Cricket 1903

234 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. J u n e 25, 1903. T h e following request comes from Belize, British Honduras. Perhaps some of our readers can give the required in­ formation :— Would you be good enough to try and find out this question for me, as it is creating a good deal of talk now. It is this:—1 happened the other day to pick up a piece of paper called the Black and White with a portrait of a team of cricketers. It was a test match, played at Birmingham, when Braund dismissed Hill by a most extraordin­ ary catch ; Braund appears to be behind the wicket. Now I want you to find out for me, please, and let me know as early as possible, what field was Braund on when he caught the ball, or, in other words, what was his field. This is causing a lot of disagreement in opinion as to the field he was on when the ball was caught. Trusting to hear from you early. T h e following tables, giving the aver­ ages of the principal Victorian cricketers during the season just over, are taken from the Australasian: — BATTING. No. Times Most of not in an inns, out inns. Total runs. Aver. F. Laver ... ..........18 4 241 869 6207 W . Bruce ... ......... 14 2 116 727 60:8 W . Armstrong ...........11 1 145 680 68 E. Bean .. ...........10 3 163* 379 5114 B. Tuckwell .........13 3 174* 631 5310 P. M'Alister ,.........22 3 173 941 49o2 H. Graham... ..........20 1 110 675 46 05 D. Mailer ... ..........18 3 209 665 41*33 H. Stuckey... ..........18 4 160* 6C6 43 21 T. Warne ... ,. ... 16 4 86* 451 41 I. Hopkins ... ..........11 2 71 333 87 L. N. Rainey ..........11 2 93* 328 36-14 J. Horan ... ..........11 3 81 287 3587 B. Grant ... ,......... 18 2 100 392 35 63 J. Ain»lie ... ... .. 9 1 101 268 32 25 M. Ellis ... ...........18 2 118 611 81 P3 W . Carlton... ,..........10 2 46 255 3187 D. Noonan ... ..........16 3 141 400 3)*76 E. Monfries ......... 9 4 33* 128 26-60 G. Stuckey... . J. Worrall .. . .........11 1 69 260 25 . ... 10 0 42 198 19-80 T Hastings .........16 1 106* 213 15-21 H. Howson... ..........12 4 40 109 13 62 J. Woodford .........12 1 36 142 12 9 R, Mitchell... ..........12 — 31 131 1116 •Signifies not out. BOWLING. Balls. Huns. Mdns. Wkts. Aver. F. Collins ... . 2,437 1,186 87 71 16 F. Laver ... 2,277 904 93 51 17*72 J. Saunders .. ,... 1,736 8*7 67 46 18-6S F. Tarrant ... ,... 1,571 617 78 32 19*2g W. Armstrong ... 1,262 451 64 23 19*6 R. Mitchell... ... 1.241 453 63 22 20-59 W. 1Uundell ... 1,678 780 61 32 2437 M. Ellis.......... ... i,aco 681 58 21 27-66 E. Bean.......... 603 196 36 7 28 Note.—The above averages are compiled from In- ter8tate matches, including those against Tasmania and Queensland, the match against Lord Hawke’s team, pennant matches, and the match association against league. L o r d N o r t h c o t e , the Governor of Bombay, is among the latest contributors to the fund now being raised in India for the purpose of sending a team of Parsee, Hindu and Mohammedan cricketers to England next year. The guarantee fund, to judge by the amounts already pro­ mised, is likely to reach a very substantial figure. Indeed, the committee who have the arrangements in hand, have every reason to be pleased with the support the tour baa received from the native princes as well as the leading sportsmen in India. T h e Committee of the Surrey County C.C. have alio intimated to the honorary secretaries of the guarantee fund their readiness to arrange a match at the Oval with a guarantee similar to that offered by Yorkshire, viz., JE100. T h e leaders of Dutch cricket are look­ ing forward to a busy time of it this coming August preparing for the visits of English teams. Already arrange­ ments have been made to receive two English touring parties, with others to follow. The two tours so far booked are th' se of the Stoics, who will spend the first week c f August in Holland, and of the Wasps, a northern club, which will play its first match in Holland on August 24th. M a r g a t e C o l l e g e first eleven have an unbeaten record so far this season. One of the best of their recent performances in connection with tbe college cricket was the fine innings of 108 by M r. Virle for the Present against the Past at the com­ mencement of the month. Among tbe many good cricketers Margate College has trait e i, Percy Perrin, of Essex fame, occupies a conspicuous place. T h o u g h there was no play at all in the match between Wiltshire and Surrey Second Eleven at Swindon on Friday, Saturday’s ciicket was sufficient to give Wiltshire one point under the regulation providing a point for the side which leads on the first innings in an unfinished match. After getting Surrey out for 27, Wiltshire scored 82, thanks to the bat­ ting of J. E. Stevens, who carried his bat through the innings for 51. The point Wiltshire made on this occasion is the only one it has as yet made against Surrey Second. T h e Cambridge University eleven at the Oval last week included no less than three players qualified for Surrey, so that there were altogether fourteen Surrey cricketers in the match. B. C. W. Burn, the Oxford Blue, has also a qualification for the county, and as P. B. May (Cam­ bridge) and A. C. von Emsthausen (Ox­ ford) have both represented it, Surrey is well represented in both University elevens this season. I n the group of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, given in Cricket of last week, there was one important absentee, A. M. Wood. In explanation of his absence I may say that it was only at the last moment, after the photograph had been taken, that he was able to make definite arrangements to join the team. Otherwise, the group was thoroughly representative of the side. S. T. C a lla w a y , the well-known old Australian cricketer, who is now in New Zealand, is at the head of the bowling averages at Christchurch, with 28 wickets at 11*67 runs each. His batting average is 34*16. It will be remembered that he played excellent cricket against Lord Hawke’s team. O ne of the best batsmen of the day at the present time is undoubtedly L. G. Wright. For Derbyshire, in recent matches, he has scored 66 and 41 against Surrey, 58 not out and 17 against Essex, 72 and 44 against Hampshire, 47 and 78 against Yorkshire, and 0 and 133 against Warwickshire. Several of these fine innings were played when hardly any­ body else on his side could withstand the bowling. T h e recent wet weather has been pro­ ductive of some curious results in the way of scoring, not the least curious of which was seen in the match between Worces­ tershire and Lancashire. Here in the Worcestershire first innings H. K . Foster and Gaukrodger put on 167 for the fifth wicket, each nearly makiog a hundred, while with the exception of the last man no one else on the side scored double figures. The total from the bat was 233, eight of the team scoring 40 between them. A g a in s t Middlesex on Thursday last C. B. Fry scored 89, thus nearly keeping up the average which he has made against the county in his last nine inn­ ings, in five of which he has scored over a hundred. His scores for these innings are as follows : 149, 116, 26, 110, 3, 10, 159 not out, 122, and 89. TnE Marylebone Club entertained the Gentlemen of Philadelphia to dinner on Monday night at Lord’s. Lord Alver­ stone, the president, was in the chair, and among the members present were Lord Harris, Lord Lichfield, Lord Jersey and Messrs. A. G. Steel and A. J. Webbe. Sandow's Magazine for May includes a portrait of G. Platt, the young cricketer engaged on the ground staff at the Oval. Platt, who is a fine swimmer, was instru­ mental in saving the lives of four mem­ bers of the Harrodian Bowiog Club who were capsized in a boat collision near Hammersmith Bridge. It is in this con­ nection that his photograph was repro­ duced in Sandow's. Platt, who is a promising cricketer like Moulder, another youngster likely to be of use in Surrey cricket, hails from Bichmond, which, by the way, sent Braund up to the Oval. T h e Bev. F. G. G. Jellicoe, who was married at Alverstone last week to Miss Alice Caroline Bushnell, daughter of Bear- Adiniral J. H. Bushnell, the old Oxford cricketer, is the old Hiileyburian whose slow left-hand bowling was of some use to Oxford in the inter-university matches of 1877 and 1879. Later on he represented Hampshire occasionally. He was also a good footballer in his time. Two large scores were made in Phila­ delphia on the 6th inst., W. H. Walker making 140 not out for the Philadelphian Cricket Club against the Frankford C.C., in a Halifax Cup Championship match, and C. Charlton obtaining 103 not out for Wissahickon v. Oak Lane. The latter also took six wickets for three runs in the same match.