Cricket 1901

Nov. 28, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 403 Cricket in France: “ Edward, the Black Prince, who on the French ground play’d . . . . . making defeat on the full power of France.” Henry V. i. 2. Cricket in Italy; “ Those Italian fields, where noble fellows strike.” All's Well that Ends Well , ii. 3. The Crowd: “ The people fall a hooting.” Love's Labour Lost , iv. 2. A Disputed Decision: “ What reason have you for’t f ” Love's Labour Lost, v., 2. “ It cannot be, it is impossible.” lb. Despondency : “ I had rather be set quick i’ the earth, And howl’d to death with turnips.” Merry Wives of Windsor, iii., 4. Mr. C. C. T. Doll: “ 0 run, Doll, run ; run, good Doll.” 2 Henry IV., ii., 4. Prehistoric Dress: “ There’s but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together, and thrown over the shoulders like al erald’scoat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my host of Saint Albans, or the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry: But that’s all one; they’ll find linen enough on every hedge.—1 Henry IV., iv., 2. To Score a Duck: “ I know 1 can do it.” Twelfth Night, ii., 3. Embarrassment de richesses: “ There is three umpires in this matter, as I understand.” Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 1. T. Emmett: “ I never saw him sad.” Cym- beline, i., 7. An Enthusiast: “ Once I read, That stout Pendragon, in his litter, sick, Came to the field.” 1 Henry 6, iii., 2. Exclamations : “ Foolish curs ! that run winking.” Henry V., iii., 7. “ They stumble that run fast.” Borneo and Juliet, ii., 3. A Family Match: “ There is a thousand Hectors in the field.” Troilus and Cressida, v., 5. A Fast Field: “ Hector’s a greyhound.” Love's Labour Lost, v., 2. Contempt for field: “ No point, quoth I.’ Love's Labour Lost, v., 2. Fielding Practice: “ Now let’shave a catch.” Twelfth Night, ii., 3. “ We did keep time, sir, in our catches.” lb. Fieldsman : “ C*sar and Lepidus are in the field.” Antony and Cleopatra, i., 4. “ Antony is comeinto the field.” lb., iv.,6. An Exciting Finish: “ This is desperate, sir.” A Winter’s Tale, iv., 3. In Flannels : “ In nothing am I chang’d, But in my garments.’ ’ King Lear, iv., 6. Forward Play: “ Your grace of York, in Heaven’s name then, forward.” II Henry IV ., iv., 1. Mr. C. B. Fry: “ I can write.” Twelfth Night, ii., 3. (To be continued.) “ KOMIC KRICKET .” Copies of the Score Cards of the Music Ball Artistes’ Match, played at the Oval on September 6th, can still be had, post free, 2d., by applyiig to M kbbitt add H atches , L td , 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. NOTES FROM SCOTLAND. (B y O ur S pecial C orrespondent .) Great satisfaction is felt in Scotland at the announcement that the M.C.C. have arranged to visit us next August, and the hope is expressed that a strong team will come north. It will interest readers of Cricket generally, and those in Yorkshire particularly, to know that the match against the South of Scotland is to be played on the ground of the Gala Club at Galashiels, where Ehodes was professional the year before he made his triumphal entry into the Yorkshire eleven. The M.C.C. will, I understand, also meet the Grange at Edinburgh during the same week. The Grange, it will be remembered, made a very suc­ cessful appearance at Lord’s last summer against M.C.C., when a draw was the outcome, each side, if I remember rightly, making over 400. C. E. Dunlop, the Somersetshire cricketer, is now headmaster of the Hermitage School, Bath. He is a B.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and has been for the past seven years an assistant master at Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh —the famous Rugby Fco'. ball School, which has won the school championship of Scotland four years out of the seven C. E. Dunlop has been at that school. C. E. is, by the way, an old Merchiston boy himself. Merchiston has won the cricket championship once, and been runners-up on several occasions during the same peiiod. I need hardly add that C. E. Dunlop wll be much missed, not only by the Grange, tor whom he has made many a century, but also by Scotland, as he could always be depended upon to make a good score against any English combination that might visit Scotland. It is to be hoped that he will now be able to play more regularly for Somersetshire, for whom he has hitherto been, to quote C. B. Fry, “ an August appearance.” 1 I met, a short time ago, a Scottish cricketer, who has made his mark in Indian cricket. I refer to J. D. Guise, of the Calcutta and Rangers C.C., who was home on holiday last summer. J. D. Guise is, like C. E. Dunlop, an old Merchiston and Grange player, and he has had a remarkably successful season in India. Last year he scored moie than 1,000 runs, and took over 100 wickets — a feat which the Englishman described at the time as “ not improbably an Indian, or at any rate a Calcutta record.” I find, however, that E. H. D. Sewell, who will be qualified for Essex next season, not only equalled, but surpassed this per­ formance in India three years ago, when he scored 2,000 runs, and took over 100 wickets. Nevertheless, the performance of J. D. Guise is a very fine one, and he is undoubtedly a cricketer to be reckoned with. CRICKET IN QUEENSLAND. (F kom a B bisbank C obbkbpondent .) The opening of the season in Brisbane took place on Saturday, October 6th. Irving, who scored 107 for Toowong v. Fortitude Valley, is a lad of just sixteen years of age, and made his first appear­ ance in “ A ” Grade cricket in this match. He is a right handed batsman, something like Dr. Macdonald in style, but takes more risks than the Doctor, and will not hesitate to hit a full toss to leg. Irving is a very wristy player, and, moreover, is not a bad bowler (slow), breaking both ways, and using his head well. He is considered a certainty for a place in the Queensland X I. this year, and should he play, he will have the honour of being the youngest cricket player appear­ ing in a first-class match in Australia. TheElectorates are very evenly matched this year, there being now seven “ A ” Grade teams, each with as good a chance of winning the premiership as any other. This is a good sign for Queensland ciicket. Many of the old players came out of their retirement yesterday, and, where they had a chance, did fairly well. Syd. Donahoo, the old Victorian, who has been in Western Queensland for three years, is back in Brisbane, and will play for Toombul-Nundah. An Umpires’ Association has just re­ cently been formed in Brisbane, and not before it was needed. Hitherto teams have had to pick up men on the ground, and, of course, very often shockingly bad decisions have been given. The umpires did not altogether cover them­ selves with glory yesterday. In the Woolloongabba South Brisbane match, one umpire failed to put in an appear­ ance, and the other, an inter-colonial umpire, commenced by allowing seven balls to an over. He had to ask the scorer “ How many balls ? ” With reference to a remark in Cricket some time ago regarding Dr. Macdonald’s unwillingness to hit a full toss to leg, I have several times seen the Doctor try to do this, but be has invariably been caught from the stroke. Brisbane bowlers often get him out in this way. UPPINGHAM SCHOOL. Matches Played, 7 ; won, 0; lost 6; drawn, 2. BAITING AVERAGES. No. Times Most of not Total in an inns. out. IUDS. ions. Aver. P. G. Br.ad.......... ... 11 ... 1 ... 344 ... 133 ... 34 40 N. D. C. Rosa ... ... 13 ... 1 .. . 253 ... 66 .. 2108 C. H. Deane ... 3 ... 0 .. . 54 .. 5 » .. 18 00 H. H. Walters ... ... 13 ... 0 .. . 229 .,,. 69 .. . 17 61 H. W. Luke ... ... 12 ... 1 .. . Ib7 .,.. 59*... 17-CO N. C. Franklin-Smith 13 ... 0 .. . 161 .. 36 ... 12c8 P. J. Reies........ ... 12 ... 0 .. . 140 .,,. 43 ... 1166 W. L. A. Lennard ... 12 ... 3 ... 75 ..,. 21*.. . 833 L. £. Sinclair ... ... 10 ... 3 .., 67 ... 25*.. . 8-14 L. A. Fo^ke ... 10 ... 0 .. . 62 .. 17 .. . 5 20 A. C. Watson ... ... 1 ... 0 ... 0 .. 0 ... — BOWLING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdus. Burs. Wkts. Aver. A C. Watson.......... 29 .. . 3 ... 104 .. . 7 ..,. 1485 C. H. Deane .......... 6‘2.. . 0 ..,. 87 ... 2 .. 18-50 W . L. A. Lennard 851..,. 15 ..,. 288 .. . 12 .. . 24 00 L. A. Fowke .......... 68 .. . 7 .,.. 232 ... 9 ., . 26*77 P. J. Reies .......... 226 .. 51 .,.. 757 ,. 27 28-03 L. E. Sinclair..........156*4.. . 27 ..,. 510 .... 18 ., 28 33 * Signifies not out.