Cricket 1905

186 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u n e 8 , 1905. former made 300 for one wicket, and, having then declared, disposed of their opponents for 145 and 139. The Mon­ mouthshire score was as follows : — P. O. Phillips, b Naali .................. 7 Silverlock, not o u t .......................... 155 E. S. Phillips, not out .................. 133 B 2, lb 2, nb 1 ......................... 5 Total (1 wkt)................. 300* * Innings declared closed. A t Chatham on Saturday, in a match between the Boyal Engineers located in the town against R .E .’s who are located elsewhere, the latter had to make 343 runs to win in three hours and a half in the fourth innings of the match. They set to work to make the runs, and succeeded a quarter of an hour before time. J. R. M a s o n , C. J. Burnup, R . W. Nicholls and R. E. Foster were all inclu­ ded in the Free Foresters’ team which played Marlow on Saturday, but against 167 by Marlow their side could only total 116, of which no fewer than 60 were obtained by the last man, A. B. Carter. The four well-known county men only managed to score 16 between them, two of them making duck’s eggs. F r o m the Australasian : — In recognition of the splendid achievement by Miss Cheeseman in scoring 103 not out at captain of the Boomerangs against the May­ flowers, that lady was the recipient of presents galore at Brighton on Saturday. Miss Elsie Tucker, on behalf of members of the club, presented her with a bat; Mr. Mayes gave her an illuminated and framed record of the performance on behalf of club supporters, and Mr. Cheeseman presented an inscribed gold boomerang brooch on behalf of the club’s president (Mrs. R. Cheeseman). Reference to Miss Cheeseman’s score was made in Cricket a week or two ago. J. B. K in g , the well-known Philadel­ phian cricketer, has begun the season by scoring 145 not out for Philadelphia High School Past and Present v. Frank- ford Country Club. A fin e performance was accomplished in a match at Adelaide at the end of March. Clarendon were playing Mac­ laren Vale and lost five wickets for 33 when Yincent Payne joined his brother Horace. These two men had raised the score to 367 when the innings was declared, the former being not out 125 and the latter not out 204. U p to the end of last week Yorkshire, Lancashire and Surrey all had a hundred per cent, to their credit in the champion­ ship matches, not having suffered a single defeat. Warwickshire, who had made a most honourable draw against each of them, was absolutely at the bottom of the championship table. As they had only lost two matches this seems a little absurd, to say the least of it, more especially as Essex, with five losses in the same number of matches played, were miles above them in this amusing table. D e s p it e the large number of individual innings of two hundred, and two separate hundreds in a match, no batsman had succeeded up to Saturday last in making a thousand runs this season. But for his accident C. B. Fry would most likely have accomplished the feat before the end of May. As it is his record stood at 827 on Monday, and thanks to his 233 against Notts this week, it is now 1,060. Not very far behind him are Armstrong 804; Quaife 701; Hirst 705; Hayward 672; A. O. Jones 663 ; Hobbs 634; McGahey 663; and Noble 752. I n the matter of wickets, Lees is leading with 62, followed by Laver with 65, Rhodes 53, Dennett 51, Brearley 47, Kermode 45, and Haigh 40. I t is possible that some of the "War­ wickshire team may have studied with some interest the score made on Satur­ day by Gloucestershire against Somer­ set. For it may have occurred to them that, as Gloucestershire, who had to make 147 in two hours, were disposed of in an hour and twenty-five minutes on a good wicket, it might have been good policy for Warwickshire to put Lanca­ shire in again, since they were 171 be­ hind, and would have had to bat for seventy minutes. It was most unlikely that Warwickshire would have won, but they had a chance, and they threw it away by not making Lancashire follow on. T h e new Surrey captain, Lord Dal­ meny, has shown clearly enough for some time that he is a very practical cricketer. On Saturday, by altering the order of his team, he proved that he knows when the psychological moment has arrived, and there can be no question that by going in himself at the right moment he made what seemed very likely to be a draw into a splendid victory. Oa Monday he was high up in the averages with 36 09, and a total of 397. The odds are about 3 to 2 that he brings his total to a thousand before the end of the season. H o r n b y caused much amusement by the way he shaped at Quaife’s “ dollies” in the match between Lancishire and Warwickshire. One ball was abnormally high—almost on a level with the balcony of the pavilion—and the amateur caused a laugh by attempting to head it. The ball, however, dropped nearly on the wicket, and Hornby had to play it.— Liverpool Echo. T o t jjo u r s C. B. F r y ! No sooner does he recover from the injury to his hand than Fry asserts himself by scoring 233 for Sussex against Notts at Trent Bridge, after the Notts men have been dismissed for 192. He had previously made a score of 200 this year against Notts, viz., 201 not out at Brighton. He has also made two separate hundreds in an innings this year, viz., 156 and 106 for Sussex v. M.C.C. and Ground at Lord’s. In the Brighton Argus, Mr. A. J. Gaston says: — By his innings of 86 on Saturday, Mr. Charles Fry has created another record. The Sussex captain has now run into the first position in the aggregate of runs for Sussex, passing the wonderful figures of the inimit­ able K. S. Ranjitsinhji. I give the figures to date:— Not Highest Mtohs. Inns. out. Runs. Inns. Agrt. Mr. Fry ... 198 ... 325 ... 21 ...17,094 ... 244 ...56.23 “ Kanji” ... 185 ... 302 ... 41 ...17,062 ... 285*...65.37 * Signifies not out. Since then Fry has scored 233 for Sussex against Notts, and his total for the county is therefore 17,295. A btjm per , gentlemen ! A. Cotter. —Evening News. F o r their match against the Austra­ lians, which begins to-day, the M.C.C. have chosen the following players: — Hon. F. S. Jackson (Yorkshire). A. C. Maclaren (Lancashire). C. B. Fry (Sussex). P. F. Warner (Middlesex). B. H. Spooner (Lancashire). H. K. Foster (Worcestershire). Braund (Somersetshire). Thompson (Northamptonshire). Huish (Kent). The remaining two places will be filled up this morning from King, Fielder, J. T. Hearne and Mead. F o u r individual innings of a hundred have now been played against the Aus­ tralian team, viz. :— A. O. Jones, for Notts .. .. 103 Hayward, for Surrey .. .. 129* A. O. Maclaren, for England 140 Denton, for Yorkshire .. .. 153* In the tour of 1896 only three hundreds were made against the Australians. In 1902 there were six, in 1899 thirteen, and in 1893 seven. O n the other hand, the Australians have made five hundreds this year, viz.:— M. A. Noble, against Gentlemen (Crystal Palace) 162 W. W. Armstrong, against Notts........................112 W. W. Armstrong, against Gentlemen (Lord’s) 248* J. Darling, against Gentlemen (Lord’s) ..........117* 0. Hill, against Lancashire ............................... 143 In 1902 the Australians made twenty- four hundreds, in 1899 twenty-five, in 1896 eighteen, and in 1893 twelve. C ases of absent-mindedness are not unknown among cricketers, and Hayes did not create a recDrd when, on his turn coming to go to the wicket, he walked out of the pavilion at Leyton on Saturday without his bat. But the spectators were naturally delighted when they saw his look of bewilderment on discovering that he had forgotten something of im­ portance. Everybody who has seen much cricket must recollect instances in which a batsman, who ought to be taking his guard, stands in a graceful attitude by the Bide of the wicket wondering why on earth the other batsman is not ready to