Cricket 1902

Aug. 21, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 361 C a p t a in G r e ig , whose all-round cricket would have been so invaluable to Hampshire this season, has been bowling as well as batting with success during the leisure he has had from his military duties in India. In a match at Ganeshkind between the Ganeshkind and Kirkee elevens at the end of July, he retired when he had made 100, which was one more than half of the total of 197 made by the ho me eleven from the bat. Besides this he took seven of the nine Kirkee wickets which fell to the bowlers. T h e Australian cricketers do not seem as yet to have really got much “ forrader ” with the additions they contemplated making to their original programme. A match against the English team which visited Australia last winter has more than once, even before the Australians reach ed home, appeared to be a probability. Re­ cent events, how­ ever, lead to the belief that there is after all little chance of it com­ ing off. Indeed, it is just on the cards that the team may leave England earlier than the end of next month, as was e x p e cte d when the invita­ tion to South Africa was ac­ cepted. How great the tension was at the finish of the test match at the Oval last week can be imagined from the excitement of the spectator who p u t his field glasses into the hands of a neigh­ bour instead of his own. Hap­ pily, the incident ended satisfac­ torily. As a matter of fact the owner was able to recover his property through the agency of the secretary of the Surrey County C.C., to whom he had reported his loss. I t was a bit of hard luck that Lock­ wood and Richardson should have by a mere accident missed last Saturday a distinction which does not fall to many bowlers in the course of the year of keeping up their ends un­ changed during the two innings of a first-class game. Surrey’s two fast bowlers practically did this in the Lanca­ shire match at the Oval at the end of last week. Lockwood, who had made a lot of runs in the first innings of Surrey, had rubbed one of his toes badly while batting, and had to consult a doctor with regard to its treatment between the innings, fearing that he might be prevented from continuing the game. As he had to have his foot attended to, a substitute had to take his place in the field for a few minutes. In his absence, Brockwell had bowled two overs, which he would other­ wise not have done. J. R in c k e r , the Dutch cricketer, will have a pleasant recollection at least of two of the first three matches he played against the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Club. He must certainly have satisfied the M.C.C. with regard to his capacity as an all-round player on these two occasions. At Bath in the return match of the Gentlemen of Holland’s tour last August he took seven of the ten wickets of a fairly strong team of M.C.C. Last week he showed his ability as a batsman with an excellent second inniDgs of 68 touched a bat once while he was in South Africa. O f late years the matches between Surrey and Lancashire have not only given rise to sensational incidents on occasions, but have not infrequently pro­ duced fairly heavy scoring. In the last three years at the Oval the Surrey Eleven have scored innings of 463, 313, 315 and 187. Two years ago 8urrey won by an innings and 99 runs. But for the absence of Messrs. D. L. A. Jephson and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, neither of whom could play last week owing to business reasons, the teams in 1900 and 1902 on the Surrey ground would have been identical. S ince his splendid innings at the Oval on Wednesday of last week, G. L. Jessop has been bothered b y a u to g r a p h hunters to such an extent that he has written to the Sportsman to say that in future he will exchange his autograph for a postal order of the value of five shillings, the pro­ ceeds to be given to the Cricketers’ N a tio n a l War Fund. This is going one better than the cricketer who, in reply to a request for his autograph, wrote as fo llo w s :— “ Dear S ir,— I never give my a u to g r a p h to anybody. Yours truly, So-and-so.” (It is not neces- Bary to mention the name.) Lockwood bowls to Tromper, who has just attempted a cut and missed the ball. AUSTRALIA V. ENGLAND AT THE OVAL. - Reproduced by permission o f Air. G. W. Beldam. at tbe Hague against the Amateur team the M.C.C. sent to Holland. This sum­ mer he is on paper one of the best of Dutch cricketers. A week or so ago he made a hundred, not a very common occurrence on Dutch wickets. The exact score was 103 not out for Amstels C.C. v. Yolharding. He also took four wickets for three runs. N. M il l e r , who came from the Streat­ ham club direct into the Surrey eleven and celebrated his first appearance in county cricket by making over a hundred, returned from the front at the commence­ ment of last week after two years’ active service. The following Saturday he took his place again in the Streatham eleven, and with quite his old success, putting up 87 against Wimbledon. Not a bad per­ formance for a cricketer who had only I t is not often that a fieldsman in the country has so many difficult chances as came in the way of F. H. B. Champain in the Gloucestershire match against the Australians at Cheltenham. He dis­ missed both Darling and Trumper by magnificent catches close to the boundary, while he also caught Noble, and had a very difficult chance from Trumper in addition. T h e r e were seven first class matches arranged for Monday, but in only two of them was it possible to begin play. These were Australians v. Gloucestershire and Surrey v. Derbyshire, play in the former lasting for twenty minutes and in the latter three hours and ten minutes. On Tuesday things were better, but there was no play in Derbyshire v. Surrey at Derby, Middlesex v. Lancashire at Lord’s, Somerset v. Yorkshire at Taunton and Essex v. Warwickshire at Edgbaston.