Cricket 1902

33 0 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 7, 1902. T h e scores made by Stanley Briggs tbis season for Mr. J. C. Lovell’s XI., are as follows :— M ay 10 ... v. Hom e and Colonial *50 24 ... v. C r o y d o n .............................. 0 31 ... v. Beddington ................ *49 June 7 ... v. C r o y d o n ............................. *44 July 21 ... v. Brixton W anderers ... 16 12 ... v. D u lw ic h .............................. 6 16 ... v. Brixton W anderers ... ICO „ 26 ... v. H on. A rtillery Com pany *77 8 inning*,, 4 not o u t; 342 runs ; average, * Signifies not out. 85-5 T he following innings of a hundred have been played for and against the Australians dui ing the present tour :— FOE AUSTRALIA. MAY. 10—D arling, v. N otts.................................................128 12—Trum per v. S urrey...........................................101 17—H ill, v. E ssex....................................................... 104 22—Trum per, v. Os ford .............................. 121 27—Trum per, v. M .C.C............................................105 JU N E . 9—Trum per, v. Cambridge ...128 16 - T rum ptr, v. An E n glan d X I (Bradford) 113 2 6 - D uff, v. A n Ergland Eleven (B radford) J82 JU L Y . 4—B ill, v. England X I (8h «ffield )................ 119 16 —H ill, v. Gloucet-tershire .............................. Iv3 15— N oble v. G loucestershire.............................. 100 15—H opkics, v. Gloucestershire ................ *105 18—D uff, v. S o m e r s e t ...........................................183 24—T rum per, v. England (M anchester) ... 104 2 9 - Trum per, v. E sse x ........................................... 109 30— Trum per, v. E sse x ...........................................119 A U G U ST . 1—N oble, v. Suesex ...........................................284 1—A rm strong, v. Sussex .............................*172 A G A IN S T A U S T R A L IA . M A Y . 6— Braund, fo r London County ................ 104 59—Tyldesley, for England (Edgbaston) ... 138 J U N E .-N o n e . J U L Y . 21—A bel, fo r Surrey ................. ... ... 104 25—F . S. Jackson, for England (M anchester) 128 In his last article in the Sydney Referee, upon the Australian team, Mr. L. O. S. Poidevin relates the following reminis­ cence :— It happened in Australia that the present ■writer, with a number of other small boys, was playing cricket at the back of a country pavilion when an English teamwas engaging a local 22. Shrewsbury having some time on hand essayed to bowl me out. Modesty forbids that I should say more, but I never forgot it when Shrewsbury accompanied his “ pats” onmy head With the remark “ that he expected to see me playing in the old country some day.” Of course, he doesn’ t remember it, but, boy-like, it stuck to me. I n the first match of the Hampstead C.C. tour, at Bexhill against Buckington House, G. A. S. Hickson scored 146 and not out 102 for Hampstead. His first innings lasted for an hour and a half and his second for an hour and a quarter. O n Monday Wass required nine wickets to complete the hundred for the season. At the Oval, against Surrey, he took nine wickets for Notts for 91 runs, and at one time he seemed to have an excellent chance of booking the whole ten to his credit, for he took the first eight straight off the reel. I t looks as if there will be a fairly close race between Trumper and Abel for the two thousand aggregate for the season— with the odds on Trumper. Up to the present time Trumper has made 1676 runs and Abel 1590. T h e list of men who had scored a thousand runs this season up to Saturday night is as follows : Shrewsbury, Trum­ per, Rsnjitsinhji, Tyldesley, T . L. Taylor, Iremonser, C. B. Fry, Abel, C. J. B. Wood, Duff, C. J. Burnup, Clement Hill, Hayward, G. L. Jessop, and E. W. Dillon. Since then A. C. Maclaren, Kuight, McGahey, Hirst, Denton and Tunnicliffe have come i n . ------ B r a u n d , Haigh, Albert Trott, Cran­ field and Wass come into tbe list of the few men who have taken a hundred wickets, with Bhodes, Tate andLiewellyn. T h e following account of an incident in the career of K. Sesbacbari, the well- known Madras native ciicketer, is taken from the Indian Sporting Times :— W h ile in Madras Seshachari was a constant guest at the Ordnance Cricket Club, which was then one of the best organised institu­ tions of its kind in the city. A cricket match was on the day’ s card, the match being against a strong regim ental team. In the second innings the Ordnance wicket-keeper was unable to continue behind the sticks ow ing to a bruised finger, and Seshachari’s services were requisitioned, the regimentals being ignorant of the local crack’s p roclivi­ ties in this particular direction. But to their chagrin and discomfiture he proved so detri­ m ental to the Tomm ies that no less than six m en were sent to the “ right-about ” — which presumably is the largest number of dismissals to any wicket-keeper’s credit. AccORDlNGto ourIndian contemporary, Seshachari is a fine bat, not only playing in an attractive style, but piling up his score particularly fast. He is very strong on the leg side, being an adept at the “ pull” stroke; and of late he has deve­ loped an off-stroke by which he sends the ball with great rapidity past extra cover. In addition to his play he is a great enthusiast, none being more keen on the game. Seshachari has a very large share of Ooty’s success, for he bats, bowls and keeps wicket uncommonly well. If ever an “ All India” team should cross the seas to England, it is believed that his presence in it will be a tower of strength. A l b e r t W a r d , for whose benefit the Bank Holiday match at Old Trafford between Yorkshire and Lancashire was played, had scored 15,603 runs for his county before the above match, in which he made 26. He has twenty-four times made a hundred for Lancashire and five times in other first-class matches. He is a Yorkshireman by birth, and played a few times for his native county. T h e special cricket representative of the Evening News touches with a light hand upon the ancestry of Ernest Jones, the Australian bowler, as follows:— “ The spectators were delighted to see Jones go on some little time afterwards. Jones is of Welsh descent, his parents having been bom in North Wales, so Welshmen look upon him as a sort of prodigal son.” A. C. J o h n s to n , of this year’ s Win­ chester College eleven, who made a very creditable first appearance for Hampshire against Surrey at Southampton last week, is going to Sandhurst. From a purely cricket standpoint it is a pity that he is destined for the Army, as with the requisite experience in first-class matches, there would have been every chance of his developing into an all-round player of considerably above the average. N e x t year’s Winchester eleven will be largely made up of new choices, as in addition to Johnston, C. J. de B. Sheringham, who was captain of the College football, as well as the cricket eleven, N. B. Udal, L. E. Parsons, B. C. Morgan andM. H. McConnel,tomy know­ ledge, are all leaving. The last five, I may add, are all going up to Oxford University. Among other useful public school cricketers Oxford will be able to claim next year are O. T. Norris, also a double captain (cricket and football), and W. J. H. Curwen, a triple first of Charterhouse. On the other hand I have already heard of three good school players bound for Cambridge. They are C. H. Eyre and F. J. V. Hopley, of Harrow, and J. Horsfall, of Tonbridge. L a s t week’s cricket has caused a redis­ tribution of seats in the Second Division of the County Championship. North­ amptonshire has had to cede first place to Wiltshire, who have been fortunate enough to play all their nine matches out to a finish. Though Wilts have lost two matches, according to the new system of scoring which allows three points for a win they are at the head with an aggregate of twenty-one points for their sevenvictories. Northamptonshire, which has lost one and drawn one matoh, has gained nineteen points, i.e., eighteen for six wins and one for a lead on the first innings of an unfinished game. The rain has only allowed Surrey, who have played seven matches without a defeat, to finish four, and they have to be content with twelve points for them with one point each for two in which they led on the one innings finished, or fourteen points in all. C O U N T Y C H AM P IO N SH IP (2 nd D ivision ). The follow ing table shows the relative positions o f the sixteen com peting Counties up to A ugust 2 :— W iltshire............9 . N orth’pt’nshire 9 , Surrey (2nd) ... 7 . Durham ............4 . Staffordshire... 5 . H ertfordshire... 6 . Glamorganshire 8 , M onm outhshire 4 . Yorkshire (2nd) 6 . Berkshire............6 . Buckingh’ shire. 4 . Northum b’land 7 . Devonshire ... 3 . 3 points for m atch w on ; 1 point fo r m atch decided on first innings ; 44 matches pla yed; 30 finished ; 10 decided on first in nings; 4 drawn. T h e Dutch cricketers will have the opportunity next week of returning the hospitality they received from the Mary- i 1 1 V V '1 & a § £ , a .3 1 .2 bo JS 1 & as■*3 o a 1*1 « P h £ 7 ... 0 .. . 0 .. . 27 .. . 21 .. . 77-7 6 .... 1 .. . 1 .... 27 ..,. 19 .,. 70-3 4 .... 2 ... 1 .. . 21 ..,. 14 .. . 66*6 2 .... 0 .. . 0 .. 12 ..,. 6 .. 50-0 2 ... 1 * . . 0 .. . 15 ..„ . 7i .. 50*0 2 ... 1 .. . 1 .. . 18 .. . 7 .. . 38*8 3 .. 0 .. . 1 .,.. 24 .,,. 9 .. . 87*5 1 ... 1 .. . 1 .. . 12 .. . 4 .. . 33-3 1 ... 2 .. . 1 .. . 18 .. . 5 .. . 27-7 1 ... 1 .. . 0 ... 15 .. . 4 .. . 26*6 1 ... 0 .. . 0 ... 12 .. . 3 .. . 25 0 0 ... . 0 .. . 21 .. . §.. . 2 3 0 ... 0 .. . 0 .. . 9 .. . 0 .. , — 0 ... 0 .. . 2 .. . 12 .. . 0 .. . __ 0 ... 0 .. . 0 ... 12 ... 0 .. , __ 0 ... 0 .. ■ 0 .. . 9 .. 0 .. . —