Cricket 1902

J une 2 6 , 1902. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 235 O n Friday there was no play in five out of the seven matches. With regard to the other two there was play for three hours at the Oval, and for two hours and twenty minutes at Tonbridge, the Kent v. Gloucestershire match beiog brought to a conclusion there ten minutes before time. I n the Coronation number of Punch, a “ Court of Overflow Claims ” is held. Among the claims are the following:— Mr. Brock, R.A., claimed the entire area of the Horse Guards Parade for a colossal effigy of Ranjitsinhji, the Black Prince (Declined). Mr. Alfred Austin (Poet Laureate), claimed to write a poem to Australia’s Darling. (Referred for permission to Australian Team.) I n the match between M.C.C. and Ground v. Derbyshire, V. F. 8. Crawford made his first appearance for the M.C.C. An amusing tale is told in the Sydney Mail of a match between the Bal naiu Junior and St. George Cricket Associations:— “ When it came to the turn of the men of St. George to bat they were obliged to draw for positions on the batting list, and as the afternoon was well advanced it looked as though the ‘ tail-enders ’ would be deprived of the chance of a strike. JSothwithstanding that several of the lucky ones voluntarily retired after making a few runs the wickets did not fall fast enough to satisfy one player who had drawn a big number from the hat, and he hit upon the brilliant idea of getting himself appointed umpire for a short time, with the result that every member of the teamwas eventually given the satisfaction of a knock at the ball.” T h e record of the Australians up to yesterday is as follows:—Fifteen matches; eight won, one lost, and six drawn. They have defeated Notts, Surrey, Leicestershire, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, An England Eleven (East­ bourne), Derbyshire and Yorkshire ; they have been beaten by Yorkshire; and have drawn with England (two), London County, Essex, M.C.C. and Lancashire, the two England matches alone being to their disadvantage—altogether an excellent record. Nearly all their matches have been interfered with by rain, five of them being altogether spoiled. T h e tables turned:—Surrey v. Cam­ bridge at the Oval, 1901: Surrey won by 44 runs. Surrey v. Cambridge, at the Oval, 1902 : Cambridge won by 44 runs. T h e following notice appeared in the Church Times of June 13th :— CATOR.—On the 6th inst., at Woodbast- wick Hall, Norfolk, the Rev. William Cator, Curate-in-Charge of Stratton Straw- less, Norfolk, aged 62. Mr. Cator was educated at. St. John’s College, Oxford, and played against Cambridge inl860. “ Lillywhite’s Guide” (1861) says of him: “ Shows us, at times, some really magnificent hitting.” To some Members of the House of Commons, says the Daily Chronicle, the cricket news must appeal as the view hallo to the aged hunter, for there is nearly a full eleven of first class cricketers now gathered at St. Stephen’s. The most famous, of course, is the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton, who, as batsman, wicket­ keeper, and lob-bowler, figured in the Cambridge, Gentlemen’s, and All Eng­ land teams. Next, perhaps, in merit comes Mr. George Kemp, likewise a Light Blue and a Lancashire player. Other county cricketers are Messrs. A. F. Jeffreys and H. W. Foster, who both played for Hampshire, and Messrs. James Round and P. M. Thornton, who formerly played for Essex. Mr. B. Y. Wentworth still occasionally plays for the M.C.C., and Sir R. T. Reid, ex- Attorney - General, kept wicket for Oxford, while Mr. Arthur Priestley took a team of amateur cricketers to the West Indies, five years ago. I n a recent school match at High Barnet there was a strange instance of a batsman monopolising nearly all the scoring. For Cowley House School against Oakfield School Mr. E. H. E. Morgan (a master) scored 129 not out, going in first. The total of the innings was 134, including four extraB, so that Mr. Morgan made 129 out of i30 from the bat. The score of this innings was as follows: — C ow ley H ouse S chool . Mr. E. H . E. Morgan, not out ..........129 Cox, b W elch ............................................. 0 Furlong, b Langfier ........... ........... 0 Etheridge, o Jack, b Langfier ............. 0 Goddard (i), b Langfier............................. 0 Mee, b Langfier ..................................... 0 Goddard (ii), c Jack, b Varley ........... 0 Glaisby, run out ..................................... 1 Tidmarsh, b Fraser..................................... 0 Meikle, c Jack, b Fraser ..................... 0 Bennett, b Fraser ..................................... 0 Extras ............................. 4 Total ..134 T h e Australians, who had left the last three days of this week blank, in order to see the Coronation, have now arranged to play a scratch “ England ” team at Bradford on those days. Of course, in the short time, it was not possible to get together a good side against them, but W. G. Quaife, Hargreave, Kinneir, Knight, Wrathall, Bairstow, and possibly P. Perrin, G. L. Jessop, Mead and C. M’Gahey will play. Members of the local eleven will fill up any places which may not be accounted for by well-known cricketers. ------ O n Tuesday, Tate took his hundredth wicket for the season, being the first bowler to accomplish the feat. He was shortly afterwards obliged to retire, having again damaged his finger. T h e performance of G. A. Sandeman in obtaining 16 wickets in this week’s match between Eton and Winchester recalls to memory the fact that at Lord’s in 1869, Mr. C. K. Francis, the present Metropolitan magistrate, claimed 17 of the 20 Marlborough wickets for Rugby —seven in one innings and all 10 in the other. T h e Sussex County Cricket Annual for 1902, edited by “ Willow Wielder,” and published by W. E. Nash, Sussex Evening Times Office, Brighton, Price 2d., contains the records of the county and the chief clubs and schools. Also articles on the Australians in Sussex. William Lillywhite (by F. S. Ashley- Cooper), etc., etc. C k ic k e t e r s who occasionally like to take a voyage, will be glad to know that the well-known “ London Belle,” and “ Southend Belle,” and other “ Belle” steamers, will run as usual during the present week, and also in addition on Friday next. M.C.C. & GROUND v. DERBYSHIRE. Played at Lord’s on June 23 and 24. M.C.C. won by six wickets. W ith Trott and Mead against them on a wicke* which had not yet recovered from the heavy rains, Derbyshire did very well indeed to get into the second hundred in their first innings. This was the result of good batting by several members of the team, nearly every man who came in making a useful score. Pro­ minently among them stood L. G. W right, whose 41 was in every way an excellent innings. No one else, except Warren, made over twenty, but extras came in very useful with 26. The M.C.C. commenced their innings well. By the end of the day each side had completed an innings, M.C.C. being 60 runs behind. W . L. Murdoch and F. H. Bohlen, the Philadelphian cricketer, both placed a fine game, and at the end of the day, J. T. Ht arne made a very use­ ful score. So far Derbyshire had good reasons to congratulate themselves, but on Tuesday their batting broke down rather badly, although L. G-. W right again deserved well o f his side by scoring 39 out of the first 47, and Hulme made things lively just before the close of the innings. The M.C.C. were left with a much easier task than they could have anticipated, having only 149 to make—not that they could have felt certain of performing the task, for the wicket w^s by no means in favour of batsmen. But W . G. was In grand form, and played a splendid innings of 74 not out, while V . F. S. Crawford and Lord Hawke helped con«iderably towards the easy victory of the M.O.C. D erbyshire . First innings. L. G. W right, c Grace, b Trott ...................................41 Stapleton, b Mead ........... 1 W . Storer, c and b Trott .. 15 Chatterton, c Smith,b Grace 13 E. M. Ashcroft, b Trott ... 16 A. E. Lawton, o Craw ford, b T r o tt................................. 18 Warren, c Wallach, b Trott 28 Humphries, not out ...........24 Hulme, b Smith ...................13 Buxton, Ibw, b T rott........... 1 Bestwick, b Trott...................12 B 21, lb 4, nb 1 ...........26 Second innings. stWallach,bMead 31 b Mead................... 2 eCrawford.bMead 12 lbw, b Heam e ... 2 b Hearne ......... 0 b Mead................. 2 run out ......... 0 b Hearne ......... 6 not out...............28 b Mead........... ... 2 c Smith, b Mead 1 Byes ......... 2 Total ...........208 Total... M .C.C. and G round . W . G. Grace, b Buxton ... 9 not out..................74 W. L. Murdoch, st Hum­ phries, b Buxton ...........S8 b Warren ............ 9 Trott, b Hulme ................... 9 c Warren, b Best­ wick ................... 1 Y . F. 8.Crawford,bBestwick 0 b Storer ..........24 Lord Hawke, b Bestwick ... 12 not out.................27 A . Conan Doyle, b Hulme 0 F. H. Bohlen, b Warren ... 39 b Buxton ........... 9 G. Howard Smith, o Storer, b Hulme ........................... 0 Heam e (J. T.), not out ...21 Mead, b Bestwick ........... 6 Wallach, b Warren ........... 1 B 4 , lb 9, n b l ...........14 B 5 , lb 2 . . 7 Total.. ................148 Total (4 wkts) 161 D erbyshire . Heame Mead Grace Trott Smith First innings. O. M. B. W. 8 ... 10 ... 14 ... 19-6 8 3 24 0 ... 4 18 1 ... 2 28 1 ... 4 81 7 ... 0 28 1 ... Second innings. O. M. R. w . . 9 0 27 8 . 15-1 5 38 6 8 2 23 0 Smithdeliveredone no-ball.