Cricket 1901

THB FINEST BAT THB WORLD PRODUCES. A u g . 22, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 355 BUSSEY’S 09 CO CO per £ CO BUSSEY’S A T T H E S IGN O F T H E W IC K E T . B y F. 8. A shley-C oopbr. Mr. Charles Pratt Green, of Great Malvern, furnishes the follow ing interesting reminiscences concerning Dutch cricket. “ Apropos of the visit of the Gentlemen of Holland to Worcester, it is interesting to recall that the first century ever hit b y a Dutchman off English bow ling was b y 0 . Feith, one of the present combination. It was in 1895, and the Englishmen were the Gentlemen of Worcester. They were not a fierce bowling eleven, in fact, the most success­ ful of them was Mr. P . H . Foley, the secretary of the Worcestershire Club. He secured twenty-three wickets in four matches at an average cost of 5-2, and his proudest boast was that he bowled a batsman named Foost with a full-pitched lob, to which the batsman ducked. It bowled him over his back. Mr. Foley’s team was a remarkable one. It comprised several Malvernians who have since gained great honour in the cricket- world, namely C. J. Burnup. P. H . Latham, H. K. Foster, and G. H . Simp­ son (now Simpson-Hayward), and T. B. Rhodes and F. W . Romney, who have now dropped out of county cricket. The team was completed by A. W . Isaac, E. E. Lea, W . K . Harrison, and H . J. Powys- Keck. One of the most amusing inci­ dents in their tour was that, on one occasion H . K . Foster mislaid his bag, and having no outfit, had to bat in his socks. But he made 33 out of 157. Posthuma was the most effective of the Dutch bowlers. T. B. Rhodes committed a poem touching his break.” At the London and South Western Bank sports, held at Herne H ill on Saturday, the 10th inst., A. E. Manby threw the cricket ball a distance of 138 yards 2 feet, which is a record for Great Britain. The follow ing short table will show at a glance THE LONGEST THROWS ON RECORD. 140 yds. 2 ft., R. Percival, on the Durham Sands Racecourse, on Easter Monday, 1881. 140 yds. 9 in., Ross Mackenzie, at Toronto, in 1872. 140 yds., King Billy (an aboriginal), at Clermont, Queensland, December 19,1872. 138 yds, 2 ft., A. E. Manby, at the London and South­ western Bank Sports, at Heme Hill, August 10,1901. 137 yds., G. Brown, on Wolverton Common, 1819. 132 yds., W . P. Forbes, at Eton College Sports, March 16,1876. 130 yds. 1 ft. 6 in., A. McKellar (of Glasgow), at Dundee, August 6,1882. 130 yds. 5 in., G. Davidson, at Clontarf, New South Wales, 1889. 130 yds., G. J. Bonnor, in Australia. Very few men have succeeded in throw ­ ing the ball a hundred yards one way and then throwing it back the same distance. The first mention of the feat being performed was b y Dick Defoe, or Dufour, a very clever fighter, who used to live in Rochester Row , Westminster. George Millyard, who represented Sussex from 1835 to 1842, could throw 108 yards with the wind and 103 against. Scores and Biographies says that Mr. W . G. Grace has thrown the ball 109 yards one way and back 105. Chas. Arnold, of Cambridgeshire, has thrown 112 yards with the.wind and 108 against, and once, in .the presence of the H on. Frederick Ponsonby, threw 107 yards and back 103. Mr. W . H . Game threw 111 yards out and home at the Oval on August 18,1875, the distance being measured by Mr. C. F. Buller. The late Mr. William Yardley, whilst at Rugby, threw the ball 100 yards with the right hand and 78 yards with the left. A t some sports at the Oval, in 1868, Mr. W . G. Grace, in three throws, sent the ball 116, 117, and 118 yards. A match of a somewhat novel descrip­ tion was decided yesterday week on Kew Green. It appears that some years ago a gentleman named Pring, an enthusiast of the game, died, and left a certain sum of money in order that three bats and three balls of the best quality m ight be purchased and presented to the three most successful K ew -born lads in a match played annually for the purpose. Greater interest than usual was centred in the game this year, thirty Kew lads sending in their names and fourteen players con­ tending on each side. Mr. George Pring, a grandson of the founder of the match, took an active part in the arrangements. The Leyton ground has witnessed many startling feats in its time, but few of a more remarkable nature than that furnished last week by Hirst. Essex had gained the reputation of generally being able to make a good fight with Y ork ­ shire, and on this account the meeting of the tw o sides had been anticipated with more than ordinary interest. The recent match, unfortunately for Essex, was destined to be played on a wicket ruined by rain, and this being the case, a victory for Yorkshire was a foregone conclusion. Although the wicket was all against run- getting, the collapse of such a side as Essex for totals of 30 and 41 must be considered remarkable. The chief cause of the collapse was the tremendous bow ling of Hirst, which accounted for seven wickets for twelve runs in the first innings, and five for seventeen in the second. The Essex batsmen fell before his strong left arm like houses of cards which stand in the way of the whirlwind. Compared with his performance Rhodes’ record of six wickets for 37 runs appears almost insignificant. The feat of the two bowlers was curiously similar to that of Freeman and Emmett in the match against Lancashire, at Holbeck, in 1868. In that match Yorkshire made 250, and Lancashire were disposed of for 30 and 34, the bow ling figures working out as follows First innings. Second innings. B. R. W . B. R. W . Freeman.......... 52 11 8 .......... 64 12 4 Emmett.......... 50 11 2 .......... 64 13 6 Scores and Biographies (Y ol. X ., page 486) strangely omits to give the bowling analyses in the second innings, but room will probably be found for it in the list of Addenda and Errata published in Vol. X V . On Friday last, Mr. G. F . Wells-Cole, the Jeaus College and Lincolnshire cricketer, played the innings of his life. The match was Scarborough v. Yorkshire Gentlemen, at Scarborough, and Mr. Wells-Cole, assisting the first-named side, scored 387. This is the second individual score of over three hundred hit on the Scarborough ground, the