Cricket 1901

J u ly 11, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 265 wickets for 218. The old Rugbeians made 282 and took 10 wickets for 213, and the old Westminsters mad« 134 and took 6 wickets for 171. I n the Gentlemen v. Players’ match at Lords, Middlesex and Surrey had four representatives; Kent, Notts, Sussex and Yorkshire, two each; and Gloucester­ shire, Worcestershire, Lancashire, Somer­ set, Derbyshire and Essex, one each. The weakness of the University batting and bowling has been recognised by not including a single man from the teams which played at Lord’s last week. T h e score of Tottenham in the match last Saturday, against Clapton, was as follows :— P. Perrin, not out ........... ... 133 C. McGahey. not o u t .................. 168 B 6, lb 3 ................... 8 Total (no wkt.) *309 ♦Innings declared closed. W e understand that Tyldesley has promised Mr. MacLaren to go with him lo Australia in the autumn, so that at present the members of the team are as follows: Mr. MacLaren, Mr. Jessop, Hayward, Lilley, and Tyldesley. T h e r e was a very funny cartoon in last Saturday’s Cricket Star. It was entitled, *‘ Oh, G ir ls !!!” and bore the following description: “ The chief event of the week has been the Oxford and Cambridge match. P.S.—The gentleman in the picture has just missed a catch.” The gentleman in question is standing close to the boundary in front of a bevy of young ladies, whose expressions are admirable. So is the expression of the fieldsman! M r . E. A. N e p e a n has been appointed a revising barrister for Middlesex. He is the old Middlesex and Oxford slow bowler of the “ peculiar” type. M r . E. R. W i l s o n , who scored 118 for Cambridge against Oxford, is a brother of Mr. C. E. M. Wilson, who accomplished the same feat in 1898 in the same match, besides making 80 in 1896 and 77 in 1897, But while C. E. M. went to Uppingham School, E. R. is an old Rugbeian. T. D e n n i s , the hon. secretary of Mer­ chant Taylors School C.C. (a Surrey boy), has followed the example of his captain, J. E. Raphael, by completing in the match at Bellingham on Saturday, v. Aldenham School, a thousand runs this season for his school. Dennis is a good all-round athlete, and has also gained a scholarship for Clare College, Cambridge. Like Raphael who is also a Surrey boy, he will probably be seen in the county’s second eleven before the end of the P. W. M. D r a p e r is another Merchant Taylors boy who haswon a scholarship for Queen’s College, Cambridge. He recently took the second prize for the Hundred yards race at the Public School competi­ tion. He is a good medium fast bowler; is, so far, top of the bowling averages, and has taken 85 wickets this season already for his school. As his bowling is always improving, one may possibly hear more about him in the trial matches at Cambridge next season. T h e latest sensation in the cricket world is the story of the arrest of a young Turkish officer at Constantinople, by order of the Sultan. He had taken a liking to the game of cricket and joined an English club. He even took part in a match. What further evidence could be needed that he was a person to be viewed with extreme suspicion ! I n the match between Cambridge University and Liverpool, there were several “ nearlys.” Mr. Dowson nearly accomplished the feat of taking all ten wickets of Liverpool in the second innings. Mr. Robertson, with scores of 103 and 90, nearly made two separate hundreds in the match, as also did Mr. H. B. Steel with 91 and 91 not out. T u n n i c l i f f e made five catches in the second innings of Leicestershire against Yorkshire. O n Monday morning two labourers were charged with breaking into the pavilion of theRichmond CricketClub. The evidence stated that they broke into the pavilion on. the previous Saturday night, and were busy packing cricket materials for removal when Police-constable McBride surprised them. The constable procured assistance by signalling with his lantern, and both men were captured. Consider­ able damage was done to the interior of the pavilion, which has several times been broken into, but this is the first capture. The men were remanded. A c c o r d i n g to the Evening News , Mr. Kelly, the Oxford University Blue, is not only the tallest man playing in first-class cricket, being 6 ft. 3J in. in his cricket boots, but he is the first married man to play in the University cricket match, the two sides always having been previously composed of bachelors. A “ TEN p i c t u r e ” of Mr. K. S. Singh, the Cambridge batsman, who has recently been playing for Kent, is given in the Star : “ He is a wonderfully enthusiastic cricketer. When he gets runs he looks pleased, and when he is in the field he cannot restrain his delight at the fall of the wickets. He is small and ’cute- looking and very dark, and if he is not yet a Ranji he is a distinctly promising player.” To this we may add that he is the only man we have ever seen who, when fielding at some distance from the wicket —say cover-point—can pick up a ball without moving his feet, chuck it with both hands to the bowler so that it reaches him sharply as a full pitch, in time to run a man out easily if a run be attempted, and then draw himself up to his full height, still keeping his feet absolutely unmoved. I n a match at Bangalore between the Middlesex Regiment and St. Joseph’s College the former scored 45, including 2 extras, the highest score being 11. St. Joseph’s put on 107 for three wickets, a youngster ten years old, named J. Pereira, laying on to the bowling with such effect that he scored 45 not out. In partnership with V. Delanongerede (a useful name this) he helped to put on about 90 runs. I n our correspondence columns will be found a letter referring to the remarkable double-tie match, of which a notice appeared in last week’s “ Gossip.” We stated that we should very much like to see an authenticated score of this match, and we are now able to publish it. It will be noticed from our second corres­ pondent’s letter that the result was even more remarkable than appeared from that of our first correspondent. W h y did Bill Howell ? Because he heard K. S. Singh. I t is often said that matches between Gentlemen and Players can no longer attract spectators—they are out of date, etc. Nevertheless, they continue to struggle on, and at Lord’s on Monday quite a nice little crowd appeared—more than eleven thousand people paying for admission. On Tuesday the crowd was even larger, while it was still very large yesterday. We seem to have heard of matches even in the championship in which fewer spectators have paid their sixpences. A t h o r o u g h l y reliable informant tells me that the mixed cricket and football tour to be undertaken in the States and Canada by a party of English amateurs under the captaincy of C. Wreford Brown has fallen through. The leaders of cricket in Philadelphia, however, are hopeful that an English amateur cricket team will cross the big drink at the end of the season. One under the direction of P. F. Warner, I fancy, would com­ mend itself particularly to them. I n dismissing J. H. Sinclair in the first innings of the South Africans at the Oval on Monday, Tom Richardson, the Surrey fast bowler, sent one of the bails just over forty yards. It is nothing like a best, of course. The record stands to Mold, who, in bowling Lohmann in the Lancashire v. Surrey match, at the Oval on August 20, 1896, sent a bail sixty- three yards six inches from the wickets. Richardson has of late rarely been seen to better advantage than on this occasion. All the six batsmen he got out were bow led; and this on the O val! T h e following will be the elevens for the match between Gentlemen and Players at the Oval to-da y :— G e n tle m e n .— W . G . Grace, P . F . Warner D L A Jephson, A . O. Jones, C. M ’Gahey, R. E. More, H b ’ Hayman, L. G. Wright, C. O. S. Sewell, C. J. Buraup and W . M. Robertson. Ab^ ’ HaF^ard, Lockwood, Quaife (W . G.), Lilley, Carpenter, Mead, Trott, Wrathall. J. Gunn and Barton.