Cricket 1904

J an . 28, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 7 C R IC K E T P U B L IC A T IO N S — 1903. A. B. C. of Cricket. By Hugh Fielding. London : Chatto and Windus. Price Is.) Annals of Lord’s, and History of the M.C.C. By Alfred D. Taylor. (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 11, Quay Street. Price 3s. 6 d. and £ 1 la.) Cricket. The Country Life Library of Sports. Edited hy Horace G. Hutchinson. (London: Country Life Office, Tavis­ tock Street, W.C. Price 12s. 6 d.) Cricket. Edited hy G. L. Jessop. (London : C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., Henrietta Street. Price Is.) Cricket Across the Seas. Being an account of Lord Hawke’s Team in New Zealand and Australia. By P. F. Warner. (London: Longmans, Green and Co. Price 5s.) Cricket Extraordinary. By Alfred D. Tay­ lor. (Hove: Emery and Sons, Ltd., 154, Church Boad. Price 2d.) Cricket Notes, By G. L. Jessop and others. (Bristol: J. W . Arrowsmith, Quay Street. Price Is.) Cricket of Abel, Hirst and Shrewsbury, The. Edited by E. F. Benson and Eustace H. 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IN The follow ing remarks aboat theM.C.C. ciicketers in Australia who are writing for English newspapers are taken from Punch :— Mr. Warner’s merry men occasionally refresh themselves with a game of cricket— indeed, on two separate occasions they met and defeated a representative Australian eleven— but such frivolities are not allowed to interfere with their proper journalistic labours. Probably no stronger team of ready writers has ever visited antipodean shores, and there is not a man among them who is not in form. Warner’s skill with the pen has always been extraorJinary. His up and down strokes are alike brilliant, and he dips into the ink with amazing rapidity. Bosanquet writes with his head, keeping a good length. Rhodes has a way of dropping short sentences now and then which is very puzzling to the reader. Some of his curly ones are irresistible. Hirst holds his pen loosely, and steps out to the long words with terrible effect. Lilley has a marked tendency to euphuism—perhaps hereditary. A few specimens of the team’s recent work, describing one of their digressions into the cricket field, all culled from current issues of their respective journals may be interesting : Mr. Warner, writing in the Westminster Gazette, says that Fielder’s treatment of the Bendigo boys was “ beyond praiss.” He showed himself more than ever a “ sterling bowler.” Mr. Bosanquet, writing in the St. James's Gazette , refers to Hayward’s Bendigo inn­ ings as a “ tip-topper.” “ It is doubtful,” he adds, “ if a better innings was ever played.” Mr. Foster, writing in the Jermyn Street Gazette , deprecates praise of his own great innings. All the while, he says, he was “ longing to get back to his desk and tele­ graph forms.” Lilley, writing in the Warwickshire Clarion , joins in the chorus of eulogy of Mr. Foster’s innings. “ It was great,” are his graphic words. Knight, in an interesting letter to the Leicester Lynx , remarks on the climate of Australia. “ It is,” he says, “ hotter than home for the most part, but sometimes not so hot.” Hayward, writing to the Oval Oracle , speaks enthusiastically of Mr. Warner’s captaincy. “ A little bit of all right,” he calls it, in a vivid phrase. Arnold, who acts as correspondent of the Worcester Sauce-bottle, is struck by the like­ ness of the Australian men and women to those of his own country. “ They are un­ mistakably of the old stock,” he writes. Rhodes has a similar comment in the Bramall Lane Advertiser. He also speaks of Mr. Foster’s great innings as “ immense.” Relf, writing in Sussex Snippets , paints the rigours of the voyage with much feeling. “ We were all in the pavilion most of the time,” he says. il They had forgotten to put the heavy roller over the sea.” Tyldesley, in the Old Trafford Times , refers to Mr. Foster’s great innings. “ Three or four other innings like it,” he writes, “ and the other side would have had less of a look in than they had.” Strudwick/writing in W. (r. ’« Weekly ,points out that the grass on Australian pitches might be growing in England, so little difference is there in the colour and size of the blades.” From these extracts it will be seen that, whether or not the M.C.C. team brings back the “ ashes,” English journalism is gaining some valuable and industrious recruits. C R IC K E T I N A U S T R A L I A . SOUTH AUSTRALIA v. NEW SOUTH WALES. INTElt-STATE MATCH. This Inter-State match, played at the Adelaide Oval on December 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23, resulted in a win for New South Wales, after some high scoring, by eight wickets. In all, 1,371 runs were made for 32 wickets. N ew S outh W ales . C. Gregory, c Rees, b Claxton .................. 97 B.W. Farquhar,cNew­ land, b Claxton ...31 J.R.Mackay, c Hack,b Cl ixton ....................66 V. Trumper, c Hack, b Claxton ....................61 M. A . Noble, c Hay, b Gehrs........................147 A .J. Hopbins, c Clax­ ton, b Travers............1‘ S. E Gregory, c New- land, b Travers .. 152 J.J.Kelly cNewland, b Claxton........ ... 4 W. P. Howell, c New­ land , b H ack..........39 A. McBeth, not out... 0 F. Johnson, lhw, b Hack ................. 2 B 6, lb 9, w 1 ... 16 Total .624 Second inniDgs J. R Mackay, b Hay. 0 ; B. W. Farquhar, not out, 29; C. Gregory, st Newland, b Travers, 27 ; V. Trumper, not aut, b'.—Total (for two wickets) 6?. S0 3TH A ustralia . Firtt innings. Second innings. DB.A. Gehrs, c Hopkins, b Howell.......... ... 35 b McBeth..... 159 F. T. Hack,c & b Johnson.. 10 c Hopkins, b Trumper..... 13 J. F. Travers, b McBeth ... 23 lbw, b Not la ... 77 C Hill,cTrumper, b Johnson 89 b M cBeth.......23 C. B. Jenniugs, c Kelly, b N oble............................... 15 lbw, b McBeth .. 2 G. Giffen, b Hopkins.......... 1 b Howell ............ 6 N. Claxton. b N oble..........19 lbw, b Howell ... 23 J. C. Reedman, c Kelly, b Noble ..............................10 not out.................. 9 P.M.Newland, c Hopkins, b N oble............................... 77 c Noble,t Johnson 22 R. Rees, b N oble....................45 b Howell ............ 0 H. Hay, not o u t .................. 5 b Howell ............ 4 B 4, lb 3, w 2 .......... 9 B 7, lb 3 ... 10 Total ..........388 Total...347 N ew S outh W ales . First innings. Second innin s. O. M. K. W . O. M. R. W. Re^s ........... 17 2 700 ............ 3 0 24 0 Giffen .......... 29 2 134 0 Claxton......... 36 5 1295 ............. 5 2 18 0 Hay .......... 11 0 650 ............ 5 2 10 1 Travers.......... 30 4 932 ............ 4 3 2 1 Hack ..........10 1 39 2 Gehrs ........... 3 0 18 1 Reedman ... 15 0 60 0 Travers bowled one wide. S outh A ustralia . First innings. Second innings. O. M, R . W . O. M. it. W. Howell .......... 22 4 80 1 ........... 21 2 3 64 4 Johnson.......... 18 4 62 2 ........... 14 0 35 1 McBeth.......... 28 5 70 1 ........... 28 10 77 3 Hopkins.......... 9 1 27 1 ........... 27 5 62 0 Noble .......... 23 4 3 67 5 ........... 18 3 54 1 Trumper.......... 6 0 21 0 .......... 8 0 3 8 1 Farquhar ... 2 0 120 . . . . 2 0 7 0 McBeth and Hopkins each bowled one wide.