Cricket 1904

154 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M a y 26, 1904. R . E. F o ste r , it is said on good authority, will only be able to play in one more match for Worcestershire this season— pretty hard luck for the county. His brother, W . L., however,it is expected, will take his place in the side during the later matches, so that Fostershire will be fairly represented presently, though the bright particular star of the fam ily will, to the universal regret of cricketers, be absent. O n the same day that Warwick Arm­ strong was completing his score of over four Luudred against Melbourne Univer­ sity, another cricketer was covering him­ self with glory in Viotorian cricket. This was T. Henderson, who scored no fewer than 201 not out out of a total of 458 for nine wickets b y Williamstown against Malvern. He was at the wickets for two afternoons and gave no chance. “ N one so poor to do him reverence.” Even the expert critics who were going to show the common or garden chronicler o f cricket news how to do his work have none of them found occasion to note the ill luck Surrey has been experiencing this year in the matter of its players. Still it is a fact that almost every member of the team has’been more or less unfit. Abel, Richardson, Lockwood, Moulder, and now Lord Dalmeny, have had to stand down at one time or other by reason of physical ailings. Of the rest hardly one but has been a sufferer to some extent from the variable weather. E. F. W a d d y , the captain of the Sydney University Eleven closed his season brilliantly, as 1 stated in last week’s “ Gossip,” with a score of 232 against Melbourne University, at Melbourne. During the winter hemade three hundreds in eight matches for the Sydney Premier­ ship, so that altogether he can lay down his bat for the time being with the satis­ faction of a morethan ordinarily successful season. I n t e l l ig e n t anticipation is already busy with the preliminaries incidental to the visit of the Australian team to E n g­ land next summer. Rumour already has it that in all probability they will play in New Zealand prior to their departure for Eogland. N o k th A d e l a id e won the season’s premiership of Adelaide cricket as the follow ing table will show :— C*ub. Pld. W. L. D. Pts. North Xflelaide ... 10 5 1 4 4 East Torrens ... 10 5 2 3 3 Port Adelaide ... 9 4 2 3 2 titurt............. ... 9 4 3 2 1 East Adelaide ... 40 2 4 4 —2 West Torrens ... 9 1 5 3 —4 West Adelaide ... 9 2 6 1 —4 Memo.—In counting points losses are deducted from wins, and drawn games are ignored. Clem H ill was unable to help E ist Tor­ rens even after the big matches had been played, or the positions of the two leading clubs might have been reversed. As it was A. E. H . Evans, of East Torrens, had the best batting average (80 85), with N . Claxton, of North Adelaide (71'57), a good second. “ N ot O u t , ” o f the Sydney Referee, finds, and with reason, a good deal of cause for satisfaction in the bow ling of A. Grounds in his first match of note for New South Wales. A t Brisbane, against Queensland, he sent down 120 b ills for 8 runs and six wickets, a pretty good performance under any conditions. The Glebe Club of Sydney, according to “ N ot Out,” furnished this last season three bowlers to the representative matches of New South Wales. All of them, too, did really good work, which augurs well for the future. In five first-class matches A. Cotter took thirty wickets for 404 runs, averaging 13 runs per w icket; A. J. Bowden in three matches, eighteen wickets for 398 runs averaging 22 runs; and Grounds six wickets for 8 runs. F. R . S p o f f o r t h , the old Australian, has been in splendid form with the ball in every match that he has played this season, and on Bank Holiday, for Hampstead against London Scottish, he took five wickets in the first innings for nine runs, and five in the second for 21 runs. In addition to this he made 56 not out, the highest score in the match. O n Saturday A. F. Spooner, a younger brother of R. H . Spooner, the well-known Lancashire cricketer, played a beautiful innings o f 99 for Liverpool v. New Brighton, on the Aigburth cricket ground. He has many of the strokes which his brother knows so well how to make, and if he could get good and regular practice, he would undoubtedly train on into a first class cricketer. Even as it is there are several counties whose teams would be improved by the inclusion of such a promising young player. I t is not very often that J. T. Hearne does any great performance nowadays, but on Monday against the Somerset team, he bowled finely on a wicket which suited him. H e took eight wickets for 49 runs, the other two men being run out. His first two wickets cost him 20 runs apieco, but then he came with a rush and took the next six for nine runs, the last three being obtained in four balls. O ut of a total of 297 runs from the bat by Sussex against Gloucestershire, C. B. Fry, Vine, and K . S. Ranjitsiohji were responsible for no fewer than 279, so that the other eight men scored only 18 between them. T h e Yorkshire bowlers are indeed remarkable people, and over and over again they have saved their side by their batting, when the batsmen, pure and simple, have failed. On Monday, at Old Trafford, they gave an extraordinary example of their readiness to take the burden of the whole side on their shoulders, and although Hirst, for once, was out for a small score, Rhodes, Haigh and F. S. Jackson scored 227 between them out of 288 from the bat. As F . Mitchell, the Captain of the South African team, also made 22 , the other members of the team had not much to show for themselves. M r . A r t h u r W il s o n writes : Apropos of your remarks in last week’s Cricket, re the pronunciation of the name Bosan­ quet, I am reminded that once, when a boy of that name presented himself for entrance at Harrow, the then Headmaster, Montague Butler (now Master of Triuity College, Cambridge), had no idea how to pronounce his name. So he extempora­ neously parodied an ode of Horace by asking the boy :— Sive tu mavis B O bX h qu et vocari. Sive BO sanqtjet ? E. S. P h il l ip s , who scored 107 and 68 for Cambridge University against G. J. Y . Weigall’s X I. at the end of last week, is an Old Marlburian. He was in his School eleven in 1899 and two follow ing seasons, but did little in his last year, though successful in 1900, and did not even get a trial as a Freshman in 1902. He was tried for the University in the opening match last year against H. D . G. Leveson-Gower’s Eleven, but this was his only chance for Cambridge, though he was top scorer on a bowler’s wicket in the first innings with 22 . T he match between the Bar and Barristers’ Clerks, which now seems to have become a regular item on the Surrey programme, is to be played at the Oval to-morrow by kind permission of the Committee of the Surrey County C.C. The proceeds, it is hardly necessary to Btate, go to a deserving object in this ctse—the Distress Fund of the Legal Musical Society. The players will be :— Barristers : B. O. Bircham, B. B. Watson, B. J. Woolfe Barry, A. M. Latham, H . Stafford Webber, F. H . Willis, 0 . B. Marriott, H. Hardy, F. Kershaw, E .G .M . Carmichael, and T. Ramsden. Barristers’ Clerks: Selected from T. T. Brewer, W . A. Towerzey, T. J. Gracey, H . C. Worth, A. T. Embleton, C. Kerrich, W . Field, F. E. Headicar, J. Packer, W . G. Kerridge, A. R. Bryant, J. Butland, F. Relphs. A stupid error occurred in the notes to the group of the Scarborough Cricket Club which appeared in last week’s Cricket (page 135). In the last paragraph the honorary secretary, by an oversight, was put down as Mr. W . W . Learbeck. It ought, of course, to have been Mr. W . W. Leadbeater, to whom I beg to offer a humble apology. M r. K . E. M. B a r k e r , the well-known Wanderers cricketer, playing at Cran- brook on Monday last for the Lennox F. C. v. Cranbrook, scored 28 runs off one over, and took four wickets with consecutive balls. “ Ach ! ”