Cricket 1902

A ug . 7, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 329 W. L. M u r d o c h has again been mak­ ing a lot of runs, although he has not had a chance of playing much lately in first- class matches. But for London County v. Norwood, last week, he scored 201 not out, including twenty-nine 4’s, out of a total of 307 for 2 wickets ; and for the same team v. Oundle Rovers, on Friday, he made 104. T h e r e were several first-class batsmen playing at Bath, on Thursday last, in the match between elevens chosen by S. M. J. Woods and Braund, but if a judge of the game who had never seen any of them had been asked to pick them out from the rest, he would have been in a difficulty. For although a lot of runs were made during the day the big men made hardly any of them. S. M. J. Woods was out for 1, GUI for 6, C. Robson for 2, V. T. Hill for 20, R. B. Porch retired hurt for 0, and Braund did not go in. In a match at Horley lust week between theVillage and Mr. C.B.Gray’s team, 593 runs were made for the loss of 12 wickets. T. H. G. Welch, 204 not out, and Stanley Briggs, 125, put up 236 for the first wicket for Horley, who declared at 426 for 2 wickets. L o r d H a w k e ’s fine 126 for York­ shireagainst Surrey is the first hundred that he has scored for his county since 1899, although he made 107 this sea­ son for M.C.C. v. Oxford University at Lord’s. His highest score for Yorkshire was 166 against Warwick­ shire at Birmingham Yorkshire scored 887. second innings of Liverpool and District, on Friday, was brilliant in the extreme. Kitchener hit a ball from Roberts very high indeed on the leg side. Jessop ran about thirty yards and caught the ball with one hand, after turning round several times to get himself into a proper position, with his back to the sun, to make the catch. Q u ite a gloom has been cast over cricket in Perth by the sudden death of Mr. Charles Brand, the Perthshire Secre­ tary. Mr. Brand, who was a very smart wicket-keeper and a good batsman, was one of the most popular and efficient secretaries possessed by the club during the 75 years of its existence. English cricketers visiting Perth always experi­ enced great kindness at the hands of H . Chaplin. H .R .H . Prince o f W ales. J. Carpenter. Photo by A. Rischgitz, Sir F. Johnstone. I, N icholl J .A . Pepys. W . H . D yke. T . Baring. H . Davenport. H on. W . B . Portm an. S irG . Grant. I . Brassey. J. S . M ott. E. M . Smith. W . N . W aller. H on . H . Som erville. T . W . A . Bowyer. THE ONLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF THE KING AS A CRICKETER. T he above is a reproduction from a Photograph o f som e o f the members o f the Bullingdon Club, taken when K ing Edward V II. was Prince o f W ales. in 1896 when S t i l l another instance of two separate hundreds in a match. The latest is the 103 and 122 not out made by J. A. Gibb for Berkshire v. Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Competition at the end of last week. T h e above match was very finely con­ tested, for although Berkshire had a lead of 99 on the first innings, and scored 209 for 4 wickets in the second before declaring, Oxfordshire, who had to make 308 to win in three hours and-a-half, did so well that when the match ended they had scored 266 for the loss of only three wickets. T h e catch made by G. L . Jessop in the Mr. Brand, and only the day before his death he received a letter from Mr. A. Sowden, of the Bradford C.C., thanking him personally as well as the Perthshire Committee for the great hospitality extended to Bradford during their recent visit to Perth. T h e principal “ centurions” in Scot­ land during July were:—F. H. Fassou (Lasswade), 136 not out; J. J. Ainslie (Merchiston), 132; C. T. Mannes (Lord Eglinton’s XL), 125; H. J. Stevenson (Edin. Academicals), 125; J. Hastie (Watsonians), 117 not out; C. T. Mannes, 103; and F. J. Trotter (Royal High School, F.P.), 100. G lo u c e s t e r s h ir e are to play a two- days’ match at Perth on the 12th and 13th against a strong eleven chosen from five counties forming the championship. The “ Scottish Counties X I.” will be as follows:—W. R. Sharp, Captain (Forfar­ shire), W. Webster (Aberdeenshire), Joe Anderson (Perthshire), T. Johnston (Fifeshire), J. H. Orr (Stirlingshire), C. T. Mannes (Perthshire), G. K. Chalmers(Forfarshire), and R. MacGregor Mitchell (Perthshire), with Higgins, P., Chambers, G. H. (Forfarshire), and Mitchell, G. (Fifeshire). The full Gloucestershire eleven will come north, and only fine weather will be required to make the match a thorough success. The Championship Committee have made extensive preparations, chief of which is the erection for the occasion of a large grand stand. T h e Rev. Walter Fellows, who died on July 23 at Too- rakParsonage, near Melbourne, was the seventh son of the late Mr. Thomas Fellows, of Money- hill, Herts. He emigrated to Aus­ tralia in 1863, and in that year was appointed incum­ bent of St. John’s, Toorak, a large and important suburb of Melbourne. He was in his day a celebrated cricketer and fast bowler, and a member of I Zingari; heplayed for Oxford against Cambridge in 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857, and inGentle­ men v. Players, at Lord’s, in 1856 and 1857. T h in g s are a little mixed up in the following ex­ tract from the Liverpool Evening Express, of July 31st, referring to the match between G. L. Gloucestershire Eleven and Liverpool and District:— Spry resumed at 153. The change was soon effective, for w ith the total at 160 K irby placed a ball easily into the hands o f Boberts at m id-on . D uring his brief stay he made shire captain, A vb gk q j j vbgkq jj j vbgkqjj 11, w hich included tw o 4’ s. The Lancashire captain, A . T . K em ble, then joined Barnes. I n the days of four balls an over it was not an unusual thing for an analysis to show about the same number of runs scored as overs had been bowled, but with six balls an over it very rarely happens that a man can keep on for long at the rate of a run in four balls. For this reason Hargreave’s analysis of 45 overs, 15 maidens, 64 ruD8 in the first innings of Worcestershire v. Warwickshire stands as something quite out of the common.