Cricket 1904

M ar . 31, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 43 elsewhere is the 205 of G. H. Cookson in the second innings of the Punjab against the North West Frontier Province at Lahore, on December 30th last. A l l ten wickets in an innings. Cricket curio hunters will be glad no doubt to have an addition to their lists. The successful bowler in this instance was L . C. Glascock who dismissed every bats­ man in the first innings of the Chief Court, playing for Lahore and Mian Mir at Lahore, on January 22 nd. T h e match between the North and South of the Argentine Republic, begun on St. Valentine’s Day, was invested with more than ordinary excitement fiom the fact that the two sides were level on the previous results. The game has been played without a break for the last thirteen years, and the North at the moment is one to the good. Am ong the names of those who represented the South last month was that of J. St. J. Fair, who scored 28 and 61 for Harrow v. Eton, in 1886. F r o m Punch :— THE MUSE OF HISTOEY.—H . T est M atches . There once was a skipper named Plum, Whose team made the prophets all glum ; “ It’s had through and through.” They declared : “ it won’t do.” But to-day all those prophets are dumb. T h e tour of the Ghurka Brigade in the North-W est Provice s of India in the middle of last month gave occasion for a remarkable sequence of high scores from the bat of L. P . Collins, the old Marl- burion who represented Oxford against Cambridge at Lord’s, in 1899. The Ghurkas took part in five tw o-day matches, and in three of these the old Oxonian got over a hundred in each innings, carrying out his bat both times in the last of the five. As his scores given below w ill show, in the teu days’ cricket— in seven completed innings he had an aggregate of 836, which gave him an average of 119'3 :— Feb 8 & 9, Ghurka Brigade v. Umballa, 122 126—2*8 Feb. 10 & 11 „ „ v. Meerut, 8 23— 31 Feb. 12 & 13 ,,„ v.GreenJackets 119 116#-235 Feb. 16 & 16 ,, „ v.Cawnpore 0 6— 6 Feb. 17 & 18 „ „ v. Bareilly 208* 110-316 T h e Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia have been obliged to ask the Gentlemen of Ireland to forego their contemplated visit to the United States this year, while extending them an invitation to come over in 1905. The Committee which has the regulation of International tours in America were in hopes o f persuading the Marylebone Club to send over an English team in June or July, which would be much better for American cricket than in September,when they have had hitherto to receive English cricketers. W ith this request the M.C.C. has been unable to comply, and it is doubtful whether H . D . G. Leveson- Gower, who has been asked to fill the breach, will be able to collect anything like a representative side of amateurs to go out in the thick of our Eaglish cricket. E veryon e will be grieved to hear that the injury J. H. Scattergood recsived to his finger while playing for the Gentle­ men of Philadelphia against Somerset­ shire last June, will in all probability, prevent him having any cricket at all this summer. The broken finger ow ing to the fact that the bones were not properly set, is still causing him considerable trouble, so that the chances of his playing this year are apparently very small. T h e Victorian total of 15 against the Marylebone Club team at Melbourne early last month, is the smallest innings as yet recorded in a big match in Australia. The lowest score prior to this was the 23 of South Australia v. Victoria, in March, 1883. “ F e l i x ” of the Australasian in re­ cording the death of W. A. Tobin who played for Victoria against New South Wales at Melbourne, at Christmas 1880, pays a high tribute to his personal qualities as well to his ability as an all-rourd player. The first time I met him, says “ Felix,” who is of course T. Horan of the first Australian team, was in England in 1878, when he played for X V I I I . of Keighley and District against the Australian X I . He was then a student at Stonyhurst, and all the members of the Australian team were very glad indeed that he came out with top score (49) against them. He also bowled well. In that match the late Geerge Nash made his first appearance against an Australian team, and it was chiefly due to the praise bestowed upon bim by the Australians that this capital left-hander was given a show iu Lancashire County. W . A. T. came out to Australia after the close of his college career, and did excellent service with bat and ball for M .C.C. and Bohemians. He died in the middle of January. I n the easy win of the Western P ro­ vince over the Border in the semi-final of the Currie Cup competition, finished at Cape Town on January 26th, three of the South African team who are com ing to England next month were important factors. S. J. Snooke was the second highest scorer with 81, and J. J. Kotze and J. Middleton were the chief bowlers, the former taking six wickets in the former’s first innings for 26 runs. A l it t l e incident in connection with the England v. Tasmania match at Hobart is recorded in the Tasmanian Mail. There were three persons connected with it—Umpire M ’Alien, Bowler Eady and Warner, batsman. The English captain asked the umpire, who was standing side on, to move round a bit so as not to impede his view. The pro­ digious M ’Allen wheeled round, and faced the batsmen, who exclaimed, “ Good gracious, worse than ever ! ” In his autobiography which appeared some little time ago in M .A .P ., F. R. Spofforth says: “ Having left college I joined the service of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank.” The cricket critic of the Sydney Mail supplements “ Spoff’s ” information by the follow iag interesting record. “ ‘ S p o ff’ omits mention of the fact,” writes “ Point,” “ that while standing at the door of that establishment he called over a friend and quite excitedly exclaimed, ‘ I ’ ve got it, I ’ve got it.’ ‘ Got what ? ’ said the friend. ‘ The off-break,’ said ‘ Spoff,’ ‘ Come out to the ground and I ’ll show you,’ and they went to the Albert ground, and sure enough he had got it.” V . R a n sf o r d , who played for Victoria against the M .C.C. team on the return match at the commencement of last month, is but seventeen years of age, and only got into the first eleven of the Mel­ bourne Club at the end of last season. He is a left-handed batsman, and his first score of 26 against the English bowlers showed considerable promise. S ome remarkable scoring marked the last two cricket matches played b y the Bombay Gymkhana against the Indian Army and the Cheshire Regiment respectively at the end of February. The Bombay Gazette is of opinion that the 413 scored against the Indian Army team on Saturday, Feb. 13 th, is a record total for the Gymkhana on a Bombay ground. In 1900, at Poona, the Gymkhana ran up a b ig total, in which there were three individual scores of a century, but this total fell short of 400. Only two wickets actually fell in the match of February 13, as Messrs. Cheetham and Brander, who each made a century, retired. There are only four other occasions on which a team haB exceeded a total of 400 in an innings in Bombay—440, by the Hindus v. Aligarh College ; 435, by Aligarh College v. H indus; 404, b y the Presidency v. the Oxford Authentics; and 413, b y the Parsis v. the O xford Authentics. The total of 326 for four wickets put together on February 25 by the Cheshire Regiment against the Bombay Gymkhana is the highest ever made by a regimental team in Bombay. Fourteen individual scores of three figures have been made by European and native batsmen since last November. T he Sheffield Shield, as the result of this season’s competition, has gon e to New South Wales with three wins and one defeat. Victoria and South Australia each played three matches with similar results, one victory and two reverses. The mother state has held the shield four of the last five seasons, and this is its third consecutive win. The follow ing tables give the several results and the aggiegate scorin g:— State. . N.8.W. Vic. S.A. Pta. N.8.W ......................... — L W W W 3 Victoria ................ W L — L 1 South Australia ... L L W — 1