Cricket 1904

J an . 28, 1904. CRICKET: A 'WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY , JAN . 28 t h , 1904. NOTICE TO OUR READERS. Six numbers are issued, during the Winter, from October to March inclusive, as follows: No. 647.—THURSDAY, OCT. 29. No. 648.—THURSDAY, NOV. 26. No. 649.—THURSDAY, DEC. 31. No. 650.—THURSDAY, JAN. 28. No. 651.—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 652.—THURSDAY, MARCH 31. Subscription for the above series, 1/3 post free. R esults of the S eason and A verages of the P rincipal C lubs can be inserted in Cricket at the rate of 3s. 6 d. a column, with a minimum charge of 2s. 6 d. To ensure insertion in the following number, particulars must be re­ ceived not later than the Saturday previous to the day of publication at the Offices of Cricket, 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C. BatJtiton The abstract and brief ohronicle of the time.— Hamlet I t is stated that Harry Trott, the famous old Australian cricketer, has put on weight considerably of late years, and that he now turns the scale at 16 stones. T h e remaining matches to be played ia Australia by the M .C.C. team are as follow s:— FEBRUARY. 6-9.—v Victoria (return), at Melbourne. 12-16.—v. New South Wales (return), at Sydney. 19-22.—v. Bathurst, at Bathurst. 26 to March 1.-FOURTH TEST MATCH, at Sydney. MARCH. 4-8.—FIFTH TEST MATCH, at Melbourne. 12-16.—v. Scuth Australia (return), at Adelaide. C a b l in g to the Daily Mail, after the third test match, F. A. Iredale says :— The downfall of the England batting in the second innings was quite unexpected. The Englishmen fully hoped to get 400 at least. They are satisfied, however, that they were squarely beaten. The Australians are sanguine of winning the other games. Noble expects to bowl then. He is resting his arm completely until the encounter at Sydney on February 26th, and he will greatly strengthen the attack. The secret of Hopkin’s success was that he lured the batsmen to hit. Generally speaking, the Englishmen were beaten by the pace of the wicket. Australia, of course, is delighted, but the general idea is that a good left-arm or a good slow bowler is needed for the remaining test games. U n t il the second lest match Mr. Warner had never done anything to show that he was a batsman of the class which is required for such a match, and every cricketer must have been very pleased when he scored 68 in the first innings. In the third test match he greatly added to his reputation by his fine scores of 48 and 79. If he were a better field he m ight very likely be seen in an England eleven at home one of these days. T h is week the M .C.C. team is playing two matches in Tasmania, the second of which begins on Friday at Launceston. After the Tasmanian visit is over they return to Melbourne in readiness for the match against Victoria on February 5th. E n g l is h cricketers have fared badly in Test matches on the Adelaide Ground for many years, and they have not won a match there against Australia since 1892, when the margin in their favour was an innings and 230 runs. Before thal time England won in 1884 by eight wickets, but in 1895 they were beaten b y 382 runs, in 1898 by an innings and 13 runs; in 1902 by four w ickets; and now, again, by 216 runs. Moreover, during the last ten years the South Australians have beaten English touring teams at Adelaide more frequently than they have suffered defeat, and in the present tour the two matches there have been the only eleven-a-side games that the M .C.C. have failed to win. W hen the Australians were com ing in after they had won the third Test match, Mr. Warner went to the front of the pavilion and shook hands with Noble, congratulating him on the victory. This would s;em to be anew departure. THE SECOND TEST MATCH DAY BY DAY. Jan. 1.—England 221 (2 wickets). Day’s total Jan. 2.—England 85 (5 wickets). Short day’splay. Jan. 4.—England 9 (3 wickets) and 74 for 5 wickets. Australia 122 . Day’s total 205. Jan. 5.—England 29 (5 wickets). Australia 111. Short day’s total 140. THIRD TEST MATCH DAY BY DAY. Jan. 15.—Australia 355 (6 wickets). Day’s total. Jan. 16.—Australia 33 (4 wickets). England 199 (8 wickets). Day’s total 232. Jan. 17.—England 46 (2 wickets). Australia 263 (4 wickets). Day’s total 309. Jan. 18.—Australia 88 (6 wickets). England 150 (2 wickets). Day’s total 238. Jan 19.—England 128 (8 wickets). In the third test match the Australians made 739 runs in eleven hours, an aver­ age of 66 runs per hour. England made 523 runs in 8 J hours, an average of 60 runs per hour. So that taking the match as a whole there was very little difference in the average rate o f scoring. T h r e e well-known English cricketers, Capt. Wynyard, J. C. Fleming, and A. C. Pawson, last year’s Oxford blue, have been doing good service for the local Bandy Club at Davos Plafz during the last few weeks. The Davos B. C. just failed to win the International Bandy Tournament held at Davos in the middle of last month, being only beaten by Princes Club (London) on the goal average. A ccordin g to the Adelaide Observer, Clem H ill’s recent 102 not out for S. A. against the M .C.C. team is the fifth century the great South Australian bats­ man has made in this series of matches, in eight of which he has scored 1,104 runs to date at an average of 92 per innings :— November, 1894- Stoddart’s First Team, 20. March, 1895—Stoddart’s First Team, 150* and 56. November, 1897—Stoddart’s Second Te im, 200and 45. March, 1898—Stoddart’s Second Team, 8 and 124*. November, 1901—Maclaren’s T«am, 107 and 80, March, 1902—Maclaren’s Team, 2 and 61. March, 1903—Lord Hawke’s Team, 58 and 73. November, 1903—M.C.C. Team, 18 and 102*. H il l ’ s 147 for South Australia against Victoria recently is his twenty-sixth century in first-class cricket, and his fourth against Victoria. Clem has been an extraordinary performer against Eng­ lish bow ling in Test matches. In matches for the Sheffield Shield he trst appeared in 1894, and to-day he has over 3,000 runs to his credit, compiled in thirty-six matches, at an average of 50 runs per innings. It must always be borne in mind, too, that he has played with the side that was for many years unquestion­ ably the weakest of the three Sheffield Shield competitors. His scores over 40 for Sjuth Australia against English Teams, New South Wales and Victoria a re:—365*, 206, 200, 170, 159, 160, 147, 135, 126, 124, 124, 116, 109, 107, 95, 95, 86 , 80, 73, 73, 70, 67, 61, 60, 58, 56, 55, 54, 53, 51, 50, 49, 46, 45, 43, 43, 42, 40, and 40. This does not include Test matches. * Signifies not out. I n a match on November 28th at Laun­ ceston between Launceston and Esk, J .H . Savigny, the well-known Tasmanian cricketer, scored 219 out of a total of 412. His average up to the end of November for three innings was 207. H . F. B o y l e , the fine all-round player of the earlier Australian teams, has recently been appointed collector to the Benevolent Asylum in Melbourne. There were 118 applicants for the post. C r ic k e t at the Argentine seems to have got a valuable recruit in the person of M . Carlisle, the old Harrow “ blue.” In a match for Hurliogham v. Flores at Christmas time he scored 135 out of a total of 253, and took seven wickets for 20 runs. At the end of last year he was at the head of the batting averages out there with an aggregate of 272 for six completed innings. I n the match between South Australia and Victoria at Melbourne Laver and Horan made runs at an exceptionally slow |pace in the Victorian innings, and the follow ing story is told in connection therewith :— A man entered a Swanston Street Hotel, at 6.15 on the Saturday, called for a pint of beer, and drank it off at a draught. As he put the pewter down he said to the barman— “ Have