Cricket 1905

10 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an . 26, 1905. I n connection with the decision of the South African Cricket Association re­ ferred to in “ Gossip” in December not to accept the ofFer of the Australians to visit South Africa, and the proposal to invite an English team there, Lord Hawke has been asked to co-operate with the M.C.C. in arranging for a team to be sent out in 1905-6. F or Cornwall against Tamar (Tas­ mania), E. A. Windsor, the well-known bowler, took all ten wickets for 60 runs on a good pitch. In the same match Windsor scored 97 out of 205. A t a meeting of the Northamptonshire Committee which was appointed to make arrangements for raising funds to pay off the debt of the County C.C., it was announced that£ 1,145 had been collected. As less than £200 is now required, and as various efforts are being made to place the club on a sound footing, the fund was closed. A r t h u r H a y w a r d , a brother of Tom Hayward, the Surrey cricketer, died at Cambridge on January 16th. He was the eldest son of Dan Hayward, and hai charge of the grounds at Christ’ s Sydney Colleges. M a j o r -G e n e r a l B a d b n - P o w e l l , in a letter to the Union Jack, suggests that every boy who is a member of a cricket or football club ought to qualify himself to aim and shoot with a small rifle and to drill and scout. He hopes that before long every eleven will also make itself a good eleven for fighting and soldiering, and he invites those who agree with him to communicate with him at 32, Princes- gate, S.W. In a letter to the Australasian a corre­ spondent, who was among the crowd at Hirst’s benefit match at Leed’s last year, says:— “ Every time I stood up to have a peep I was pelted with banana skins and newspaper parcels containing cinders, etc. A woman was sitting in front, not obstructing the view, when a voice said, ‘ ‘ Maud, wilt thou taak hairpin out of thy head; the hairpin stops sight o’ gaam.” A s il v e r medal has been presented b y the M.C.C. to each of the members of the team which went to Australia in 1903-4. T h e death is announced of Mr. Edward H. Moeran at New York at the age of fifty-six. He was born at Kingston (Dublin) and was educated at Marl­ borough College, where he was captain of cricket and football. He afterwards went to New York, and made several good scores there, including innings of 102 not out and 115 not out. I t has been decided that the Hastings Cricket Festival shall not be abandoned, and arrangements have been made that the matches shall be Gentlemen of the South v. Players of the South on Sep­ tember 7, 8 and 9, and Australians v. Gentlemen of England on September 11, 12 and 13. J. H o r a n , the son of T. Horan, the old Australian player and “ Felix,” of the Australasian, made 111 not out for South Melbourne v. Carlton on Decem­ ber 10th. L ie u t . W. F . O . F a v ie l l , an old Forest School cricketer, has been making large scores in Ceylon, including 138 not out and 150. He has astonished the natives by his powers of hitting. I n the Sydney Referee “ Not out ” gives the following as the record of Trumper, Hill, Noble and Duff in first-class cricket: I. N.O. H.9. R. Avg». V. Trumper ... 191 ... 7 ... 300*... 8,296 ... 4131 C. Hill............. 233 ... 13 ... 365*...10,096 ... 43 33 M. A. Noble .. 199 ... 2L ... 284 ... 7,174 ... 40'30 R. A. Duff...... 119 ... 7 ... 271 ... 4,295 ... 88'31 * Signifies not out. R a n j it s in h j i , Lord Hawke and A. C. Maclaren all took part in the match at Calcutta between the City Club and I Ziogari on Dacsmber 30, 31 and January 2. Ranjitsinhji made 32 in the first innings and 132 in the second. Lord Hawke made 148 and 0, and Maclaren 36 and 87. Lord Hawke’s fine first innings was remarkable for determined hitting, and he made four 6’s and eighteen 4’s in his 148. S. E. G r e g o r y and his brother Charles were in partnership while 213 runs were put on in a couple of hours for the second wicket, for Waverley v. North Sydney, in an Electorate match at Sydney. S. E. scored 125 and Charles 89. North Sydney declared at 432 for 8 wickets, but thanks chiefly to the two Gregorys, Waverley made 417 with a wicket in hand before stumps were drawn. These runs were made in the course of an afternoon’s cricket. O n the same day Paddington had to make 319 runs to win in less than two hours and three-quarters. Trumper and Noble both failed to distinguish them­ selves, but Kelly, the Australian wicket­ keeper made 95, and in the end Padding­ ton just managed to win, although the last man was run out directly after the winning hit had been made. I n Pennant cricket at Melbourne Harry Trott, the old Australian captain, and a brother of Albert Trott, took 6 wickets for 47 runs, for Carlton v. South Mel­ bourne, in a total of 276. He also made 37, the highest score on his side. O n Saturday Dr. W. G. Grace visited one of the ponds in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, where the game of curl­ ing was going on. Unfortunately the Doctor had no chance of showing his skill, for he gave a practical illustration that ice, however thick it may be, will only bear a certain weight, and he, as well as the other curlers, retired. L. 0 . S. PolDEVlN , the Lancashire and Australian cricketer, who is now in Aus­ tralia, was not chosen to represent New Sjuth Wales, although one would have thought that his public form in England was good e n o u g h to secure him a place without trial. In an electorate match at Sydney he scored 165 not out. Up to that time he had only made 25 in three innings. In his next match he scored 42. F rom the Sydney Referee: — The omission of L. O. S. Poidevin from the touring New South Wales team, after he had been selected in the practice fourteen, has given rise to considerable discussion in cricket circles. It is almost generally held that the committee have made an error. It has been stated that the reason of his non­ selection is that he is residentially ineligible. But if that be so, how is it that he was included in the fourteen for practice ? Besides, if Poidevin he ineligible —and it appears to me to be ridiculous to argue that a man born here, and who played all his cricket here prior to leaving for England to complete his medical studies, is ineligible—it is for the New South Wales Association and not the selectors to say so. It appears to me that Poidevin’s omission can be reason­ ably attributed only to his being considered by the selectors to be inferior to all the other batsmen of the party. If this is not so, the selection committee’s course of action is not, as far as I can see, capable of reasonable explanation. F o r Prince Alfred’s School against St. Peter’s School, at Adelaide, C. E. Dolling scored 311 out of a total of 700. He was at the wickets for eight hours and a-half, so that he only scored at the rate of 36 runs an hour, and one pities the fields­ men. When J. Darling and Clement Hill were at the same school, they each played a fine innings for its eleven, Darling making 252 and Hill 360 (retired). A n o th e r Australian schoolboy, C. W. Miller, scored 231 for Melbourne Gram­ mar School v. Wesley College, on Decem­ ber 16th. For the same team H. B. Lawers made 119, helping Miller to put on 279 for the fifth wicket. Miller was batting for eight hours and forty minutes, so that he scored at the rate of 26 runs an hour, ten runs par hour less than the Adelaide schoolboy mentioned above. As schoolboys in Australia who make large scores are in the habit of getting into Australian teams eventually, it may perhaps be hoped that Miller and Dolling will change their methods before they come to man’s estate. A t Ootacamund, on December 29th, C. T. Studd, the old Cambridge Blue, made 70 runs for Residents against Visitors. The latter scored 199, and left very little time to the Residents, who, nevertheless, managed to run up 193 for the loss of four wickets before stumps were drawn. A n Australian newspaper thus describes an played by Darling at Adelaide on December 3rd :— Darling was in rare fettle. From a rather streaky beginning he settled down to an exhibition of first-class hitting All howling