Cricket 1904

472 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. D eo . 22, 1904. the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, has joined Mr. C. J. M. Godfrey, the old Sussex county cricketer, in his prepara­ tory school at Burstow, Horley. He is a fine all round athlete, having played cricket andRugby football atCambridge, while of late years he has taken to golf. No doubt all his oldmilitary pupils and friends will wish him success in his new undertaking. D u r in g the past season the Kent CountyC.C.madeaprofitof £1,362 7s. 6d., whichexceededthatof 1903—theprevious record—by nearly £350. The balance due to thebankers onthepavilionaccount has been paid off, aud the club will begin the new year with nearly £1,000 to its credit. The financial success was chiefly due to the gate money taken during the weeks at Canterbury, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. Huish is to have the average receipts for the past four years and1905, inthematch against Lancashire at Canterbury, ashisbenefitnext season. I n all probability the proceeds of the Whit Mondaymatch at Lord’s next year, Middlesex v. Somerset, will be set apart for the benefit of George Burton, the old Middlesex bowler. For the present the question is in the hands of the M.C.C. Committee. T om R u s s e l l , theEssexwicket-keeper, will have the Middlesex match at Leyton on August 3rd, 4th and 5th for his benefit. A s c o r e of 412 wasmadeonOctober28 by O. H. Dean for Sydney Church of England Grammar School v. Newington College, at Sydney, N.S.W. As the Grammar School total was 670, while the College made 64 and 125 for seven wickets, the total for the day was 849. The score of the GrammarSchool innings is as follows :— G illies, b W ood w a rd 12 K in g , c C hapm an, b G r e y .................................. 0 E dw ards, n ot o u t ... 6 P en n efath er, c E lliot, b W o o d w a r d ............... 0 E xtras .................60 B la x la n d , b C hapm an 3 O . H . D ean , c H o lt- m an , b D ecoqu e .. 412 B esn ard , b G rey .............59 D en t, c N orm an , b G r e y ................................18 A llen , b C h apm an .. 61 A d a m s, st C u th bert- son , b W ood w a rd ... 27 F itzh a rd in ge, b G rey 12 T o ta l.. ..670 T h e following descriptionof theGram­ mar School innings is taken from the Sydney R eferee :— The local school won the toss and started withDean and Blaxland, who put on 61, Blaxlandplayinga stone-wallinginnings for 3. Thenext partnership—DeanandBesnard —tookthe score to 309, an addition of 248 runs for the second wicket. At lunch-time two wickets had fallen for 404. Dean had then made 233 runs in two hours fifteen minutes. On resuming, he batted more quietly, andscored at a rate about equal to that of Allen, who made 61. The third wicket whichput on95, fell at 404, and the fourthwicket, whichfellat536, wasresponsi­ ble for anadditionof 132 runs. After lunch Deantookhisscorefrom233to412inseventy- five minutes. The whole of his runs were made in210minutes. He gave a chance of stumping at 12, and was missed in the field at 182, 237, and262. The chanceat 182can, however, hardlyhe calledone. The hallwas drivenbackto the bowler at a terrific rate> and, afterhitting thebowler’s hand, it went to theboundary. He hit 1 five, 76 fours, 3 threes, 13 twos, and53 singles. T h e above individual score of 412 is a school record for Australia, and a record for New South Wales. The innings stands eighth on the list of individual scores of over 400, which is now as follows:— A . E . J . C ollins, in 1899, fo r C larke’ s H ou se v . N orth T ow n (C lifton C ollege), 628 n ot ou t. C . J. E a d y, 1902, fo r B r e ik -o ’ -d a y v . W ellin g ton , at H ob a rt (T a s.). 566. A . E . S todd art, in 1886, fo r H am p stead v . S toics, at H am p stead , 485. A . C. M acL aren , in 1895, fo r L ancash ire v . Som erset, at T au n ton (record in first-class crick et), 424. J . S . C arrick, in 1885, fo r W est o f S cotlan d v . P riory P ark , a t C hichester, 419 n ot out. J . W o r r all, in 1898, fo r C arlton v . M elbou rn e U niversity, at M elbou rn e, 417. W . N . ttoe. in 1881, fo r E m m an u el C ollege L .V .C . v. Cains L .V .C ., a t C am bridge, 415 n o t ou t G . H. D ea n , in 1901, fo r Sydney C h u rch o f E n glan d G ram m ar S ch ool v . N ew in gton C ollege, at Sydney, 412. E . F . S. T ylec'ite, in 1868, C lassical v . M od ern , at C lifton C ollege, 404 n o t out. T . W arn e, in 1893, fo r C a rlton V. R ich m on d , at M elbou rn e, 402. W . G : G race, in 1876, fo r U n ited South o f E n glan d v. X X I I . o f G rim sby, a t G rim sby, 4U0 n ot ou t. Dean, it may be added, followed up his huge innings with a score of 126 for the Grammar School v. St. Joseph’s on November 9th. A C o r r e s p o n d e n t who sends me an extract from the Rev. R. J. Campbell’s correspondence column in the British Weekly says: “ Fancy W. G. on the penitents’ form! Cannot you deal with the question in Cricket and suggest that W. G. ought tobeprotectedby anamend­ ment of the Copyright Act, from other people using; his style ?” The extract is as follows :— W. G. sends aletter which is typical of a rather large number which reach me from time to time. The writer is a manappar­ ently in middle life. He has been brought upas aChristianfromchildhood, has always been connected withaplaceof worship, etc., etc. Th e old Essex amateur, F. G. Bull, who during the past season played for the East Lancashire C.C., has accepted an engagement as professional to the Perthshire County C.C. T h e Board of Control will hold their next meeting at Lord’s on February 7th, 1905. Among the subjects to be dis­ cussed are theappointment of a Selection Committee, expenses, and the question as to the time of the declaration of an innings if the final test match has to be played out. The Boardwill also consider the question whether it would not be advisable for the two captains to toss only in the first match and the fifth. In this case the captain who lost the toss in the first matchwould have choice of inn­ ings in the second and fourth matches, the captain who won the toss having choice of innings in the thirdmatch. I n connection with the above proposal it may be pointed out that part of law 1 reads as follows : “ The choice of innings shall be decided by tossing.” Hence, unless the M.C.C. committee take the matter iu their own hands as they have sometimes done of late, the proposal cannot be carried out unless it receives the sanction of a general meeting of the M.C.C. A C U R IO U S instance of the effect which Leagues may have on amateur cricket was pointed out by Mr. J. W. Car­ michael at the annual meeting of the East Lancashire C.C. He said that in the course of twelve years’ experience of Leagae cricket he had seen a great evil going. He had seen young players brought into the team whose future had been absolutely spoiled by gaining some monetary value for making a small seore. One player had made as much as forty and fifty pounds in a season. Another had a paid agent on the field to get up collections, and a thirdhad stopped the game to knowwhy a collection had not been made. As a result of Mr. Car­ michael’s remarks a resolution was passed asking the Lancashire League to prohibit collections in League matches on behalf of amateurs. On the dates of the test matches at Leeds and Old Trafford there are five first-class county matches, as follows:— L e e d s . — W arw ick sh ire v . E ssex , L ancashire v. S om erset, N orth am p ton sh ire v. Surrey, G loucestersh ire v . W orcestershire, D erb y­ shire v. L eicestershire. M a n c h e st e e .— S ussex v. S urrey, Y ork sh ire v . L eices­ tershire, H a m p th ire v . S om erset, K en t v. G loucestershire, W arw ickshire v . D erbyshire. During the test matches at Nottingham only two county matches will be played, but the matches at Lord’s and the Oval eaci clashwith four county matches. T h e umpires for the Minor Counties Championship in 1905 are as follows:— N O R T H (7). ‘ *J. G regory *C . E . B artram *D . B ookless *W. C opeland O w en Firth *H . C oul8on C. M arshall *R . R ogers *R . B arber * J . E . B row n * W . G riffiths *W m . H earn *J. H olton C. H ughes *R . H um phrey MIDLA *G . P . H arrison *M . M yers l NDS (6). *G . R ye *A . S tockw in |*8. W rigley S O U T H (13). * vV. Jen n in gs *A . W . M ason *C. M ills G . P erkin s S ergt. W illis *F . G . W illou g h b y S U P P L E M E N T A R Y L IS T , 5. G . B oots, S ou th -w est I J . F ord , S ou th W . B ryap, M idlands j J . P ow ell, M idlands A . E ld rid ge, S outh | * U m p ires last year. As there seams to have been some misunderstanding in Australia about the meaning of the request made by the M.C.C. that the Cricket Associations in Australia should send over the team to England next year, the following ex­ planations may be of interest:— (a) Mr. J. Creswell (secretaryof the South Australian Cricket Association) states that the circular letter received fromMr. Lacey was acknowledged by letter on September 29th. No formal acceptance of the invita­ tionwaspassed. (S) MaiorWardill (secretary of the Mel­ bourne C.C.) received on November 9th a