Cricket 1904

J u n e 16, 1904. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 201 not out, was missed twice, while two other chances might have been picked up. F rom the Daily M a il :— \ Catford, Saturday. Although it rained all night, the wicket was fairly fast, and improved considerably as the day went on. 0. H. B. M arsham . The wicket seemed to play much the same as yesterday to start with, but when the sun began to shine after lunch it had the usual effect on the mail pitch. G. W. B eldam . I n the match on Saturday between Beckenham and Streatham, the latter club declared at 248 for five wickets, leaving Beckenham to bat for two hours, the Streatham captain no doubt thinking that if his opponents could make the runs they would deserve their victory. Thanks chiefly to a fine innings of 117 not out by F. D . Browne, the Kent amateur, Beckenham knocked off the runs and won with seven wickets in hand. Such a finish must have pleased both sides. O n Friday night there seemed no reasonable chance that the match between Yorkshire and Notts would be finished, for only one complete innings had been played, and Yorkshire, with two wickets in hand, had only a small lead. But the Yorkshire bowlers, who have of late done very little with the ball, although they have all made good scores, for once played up to their reputation and the result was a ten wickets’ victory for Yorkshire. A lthough F. S. Phillips only made 1 and 0 for Cambridge University against Surrey, he received his blue on the evening of the second day of the match, his brilliant fielding no doubt helping the Cambridge captain to make up his mind in the matter. Napier and H opley for Cambridge, and Awdrey for Oxford have also received their blue. C u ttell , the Lancashire professional, was again at the head of the bowling averages on Monday, with 47 wickets for 11 runs, while another Lancashire bowler, Hallows, was well up. It is quite pleasant to see the name of Yorkshire bowlers once more high up in the list, and Myers with 13 wickets for 147 (aver­ age l l -30) is second, while the Hon. F. S. Jackson with 17 for 215 (average 12’64) is fourth. I n the batting list R . H . Spooner is replaced by Tyldegley, another Lancashire man, while C. B. Fry is a good second The South Africans have a representative in Mitchell, who is sixth on the list. Sinclair and Hathorn are also fairly high up, but the South African bowlers do not as yet hold a prominent position. I t is so seldom that any captain of a first-class county dares to give a trial to a bowler who has not an established reputation, that the success met with by Iremonger on Friday afternoon for Notts must have been a pleasant surprise to Mr. Jones, the Notts captain. Ire­ monger was put on to bow l when Tunni- cliffe and Denton had been in partnership for about two hours, with the result that in a few overs he dismissed both batsmen, and also got Wilkinson leg before wicket. Soon after he went on the scoring board showed 274 for t w o ; in a few minutes it showed 285 for five. L ast week 607 runs were e cored for the loss of nine wickets in the match between Charlton Park and the Wan­ derers, an average of 67 runs per wicket. Three individual innings of a hundred were made, and Stanley Colman scored 96. Charlton Park made 365 for four wickets, aud the Wanderers 242 for five wickets. O n l y 5 runs less than the above total for the day were scored on Thursday last in the match between Bath and District and Rest of Somerset, and the total made by each side was much the same as in Wanderers v. Charlton Park, Bath making 361 for three wickets, and the Rest 241. For Bath Braund scored 176, his hits in­ cluding two 6’s and thirty-six 4’s, while for the Rest L. C. H . Palairet made 86. A f t e r the severe defeat o f Gloucester­ shire by Lancashire, G. L. Jessop wrote in the Daily M a il :— “ In strict confi­ dence, however, I am not so sanguine of our chances for the championship as I was before entering upon this disastrous week.” No doubt there are some good people who will take this remark as quite serious. A t the Crystal Palace last week Dr. Grace was beaten b y 21 to 13 in the first round of the London County Open Bow l­ ing Tournament by J. C. Hunter, presi­ dent of the Irish Bow ling Association. W . L. Murdoch, on the other hand, won his game by 21 points to nothing, but did not survive the next round. I t is seldom that a strong batting side breaks down as badly as did the Middle­ sex team in the second innings against Kent on Friday on a wicket which was only moderately difficult. Only 31 runs were made from the bat (for there were six extras and six runs from overthrows in a total of 57), and of these 23 were made b y Littlejohn and Moon, the rest of the team not averaging a run apiece. T he death is announced of S. J. White­ head, the old Warwickshire professional, who shared the proceeds of a benefit match with Richards last week. Whitehead visited the Edgbaston ground while the match was on. T h e veteran cricketers who still hold their own iu first-class matches must have been amused at some o f the recent comments made by the Daily Mail cricket journalists. Thus, Tyldesley mentions, evidently with a sort of awe, that “ Huggins still made the ball get up nastily, Cuttell stopping one with his wrist.” Again, Ranjitsinhji seems to shudder when he writes of Buckenham, who was “ getting up nearly shoulder high, so that we were obliged to play at the ball.” No doubt it is all very terrible, but one wonders what would be said nowadays if noses instead of wrists were in danger two or three times an over, as they used to be. F o r Wadham against Worcester at Oxford, last week, F . R. Green took all ten wickets in an innings, bow ling each of his victims. The Worcester score is as follows :— W o rcester . G. B. Carlisle, b Green 4 B . T. Walters, not out 57 R. Rogers, b Green .. 6 E. Gore-Brown, b Green...................... 0 J. G. Morgan Owen, b Green........................ 5 C. E. Story, b Green... 8 A. J. Weller, b Green A.E.Chadwicfc.bGreen E. J. Bamberger, b Green ................ A. J. Bishop, b Green G. N. Foster, b Green Extras ................. Total................. O n Thursday last there was some rapid scoring in first-class cricket. Essex made 400 for 7 against Sussex : 452 were made for 12 wickets in Derbyshire v. M .C .C .; 442 for 16 in Oxford University v. South Africans ; and 413 for 13 in Worcester­ shire v. Hampshire. F r o m Lawn Tennis and Croquet :— On Saturday last, as two of the defeated Essex team left Chiswick, and mournfully made their way to Clapham Junction, en route for their respective homes, one of them pur­ chased the Star, wherein appeared, in bold relief, the headline :— E S S E X B E A T E N . It was the very last drop in the cup of bitterness, and the other murmured:— “ D------ i t ! I did’nt think G.M. would have been as smart as that over the Middlesex win.” Further inspection, however, revealed the fact that the defeat referred to the Cricket Eleven playing Leicestershire and not the Lawn Tenms Team captained by R. B. Hough. I n a match between Ashville College (Harrogate) “ A ” team and Western College “ A ,” on the Western ground the whole of the latter side were dismissed without a single run being scored. Ash­ ville College batted first, and scored 47. Two bowlers—Swallow and Longley— divided the Western College wickets between them, the former taking seven wickets and the latter three. M r . T. W . P e t t if o r , a well-known member of the Leicestershire county committee, died at his residence, Broom­ field, Leicester, last week at the age of forty-five. T h e details of the bow ling analysis of Hallows for Lancashire in the second inniDgs of Gloucestershire on Friday are as fo llow s: 1 . 1 2 1 . . W ww . 2 . 2 2 1 • • 2 w 1 w . 4 4 1 1 . . w A match was played at Upper Skeikh, Somaliland, on 7th May in connection