Cricket 1902

250 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 3, 1902. C ricketers of former days who are beginning to lament that no matches pay except those connected with the County Championship and Australian tours, will be glad to hear that the gate receipts at Derby, in the match between Derbyshire and London County, amounted to about £200, the largest sum taken on the Derby County Ground for many years. A t the beginning of last week Tate, the Sussex bowler, brought his total of wickets, for the season, to a hundred. He has now been followed by Llewellyn, the Hampshire bowler, who ended the week with 103 wickets. Rhodes was close at hand with 85 wickets. F or the last nine days Lord Hawke has not been seen in the Yorkshire eleven but he has instead played in three first- class matches for the M.C.C. He had not met with much success for Yorkshire, but in these three matches he has made 12 and not out 27 v. Derbyshire; 23 v. Cambridge University; and 107 not out and 20 v. Oxford University. O n Monday the County Championship table was headed by Leicestershire, alone in its glory, with a hundred per cent. As this is perhaps the only time that this county has appeared at the head of the list, and as it is hardly likely to retain the proud position long, we append the table as a curiosity :— Percen- Pld. W on Lost Drn. Pts. age. Leicestershire 8 ... 1 ...0 ... 7 ... 1 ...If0*00 Yorkshire ... 11 ... 5 ...1 ... 5 ... 4 ... 66-06 Surrey ...........12 ... 2 ...1 ... 9 ... 1 ... 33*33 Sussex ...........10 ... 4 ...2 ... 4 ... 2 ... 33 33 Lancashire ... 12 ... 5 ...3 ... 4 ... 2 ... 25‘CO Somerset ... 9 ... 4 ...3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 14*28 Derbyshire ... 6 ... 1 ...1 ... 3 ...— ... — Essex ........... 8 ... 1 ...1 ... 6 ...— ... — Warwickshire 8 ... 2 ...2 ... 4 ...— ... — Kent ...........10 ... 3 ...4 ... 3 ...—1 .. — 14*28 Worcestershire 11 ... 3 .. 4 ... 4 ...—1... — 14*28 Gloucestershire 10 ... 2 ...3 ... 5 ...—1 .. — 20 00 Notts ........... 9 ... 1 ...2 ... 6 ...—1 .. — 3333 Middlesex ... 7 ... 0 ...3 ... 4 ...—3... — 100 00 Hampshire ... 6 ... 0 ...4 ... 2 ...—4... — 100*00 N .B .—The losses are deducted from victories and drawn games ignored, the points thereby obtained being compared according to the proportion of matches finished. K nutton , the bowler who on Thursday last so nearly accomplished the feat of taking about ten wickets of the Austra­ lians for the scratch eleven at Bradford, is a fast bowler who was bom in Oxford­ shire. He has played for Warwickshire, but has lately been one of the bowlers of the Bradford Club, for whom he has often done very well indeed. He had the dis­ tinction of taking threeAustralian wickets in his second over, the batsmen being Noble, Hill and Darling. A bel was not left for long as the only man who had scored a thousand runs this season, for on Thursday Trumper brought his total to 1,024. Before commencing his innings of 113 at Bradford, Trumper required 89 runs to bring his figures to a thousand. He has now scored five innings of a hundred during the tour, as follow s:— Australians v. Surrey, at Oval ................... 101 Australians v. Oxford, at Oxford .............. .. 121 Australians v. M.C.C., at Lord’s ................... 106 Australians v. Cambridge, at Cambridge ........ 128 Australians v. An EnglandXI., at Bradford ... 113 R. A. D u f f , who scored 182 for the Australians against the scratch team at Bradford, had previously not played an innings of fifty during the tour. He made his runs very quickly, being at the wickets for only two hours and forty minutes. A c u r io s it y of the first water occurred in connection with a match played in Finsbury Park on the 21st ult. between Green Laces 2nd X I. and St. Jude’s. The former side, going in first, made but ten runs, all of which were obtained by the first man in, C. Welton, whose wicket was the eighth to fall. The full score is appended:— I.V FINSBURY PA RK , LONDON, 21st JUNE, 1902. G reen L anes 2 nd X I. C. Welton, c Ramm, b Blackbee ........... 10 S. Staley, lbw, b Spendlove ................... 0 R. H. Volckman, b Blackbee ................... 0 C. W . Hunt, c Coulthurst, b Blackbee ... 0 S. Cooper, c Spendlove, b Blackbee........... 0 M. Campbell, b B lack bee......................... 0 J. H. Prater, b Blackbee .......................... 0 A. S. Roper, run out .................................. 0 T. Roper, b Spendlove................................. 0 R. Henderson, not out.................................. 0 Extras .......................................... 0 T o ta l........... S t . J ude ’ s . 10 A . E. Ramm, b Cooper ........... C. Symmons, b V olckm an.......... O. Spendlove, not o u t................... E. Phillips, b Cooper ................... W . Clark, c Welton, b Cooper ... . 9 . 0 . 63 0 W . Morgan, c Henderson, b Yolckman .. 0 A. DunglisoD, b Cooper ........................ 4 S. Blackbee, c Hunt, b Yolckman ........... 3 W . Turner, b Volckman ........................ 4 A . Clark, not o u t ........................................ 1 S. Coulthurst, did not b a t.......................... 0 Extras .......................................... 6 T o ta l................................ 97 The above performance is by no means unique, the record for such a feat being made in a match played in or about 1859 betv, een Chalcot and Bow. The former made 27 and 11, and the latter 99. H.Payne not only obtained all the runs (24 and 10) from the bat in each innings of Chalcot, but went in first on each occasion and carried out his bat. T h e following are the elevens selected by the M.C.C. for the Gentlemen and Players match at Lord’s next Monday:— GENTLEMEN. A. C. MacLaren (Lanca­ shire) F. S. Jackson (Yorkshire) C. B. Fry (Sussex) K . S. Ranjitsinhji (Sussex) G. L. Jessop (Gloucester­ shire) PLAYERS. J. R. Mason (Kent) A. E. Newton (Somerset) T. L. Taylor (Yorkshire) D. L. A . Jephson(Surrey) E. M. Dowson (Cambridge T. C. Ross Dublin), University and Surrey) (Phoenix Club, Hirst (Yorkshire) Rhodes (Yorkshire) Denton (Yorkshire) Tunnicliffe (Yorkshire) Hunter (Yorkshire) Abel (Surrey) Lockwood (Surrey) Tyldesley (Lancashire) Iremonger (Notts) Braund (Somerset) Tate (8ussex). I n the above list the names of Albert Trott, Haigh, Hayward, and Shrewsbury, do not appear. Shrewsbury was asked to play but declined. Hayward has been unfortunate this year, and Trott hardly up to form, but it is certainly curious that Haigh, who has been thought good enough to figure among the twelve men from which the England X I. is to be selected to-day, is yet not good enough for the first twenty-two men. Iremonger and Tate have been chosen for the first time. Among the Gentlemen is T. C. Ross, who attracted so much attention as a bowler during the visit of the Irish team early this season ; he then took 25 wickets at an average of about 17i', runs apiece. ------ T h e Veterans are again to the front this week. Lord Hawke with 107 not out at Lord’s on Monday, J. A Dixon 108 for Notts on Monday, and W. New­ ham 153 for Sussex on Monday and Tues­ day. Last week W. L. Murdoch was also in form. ------ A MATCH of a somewhat extraordinary character was played recently in Phila­ delphia between Belmont and German­ town A. The latter is not a scratch or second team as it would be understood in England, but the first team as contrasted with the B team. The contest took place in the Halifax Cup Competition, which to some extent answers to our County Championship. Germantown scored 74, to which Belmont replied with 344, thus having a lead of 270 on the first innings. Germantown then set to work and put up 559, of which F. H. Bohlen was re­ sponsible for 208. Thus Belmont despite their enormous lead on the first innings still had to make 291 to win, a task which they accomplished for the loss of seven wickets. F. H. B o h l e n ’ s 208 in the above match is a record for a first-class match in America, the two scores nearest to it being 202 by G. S. Patterson and 180 by F. H. Bates. The total of runs made in the match was 1,258 for 37 wickets; this is also, I believe, an American record. As pictorial postcards have a consider­ able vogue just now it was a good idea on the part of Mr. S. Combridge, of Hove, to print a series of cricketers inclu­ ding the Australians. They are to be found all over England at stationers, etc. The photographic reproductions are clear and—a matter of some importance—it is not necessary to look first at the names of the cricketers in order to know who is being represented. I n the list of honours published last Thursday the names of the following cricketers appear. Messrs. James Round, M.P., and A. F. Jeffreys, M .P., who become Members of the Privy Council. Messrs. A. Conan Doyle and J. T. Fir- bank, who become Knights. Mr. Edmund Barton, who becomes a G.C.M.G. Mr. S . O’H. Livesay, who becomes a Com­ panion of the Distinguished Service Order, and Mr. A. J. Turner also appears in the list. Mr. Barton is, or rather was a Sydney cricketer, who played for Sydney University. Mr. James Round was the wicket-keeper for the Gentlemen against the Players from 1864 to 1868. Mr. Livesay is the Kent Amateur, Mr. A. J. Turner the Essex Amateur, Mr. Firbank ia an old Cheltonian, and Mr. Jeffreys an old Oxonian, who has played for Hants, while everybody knows who Sir A. Conan Doyle is.