Cricket 1903

M ar . 26, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41 that with the exception of the first two men the team did very little. P addington . First innings. Y. Trumper, st Prescott, b Hanigan D. Gee, b N ew ton........................ 885 172 W . R. Iredale, c Jesson, b Hanigan 37 A. Gow, st Prescott, b Houghton 3 P. ‘Winning, b Hanigan .......... 11 R. Carty, b Houghton 24 E. G. Noble, b Houghton .......... 6 A. C. Bannerman, not o u t ......... 14 A. Marshal, c Sone, b Houghton 2 J. J. Kelly, c Sone, b Houghton 0 M. A. Noble, not out B 13,lb 1 0 14 Total (nine wickets) 618 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W E Eume ... 10 0 120 0 Foster ... 2 0 21 0 Prowse ... 15 0 114 0 Sone 6 2 35 0 W. Eume ... 8 0 44 0 Houghton 15 6 40 5 Hanigan ... 11 0 70 4 Jesson ... 3 0 39 0 Creswick ... 6 0 57 0 Newton ... 9 0 64 0 A n interesting incident occurred at the end of the inter-state match between New South Wales and South Australia. Kelly and Howell went in for New South Wales with two runs required to win. Hill, the South Australian caplain, put Hack on to bowl at the Agricultural Ground end, posted himself at long-leg, and sent several of the others in the long- field. Hack bowled a wide to Howell on the leg side, and the ball went to the fence, with the S. A. captain after it. He got the ball, pocketed it, and the match was over. N. S. Wales won by ten wickets. H ill’s strategy to gather in the new ball robbed Howell of a strike. A m o n g former editors of the Eton Col­ lege Chronicle, which has just made its thousandth appearance, were the follow­ ing well-known cricketers: Hon. E. Lyttelton, Hon. A. Lyttelton and Hon. Ivo Bligh. W. P. H o w e l l bowls better against Clement Hill than against anyone else, says the Arrow , and generally lures the South Australian prodigy to the end of his innings. He has secured his wicket 13 times in Inter-State cricket, several times with the assistance of J. J. Kelly. Clement gets out to Howell through try­ ing to punish him, mostly by jumping in for the drive and by cutting. Once, however, he made 365 not out with Howell among the opposing bowlers. At the start of that innings he looked like getting out to any ball, and was actually once open to “ obstructing the field,” but no one appealed, under the impression that he would soon be other­ wise disposed of ! I n a club match near Melbourne, Harry Trott, the famous old Australian captain, who seems lately to have returned to his best form, scored 215, of which boundary bits accounted for no fewer than 192 runs, an extraordinary proportion. A t Adelaide a bowler named A. S. Day took six wickets with consecutive balls. Off the first ball of his next over a chance was given and a run scored, but off the next ball a man was bowled. In the second innings Day took six wickets for 19 runs. A n o t h e r remarkable bowling feat took place at Melbourne, J. Reid doing the hat trick twice in the first innings of a junior club match, and once in the second innings. In another junior match E. A. Salas took 8 wickets for 14 runs in 36 balls in the first innings, and 7 for 5 runs off 35 balls in the second innings. He did the hat trick in the first innings, and clean bowled five men in the second with the last five balls. A c c o r d in g to the Daily Mail, the match concluded at Adelaide on March 6th, between South Australia and Vic­ toria, resulted in a win for Victoria by 35 runs. In their first innings Victoria made 291. Graham was top-scorer with 59, Laver made 50 and Armstrong 40. South Australia replied with 278, to which Giffen and Hack were the chief conlributors, the former making 81 and the latter 88. Victoria’s second innings realised 244. The three batsmen who proved so successful in the first innings were again the chief scorers, Graham making 45, Armstrong 66 and Laver 61. S o u t h A u s t b a li a at their second attempt were all dismissed for 222. Giffen again showed superb form, playing a grand innings of 97 not out, and as he had also taken fifteen wickets for 185 runs he was quite the hero of the match. In fact it is the best performance he has accomplished in first-class cricket for nearly ten years. Saunders secured thirteen South Australian wickets for 195 runs. J. T . T y l d i s l e y , the^famous Lanca­ shire batsman, has undergone an opera­ tion for varicose veins in his leg. Arthur Shrewsbury has been obliged to consult a specialist. A m o n g forthcoming cricket books are the following, all to be published by Mr. J. W. Arrowsmith:— “ Annals of Lord’s and History of the M.C.C.,” by Alfred D. Taylor; “ The Game of Cricket,” by G. L. Jessop, with chapters by A. O. Jones and C. L. Townsend (Is.); and “ Ranjitsinhji, Prince of Cricket,” by Percy Cross Standing (Is.). N e w S o u t h W a le s , Victoria, and South Australia each have a first-class left-hand bowler in the eleven—M'Beth, Saunders and Travers. Each bowler has taken over fifty wickets ia the triangular matches for the Sheffield Shield. The records to date are : M'Beth, 52 wickets at 20.40 runs each ; Saunders, 61 wickets at 22.73; and Travers, 64 at 26.90. Playing with the weakest of the teams, Travers has had the most difficult work to perform, and the figures do not give a thoroughly sound idea c f his value as a bowler, that is to say compared with the other two men. I n last month’ s “ Gossip ” we gave particulars of an unfinished score of 244, made on January 17th by H. Mitchell, for the new Ballarat Club against Ballarat City. On the following Saturday he increased his total to 322, and was still undefeated when the innings closed for 537. M r . A s i i l e y - C o o p e r writes Par­ ticulars have reached me of an individual score of over 200 made in India not chronicled in the list which appeared in the last issue of Cricket. The score, 204 not out, was made by E. H. Lancaster for Queen’s Regiment v. The Garrison, at Murree, in the Punjaub, in July, 1900. T h e following is the official notice of the M.C.C. secretary with regard to the next annual meeting :— In compliance with Rules X X IV . and XXV II., the GENERAL MEETING of the MARYLEBONE CRICKET CLUB, on MAY 6, will be made Special, and Members will be asked to vote : (1) On the proposal to alter the width of the wickets from eight to nine inches. This proposal, if carried, will necessitate an alter­ ation in Law 6, which would read as follows : Law 6.— “ The wickets Bhall be pitched opposite and parallel to each other at a dis­ tance of twenty-two yards. Each wicket shall be nine inches in width, and consist of three stumps, with two bails upon the top. The stumps shall be of equal and sufficient size to prevent the ball from passing through, twenty-seven inches out of the ground. The bails shall be each fou r and a -h a lf inches in length, and when in position on the top of the stumps shall not proj ect more than half an inch above them. The wickets shall not be changed during a match, unless the ground between them become unfit for play, and then only by consent of both sides.” Any amend­ ment to this alteration must be advertised not less than one month before May 6, and must state distinctly the form the amendment will take. (2) On the proposal to alter Rule II. of the Club, so that it shall read as follows :— “ The Annual Subscription shall be £3, payable on the 1st of January in each year; every new Member shall pay, in addition, an Entrance Fee of £5 ; and no Member shall be entitled to any o f the privileges o f the Club after March 1 so long as his subscription shall remain unpaid." N o t i c e has been received by the M.C.C. of an amendment to the proposal to widen the wicket from eight to nine inches. At the annual meeting of the M.C.C. at Lord’s on May 6tb, Mr. Denzil Onslow will move, if the proposed alteration be carried, “ That the wickets shall at the same time be heightened by not more than one inch, and that before becoming law an effective trial should be given to the alteration on more cricket grounds than one.” A l b e r t T r o t t ’ s analysis for Hawke’s Bay against Lord Hawke’s Team was sufficiently remarkable to deserve notice in “ Gossip.” I should doubt whether even George Gifl'en could produce any record of his which would beat it. The analysis is as follows :— 41 overs, 2 maidens, 226 rues, 6 wickets. T h e Essex Committee have replied to the M.C.C. that they do not approve of the suggested widening of the wicket. At the same time, with a view to obviat­ ing the frequent recurrence of drawn