Cricket 1904

106 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. M ay 5, 1904. Elizabeth innings against A lgoa is appended. It w ill be noticed that five men made duck’s eggs. P ort E l iza b e t h . Ritchie, st Oakley, b Kendle ................. 7 Cook, not out ..........100 Hazell, b T. Crage .. 0 Fettes, c Leighton, b E. C rage............... 7 Patterson, c & b T. Crage........................ 0 Hannam, b T. Crage... 0 Gray, lbw, b T. Crage Bogera, c Hussey, b E. Crage........................ Saunders, b Kendle .. Rhodes, run out.......... Edward, b E. Crage... Extras ................. Total ... 0 3 0 8 .160 “ N o t - O u t ” of the Sydney Referee has found at all events one crumb of com fort for Australian cricketers in an analysis of the scoring in the Test matches. In these five malcbes England scored 2,333 runs from 5,572 balls, and Australia 2,424 runs from 4,803 balls. These figures indicate, he says, a substantial difference in favour of Australia, in the rate of run-getting. They show the Australian batting to have been of a more dashing character, more especially as it is the general belief that the English bow ling was more formidable than the Australian. T h e New South Wales eleven who were to visit Brisbane early this month to give Queensland a game, included at least one player who was making his first appearance in an Inter-State match. This was A. Grounds, like A. J. Bowden and A. Cotter, a member of the Glebe Club of Sydney. The Queenslanders expressed a desire to have New South Wales represented by a strong side, and as the follow ing names will show, they cannot have been disappointed: M. A. Noble, B . A. Duff, A. J. Hopkins, S. E . Mackay, C. Gregory, B . W . Farquhar (or N. Y . Deane), A. Cotter, J. J. Kelly (or H . Carter), A . J. Bowden (or Dr. G. B . C. Clarke), and A. Grounds. According to “ N ot Out,” o f the Sydney Referee , Grounds is about six feet in height, bowls right hand, high over medium pace, and lately has been m ixing the pace better than formerly. H e has performed in first grade cricket this season with success about equal to that of Bowden and Cotter. Grounds is a left-hand bat. He hits fairly hard, and consistently runs into the 20’s for his club. F r a n k L a v e r , of the Australian team o f 1899, who played for Australia in the first test match, and captained Victoria against the Englishmen in November, in the course of a private letter, according to the Sydney Mail, takes a very philo­ sophical as well as sensible view of the success o f the English team in Australia, says:— “ What a successful trip they h a d ! The result will, in my opinion, do good to cricket both here and in England. We were beginning to fancy ourselves too much, and the reverses w on’t do us any h a rm ; whilst, on the other hand, England’s success will put new life into the game in the old country.” P l a y in g for Victoria, P . M 'Alister started the season with 0, and so he ended it. Between these valueless efforts he scored 45, 40, 30, 34, 39, 7, 104, 139. J. V . S a u n d e r s ’ batting record for Victoria for the season is 9, 2, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 6,* 0,* and absent once. T h e first time that cricket was referred to this season on the contents bills of the papars was on Tuesday evening, when the follow ing appeared:— H A T T R I C K A T L O R D ’ S . This notice had its origin in the feat of W . W .Odell in dismissing New stead, G .L . Jessop and L . H . Gay with successive balls for the London County C.C. against M .C.C. L . H . G a y , who played for the M.C.C. against the London County C.C., is the old Cambridge University wicket-keeper who also played for Hampshire and Somerset a few years ago. He is an old international footballer. G. T. B r a n s t o n , who took five wickets for 35 runs on Monday in the Oxford University Freshmen’s match, played seven innings for Notts last year, his best score being 39. H e bowled in two innings without success. A t the dinner given in his honour, Knight, the Leicestershire professional, made a speech, in the course of which he said: “ I f cricketers saw Ranjitsinhji bat they came to the conclusion that there was some process of ju gglin g about i t ; they did not quite know how it was done. But Trumper always seemed to have plenty of time to make his strokes; he always did the thing in a thoroughly English way. They saw how it was done. A t the same time they knew they could not compete with him.” E x c e p t that the boundaries were only 60 yards from the nearest wicket, and that the bowlers’ and batsmen’s footholds were covered up overnight and during a shower, the “ time lim it ” match pre­ sented no differences from an ordinary first-class match. It was not necessary to use the “ time gain ed” or time “ lost,” or any of the mystical things which were provided for in the rules, so that it is impossible to form any idea how the scheme would work if it came into operation. T h e apparatus which was used for covering up the foot-holes of the bowlers and batsmen in the time-limit match at Leeds between Yorkshire and Notts, is peculiar, but seems very effective. It consists of two frames of canvas made impervious to rain and placed on supports in such a way that from a distance it looks something like cucumber frames sloping an both sides. The rain drains down into gutters, and is carried away in hose pipes. The wicket itself is not covered. There seems no reason why the apparatus should not come into general B e lo w will be found the times taken b y the various players who scored 30 or more in the time-limit match. It will be seen that the short boundary did not induce many of the players to go in for very rapid run-getting:— Buns. Time. B row n........... 30 ... 37 minutes Tunnicliffe ... 37 ... 1hour Denton........... 39 ... 1 hour B irst ........... 60 ... 55 minutes Lord Hawke ... 37 ... 1 hour Hardstaff ... 37 ... 1 hour Rhodes........... 41 ... 1 hour Iremonger ... 47 ... 50 minutes In the Sportsman “ Dux ” has some good-humoured remarks at the expense of the Surrey Committee. Referring to a letter which appeared in the same paper by Mr. H. E. Troughton, he says :— “ But, best of all, he joins the ranks of that big army of men interested in the game who want to know why the Gentlemen and Players fixture at the Oval has not gone the way of the ‘ ark.’ I once enlisted in that legion myself, hut I have bought my dis­ charge since I discovered the capacity of the Surrej Committee for humour. It is pre­ sumably because they fear lest the public should ‘ disremember ’ that capacity that they still keep that little item on their card. Humour is rare enough in the cricket field; we should give it grateful welcome even when it bubbles forth from quite unexpected springs.” But probably “ D u x ,” having only lately returned from South Africa, may have written this before he had the opportu­ nity of seeing the Surrey County C.C. balance-sheet, where the capacity of the committee for humour may be seen by the follow ing statements under the heading of Match Expenses and Match Receipts:— Match Expenses—Gentlemen y, Players. £179 4 0 Match Receipts—Gentlemen y. Players... £498 16 0 G. W . H i l l y a r d , who with H. L. Doherty as partner, won the Covered Court Doubles Championship of Lawn Tennis on Saturday, is the old Leicester­ shire cricketer. It is twelve or thirteen years since he last won the same cham­ pionship, but a year or two ago he was within a stroke of winning the Singles Championship at Wimbledon. Lord Alverstone, the president of the Surrey County C.C., and the retiring president of the M.C.C., was among the spectators who watched the championship round on Saturday. ------- T he holders of the Amateur Doubles Championship of rackets, H . K . Foster and B. S. Foster, the Worcestershire cricketers, were on Saturday beaten by E. H. Miles and E. M . Baerlein. Last year the two brothers had a walk-over. On Monday a reproduction of a pen and ink drawing b y Mr. Byam Shaw appeared in the Daily Chronicle, The design, which is boldly conceived, repre­ sented a female figure holding a cricketer and a footballer by the hand, the cricketer facing her and the footballer turning away. The words “ Welcome the Com ing; Speed the Parting Guest,” are worked into the design. C o m pa r in g the amounts received in Test matches by the last Australian team in England, and the M .C.C. in their Australian tour, the Melbourne Age gives