Cricket 1904

J u ly 21, 1904. CRICKET • A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 281 frequently does the team consist of brothers. It is, therefore, all the more remarkable that in a recent match at Kandy, in Ceylon, eleven brothers played and beat a club named the Bloomfielders by 62 to 57. The score of the match is appended as a curiosity :— B bothers J oseph . * 1st Innings. E. A. Joseph, c de Kretser, b Peglotte ... 18 O. B. Joseph, c Peglotte, b Ebert ........ 6 O. D. Joseph, runo u t......................... 5 Dr 8. P. Joseph, c Peglotte, b de Kretser 3 R. L. Joseph, b de Kretser................... 0 V. Joseph, c and b de Kretser .............. 0 Evan Joseph, b deKretser................... 6 W. Joseph, oPollocks, b Peglotte ........ 3 Rollo Joseph, cMortier, b Peglotte........ 4 L. Joseph, not out............. .............. 7 B. Joseph, c Holsinger, b Peglotte ........ 2 Extras... .............. 8 Total ........62 T hb B loomfielderb . 1st Innings. L. Overlunde, c and b D. Joseph ........ 7 O. de Kretser, c R. Joseph, b D. Joseph ... 0 E. Pollocks, b E. A. Joseph.................. 14 O. Holeinger, c S. Joseph, b E. A. Joseph 23 A. Peglotte, b Evan Joseph................... 3 L. deKretser,cE.A.Joseph,bEvanJoseph 3 L. Ebert, c E. A. Joseph, b Evan Joseph 0 J. W. Mortier, run out........................ 0 L. Alwis, b E. A. Joseph ................... 0 A. VanGeyzel, o L. Joseph, b E. A. Joseph 9 R. Ebert, not out ... .................... 2 Extras................... 4 Total ........57 The County Gentleman recalls the tale that more than 20 years ago, when some Englishmen introduced the game of lawn tennis into Riga, and played it in cricket costume and with their shirt-sleeves turned up, they received a very polite message from the police requesting that when indulging in this pastime they “ should not undress.” F or Tewkesbury Grammar School against Eldersfield School last week, S. Priestlay took all ten wickets in the first innings without a run being scored off him. The details of his analysis are as follow s:— w. ww . w| . . . . w . | , ww . . . |w . . . w . | . . w 4*8overs, 4maidens, 0 runs, 10wickets. In the second innings Priestlay took six wickets for 33. The score of the Elders­ field School first inniDgs is given below : E ldersfield S ohool . Clements, b Priestlay.. 0 I Phillips, b Priestlay 0 Turner, not out........ 6 T.Jackson,cChandler, Rock, b Priestlay ... 0 bPriestlay ........ 0 Beyers, b Priestlay ... 0 W. Jackson,bPriestlay 0 Clarke, b Priestlay ... 0j Bevan, bPriestlay ... 0 Barley, b Priestlay ... 3[ Extras .. . 6 Fowler, c Cook, b _ Priestlay.............. j I Total ........ 16 T he visit of Dr. W. G. Grace to Coventry last week with the London County team to play Warwickshire has reminded jld cricketers that the last time he played there was in 1873, when he was captain of the South of England X I. which opposed X X II. of Coventry and District. In the match last week War­ wickshire made a brilliant effort to win, and when the match ended were within 10 runs of victory with four wickets in hand. To the 1873 match there was an equally exciting finish, for the X X II. only lost by three runs in a low scoring game. Mr. Grace scored 13 and 29 in totals of 79 and 54. B y their victory over An England Eleven on Saturday, the South African cricketers brought their record in first- class matches to eleven matches played, seven won, one lost, two drawn and one a tie— a most satisfactory result. They have also played three other matches, winning one and losing another in Ireland, and winning one in Scotland. I t was most unfortunate that the team which was described as “ an England X I .” included only two men, Banjitsinhji and Jessop, who could by any stretch of imagination be considered as worthy to represent England. The report goes round the world that England has again been beaten in a game, and sarcastic comments are made in foreign and colonial papers about the decline of the Mother Country. Perhaps these reports do no harm to us ; they certainly do no good. The South Africans have played so well this season that it would have been well to give them the strongest opposition possible, but as the title of the match was agreed upon long ago, the M.C.C. cannot be blamed for not putting a better team in the field. T h e race for the distinction of being the first man to score two thousand runs this season began to attract attention this week. Up to the end of last week Hayward was leading with 1,860 to his credit, while C. B. Fry stood at 1,744. No one else seemed in the running; for Tyldesley, the next in order, was at 1,470, while Hirst, Iremonger, and Hayes were the only other men with totals above 1,300. Yesterday Hayward, by his two soores of 88 and 76, brought his total for the season to 2,024. I n the bowling averages which ap­ peared on Monday a South African cricketer, R. O. Schwarz, was first with an average of 12-61 for thirty-one wickets. Two other South Africans were high up in the list, viz., Kotze fourth, and Sin­ clair fifteenth. An Australian, Kermode, was tenth. The only Yorkshireman in the first dozen was Haigh. These things afford food for reflection. M r . A . J. W b b b e , the old Middlesex and Oxford University captain, still plays with success in club cricket, and last week he made 69 and 58 for the Harle­ quins against the Royal Engineers. He first played for Oxford in 1875, and was in the eleven for four years, during the last two of which he was captain, while from 1875 to 1877 he represented the Gentlemen against the Players. A t this time of the year Kent generally manage to place an exceedingly strong team in the field, and the inclusion of J. R. Mason and F. Marchant in the eleven last week in the Yorkshire match greatly strengthened it. Mason, like 0 . B. Fry, has not yet done justice to his reputation when opposed to the Aus­ tralians, but he is a splendid all-round cricketer for all that. Marchant has always played attractive cricket when he has come off, and his innings of 63 against Yorkshire was worthy of him at his best. The Kent team in this match included three men who have acted as captains of the Kent eleven, viz., Mason, Marchant and C. H . B. Marsham. A t a meeting of the committee of the Harrogate Cricket Club on Friday last the following resolution was unanimously passed :— ‘ ‘ That this committee welcome the fullest inquiry possible hy the M.C.C. into the whole of the circumstances leading up to the abandonment of the Yorkshire v. Kent match at Harrogate, and will gladly render every assistance in their power and promise all information within their knowledge to that body to facilitate its endeavours to arrive at a proper decision.” I n connection with the death of Mr. Paul Kruger, anold tale hasnaturally been revived. It is said that when the news of the arrival of the Australian contingent in South Africa reached him he asked, “ Who are the Australians ? ” He was told that eleven of them had beaten England, whereupon he exclaimed iu terror, “ Potstausend (or some similar expression)! We are lost. There are ten thousand of them ! ” T he success of the Lancashire team in the county championship has been so marked this season that a list of the the results up to date is appended. It will be noticed that six of the victories have been gained by an innings. Matches played 16, won 12, drawn 4. For Against R. W. R. W. v. Leicestershire ... 881 ... 10 ... 317 ... 20 (Won by an innings and 64.) v. Warwickshire ... 380 ... 11 ... 377 ... 20 (Won by ninewickets.) v. Yorkshire ......... 278 .......... 10 ... 327 ... 13 (Drawn.) v. Kent ................ 292 ... 10 ... 164 ... 20 (Won by an innings and 128.) V. Surrey ................ 261 ... 10 ... 138 ... 20 (Won by innings and 113 ) v. Somerset .......... 613 ... 10 ... 609 ... 20 (Won by ten wickets ) /.Gloucestershire ... 256 ... 10 ... 213 ... 20 (Won by an innings and 43.) Warwickshire ... 410 .. 12 ... 426 ... 10 (Drawn.) v. Sussex ................. 612 ... 12 ... 486 ... 12 (Drawn.) v. Kent ................. 662 ... 20 ... 466 ... 20 (Won by 107 runs.) V. Surrey ................ 476 ... 19 ... 405 ... 20 (Won by 70runs.) v. Somerset .......... 580 ... 10 ... 444 ... 20 (Won by an innings and 136.) v. Notts..................... 586 .. 10 ... 537 ... 10 (Drawn.) v. Worcestershire ... 478 ... 11 ... 477 ... 18 (Won by nine wickets.) v. Derbyshire .......... 371 ... 10 ... 242 ... 20 (Won by an innings and 129.) v. Middlesex .......... 472 ... 12 ... 471 ... 20 (Won by eight wickets.) ^On Monday, Dr. W . G . Grace celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday by making a soore of 61 not out for London County against the M .C .C . at the Crystal Palace. Dur­ ing the luncheon interval, G . J. V . Weigall, the M .C .C . captain, made a congratulatory speech in which he re­ minded the Doctor of the match at Gravesend between Kent and Gloucester­ shire in 1895. In that match Dr. Grace scored 257 and 73 not out and was on the field from the first ball to the last. In that year— his forty-seventh year—