Cricket 1901

A p r i l 18, 1901. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 73 scored 5, 16, 14, 10, 119, 29, and 75. In the First Grade : 1, 2, 47, 73, 8, 121, and 185. Against Newcastle District he got 227 not o u t ; Ballarat, 35 ; and against the Colts 46 and 5 not out. This gives him a total of 1,018 runs for 16 complete innings, averaging 63'62 per innings. The next three bats in all Association matches are M. A. Noble 894 for 17 innings, V. Trumper 887 for 17 innings (neither with a not out), and S. E. Gregory 738 for 17 innings, four being not out. All three did better work in the matches against Victoria and South Australia than in club matches, Gregory and Trumper incomparably better. I t is naturally fashionable just now in Australia, at the end of the season, to speculate on the names of the men who would be chosen to play if an interna­ tional match were in prospect. Here is the opinion of the critic of the A r r o w :— Trumper would be as great a certainty as anyone. Travers, Iredale, and Marsh would each have but a small chance of selection. If an English team happened to be here, we would probably find Jones in good nick, and Darling seriously think­ ing of getting into form. On the season’s form, Duff, Graham and Armstrong, as bats, would be entitled to selection. But the selection will be made next December. We venture to think just now that ten of the eleven will be Gregory, Noble, Trumper, Kelly, Hill, Darling, Jones, Trumble, Saunders, and Worrall or Stuckey, with the eleventh man the best slowish bowler to be found. S h o r t S l ip writes in the Sydney M a il as follows, with reference to the proposed changes at Melbourne, of which mention was made in “ Gossip ” last week :— I learn from a very good source that it is proposed that the Melbourne Club should absorb the Victorian Cricket Asso­ ciation and that if the movement in favour therefore be not successful at least five clubs will secede from the association. There is also a well-supported report that an attempt will be made to establish local cricket in Melbourne, the members of the Melbourne Club t8am to be distributed throughout the various districts, the club to limit its operations to cricket of a social character. My informant tells me that Trumble is one of the keenest supporters of the local system. A l t h o u g h his opportunities of practice are now very few, Mr. O. T. Studd, the famous old Cambridge cricketer, still keeps up his reputation. In a match at Ootacamund (Madras) on March 22 and 23 he scored 14 and 41 for the town team against Wellington and took four wickets for 61 runs. Referring to his second innings the N ilg iri N ew s some­ what enigmatically says:— The Town entered for their second innings at 11.30 o’clock, Studd and Edgington being at the wicket. We were now treated to a fine exhibition of cricket. Both players showed good form and played a very careful game. There were several good drives to the boundary. In less than half an hour 50 runs were scored and the century was reached. After securing a few more runs, Studd was clean bowled by Hagan. I n a match at Ootacamund (Madras) between Ladies and Gentlemen — the latter handicapped in the usual way— Lady Agnes Lygon hit up a score of 60, including nine fours. In the score, which will be found on another page, the name appears as “ retired weary.” S o m e amusing notes on the above match appear in the N ilg iri N ew s. We quote a few of them :— Special rules were made for the game> one of them being that the “ Men ” were prohibited from using their right hands either bowling or fielding, the penalty for doing so being 2 runs to be added to the ladies’ score. This rule caused one of the men to be doubly punished, being left- handed, he caught a lady with his right, the umpire promptly giving a decision of not out and awarding the penalty. When, however, this same man went on to bowl, the same umpire ordered him to bowl with his right hand, a rule had been framed to meet such cases, viz., that no attention must be paid to an umpire’s decision, but it was not put into force on this occasion. Captain Thomas then relieved Bailey and, shortly afterwards, clean bowled Mrs. Bailey with a long hop, which broke in from the oft' at least one inch, the score being 34—1—21. Miss Henrietta Irwin and Miss Brie- thaupt then found the bowling with­ out success, owing to the brilliant fielding of Captain Parry, who caught them both off Captain Vans Agnew for the proverbial duck. For the first time in the history of cricket, a conveyance was provided to carry the lady bats back to the tent. There was only one point in the game which was to be regretted, i.e., one of the umpires appeared somewhat biassed, but as this was provided for in the rules of the match, it didn't much matter. I t is said that the North Sydney men who have acted as substitutes for absent opponents, have made more than a dozen catches this season. L a s t week we noted that East M el­ bourne had scored 564 for seven wickets against South Melbourne. They com ­ pleted their innings on March 2 for 653, the highest score of the season in pennant matches. The runs were made in six hours and ten minutes. I t has been discovered that the system now in use at Melbourne of dividing the time for play on Saturday afternoon so that each side bats for half of it, quite prevents promising young bowlers from com ing to the front. They hardly ever get a chance to try their skill, aB the regular bowlers have not time to get tired. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t w rite s :— I send you a couple of notes as a supple­ ment to the chat which appeared last week with Mr. C. J. Burnup. He made a hundred for the Gentlemen in his first Gentlemen v. Players match, scoring 5 and 123 at the Oval, 1900. Owing to rain, his score of 49 for Kent v. Surrey, at Canterbury, last year, lasted part of each of the three days. T h e tablet which has been subscribed for b y the Yorkshire team in memory of Mr. Prank Milligan is now nearly finished. On the brass plate the inscription is as follow s:— To the Glory of God, and in affectionate remembrance of Lieutenant Frank Milli­ gan, who was killed near Mafeking, March 31, 1900. This tablet is erected by the Yorkshire cricket team. T he teams to represent the Notts Eleven and the Oolts in the match at Trent Bridge on April 24 and 25, are as follows : T he E leven .—Messrs. A. O. Jones (captain), J. A. Dixon, W. B. Goodacre, and H. Cartwright; Shrewsbury, W. Gunn, J. Gunn, Wass, Carlin, A. W. Hallam, Iremonger, Dench, and P. Mason. T he C olts .—W alter Marshall (captain), the Hon. M. Abbott (Teversal), Armitage, Wilson, and Staton (Nottingham), Stuart (Annesley), Hemsley, Wright, and Staple­ ton (Ruddington), T. Wells (Eastwood), M. Harrison (Calverton), Truman (Upton), Chambers (Kimberley Heath), Kirkby, Ellis, and Gregory (Sutton-in-Ashfield), White (Annesley), and Pepper, P. Harri­ son, J. Harrison, Anthony, and Atkinson, of the ground staff. T h e members of the M.C.C. Committee who retire by rotation this year are as fo llow s:— The Earl of Pembroke, Lord Wenlock, Mr. A. Appleby, and Mr. M. Turner. The following have been nominated as their successors : The Earl of Darnley (retiring president), Mr. A. J. Wehbe, Lord Hawke, and Mr. A. G. Steel, K.C. The annual dinner is to take place at Lord’s immedi­ ately after the general meeting, on Wed­ nesday, May 1. T h e members of the East Molesey C.C. presented Arthur Stoner, the slow bowler who has occasionally played for Surrey, with a silver watch on the occasion of his leaving Surrey to commence an engage­ ment near Sunderland. The chairman remarked that Stoner had played 200 innings for the East Molesey C.C., scoring 4,125 runs, thus averaging 20'6 per innings; and that he had taken 739 wickets at a cost of 9 '4 runs apiece. T h e bad weather last year and the collapse of the Yorkshire match at Chel­ tenham were the chief causes of a deficit of £340 in the Gloucestershire balance sheet. The receipts amounted to £3,031 0s. 4d.;gate money £1,95013s. Id., and members’ subscriptions £1,083 4s. The expenditure, £3,373 3s. 4d., the leading items b ein g : expenses of players, £1,405 19s.; preparing grounds, erecting stands, material, gatemen, police, etc., £615 17s. 9 d .; ground bowlers, £256 12s. 8 d .; secretary’s salary, £ 2 0 0 ; luncheons, £194 3s. 4d. The balance in hand on December 31 was £2,127 9s. 2d.