Cricket 1903

M ay 14, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 139 the club, and with E. G. Hayes, who is an old member of Honor Oak, the Eleven will on occasions be greatly strengthened. T h e Marlborough Blues, who attained their majority last year, have entered on their 22nd season with the best of pros­ pects. Their record last summer was particularly good. Though a large pro­ portion of the games were drawn owing to the wet weather and want of time, the balance of finished games was all on the right side, showing eight wins and only two defeats. The feature of this year’s card is the arrangement of three tours —the Northern, the Kent and the Devon respectively. The Blues are fortunate in having for their president that once brilliant all-round cricketer, Mr. A. G. Steel, K.O., last year’s president of the Marylebone Club. T h e news of the fatal accident to Lieut, the Hon. W. Montgomerie, of the S cots Greys, reached his father, the Earl of Eglinton, on Saturday evening as he was retiring from the cricket ground at Eglinton Castle at the finish of a match with Golf Hill. The young lieutenant when at home played regularly with his father’s eleven, and had made great strides as a cricketer during the last few years. He served with the 4th battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Boer War, and received an enthusiastic welcome on his return home. As a result of this sad event, all cricket has been suspended for the time on the Eglinton Castle ground, though it is expected the eleven will resu ne play before the end of the 3eason. T h e Bazaar organised by the Cardiff Cricket Club, with the object of raising funds for the erection of a new pavilion, held at the end of last week, it is pleasant to hear proved a decided success. The distinction of opening it fell to that excellent sportsman, Mr. J. H. Brain, who was followed on the three succsed- ing days by Lord Windsor, the Mayor of Cardiff, and Mr. A. C. Maclaren respec­ tively. The occasion of Mr. Maclaren’s visit seems to have been profitably utilised if the report is true that the Lancashire captain has promised to get up an All England Eleven to play at Cardiff during the course of the season. “ T he cry is still they come.” Another Australian cricketer, J. A. Cuffe, has just arrived in England with the object of qualifying for Woicastershire. He is a left-handed medium-pace bowler, and is regarded as a player of great promise in Sydney, where he has been playing the last two seasons. He bats right-handed, and as he is now only twenty-three, bids to come along when he obtains experience in first-class cricket. T h e r e seems now to be ground for the hope that Robert Abel will be able to take his place in the Surrey X I. before very loDg. His eyesight, which necessi­ tated his spending over two months in Ventnor, has shown such an improvement during the last fortnight that he has been able to get some practice this week. The bowlers who had a turn at him at the nets the last two days are quite satisfied that he can see the ball all right. T h e “ Derbyshire Cricket Guide” is now in its eighth year of issue. It is edited by Messrs. L. G. Wright and W. J. Piper, jun., and published by Messrs. Bacon and Hudson, Derby, at the price of 2J. Among the contents, whicti are very varied, are articles on “ Mr. E. M. Ashcroft,” “ First-Class Cricket in 1903” (by L. G. W.), and “ A Larger Wicket,” by F. S. Ashley-Cooper. A really good pen drawing of a cricket match appears in this week’s Punch. Toe artist is G. D. Armour, who has very nearly succeeded in accomplishing the almost impossible task of making a sketch which in all particulars satisfies the eye of a player. Everything is technically right except the position of the square-leg umpire, who is in ex­ tremely dangerous proximity to the bats- ARKLEY v. HATFIELD.—Played at Hatfield on May 9. H atfikld . First innings. Second innings. Cranfield, o Crowther, b Jessop............................... 2 b Hammond ... 4 H. Wells, b Hammond ... 5 run out .......... 6 Rev.C. Briggs, lbw, b Dum­ belton .............................. 22 b Hammond ... 0 W.L.Thorcgood,cCrowther, b Dumbelton .................17 b Dumbelton ... 12 H. Bosanquet, b Hammond 12 c Hammond, b Jessop ........... 6 T. Clarke, b Jessop ......... 17 b Dumoelton ... 6 J. Bishop, not out .......... 7 b Dumbelton ... 2 J. Talkington, b Jessop ... 0 b Dumbelton ... 0 L. Sharp, b Jessop .......... 0 not out ............ 0 E. Elliott, b Jessop ......... 0 st Crowther, b Dumtelton ... 2 Challis, c Robson, b Nimmo 1 b Jessop ............ 1 B 2, lb 1 .................. 3 Byes ........... 6 Total .................I Total ... 43 A b k l k y . H.Williams,cCranfield, G. G. Dumbelton, b b Btiggs W. C Nimmo, b Cran­ field ........................ W. Chapelow, b Cran­ field ........................ G. W. Hammond, b G. L. Jessop, c Clarke, b Briggs ................. 32 Briggs .................15 S. N. Crowther, st Bishop, b Cranfield 1 J. H. Robson, not out 2 H. Wood, b Briggs ... 0 Bye ................. 1 Total Second innings G. W. Hammond, not out, 8 ; G. L. Jessop, c and b Brigge, 40; G. G. Dumbelton, not out, 0.—Total, 48. WANDERER 8 v. EAST MOLE 8 EY.—Played at East Molesey on May 9. W a n d k b iu s . K. E. M. Barker, b Malleson.................36 L. 8 . Wills, c Potter, b Malleson ..........21 R. B. Brooks,c Blount, b Malleson ......... 22 J. E. G. Hadath, c Stagg,b Malleson ... 1 T. A. Darke, st Vo­ gel, b Parkes..........29 D. L.A.Jeph*on,bStagg 65 b. Colman, not out ... 24 H. Stafford-v\ ebber, not out .................24 B 12, lb 1 ..........13 Total (6 wkts) 225 A. W. Boultbee, P. Taylor and H. F. Waller did not bat. B ast M o lk sby . L. Malleson, b Jeph­ son ........................ 2 G. L. Beardsley,o Tay­ lor, b Wills ..........17 B. lUount, b Jephson 5 H. R. P«rkea, c and b Colm%n ................14 F. E. C. Clarke, b Bar­ ker ... ................. 10 H. B. Vogel, b Taylor 6 E. Stagg, st Brooks, b Colman ................. 1 E. Potter, b Jephson.. 4 J?‘. T. Mawbey,notout 8 Doughty, b Barker ... 0 C. Bounard, run out.. 3 B 2, w 1 .......... 8 Total 78 OBITUARY. M r . A r t h u r H a y o a r t h . By the death of Mr. Arthur Haygarth at his London residence on the 1st iust., at the age of seventy-seven, there passed away a famous cricketer, whose name will always be gratefully recalled as long as the game continues to be played. Although a very capable exponent of the game which he loved so much, he will always be chiefly known to fame as the compiler of the Crirket Scores and Biogra­ phies. In 1842, whilst still at Harrow School, he commencad his labour of love, being but sixteen years of age at the time, and it says much for his enthu­ siasm for his work to state that to the day of his death his interest in the subject remained as great as ever. When he began to collect facts concerning the history of cricket and the chief players, it was merely as an amusement, and with no idea of his notes ever being published. In 1852, however, Mr. F. P. Miller, the captain of the famous Surrey team of which Caffyn, H. H. Stephenson, Lookyer, Mortlock, Griffith, and Csesar were the leading lights, asked Mr. Hay­ garth to lend him his manuscript with a view to publication. To this the latter readily consented, though Vol. I. did not appear until ten years later. In 1873 the M.C.C. invited Mr. Haygarth to continue bis work, with the result that the last ten volumes of the magnum opus have been published through the instru­ mentality of the premier club. Altogether the work consists of fourteen volumes, every line of which was penned by Mr. Haygarth, the statement inserted at the commencement of the first volume that the Lillywhites assisted in the compila­ tion being altogether inaccurate, and inserted merely to suit their own ends. It would be impossible to over-estimate the value of Mr. Haygarth’s labours, whilst to state that his death creates a gap which it will be impossible to fill is a fact of which every student of the game is fully conscious. For a period of over 60 years he worked loyally at his self-imposed task, never losing heart when meeting with a rebuff, nor becom­ ing weary in seeking out unexplored fields that promised to contain any records or novelties connected with the game. With reference to his great work, Mr. Haygarth wrote: “ There is certainly one great mistake, or, rather, oversight, which I made during the 50 years and upwards in which I was engaged on the Cricket Scores and Biographies, and it is this—I preserved too many matches of an inferior calibre by far. If I had not done this the fourteen volumes already published would have reached a date much further than they do now, namely, to the end of 1878.” The last volume issued was the fourteenth, in 1894, the M.C.C. declining to continue publication owing to the fact that it was not a success financi-illy. This action on tbe part of the club caused Mr. Haygarth much distress, but did not result iu his enthusiasm for the game lessening in the slightest degree. A short time before his death