Cricket 1903

28 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. F eb . 26, 1903. plete innings -which were played, not a single batsman was caught. Twenly-one out of the thirty men who were dismissed were bowled, four were leg-before-wicket, four stumped, while one hit wicket. T h e balance-sheet of the Notts County C.C. shows that gate receipts for 1902 amounted to£l,3370s. 10d., andmembers’ subscriptions to £2,090. The total ex­ penditure was £3,962 Is. 7d. As the weather during Gunn’s benefit match last year was so bad, the committee have decided to pospone the benefit until next June, in the same match, Notts v. Surrey at Nottingham. T h e annual report of the Warwickshire County C.C. shows a deficiency of £663 7s. 8d. on the year’s work. At the end of the year the club was in debt to the amount of about £3,000, but an appeal was made to the cricketers and other sportsmen of the county, and it is believed that this amount has been wiped off. W. Attewell has been engaged to coach the young players in April. O n Tuesday evening the annual dinner of the Hampstead C.C. was held in the Grand Hall at the Hotel Cecil, the guests numbering 240. Sir Spencer Maryon Wilson was in the chair, and in the course of the evening he stated that the club would have nothing to fear from him as to the future of the cricket ground. The front page of the programme was, as usual, designed by Mr. G. Hillyard Swinstead. The dinner was an immense success. A p i c t u r e of the Hon. and Rev. A. T. Lyttelton, the late Bishop of Southamp­ ton, appeared in the “ New English Art Club ” in 1894. It was by Mr. C. W. Furze. The subject is holding a college cap in a hand which is apparently his left, although a reference to the ether hand would lead one to suppose it is the right. But the face is very good indeed, and probably the artist did not care twopence about the hands. T h e photograph of the late Mr. L. H. Gwynn, which appeared in our last issue, was from a reproduction by Messrs. R. Thiele & Co., 66, Chancery Lane, London. J o h n W is d e n ’ s Cricketers’ Note Book for 1903, price 6d., is of a convenient size for the waistcoat pocket. It contains a diary, and among ihHch other useful matter, an exhaustive record of “ Cricket Notabilia for 1902.” In an interesting and straightforward article on the “ Use and Abuse of Cricket,” “ Parson” Craw­ ford relates the following amusing story “ A Surreyite went down into the country, ■with other noted cricketers, to play for a friend who was getting up a team against ra Tillage club. After breakfast he strolled on to the ground to have a look round. Seeing some one there attending to the wickets he asked if he was going to play, and receiving the information that he was the principal village howler, he asked him to give him a little practice. He proved to be an indifferent right hand slow howler; and my friend on his return to the house told the others that they had a very soft thing on, and that 400 runs was a dead certainty. The actual score made was 17. The principal village howler went on first with very fast left hand grubs, and ousted them all one after another.” A n o t h e r book of the same kiod at the same price is the Cricketers’ Diary, pub­ lished by G. G. Bussey and Co., London. It contains a diary, fixtures for 1903, result of the county matches in 1902, statistics, the laws, spaces for personal club records, etc. The book is very nicely bound and printed on Indian paper. U n le s s there are two G. F. H. Berkeley’s, the book entitled The Cam­ paign o f Adowa and the Rise o f Menelet, published at 7s. 6d. by Archibald Con­ stable and Co., Limited, is by the old Oxford University bowler. M e . “ D o o l e y ,” in bis book called Observations, describes the impedimenta taken by Lord Kitchener in one of his drives as follows :— “ Pianos, Pianolas, Cottage Organs, Ping Pong Sets, Tennis Bats, Bridge Scores, Cricket Stumps, War Corryspondints.” THE STORY OF RUD. [The following verses, from a took entitled 1 In the Hills,” obviously refer to Hudyard Kipling's famous reference to flannelled fools and muddied oafs ] Later he pictured a Panic—later he pictured a Scare, Pictured the burning of coast towns—skies in a reddening glare — Pictured the Mafficking Million—collared, abortive, alone— Out of the duty he owed them, pictured them down to the bone. Sick was the Public to read-it—passed it along to “ the Sports” — “ Fools in the full-flannelled breeches, oafs in the muddy-patched shorts ” — Loafers and talkers and writers, furtively whispering low— “ Say that it’s like ’em—it may be—nobody ever need know.’ “ Hud.—would he drive us to Barracks— make of us militant hordes— Broke to the spit of the pom-pom—trained to the flashing of swords P— Pooh ! It is these that he goes for—Sport is the bubble he pricks— Doubt not but we are The People—Bricks of an Empire of Bricks! ” What of that maker of verses? Did he not answer the call: “ Loafers and talkers and writers, children or knaves are ye a ll; Look at the lines ’ere ye quote them; read ’ere ye cackle as geese ? ” Nay. F ori e passed from The People—left them to stew in their grease. But a hyphen-ish growl makes answer: “ Ye that would take from the whole The one line robbed of the context, nor win to the straight-set Goal, Is it thus ye will fend the warning— thus ye will move the shame From the Mob that watch by the thousand, to the dozens that play the game ? Still will ye pay at the turnstile—thronging the rope-ringed Match, Where the half-back fumbles the leather, or the d'ep-field butters the catch ? W ill ye thank your gods (being ’umble) that the fool and the oaf are found In the field, at the goal or the wicket, and not in the seats around ? Not in the Saturday Squallers—men of a higher grade— That lay down a law they know not, of a game that they have not played ? Holding the folly of flannel, stUI will ye teach the Schools That Wisdom is dressed in shoddy, and how should the Wise be fools ? Not doubting but ye are The People—ye are the Sons of The Blood f Loafers and talkers and writers —Read ye the Verses of Rud ! ” C R I C K E T I N A U S T R A L I A . V IC T O R IA v. N E W S O U TH W A L E S . Played on the M elbourne C.C. ground on December 26, 27, and 29. N ew South W ales w on by 136 runs. N ew S outh W ales . First inniDgs. Second innings. R. A. Duff, c Laver b Saunders........................102 lbw, b Collins ... 66 V. Trumper, e Noonan b Laver... ........................ 51 c Stuckey b Laver 22 M. A. Noble, c McAlister b Laver ....................................................................... 0 lbw, A. C. M. Mackenzie, lbw. b Armstrong ................. 21 b Collins ........... 1 A. J. Hopkins, lbw, b c Warne, b Aim- Armstrong ................. 0 strong ........... 2 C. Gregory, b Armstrong 0 c Armstrong, b Collins .......... 0 L. W . Pye, c Hastings, b c Saunders, b Laver............................... 3 Collins ............. 12 N. Ebsworth, b launders 19 b Collias .......... l J. J. Kelly, c McAlister c Saunders, b Arm- b C oilins........................ 1 strong ........... 9 W. P. Howell, b Collins ... 0 c Hastings, b _ Collins ..........10 A. McBeth, not o u t.......... 0notout ... 1 Bye.......... 1Byes, 8 ,1-b 7.". 15 Total..........198 Total... .."209 VIGTOBIA, First innings. H. Graham, st Kelly, b McBeth ................. ... P. McAlister, c Kelly, b Noble.............................. 0 T. Warne, b Noble .......... 0 H. Stuckey, b Howell ... 9 W.W. Armstrong, b McBeth 22 F. Laver, c Pye b McBeth 3 D. Mailer, st Kelly, b Pye 8 D. Noonan, not o u t.......... 10 T. Hastings, c Trumper, b py ? ................. .......... 0 lbw, b Howell F. Collins, run out ......... 3b Howell J. V. Saunders, c Duff, b McBeth ........................ Leg-bye.......... Second innings. . 32 b Howall .......... b Howell ..........87 c Kelly, b Howell 20 b Pye .................22 b Howell ..........36 b Howell ..........14 not out .......... 3 b Howell .......... 0 5 b Howell .......... 0 1 Byes.......... 6 Total.......... 93 Total., ..T il N ew S ooth W ales . Second innings. O. M. K. W. ... 8 0 40 0 ... 19 2 54 6 ... 15 3 43 1 ... 2 0 9 0 First innings. O. M. It. W . Saunders . 101 1 87 2 . Collins ........ . 6 0 27 2 . Laver ......... . 23 6 61 3 , Warne ......... . 6 0 25 0 . Armstrong . 21 6 45 3 .