Cricket 1904

170 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 2, 1904. New York. The Field Club made 108, and after a mostexciting finish the College lost b y one run. On the side of the visitors was Mr. A. E. Lawton, the captain of the Derbyshire county team, who scored 23 and took four wickets for 56 runs. F. F. Kelly, an old member of the Stoics C.C. made 24 for the same side and took four wickets for 39 runs. A c c o r d in g to “ Felix ” of the Austra­ lasian, the Melbourne Club has given fifty guineas to the testimonial fund started by Stawell cricketers for the pur­ pose of appropriately commemorating the retirement of Hugh Trumble from the cricket field. ‘ ‘ His splendid services,” adds Felix, “ deserve recognition, and every lover of cricket will hope that the recognition will, in every sense, be com ­ mensurate with the deserts of the re­ nowned M .C.C. player, whose name is a household word, not only in Australia, but wherever cricket is played through­ out the world.” “ And so say all of u s!” T h is summer Cambridge University institutes a new departure’_in the shape of an Irish Week by way of a wind-up to its programme. A t one time the Oxford and Cambridge match, at Lord’s, tolled the knell of parting day for the cricket season at both Universities. But we have changed all that. This year the Cantabs will have a full fortnight of active work after the completion o f the Inter-Univer­ sity match. The supplementary fixtures are :— July 4, 6, 6.—Liverpool, v. Liverpool and District. „ 7, 8, 9.— B irm iD gbam , v . W arw icksh ire. „ 11,12,13.— D u blin , v. All Ireland. „ 14,15,16.—Cork, v. All Ireland. T h e Adelaide Observer records how 0 . H igginbottom , of Payneham, for the second time in his career accomplished the rare feat of taking all ten wickets in an innings. This was at the end of last month, when he dismissed everyone of the Post and Telegraph team at a cost of only 18 runs. He got four wickets in five balls (which included the hat trick), and another two balls later. Some years ago he got 10 for 24 against Croydon. H igginbottom ’s underhand lobs, the Observer adds, have spelt destruction to many a hundred batsmen in his time— how many hundreds may be calculated when it is stated that he will be sixty years of age in July next. A q u ite exceptional performance marked the finish of the match between Brixton Wanderers and Lewes Priory at Lewes on Whit Monday. The Priory, who batted first, after making 143, suc­ ceeded iu getting n ice o f their opponents out for 42. The last hope of the Wan­ derers was W . J. Benge, a slow bowler. C. G. Smith, who made 131 for Surrey C. and G. a fortnight or so ago against Sutton, was his partner, and a terribly hard wicket to get the Priory team found them. Benge, who played with splendid nerve and judgment, was proof against all the temptations of the Lewes bowlers to the last. He kept up his end without the semblance of a chance while Smith scored freely. Before the latter was out 103 had been added for the last wicket, and the match had been won by the Wanderers by two runs on the first inn­ ings. Benge was unbeaten at the finish, carrying out his bat for 8 , while Smith’s score was 91, which included five sixers out of the ground. T h e completion of the competition for the Inter-Collegiate (U .S.A.) Cup has once again left Haverford College with the premiership. The winners were successful all along the line, defeating Harvard, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. The Haverfordians, who are due in England on the 18th inst. for their Public School tour, will probably add a fixture at Oxford on June 24 or 25 to the programme already arranged for them. T h e long arm of coincidence has been particularly noticeable in the recent experiences of the Wanderers at the Oval. In 1902 in the first innings they scored 107 against the Surrey Club and Ground, the very same total they reached in their match against the same side last week. Rain prevented any play at all when the Wanderers visited the Surrey ground in 1903, so that in tw o successive matches they were dismissed by Surrey Club and Ground for precisely the same aggregate, at leaBt in their first knock. I n a match between Stockwell United and Fairfields, at Gorringe Park, Tooting, last Saturday, the latter were all dis­ missed for 1 run. F . Coventry bowled 3-2 overs, 3 maidens, for no runs and four wickets; G. Franklin bowled 3 overs, 2 maidens, for 1 run and four wickets. The other two batsmen were run out. H . D. G. L e v e so n -G o w e r will be seen in the Surrey Eleven for the first time this season at Manchester to-day. Rumour has it that D . L. A. Jephson will also be an occasional starter for the county presently. Indeed, it will not surprise me to find him doing good ser­ vice for Surrey within the next fortnight or so. ------- A t the present lime Tate, J. Gunn and Wilson are all hors de combat on account of accidents. The two former have injured their hands, and the latter has sprained his shoulder. G. L . Jessop has a damaged finger, but managed to bat and also to field well for Gloucestershire against Surrey. O n Tuesday there was no play in any of the first-class matches on account of persistent rain, and for the same reason all the matches except one were aban­ doned yesterday. ------- T h e time seems to be com ing rapidly when every first-class batsman will explain in the daily papers exactly how and why he got out on the previous day. This has already been frt quently done of late, and in Tuesday’s Daily Chronicle, A . C. Maclaren said; “ Shortly after­ wards Kotze clean bowled me by a ball which should have been hit for 4 straight, instead of attempting to drag it.” C r ic k e t e r s will find much to interest them in the June number of “ Baily’s Magazine.” An excellent portrait of P. F. Warner appears as frontispiece and a short biography follows. Some notes about Braund also appear as well as a portrait. In addition to these brief notes there is an article on Cricket Reform, and another on the late Mr. Fred Gale, who was a frequent contributor to “ Baily ” some years ago. I n the interesting reminiscences of Mr. Gale in “ Baily ” by Mr. Arthur Mursell, there occurs a delightful anec­ dote which was told to the author by “ The Old Buffer.” It is as follows : “ I one 3 brought John Ruskin down to the Oval to see a match. He looked at the players as if they were the seven lamps of architecture. And as the whole ring suddenly sparkled with tea thousand clapping hands, at a splendid return from cover-point which cost a wicket, he turned his dreamy eyes upon me, and said slowly, ‘ I don’t like this game ; it is envious and unkindly; for no sooner has a batsman achieved a noble blow than someone is alert to obstruct his effort and despoil him of his reward.’ ” T h e honorary secretary of the North Down C.C., Mr. W. Andrews, writes from Comber, Co. D own: —“ For W ood- vale C.C. against North Down C.C. Mr. A. McKee scored one run, and carried his bat through the innings. Please let me know whether this is a record. The same player took eight wickets out of nine in the match.” Mr. Andrews sends the score of the innings, which is given below :— W OODVALE. A. McKee, not out ... 1 F. Elliott, st Houston, "W. Carutb, b Turner 0 b Turner................. 1 C. Weaker, b Turner 0 J.Haithwaite, run out 0 A. Smyth, b Graham 2 W . Moreland, b Gra- F.Galloway.!) Graham 0 h am ........ . ... ... 0 J. Nelson, b Graham 0 Extras................. 2 D. Keith, b Turner ... 2 — W.Harrison, c Cristie, Total ............... 8 b Turner................. 0 North Down made 235 for nine wickets. W it h regard to the above I may say that no complete records of this kind have ever been kept, partly because of the immense number of cricket clubs scattered all over the world. It is not unlikely that other men have done the same thing as Mr. McKee. In a match betweeu Hayward’s Heath and Ardingly College about twenty-five years ago, a Hayward’s Heath player went right through the innings without scoring, but did not carry his bat, being caught from a big hit off the last ball. P l a y in g on Saturday, May 28th, |for Quernmore School v. Tyros C.C., M r .5 B. W. Y . King, one of the masters, scored 203 (not out) out of 292 in ninety minutes. The innings contained 32 fours. The match was played on the school ground at Bromley. T h e Notts committee have decided to give part of the proceeds of Notts v. Middlesex, at Trent Bridge in August, to Wilfred Flowers, who was one of the