Cricket 1901

58 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r i l 11, 1901 and it set forth to seek “ cricket,” who was met strolling coolly past the stand swearing hy all his gods he could not have lost had he not been slightly indisposed some 500 metres from home! T h e m enbfT B of the Hurlingham C.C. at Buenos Aires have recently had a couple of exciting finishes. On February 23rd their opponents (Flores) scored 164, and had got nine of the Hurlingham men out for 145. But the last man came in and hit, and pulled the match out of the fire for Hurlingbam . On the follow ing Saturday Lomas only required eleven runs to beat them with six wickets in hand, but at this stage of the game Mr. A. T . “ Smith ” bow led so fast and so well that Hurlingham came out the victors b y three runs. It is the old story— “ a game is never lost until it is won.” COLLEY.—On March '29th, at Rockbourne, Hampshire, the wife of J. Darley Colley, of a son. Mrs. Colley, who is Y . F. S. Crawford’s second sister, made 106 not out in a ladies’ match at Woodmansterne a few months previous to her marriage in 1899. T h e im p orta n t n ew s in con n e ctio n w ith first-cla ss co u n ty team s m a y be sum m ed u p as fo llo w s :— E ss e x . —Mr. A. J. Turner is home again from the war. He was invalided, but it is hoped that he will have completely recovered his form. Mr. C. E . Green has engaged Alfred Shaw, Peel, and Albert Trott to coach the team before the season begins. M i d d le s e x .— Mr. P. F. Warner has not yet gone to South Africa, and, as well as Mr. B. J. T. Bosanquet, will, it is hoped, play regularly. Mr. C. P. Foley and Dr. G. Thornton are in South Africa. G l o u c e s t e r s h i r e . —Mr. C. L. Townsend and Mr. W . S. A. Brown will not be able to plav till the end of June, owing to law examinations. Mr. C. 0 . H. Sewell may be able to play more regularly. S u r r e y . —The county wants a new bowler badly. Wood has become a county umpire, so that Stedman will probably take his place. L a n c a s h i r e . —It is to he feared that Briggs will not be well enough to play this year, having had a relapse. Sladen, a York­ shire fast bowler, and Broughton, a Grantham man, who did well for Man­ chester Club and Ground last year, may be included in the team. W a r w i c k s h i r e .— Mr. A. C. S. Glover will he available—he was absent from Eng­ land last year. Whittle and F. Moorhouse are qualified. W . George, the Aston Villa goalkeeper, may play. L e i c e s t e r s h i r e . —The new ground will be used. N o t t s . —Hallam, who has played for some years for Lancashire, has returned to his native county. Atkinson, a slow bowler, who was tried last year, is thought likely to he useful. Y o r k s h i r e . —Mr. Jackson is in South Africa, but it is hoped that Mr. Mitchell and Mr. T. L. Taylor will be able to play regularly. As Mr. Ernest Smith has now a school of his own, he will not be able to play before the holidays. W o r c e s t e r s h i r e . —Mr. R. E. Foster takes the place of his brother, H.K., as captain. The Bank Holiday gates will be pooled with Warwickshire. Mr. W . L. Foster has to return to South Africa. Pearson and Gaukrodger are qualified. S u sse x .. —Mr. Collins has not yet recovered from an attack of typhoid fever, and may not be able to play for some time. Tate has chosen the Yorkshire match for his benefit. K e n t . —Mr. R. O’H. Livesay msy be back from the war. The Rev. W . Rashleigh may be able to play in one or two matches. H a m p sh ir e . —Major Poore, Major Heseltine, and Captain Bradford are still away in South Africa, and Lieut. E. I. M. Barrett, who was invalided home, may have to go back again. Mr. C. B. Llewellyn will be qualified. S o m e r s e ts h ir e . —Mr. F. A. Phillips may be home from Soulh Africa. Braund is qualified. D e r b y s h i r e . —Mr. E. Maynard Ashcroft may be able to play more frequently. C. B. Fry Can have another try ; So can Mold, And Tyler old, Not to mention Geeson. Lockwood may Put off the evil day. For the M.C.C., In their last decree, Shewed mercy in due season. D u rin g the season of 1900 the Wan­ derers played 26 matches; of these 10 were won, 11 lost, and 5 drawn; owing to the claims of first and second class cricket on the members it was often difficult to put a representative team into the field. C. A . Beldham heads the batting averages with 42'45 for 12 inn­ ings, and R. T. Crawford the bow ling averages with 41 wickets for 9-87 runs each, but the club was hardly as strong either in batting or bow ling as in previous years. For 1901 a programme of 31 matches has been arranged, the annual tour having been somewhat extended by the addition of matches with Tunbridge Wells, Devonshire Park and St. Andrew’s Masters, while the match with St. Lawrence, Canterbury, has been omitted owing to a difficulty about dates. New matches have been arranged with Sutton, Pallingswick, Forest H ill and East Molesey. The Elstree Masters match has dropped out ow ing to the majority of that side going to Stanmore, where at present they are not able to give a date. The club now consists of 129 members, of whom some 13 are abroad. The honorary secretary is Mr. A. M. Latham, 3, K in g’s Bench Walk, Temple, E.C. It may be stated that the annual club dinner will take place at the Hotel Cecil on Tuesday next, April 16th, at 7.15 for 7.30. T h e dispute, to which we referred a few weeks ago, between the North and South Brisbane clubs has at last been settled. It will be remembered that South Brisbane had an hour’s batting before them with 51 runs to make. When the batsmen were ready the North Bris­ bane captain refused to play because a new ball was not provided. The umpires decided that the ball in use was good enough, and ordered that play should proceed. The North Brisbane team therefore left the field. The umpires did not agree as to whether the match ought to be awarded to South Brisbane, nor could the delegates of the Queensland Association come to a decision. A t last, at a monthly meeting of the association, a resolution was carried unanimously “ that the match in dispute be awarded to South Brisbane.” A WORD of warning. From the Sydney R eftree: — Cricketers all the world over take their law from the Marylebone Club, and they expect for all time the laws that govern county cricket will govern Australia v. England, and likewise govern the most modest of matches, even unto that of the “ tin can” stumps. Cricketers may believe, and with good reason, too, that some of the laws are carelessly worded, and some of doubtful intention, but they recognise the one body as the amender and interpreter of law. If that authority be the first to back up any body of men (no matter how influential in a certain class of cricket) in setting at defiance the law framed by itself, it needs but little knowledge of the Australian character for one to foretell troubles in the future. We are less influenced by English tradition in this country than are Englishmen themselves. Our environment, our life, are all against it. And if English­ men themselves be disposed not to set high value on absolute adherence to the laws framed by the M.C.C., they must not in the future expect too much in this direction from others. A ccordin g to our latest information from Australia, East Melbourne, taking advantage of the absence of the four chief bowlers of the South Melbourne Club (H . Trott, Dean, Grant, and Ingle- ton), had, up to February 23rd, scored •564 for seven wickets against this club. As the runs were made in five hours it would seem that the example set by some of the Sydney clubs in the way of rapid scoring is being followed in Mel­ bourne to some effect. Three individual innings of a hundred had been played— Howlett 124 not out, Stuckey 134, and A. Carter 120. S om e remarkable scoring occurred in Sydney in the match between North Sydney and Newcastle. The former had lost six wickets for 15 on the afternoon of Saturday, February 16th. On the follow ing Saturday, R . A. Duff and A. J. Hopkins put on 201 runs for the seventh wicket, and eventually the total amounted to 399, Duff being 227 not out. The 356 runs on the second afternoon were put together in less than three hours. Duff hit two 6’s, three 5’s, and twenty-eight 4’ s. R . A. D u ff scored 192 against Leich­ hardt three seasons ago, and 189 for the N ext Fifteen against the New South Wales Eleven in 1898. He has also made six other first grade hundreds for North Sydney and one for New South Wales