Cricket 1901

J uly 25, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 291 absolutely no bowling. Still, something had to be done. For some time I had altogether given up bowling, but as nobody else could bowl a ball, I had to go on with George Cayley at the other end. Everything came off for us. I did the hat trick and we won easily, Cayley and I bowling unchanged through the innings. But what we should have done if a change had been required I do not know.” W. A. B e t t e s w o r t h . G-RANTILLE v. TONBRIDGE.—Played at Ton- bridge on July 10. G r a n v il l e . C. H. Mason, b Rey­ nolds .......................... 0 C. J. M. Godfrey, b Blythe ...................19 N. Cockell, b Reynolds 1 P. G. Bull, b Lawrence 89 W .Austln.c Lawrence, b Blythe ...................47 F. E. Lander, st Her- vey, b B lyth e........... 4 P. P. Lincoln, b Rey­ nolds ..........................19 J. P. Clarkson, not out ...........................47 J. Moore, b Lawrence 16 H. W . Le May, not out .......................... 9 Extras................... 9 Total J. T. Reynolds, st Godfrey, b Bull .. 33 Rev.Lacklam,b Austin 4 E. Beeching, c and b Bull .......................... 42 Munns, st Godfrey, b Bull ...........................23 A. R. Layman did not bat. T o n b r i d g e . . 260 W . D. Hayward, not out .......................... 28 J. P. S. Hervey.b Bull 22 F. W . Franks, not out 10 E xtras................. 19 Total ...181 F. Gully, Blythe, J. Lawrence and Harding did not b a t . ___________________________ BECKENHAM v. UPPER TOOTING.—Played at Beckenham on July 13. B e ck en h am . H . Z. Baker, b Lind­ say .......................... 12 F. Furze, b Sandi- lands.......................... 28 F.C.Barchard, notout 10 F. B. O’Neill, b Lind­ say ........................ 1 H . E. Baker, b Lind­ say ........................... 0 C. O. Cooper, c More, b Lindsay...................66 F. D. Browne, b Lind­ say ...........................26 P.C. Baker, st Hosken, b Sandilands ...........19 C. M. Baker, c Tanner, b Sandilands ........... 0 R. Powell-Williams, c and b Sandilands ... 0 A .A . Baker, c Hosken, b Sandilands ...........10 B 1, lb 3, w 2 T o t a l...................168 U pper T ooting . R. R. Sandilands, b C. J. F. Hosken, b P. C. Baker ................... 6 J. H. Lindsay, b O’Neill ................... 6 J. F. More, not o u t... 11 B 5, lb 4, w 1 ... 10 Total (7 wkts) ...230 M. B aker...........................................................................29 D . H. Butcher, lbw, b O. M. Baker ............................................. . 7 A. H. Parez, c O’Neill, b Cooper ..................................................................... ...27 R.M.Harvey, st Furze, b O’N e ill..................................................................... ...64 F.G. Thorne, c Brown, b P. C. Baker...................................................................71 H. W . Hawking, J. A. Lyon, and H. Tanner did not bat. _________________________ GOLDSMITHS’ INSTITUTE v. REIGATE PRIOR Y — Played at Reigate on July 17. R e ig a t k P r io r y . T. Nightingale, c P. Henty, b B a ldw in .......................... 11 c Medway,bBald- win ................... 0 F. J. Buckland, c and b R, R. H en ty .................................. 0 Brickett, c and b R.R. Henty C.Dalton, lbw, b R.R.Henty W .J.S.Tumer, b R.R.Henty R. W . Harris, st Dray, b Baldwin ........................... not out... not o u t.. c Medway, b R. Henty ...........29 W . Hammond, c Manley, b Baldwin ...........................16 B. T. Kenward, b Baldwin 23 c Manley,b Fenti- m a n ................. J. Miller, b R. R. Henty ... 4 F. Knight, not out ..........11 run out ............ P. Jagger, b Baldwin........... 0 Byes ........................... 2 B 12, lb 3 .. 72 Total ... G o ld sm ith s’ . W .H Manley,b Dalton 3 W . F. Dray, c and b Brickett ...................16 S. R. Best, bD alton... 12 R. R. Henty, c and b Turner ...................37 W . Falkner, c Miller, b D a lto n ................... 3 A. Baldwin, b Turner.. 33 Total P. F. Henty, c and b Buckland................... 0 W . H. Fitch, b Dalton 12 Fentiman, not out ... 17 E. M.Medway,cDalton, b Brickett ...........13 H. Joanes, b Turner... 0 B 16, lb 2, w 1 ... 19 Total .165 ©omSponOence. The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions o f his correspondents. BRIGHTER c r i c k e t . To the Editor o f C r i c k e t . On the last day of the Artists’ Cricket Week at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in a one-day match, Artists v. Mr. J. A. Pott’s X I., an experiment was tried which added sport and brightness to the day’s cricket. The captains agreed that at the fall of every fifth wicket the other side should go in, the not-out man on each side con­ tinuing his innings when his side went in again at the fall of the opponents’ fifth wicket. If time did not permit both sides completing their full innings, the match to be decided on the scores made by the first five wickets on each side. If tried in club cricket for day and half day matches, this way of playing a match would recommend itself, and possibly help in making the play more interesting, enjoyable, and the result more decisive than is now the case. Complaints by cricketers, young and old, are frequent. They say that they ‘ play ’ ! in matches, but sometimes do not take a bat to the wicket for two or three consecutive games. They go out to field for an hour or two after the ‘ declare,’ and, pjssibly, field half a dozen balls, and then their day’s cricket is over. To play in matches in this way can hardly be called playing cricket, and no doubt, sooner or later, a remedy willl be found for it. The sooner the better for cricket. Twenty years ago wickets were not so good, and batsmen had to play a more athletic game, as their wickets could not be protected by “ stopping ” the ball hour after hour, and consequently day and half-day matches were more often finished than not. Now, club wickets and grounds are, most of them, excellent, but the evil is that good slow batsmen often play for their averages rather than for their side. Slow is not the word—they will often stop on the “ plumb ” for half or more of the avail­ able time for play, scoring at the rate of only forty or fifty runs per hour or less than that, whilst the remainder of the side, 6, 7, or 8, sit waiting and smoking for hours, etc., etc. One has often heard strong objections to the way club and county cricket is now played, and suggestions to arrest this deterioration, if not decay, are constantly made. Prob­ ably a wicket half a ball wider would make matters more lively. This would certainly compelthe batsman to use hiseye, muscle, nerve, and the beautiful wood in his bat with greater skill. With this wider wicket he would, with his general athletic fitness, find it necessary to make the numbers on the telegraph move more quickly or get out. Play would be faster, brighter and better. In our day match at Fairford I gladly fell in with the new (?) suggestion, which was as follows:—The side winning the toss sent in batsmen up to No. 6. At the fall of the fifth wicket the other side went in, and when five of these were dismissed, the side going in first continued their innings with the not-out man till the fall of the tenth wicket, and in turn the other side went in to get the runs. Either side could, of course, declare at any time they thought fit. On paper this method may read ineffectively, but in practice the match becomes interesting all through and the play exciting. 1. The game never flags. 2. Winning the toss has no great advantage on account of the reduced opportunities to the side winning it, batting best part of a day. The fall of five wickets would not be likely to spoil and wear a pitch before the other has a “ knock,” which is so often the ease when a whole side bats the greater part of a day. 3. Almost unconsciously the slow batsman who goes in first plays faster, as he cannot now calculate on saving himself for more than five wickets at a time and his chances of “ sticking” at the wicket without making runs are much reduced, for at the fall of the fifth wicket bowlers and fieldsmen get a rest, their side goes in to bat, after which they come fresh to the attack of the not out when he goes to the wicket again to continue. (4) Five minutes interval was found sufficient rest between these innings, a saving of time. We found that the practical result of this experiment was that the play was brighter and faster, the bowling and fielding keener, and every man actually took part in the match. The probability of matches being finished would, I think, be much greater if day and half-day matches were played on lines somewhat similar to those of our experiment. G. H i l l y a r d S w in s t e a d . HAMPSTEAD v. ELTHAM .—Played at Eltham on July 13. H a m p s t e a d . F. R. D. Monro, b H ayw ood......... . ... 56 S. S. Pawling, c and b John ston................... 5 H. Greig, b Haywood. 3 B. A . Everitt, lbw, b H ayw ood...................20 W . R. Moon, c Jack­ son, b Nicholls ... 15 A. B. Osmond, c Nicholls, b Haywood 0 E l t h a m . T. W . Mackintosh, b Nicholls ...................12 A. Piper, lbw, b Hay­ wood ........................... 2 J. C. Toller, run out.. 26 J. Greig, not out ... 3 R. Bradshaw, st Jack­ son, b Johnston ... 2 B 8, lb 4, w 1 ... 13 Total ...157 A. S. Johnston, Osmond ...................19 W .M acfaran?, cGreig, b Pawling................. l W . Young, b Osmond 10 Haywood, not out ... 63 S. Eagleton, b Monro 2 J. C. Wood, c and b Monro ................... 4 Dr. Nicholls, b Monro 0 A. S. Jackson, b Paw­ ling ........................... o C. A Pitt, c Bradshaw, b J . Greig ... ... 19 T. Johnston, c Greig, b M o n ro ...................26 K.Johnston,b Osmond 0 B 9, lb 1, w 1 ... 11 Total 155 GRAN VILLE “ A ” v. BLACK HEATH “ A ” .—Played at Lee on July 13. B l a c k h e a t h . S. Brocklebank, ' c F. H. Pitt, c Bacon, b Pettman ...................38 C. E. S Mason, not out 1C3 A . M. Simpson, c Hol- lingworth, b Temple 74 A. G. Pembroke, run out ........................... 5 Johnstone, b lingworth A. Rogers, not out Extras ... Hol- Total (4 wkts)*i28 R. P. Terry, A . J. Terry, F. R.Mann, F. Mac- Dougall, and H. W . Gill did not bat. •Innings declared closed. G r a n v il l e . F. E. Thomson, b Pitt 1 J. A. Johnston, c Pem- E. Rymer Jones, not broke, b Pitt ........... 4 out .......................... 125 E. F. Debenham, not A . O. Pettman, b Pitt 52 out ............................ 0 J. R. Hollingworth, c Extras ................26 Pembroke, b Pitt ... 5 — H . L. Temple, c Mason Total (5 wkts) 230 b Pitt.......................... 17 H. T. Nelson, A. Bacon, C. Scholefield, and A. Martin did not bat.