Cricket 1904

290 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME J uly 28, 1904 underneath that the ball did curious things sometimes.” O f his first appearance for Surrey Mr. Chinnery said : “ I was nervous, and was bowled for one run b y Geeson, a plain and straight good length ball. I remem­ ber that on the next morning I read in a newspaper that if I had received the same ball when I was playing for Eton I should have hit it to the boundary, and perhaps I should have done so. In the course of the season Leveson-Gower had tw ice to go in after me to save the hat trick. Walter Read and I both got spectacles against Middlesex. I only had one ball in the match, for in the first innings B obby Abel called me for an impossible run directly I came in and Stoddart threw down my wicket, while in the second innings I was clean bow led first ball b y Raw lin.” “ What are your earliest recollections of cricket ? ” “ M y father first taught me how to hold a bat, and he used to bow l to me on the tennis lawn at Cobham. The Lord Chief Justice, when staying with us in Scotland, gave me excellent advice and coaching; in fact, he claims me as his pupil. Then I went to a private school where games were not encouraged. A t E ton in my time there was no coach­ ing for the lower games, and no one raised any objections when I almost Invariably tried to hit the ball to square leg. When I was sixteen years old my father had old Pollard, the Harrow coach, to bow l to me at Cobham at Easter time. N ext year Mead and Cox bow led to me at Wamham and did me a lot of good. When I was eighteen I came under the notice of Mr. R . A. H. Mitchell, whoonly coached those who were near the top. Mat W iight, who now plays for Buckinghamshire, had just come to Eton as a bow ler; he was excellent for practice, but never said much in the way of advice.” “ Y ou used to bow l P” “ Chiefly in club matches, although I once got four wickets for 51 against Essex, much to m y delight. I like bow ling, but I can’t bow l nowadays a bit. In one of the Middlesex matches against Gloucestershire at Lord’s, Jessop made 30 runs off me in two overs.* I remember that I tried him with a full pitch. H e hit it straight back, only just over my head, and the ball hit the balcony window of the committee room , so that you can easily guess at what a rate it was travelling. I t is an extraordin­ ary thing for a man to be able to drive a full pitch. But you never quite know where Jessop is goin g to hit you, so that to bow l against him is to experience a series of surprises.” A good field himself, Mr. Chinnery can appreciate good fielding b y other men. Of Mr. Jessop he sa id : “ The finest bit of fielding I ever saw was at Scarborough. Jessop was extra cover, and when the ball was hit to him he threw down the wicket at the other end, where Thompson was • In the same match Mr. Chinnery hit five 4’s in an orer from Koberts, and the other ball of the over produced four byea. backing up too far. H e threw the ball very hard, and it would have gone to the boundary if he had missed, but he is such a good shot at a wicket that it was well worth the risk. The mention of fielding reminds me that in the Eton and Harrow match of 18951 missed Stogdon at extra­ cover when he had made 39 in the first innin gs; it was one of those four o’clock catches at L ord’s, which are so often missed, and occasionally lost altogether in the sun. Stogdon afterwards increased his score to 124, and if it had not been for my miss we should have won the m atch; as it was Harrow just managed to bring about a drawn game with the last two men in. I did not hear the last of that catch for some time, for the report of the miss was one of the few items about the match cabled to the newspapers in India, so that I was held up as an awful example, while no mention was made of m y scores. I had a letter from my uncle sympathising with me for missing the catch, and alon g time afterwards, when the full scores of the match had appeared, another letter came from him congratulating me on having made more than enough runs to make up for it.” W . A . B e t t e s w o r t h . PELHAM v. THE STAG BREWERY.- Chingford on July 2 . S tag B r bw bry . -Played at T.Fitzmaurice,cAtter- bury, b J. E. Potter 9 W. Lyford, c and b Wallis .................16 P. E. Scotcher. c De la Cour, b Wallis ... 20 C.Spencer,cJ.E.Potter, b Wallis . ..........19 J. H. Kenyon, c J. E. Potter, b Lingwood. 13 E. Starley, b Wallis . 0 P ki A.F.Potter,cSpencer,b Lyford .................17 F.C.DelaCour, c Inno­ cent, b Kenyon .. 26 W E. Peel, b Kenyon 6 J. E Potter, not out.. 38 Wallis, lbw, b Spencer 4 E. Innocent, c Ling­ wood, b Wallis 4 A.E.Ide,cJ.E. Potter, b Wallis .................12 W . T. Miller, not out. 6 E.Tibble 8 ,b Lingwood 0 G. Smith, b Lingwood 0 B 10 , w 1 .......... 11 Total ...1C9 A.W.Atterbury.cFitz- maurice, b Spencer.. P. Lingwoud, c Fitz- maurice, b Spencer.. A. E. Harwell, notout B 4, lb 2, w 1 ... Total (6 wkts) ..112 P. H. Wray, H. Harrison and A. Pryor did not bat. MR. F. G. COLM a N’S XI. v. MR. G. MAR­ SHALL’S X I.—Played at Nork Park on July 20. M r. F. G. Colm an’ s XI. S. Colman, b Captain Crofta ............... 34 F. G. Colman, b Prax- worthy ................. 10 D. B. James, c Buckley Jones, b Pringle ... 67 H. S. Mason, c Bond, b Praxworthy.........42 N. D. Alston, c Mar­ shall, b Pratt Barlow 19 H. T. Bull, c Prax­ worthy,bCapt.Crofts 60 C.C.Macaulay, notout 12 H. W. Jaoomb,notout 13 B 25, lb 18, w 2, nb 10 66 Total (6 wkts) *302 * Innings declared closed. A. Benson, N. C. D. Colman, and F. Cooper did not bat. M r . G. M arbh a l l ’s XI. R. S. Pringle, run out 16 Buckley - Jones, c Macaulay,b 8 Colman 64 Col. Fairclough, c G. Caiman, b James ... 23 E.Pratt Barlow,not out 6 F. Longbourne, notout 7 B 10 , lb 2 , w 3 .. 16 Total (8 wkts) .. 208 G. Marshall did not bat. M ARQUEE9 AND TENTS of every description on SALE or BIRE. Marquees in good condition : 12ft. by 8 ft., £3 , 16ft. by 8 ft., £4; 18ft. by 10ft., £4 10s.; 20ft. by 12ft., £6 ; 28ft. by 14ft., £7 ; 30ft. by 16ft., £ 8 . New square tents ; eft., £2 2 a. ; 8 ft., £4 10s., without centre pole. Lists free.— B b o w n , Three Colt Street, Limehouse, E. F. H. Fowler, c Bull, b S. Co!man.......... 59 C. G. Bond, b S. Col­ man ........................ 28 H. Praxworthy, c Macaulay, b Bull . 22 W . MacEwen, lbw, b S. Colman .......... 0 Capt.< rofts, atMason, b Bull .............. 10 AMPNEY CRUCIS CRICKET WEEK. 1 st MATCH, E. T. CRIPP’S X I. v. FREE FOBE8TERS.—Played on July 18 and 19. M b . E. T. C bipps ’ XI. First innings. Second innings. E. T. Cripps. b Miller........ 0 Capt. R. Jelf, b Hill .......... 0 n otou t..............20 C. O. H. Sewell, c Hankey b Martyn .....................96 c Henry, b Hill .. 11 E. Henry, c Hankey, b Martyn .................................................................. 76 G. Hillyard Swinstead, c Miller, b Champain.......... 32 b Martyn ........i3 Capt. A. J. Paine, c Henry b Carmichael ..........*...61 b Miller ........16 C. C. Gouldsmith, c Hankey, b Champain ...............16 b Miller .......... 1 Rev. C. M. R. Luckman, c Carmichael, b Martyn ...72 notout...............31 H. Cautrell, c Hankey, b M iller..........................................................................28 Rev. A. Sturgess Jones, c and b Martyn .. ... ... 0 F. W . B. Cripps, not out ... 3 b H ill...............17 Extras........................ 6 Extras ... 2 Total ..................378 Total (6wkts) 121 F ree F obbstbrs . First innings. Second innings. Capt. Lannowe, c Gould- c E. T. Cripps, b emith, b Swinatead............. 26 Paine ...........43 P. Williams, lbw, b 8win- c F. Cripps, b stead ................................. 2 Sewell .......... 24 H. Martyn, c and b Swin- sttad ..............................26 b J e l f ...............116 Rev. J. Champain, c Jones, b Swinstead ............... 17 b Gouldsmith ... 2 Capt. E. Hill, c Cautrell, b c E. T. Cripps, b Paine ........................... 29 Paine ...........76 A. M. Miller, b Gouldsmith 20 run out ........ 42 G. R. Erskine, b F. Cripps 26 c E. Cripps, b Swinstead ... 6 E. Carmichael, run out ...22 b Sewell ...... 6 Capt. G. Henry, b Swin­ stead ................................ 6 c and b Sewell ... 2 H. Hankey, run out ........... 3 not out................. 0 J. Taylor, not out ........... 0 c Jelf, b Swinatead 7 Extras ................. 6 Extras...........16 Total .. ,..180 Total ........ i 2 n d MATCH, E. T. CRIPPS’ X I. v. GREEN- JACKETS.—Played on July 20 and 21. G rbbnjaokbt ' s . Second innings. b Swinstead ... 71 c Witts, b Henry 64 c E. T. Cripps, b Holbrook ... 3 cEllett,bHolbrook 79 st Sturges Jones, b H enry..........61 b Henry lbw, b Henr 6 notout .. c Sewell, b stead .. Extras win- First innings. Capt. G. Boltau S>mons, c bturves Jones, b Holbrook 4 T. H. Harker, b Witts ... f> J .H bloggett, b Henry .. 68 H. R Howard, run out ... 62 Capt. A. I. Paine, c Sewell, b Swinstead ................. 7 Major S. F Mott, ht Sturges Jones, b Henry................ 31 Hon, C. Prettie, c Sewell, b W itts ............................... 2 Capt.R.Jelf,stSturgesJones, b Holbrook..................... 21 F. W . B. Cripps, c Sewell, b Holbrook ....................... 13 MajorBtephens.b Swinstead 3 Capt. W. Harnett, not out 0 Extras ................. 6 Total........................ 211 Total • Innings de lared closed. E. T. C ripps ’ XI. *nn*nK8- Second innings. Rev.A.SturgesJoneabHarker 1 C. Wynter, c Jelf, b Symons 16 C. O. H. ttewell, c Mott, b Symons ........................ 24 notout................. 67 G. Hillyard Swinstead, b Symons ... ... .. .. 87 notout.............. 37 Rev. S. Holbrook, run ou t.. 37 c Harker. b Paine 21 E. F. B. Witta, b Harker... 1 E. Henry, b Paine .......... 23 b Harker 2 A. J. Palmer, b Harker ... 1 R.W. Ellett, c Mott, b Paine 36 H .E.W . Cantrell, c Symons, b Paine ........................ 14 E. T. Cripps, not o u t......... 0 c Prettie, b Paine 13 ................. 11 Extras............ 6 •344 Total . .. 260 Total . 146 C RICKET Report Sheets, lOd. per dozen, post free. 1 . 5 Going-in Cards, 7d. per dozen, post free. Cricket Score Books, 6 d. and Is. each; postage 2 d. extra.—To be obtained at the Offices of Cricket 168. 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