Cricket 1904

378 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e pt . 1, 1904. was pooh-poohed hy the opposing party, and “ just to settle i t ” they decided to turn up the files of The Morning Leader at random. They alighted on August 4, which recorded the scores of matches played on the first three days of the present month. In the Sussex v. Gloucester match at Bristol two batsmen failed at 13 (Tate and Whatford). During the same three days Jackson (for Yorkshire), Toone (for Leicestershire), Craw­ ford (for Leicestershire), Snooke (for the South Africans), Fishwick (for Warwick­ shire), Blythe and Huish (for Kent), and Keigwin (for Essex), all lost their wickets at 13. F o r the first lime in his career Hirst has scored two thousand runs in the season besides taking a hundred wickets. To accomplish the feat he only required two wickets in the match last week between Yorkshire and Somerset. He had pre­ viously scored a thousand runs and taken a hundred wickets four times, viz., in 1896, 1897, 1901 and 1903. T h e other men who have scored two thousand in a season and taken a hundred wickets are all Gloucestershire cricketers, v iz .: W . G. Grace, in 1876, 2,622 runs and 124 w ickets; C. L . Townsend, in 1898, 2,440 runs and 101 w ickets; G. L. Jessop, in 1900, 2,210 runs and 104 wickets. Trott is the ODly man who has taken 200 wickets in a season and also made 1,000 ru n s; he has accomplished the feat twice— in 1899 and 1900. The nearest approach to 2,000 runs and 200 wickets in a season is the 1,950 runs and 183 wickets b y Hirst in 1901. B e lo w w ill be found a complete list of the men who have taken a hundred wickets and scored a thousand runs in a season :— Runs Wkts. Runs Wkts. made. tkn. made. tkn. W . G. Grace. J. Gunn. 1874 .. 1,665 ... 129 1903 ... 1,665 .. 118 1875 ... 1,498 ... 192 1904 ... 1,179 ... 117 1876 ... 2,6*2 ... 124 W. R. Rhodes. 1877 ... 1,474 ... 179 1903 ... 1,137 .. 193 1878 ... 1,151 .. 153 1904 ... 1,213 ... 104 1885 ... 1,688 ... 118 W . H. Lockwood. 1686 .. 1.846 ... 122 1899 ... 1,272 ... 117 G. H. Hiist. 190D ... 1,367 ... 125 1896 ... 1,122 ... 104 W . Brockwell. 1697 ... 1,535 ... 101 1899 ... 1,642 ... 105 1901 ... 1,950 .. 183 E. Wainwright. 1903 .. 1,844 .. 128 1897 ... 1,612 ... 101 1904 ... 2,114 ... £ . Arnold. 104 W . Flowers. 1883 .. 1,144 ... 113 1902 ... 1,067 ... 113 G. Davidson. 1903 ... 1,157 ... 143 1895 ... 1,296 ... G. C. B. Llewellyn 13S 1904 ... 1,003 ... 107 L. C. Braund 1901 .. 1,025 .. 134 1901 ... 1,587 ... 120 J. R. MasoD. 1902 ... 1,43J ... 172 1901 .. 1.561 .. 118 1903 ... 1,425 ... 131 J. Vine. C. T. Studd. 1901 .. 1,193 .. 113 1882 ... 1,249 ... 128 T. Hayward. 1883 ... 1,193 ... 112 1897 .. 1.368 .. 114 G. L. Jessop. R. Peel. 1897 .. 1,219 .. 116 1896 ... 1,‘.06 ... 128 1900 ... 2,210 ... 1C4 F. 8. Jackson. C. L. Townsend. 1898 ... 1.566 ... 104 1898 ... 1,270 ... 145 W. R. CuttelJ. 1699 .. 2.440 ... 101 1898 ... 1,003 ... 114 A. E. Trott. U. J. T. Bosanquet 1899 ... 1,175 ... 239 1904 ... 1,351 ... 104 1900 ... 1,337 ... 211 S. Hais?h. 1904 ... 1,012 ... 106 T h e r e has been no additicn during the last week to the list of those batsmen, who have scored 2,000 runs this season viz., K . 8. Eanjitsinbji, C. B. Fry, Hay­ ward, H iist and Tyldesley. Nor does it seem at all likely that there will be any addition before the season closes, unless Iremonger, who only requires 17, can manage to play in another match. H a ig h has now added his name to the list of those who have scored a thousand runs and taken a hundred wickets this season. The complete list is as follows :—J. Gunn, Rhodes, Arnold, B. J. T. Bosanquet, Hallows, Relf, Haigh, and Hirst (over 2,000 runs). O n Saturday London County had to go in at the Crystal Palace and make 305 runs to win in a little less than two hours and a half. A t the end of an hour the hundred went up, and in the next hour and a quarter 212 runs were made. Thus the home team won com fortably enough. H . B. Lusk (64), L . de Montezuma (119), and J. H . Todd (103 not out) were the chief scorers. O n the same day the match at Aider- shot between the 1st Yorkshire Light Infantry and the First Army Corps pro­ duced 704 runs for 20 wickets, two men making a hundred on each side. In a junior cup tie at Cambridge on Saturday, a bowler named H . Barker took nine wickets for no runs, including five with successive balls, for St. Giles’s Guild against Horningsea, whose total was 10. B t scoring his 197 against the South Africans for Surrey on Tuesday, H ay­ ward has brought his total of hundreds for the season to eleven. Thus it is still possible for him to beat F ry’s record of thirteen hundreds. In the course of the above innings Hayward brought his total to 3,056, and thus at present stands alone. Only four other men have ever scored over three thousand in a season, v iz .: Robert Abel, 3 309 in 1901; Ranjitsinhji, 3,065 in 1900, and 3,159 in 1899; C. B. Fry, 3,147 in 1901; and Tyldesley 3,041 in the same year. Until 1896, when Ranjit­ sinbji n ade 2,780 runs, Dr. Grace held the record, 2,739 in 1871. I t w ill be seen that Hayward must make 254 more runs if he is to beat Abel’s record of 3,309 for a season. He has still to take part in four more matches (if the match between Lancashire and the Rest of England comes off), viz., Surrey v. Kent, at the Oval at the end of this w eek; Surrey v. Leicestershire, at the Oval on Monday next and follow ing days ; South v. North, at Hastings, on the last three days of next w eek ; and Rest of England v. Champion County, at the Oval on September 12th. D. W . S aunders, the wicket-keeper of the Gentlemen of Canada team which toured in England some years ago, is returning to America on Saturday afler a visit to England in pursuance of the duties of his profession. Two other keen sportsmen and cricketers from Canada have also been over iu England this summer in tbe persons of Lyndhurst Ogden, of Toronto, and A. Browning, of Montreal. P h il a d e l p h ia n cricket i-i to be repre­ sented after all at St. Liuis. A cricket tournament is to be held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition during the third week in September. Philadelphia will be well represented with the follow ing side, and should more than hold its o w n :— J. H. Scattergood, J. L . Evans, H . A. Haines, H. P. Baily, R. H. Patton, J. W. Muir, Merion ; P. N. Re Lov, Philadelphia ; W . W . Foulkrod, jun., Frankford; J. B. K ing, Belmont; T. C. Jordan, and A. H . Brockie, Ger­ mantown. I n order to hold out a ray o f hope to those American cricketers w h i are getting along in years—say toward thirty-one or thirty-two—and who are thinking of giving up the game soon, the American Criclceter thinks it well worth mentioning that W . G. Grace on July 18 scared 166 for London County against the Maryle­ bone Cricket Club on his fifty-sixth birthday. S om e of our great cricketers have much to answer for. It will be noticed in a letter which appears on another page from the honorary secretary of one of the Copen­ hagen cricket clubs, that the Danish record for an individual score (140) was twice beaten on July 3rd under somewhat peculiar circumstances. The sad part of it is that in allowing their man to beat the record the University cricket team lost the chance of victory. I t will be noticed from our correspondent’ s letter that Mr. Buckwald, who now holds the Danish record — 187 not out — has an average for the season of 266. C h ie f l y composed of members of the St. Lawrence C.C., Canterbury, a team organised by Mr. C . E. Harris w ill leave next Saturday evening for a week’s tour in Holland. The matches to be played are as follows :— September 5 and 6, v. North Holland, at Haarlem. September 7 and 8, y. All Holland, at the Hague. September 9 and 10, v. South Holland,at the Hague. The team is as follows :—A. Latter (cap­ tain), Capt. M . H . Tristram, Capt R. O’ H Livesay, F. Penn, F. Liebenrood, L. A. F. Weigall, E. H . Y . Weigall, L. G. A. Collins, H . E. Green, D . A. J. Bacon, A. M. H ilton and C. E. Harris. F o r the match at Scarborough on September 8, 9 and 10, between North and South (which is to be played in place of the M.C.C. Australian Team v. Rest of England), the follow ing teams have been chosen:— NORTH v. SuUTH.—September 8, 9 & 10. N o r t h : Lord Hawke (Yorkshire), A. C. Maclaren (Lancashire), A. O. Jones (Notts), R. H. Spooner (Lancashire), and W. Brearley (Lancashire), Lilley (Warwickshire), Hirst (Yorkshire), Rhodes (Yorkshire), Haigh (Yorkshire), Tyldesley (Lancashire), and King (J. H.) (Leicestershire). S o u t h : O . B. Fry (Sussex), K. S. Ran- jitsmhji (Sussex), B. J. T. Bosanquet