Cricket 1901

456 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Nov. 28, 1901. Club. To show that his sea voyage had done him no harm, he “ took occasion by the forward top ” by knocking up over fifty runs in the second innings for the Captain, and bowled throughout the remainder of the secretary’s innings, with a result of five wickets for 66 runs. The ordinary Queensland umpire must be a little trying to the nerves if the following experience sent by a valued correspondent in Brisbane is a fair sample of the genus out there! ! There was nothing very startling in Bris­ bane cricket yesterday (October 12) except, perhaps, the bowling of the aboriginal, Henry. For Bundamba v. Toombul he obtained five wickets at a cost, according to the scorers, of 29 runs, but of these, 16 were byes, and were recorded as runs owing to the umpire to the neglecting to signal the byes. Some of our umpires have yet a good deal to learn. Syd Donahoo thinksmuch of Henry’s bowling, and has written to Major Wardill about it. More injustice to the bowlers ! ! ! T h e score of the match between the New High School and the Elphinstone High School, which appears “ in another place,” will be of interest if only for the fact that the stake at issue was the pos­ session of the Memorial Shield given by Lord Harris during his Governorship of Bombay for competition among the native schools there. Seventeen schools entered for the senior competition this year, and fifteen for the junior. The New High School, who proved the win­ ners of an exciting game by their victory on October 31st, carried off the shield for the sixth time. Their success, as will be seen, was mainly due to the fine first innings of Chotia and the effective bowl­ ing of Warden. On the other side, Date’s bowling in the second innings of the New High enabled Elphinstone to make a good fight after all. He took eight of the ten wickets at a cost of only nine runs. His R o y a l H ig h n e ss t h e P r in c e o f W a l e s has graciously assented to the request of the Surrey Committee to become one of the patrons of the County Club. The Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, as every well-informed Cricket reader knows, is the owner of the Oval, and a goodly part of the property surrounding it. E v e rt Cricket reader will learn with regret that Harry Trott may, after all, have to give up first grade cricket alto­ gether. He had recovered from the serious ailment which prostrated him completely for such a length of time two or three years ago. In the Australian season of 1900-01 he played with a good deal of his old skill and success. Un­ fortunately, he recently injured his knee, and as this still causes him con­ siderable trouble, it is feared that he will not be able to take part in, at all events, the more serious kind of cricket. “ A lb e b t o ,” in other words A. E . Trott, is fortunate in having the oppor­ W ANTED “ Wisden’s Almanack,” 1P64-68 inclu­ sive, 74 to 78 inclusive: Vols. III. and IV. of “ Scores and Biographies.” —Manager of Cricket , 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C. ____________________ F OR SALE.—“ Scores and Biographies,” Vols. 1 to 4, complete set of Cricket Newspaper, 19 vols., Wisden’s Almanack, 1878-1901, inclusive, in excellent condition.— H a z e lw o o d , 16, Ennerdale Road, Rich- mond-on-Thames. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LO ID O I, E.C. THURSDAY, NOV. 2 8 th , 1901. IMPORTANT NOTICE! gratulate a good old cricketer on his well deserved inclusion in the King’ s Birth­ day Honour List. I am referring to Sir George Anderson Critchett, the King’s oculist. In his school days at Harrow, he was a useful all-round cricketer, though I have no knowledge whether he got into the eleven or not. Later on he was captain of the Caius College Eleven at Cambridge. 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Owing to the Chaistmas Holidays, the next issue of Cricket will appear on the 19th instead of December 26th as pre­ viously announced. ONE of the few links connecting us with cricket of the sixties was severed on the 30th July by the death of the Rev. John Coker, for forty-six years Rector of the parish of Tingewick, in Buckinghamshire. A son of the Rev. T. L. Coke, of Bicester, the late Rector of Tingewick was in the Winchester elevens of 1838 and 1839, captaining the side in his second year. He more than fulfilled his school promise at Oxford as a cricketer. He played, in fact, for the University four years, in 1840, 1842, 1843, and 1844, and was captain of the eleven in 1842 and 1843. His experience in inter-university matches was par­ ticularly unlucky, as Oxford did not win once in the four years he played. Cambridge in the early forties had, as it happened, a very formidable side, with T. A. Anson, G. J. Boudier, W. St. Croix, E. S. E. Hartopp, E. Sayres, and W. Pickering available among others. Among Mr. Coker’s confreres at Oxford were A. Lowth, H. O. Nethercote, H. M. Curteis, V. C. Smith, G. E. Yonge and Walter Marcon, who howled so fast that two long-stops were required to stop him properly 1 W h e r e are the great high priests of cricket lore ? How is it that none of them has utilized the occasion to con­ MR. A . 0 . MACLABEN. Captain of the English Team in Australia, who scored 146 and 73 against New South Wales. (Photo by Foster, Brighton. Reproduced by permission of V “ The Taller .” ) R. P. V i b a r t , who played for Harrow some ten years or so ago, and was, if I remember rightly, amateur boxing cham­ pion, who was over in England in the summer, has not long returned to the River Plate, where his lines have been cast for some time past. He reached the cricket ground in Buenos Aires on October 13 during the luncheon interval of a match between the Captain’s and Secretary’s elevens of the Buenos Aires