q. Orchard son hit a four and the Artists won. Mr. R. Evett, of the Savoy Opera, played a fine innings of 71, while for the winners Mr. G. Hillyard Swinstead was in brilliant form, making 102 out of 186 from the bat, his second hundred for the Artists this season. Mr. Kennedy Rumford played well for 20 for the Musicians, and as someone remarked, his duet with Mr. Evett brought forth pleas­ ing music from the willow. B y arrangement between the two Uni­ versity captains play in the Oxford and Cambridge match to-day (Thursday) will begin at half-past eleven, and on Friday and Saturday at eleven. Lunch will be taken at 1.30 on each day, and stumps will be drawn at half-past six. This arrangement has been made in order that the match should be finished if possible. B etw een June 17 and 29 (inclusive) Mr. C. B. Fry scored 627 runs, raising his total from 640 to 1,267, thus nearly doubling it. Less than a fortnight before this his total for the season was only about 130. C r ic k e t readers generally, but Surrey men in particular, will be glad to hear that Mr. Jephson has so far recovered from the recent injury to his knee that he hopes to resume the captaincy of the county eleven, so well fulfilled by Mr. Leveson-Gower in his absence, in the Warwickshire match at the Oval to-day. Playing for the Wanderers against Forest Hill the other day he took seven wickets for 11 runs with his “ lobs.” B y a chapter of accidents last week Mr. W. Smith was referred to in “ Gossip” as having bowled for Surrey, whereas, of course, the Surrey bowler is W. C. Smith. Mr. W. Smith plays for Oxford­ shire as well as the London County team. W e are informed by a correspondent that Mr. E. S. Littlejohn—who played occasionally for Middlesex last year, has not only made a few bats for himself from willow cut from the Bide of the river Brent, but that with one of them be played an innings of 200 against the London County C.C. We should doubt whether any other amateur has ever possessed sufficient skill to make a bat with which he scored 200 runs in an innings. H is friends, and their number is legion, will be glad to find that the cares of business have not interfered in the smallest with Mr. John Shuter’s excep­ tional capacity as a run-getter. Though he has been scoring well for Lessness Park throughout the season, he com­ pletely outdid his previous performances for the club on Saturday last. The match was against Gravesend, at Less­ ness Park, and he was responsible for 236 of the total of 438 made by the home club. Among his figures were five 6’s and thirty-eight 4’s. In one over, and it was fast bowling, he scored six con­ secutive boundary hits—twenty-four runs in all. I n his second innings of 75 against Kent on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. V. F. S. Crawford had an over from Blythe which bowler and batsman will never forget. The first ball was a half volley, and it was driven clean and hard, nearly straight, on to the awning in front of the pavilion. The second was nearly a half volley and the ball pitched far above the awning, again nearly straight. The third was made into a half volley by the bats­ man, and landed on the awning a good deal to the off-side. The fourth was a yorker off the wicket and was pushed very hard alongtheground between extracover and cover. It did not quite reach the boundary but produced lour runs. The fifth ball was a half-volley and was driven very hard to the boundary, between mid- off and cover. The sixth and last ball was very far up, and was driven hard along the ground past mid-off, but was saved and only one was scored. A total of 21 for the over. A p e c u l i a r , one might almost say unique, incident marked the second inn­ ings of the Cambridge captain (S. H. Day) in the University’s recent match with Surrey at the Oval. In playing Hayward’s bowling the ball went very slowly behind the wicket, and coming back touched the bottom of the stumps without removing either of the bails. How it rebounded is the curious part. Richardson had been bowling from the pavilion end at which Day was batting, and finding just previously a rather large