Cricket 1905

14 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an . 26, 1905. tell that the on side got it hot, too, wheD required. I th iD k Massie may fairly claim to have made the mrst illustrious debut iu England of all Australian batsmen.” “ The Test match at Kennington Oval in 1882, won by Australia by 7 runs, was the most remarkable match I ever saw, or am likely to see. Spofforth’s bowliDg,” said Mr. Beal, with conviction, “ was marvellous. Old ‘ Boyley,’ at the other end, kept pegging away, so tbat runs were not to be got. Jack Black- ham, behind the wicket, too, was simply marvellous that day. In Spofforth’s last 12 overs he got four wiekets for two runs. His bowling, Massie’s innings of 55, and Blackbam’s wicket-keeping stood out prominently as the factors of Aus­ tralia’ s success. The English people thought that there were other members of the English team who suffered from lack of nerve. At one period there were 19 runs to get with seven men to get them, and Lyttelton and Lucas at the wickets. But they got only 12. Jack Blackham got the ball that bowled the last wicket—Peate’s—in that match. An Englishman in the pavilion wanted to buy it from him, but Blackham would not part with it. The Englishman then had it mounted for him. In going away in the train after the match, at every stopping place the people flittened their noses against the windows, asking which was Spofforth and which Murdoch. In the words of Murdoch we were like a travelling menagerie. YOKOHAMA v. KOBE. Played at Kobe on October 18 and 19. Yokohama won by eight wickets. This was the eighteenth match between these two uorts of which Yokohama have won ten and Kobe six the remaining two having been drawn. Yoko­ hama had six of last year's team available, while Kobe had seven, but Kobe’s absentees made a bigger difference to the strength of her team than did Yokohama’s. Q. C. Murray, the late captain of Kobe has gone home, and A. H. Gillingham cap­ tained the team in his place. Gillingham is a brother to the Key. F. H. Gillingham, the Essex cricketer, and although this year he was not nearly so successful in the inter-port match as last year, he has scored very consistently throughout the season, and fa Sways an excellent field at point. White, who has been Yokohama’s captain for some years cast had been sufferiog from a strained leg most of the season, and was hardly fit to do him-elf justice In this mitch, but W. D. 8. Edwards, who last year in the Kobe team, and has since then moved to Y o k o h a m a , made a most useful score in each innings. bv far the hardest hitter and quickest scorer in the two teams, and is a splendid all-round man. He w a s referred to in one of the local papers as the ft ” of Japan cricket, but that, of course, was o n account of the number of years he has been having out here rather than from his all-round KSilency. But even he was not the veteran of the teams This season, as C. Murray Duff, the Yokohama stamper, has been playing inter-port cricket since the firstTseason in which the t»o clubs met,namely, 1881, and although, of course, not quite as good as he used to be he is still a very good man, and the large rinmber of runs put down to • extras ” in this match wasdue more to Yokohama’s erratic bowling than to h s bad wicket-keeping. H. W. lOlby, who made a century in the match last year in Yokohama, nearly repeated the performance at Kobe this year, and loved a perfectly safe and sound game without any fhtnce lie is decidedly the soundest bat in Japan P r e s e n t although his methods do not appeal to at present, s h Kobe sld(J tQmake ^ v sbow ,1th the bat was B. Stephens a boy of rXrfteen He played a pretty gams, and has an 'diive oa both sides of the wicket. His fnni Isa was not faultless, but on the whole he played inning )ils cricket has been learnt la Kobe. Both teams were weak in bowling, although Mollison Both teams i Yokohama, as the Kobe men B te m e d quite u ^ b le 'to hit his’ bowling at all. Warren came out with flying colours for Kobe in Yokohama’s first innings, as he succeeded in getting two of Yokohama’s best wickets and finished up with tnree wickets for 8 runs. Practically no cricket is played in Japan outside Yokohama and Kobe, although twice this season Tokyo have brought a team down to Yokohama to give them a game, and they intended doing so as a finale to the season on the Emperor’s birthday. November 3. Tney, however, often have to rely on Globe trotters or men Btationei ia Tokyo for a few months. K obe . First innings. Second innings. C. H. Lightfoot, b Mollison 0 c and b White ... 19 F. Ellerton, c Edwards, b Piggott .......... ..........22 b Argent ............ 0 C. J. Lucas b Mollison ... 0 b E. 'V. Kilvy ... 28 A. H. Gillingbam, b Argent 18 lbw, b E.W.Kilby 15 H. E. Green, b Piggott ... 0 lbw, bE.W.Kilby 8 S. Stephens, c Mollison, b Piggott ........................ 0 not out ...........83 G. Stephens, lbw, b Mollison 28 b Mollison..........13 E. C. Jeffery, b E. W. Kilby 17 b Mollison......... 0 H. S. Thompson, c Duff, b H. W. Kilby ................. 9 b White ........... 4 J. P. Warren, b H. W. Kilby 2 run out ...........14 L. S. Kibble, not o u t.......... 0 b Pi?gott ........... 4 Extras .................... 13 Extras...........2J Total ................103 Total ...S Y okohama . First innings. Second innings. E. W . Kilby, c Stephens, b Green ............................£5 c Kibble, b G. Stephens ... 21 H. W . Kilby, c Lightfoot, b Warren ........................89 B. C. Foster, c Thompson, b S. Stephens ................. 5 S. Argent, b Green ........... 0 not out.................. 0 W. 3D. S. Edwards, c G. Stephens, b Gillingham .. 48 c S. Stephens, b Green .......... 34 M. Mollison, b Warren ... 20 F. E. White, b S. Stephens 9 A. Kiugdon, c and b Warrea 0 C. M. Duff, c Lucas, b S. Stephens ........................ 19 F. S. G. Piggott, not out.. 16 not out ........... 13 E.W. Maitland,absent, ill... 0 Extras......................... 7 Total .248 Total (2 wkts) 68 K obe . First innings. O. M. R. W . Mollison.......... 19 11 22 3 ... Kingdon.......... 5 1 10 0 ... Edwards.......... 8 2 13 0 ... Argent .......... 5 2 9 1 ... Piggott .......... 7 1 23 3 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 12 4 14 2 ... 1 0 1 0 ... 7 2 12 0 ... 5 0 27 1 ... 13 4 45 1 E. W. Kilby ... 6 1 15 1 ........... 14 4 29 3 H. W . Kilby .. 5‘1 1 4 2 ........... 4 0 28 0 White... 7 3 21 2 Foster... 2 — 8 0 Y okohama . First innings. Second innings. O M. R. W. O. M. K.W . S. Stephens ... 29.1 6 78 3 G. Stephens ... 14 4 31 3 .......... 7.3 0 30 1 Green ... .......... 29 9 72 2 .......... 8 2 38 1 Lucas................. 5 3 5 0 Jeffery................ 4 0 27 0 Gillingbam ... 4 0 18 1 Warren .......... 5 3 8 3 SOME M ISTAK E S CORRECTED . By J. B. P ayne . In compiling the yearly bowling averages, “ Lillywhite’s Companion” (on which the statistics iu Dr. Grace’s two books and other publications are based) admits in several instances that some few important matches are not taken into account on the ground that “ the bowling averages were not published and could not be obtained.” It so happens that from “ Wisden” and other sources I have unearthed many of these “ unpublished ” analyses, and below will be found some important corrections which enthusiasts may be glad to see in the pages of Cricket. James Lillywhite in 1872 and Hill in 1874 should be credited with 100 wickets. The tables will, I think, explain themselves when I say that “ A ” stands for the bowling average of the season as given in “ Lilly- white ” and in Dr. Grace’s two books, and that “ B ” and “ C ” are the missingjanalyses that the “ Companion” states were not obtainable, and therefore not included, although they may be found in “ Wisden ” or “ Scores and Analyses.” All existing publications are in error on these points, and I think that the errors ought not to be ' in future compilations. 1871. Overs. Mdng. J. C. Shaw ... a 1008 ... 482 B £3.3.. 29 Runs. Wkts. ...1549 ... 8 i ... 53 ... 8 Revised version .. 1061.3... 511 ..1602 Aver. ... fO ..17 80 Emmett ............. a b 322 ... 53 .. li8 25 ... 557 ... 70 .. 40 ... 10 Revised version .. 375 ... 153 ... 627 ... 50 . 12*54 Howitt .. . . a B 348 ... 76 .. 135 42 ... 649 .. 79 ... 29 ... 3 Revised version.., 424 ... 177 .. 728 ... 32 . 22*75 N.B.—“ B ” in 1871 was the match “ All England v. the United North.” July $0 and 22 at Bolton, Lancashire. (See “ Wisden” for 1872, p. 165) aud note on p. 76 of **Companion ” for 1872. Southerton ... a b 1872. 1458 ... 38 ... 487 ? .. 2019 .. 61 .. 167 ... 2 Revised version... 1196 ... 1 ...2033 Aver. ...169.. 12-32 Jas. Lillywhite... a b c 936 ... 47 ... 46 ... 442 1 13 .. 1244 ... 68 ... 85 ... 94 ... 4 ... 2 Revised version... 1029 ... 1 ...1887 ..100 ..1387 G. F. Grace ... a B O i84 ... 25 ... 29 ... 110 1 8 ... 389 ... 24 ... 45 ... 14 ... 10 ... 5 Revised version .. 338 ... ? ... 458 ... 29...15*79 Silcock ............... a B 0 Revised version .. 37 ... 15 ... 71.2... 123.2... 14 1 35 ? ... 74 ... 17 ... 87 ... 178 ... 5 ... 2 ... 5 ... 12 . 14 83 Hill ......................... a B 0 446 ... 59.1... 64 ... 199 1 28 ... 645 ... 67 ... 77 ... 32 .. 6 ... 7 Revised version .. 569.1 .. ? ... 789 .. 45...17*53 J. C. Shaw ... a B 929 ... 64 ... 431 1 ...1413 .. 91 ... 66 ... 5 Revised version .. 993 ... ? ...1604 ... 71.. 21-18 Lockwood ............... a B c 420 ... 5.3... 44 ... 150 ? 11 ... 642 ... 11 ... 63 . . 45 ... 0 ... 4 Revised version... 469 3 .. ? ... <21 ... 49 .14*71 Rylutt ......................... a 0 143 ... 35.2... 55 19 ... L05 41 ... 14 ... 2 Revised version... 179.2 .. 74 ... 246 ... 16...15-37 R. Iddison ............. a 0 79 ... 7 ... 15 1 ... 180 ... 20 ... 12 ... 1 Revised version... 86 ... 16 ... 200 ...13 15-33 Marten ............... a c 33) ... 6 ... 125 2 ... 570 ... 13 ... 35 ... 0 Revised veraijn... 340 ... 137 .. 683 ... 35 . 16*65 Averages worked to two places of decimals. N.B.—“ B ” in 1872 is United North v. United South (*‘ Scores and Analyses,” p. 2i), at Northamp­ ton, September 2, 3 aiid 4. “ C * s United North v. United South (-* Wisden” for 1873, p. 199), at Hunslet, August 8, 9 and 10, and tee note in “ Companion ” lor 1873, p. 106. The missitg m*idea overs could be found in Northampton Herald. ALLAN HILL IN 1874. Overs. Mdna. Runs. Wkts. For Yorkshire ... 362.1...144.. 482 ... 46 Yorks v. A.E.E. 55 ... ? .,1 0 8 ... 5 ,, v. United South 57 ... 24 67 ... 9 A.E.E. v. Cam-) bridge University > 43 ... ? ... 73 .. 8 (1st innings.) ) Northv.M.C.C.... 51.3.. 24 ... 54 ... 4 „ v. South ... 57.3.. 27 ... 84 ... 11 Players v. Gents. 162 ... 48 ... 288 .. 18 Aver. 768.3... 1 1166...101 11.44