Cricket 1905

266 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. J uly 13, 1905. I n the match at Hampstead on Satur­ day, between Hampstead and Upper Tooting, 725 runs were scored for eleven wickets. Upper Tooting declared at 377 for seven wickets, D. H. Butcher, the Surrey player, making 123. Hampstead only had two hours and a-half before them, but when stumps were drawn they were within 30 runs of victory, with six wickets in hand. They lost a wicket for 2 runs, and then H. B. Hayman, the old Middlesex cricketer, and C.W. Alexander, the Corinthian footballer, put up 233 for the second wicket. Hayman was at last run out for 201 after batting for an hour and twenty minutes only, his hits includ­ ing three 6’s and thirty 4’s. Alexander made 80. O n Saturday, four famous old players whose names are familiar to all cricketers, were taking part in minor matches, viz. : Lord Harris (the Eton, Oxford, Kent and England captain), W. H. Patterson (Harrow, Oxford and Kent), A. J. Webbe (the Oxford, Harrow and Middlesex cap­ tain), and W. Gunn, the Notts profes­ sional. Lord Harris made 19 not out for I Zingari v. Eton College, and A. J. Webbe not out 40 for Old Harrovians v. Harrow School, but neither of the others was successful. T h ® Hon. F. S. Jackson was playing on Saturday against Harrow School for the Old Harrovians, whose side, in addi­ tion to two of the players mentioned above, W. H. Patterson and A. J. Webbe, included K. E. H. Baily (Surrey), J. H. Stogdon (Middlesex and Cambridge), P. J. V. Hopley (last year’s Cambridge blue), H. J. Wyld (Oxford and Middle­ sex), and M. C. Kemp, the old Kent and Oxford wicket-keeper). The schoolboys gave a good account of themselves, despite the formidable array of talent opposed to them, and after scoring 290 for eight wickets, disposed of the same number of wickets for 217 runs. O n the same day Eton College played I Zingari, whose side included Lord Har­ ris, G. J. Mordaunt (Oxford and Middle­ sex), P. J. de Paravicini (Cambridge, Bucks., and Middlesex), H. E. Bromley- Davenport (Middlesex and Cambridge), and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower (Surrey and Oxford). I Zingari declared at 309 for seven wickets, but the boys won the match by a run, with two wickets in hand. I n a review of the play in the test match at Leeds B. J. T. Bosanquet in the Morning Leader says:— From six o’clock onwards the batsmen were continually appealing against the light, which was quite good till just before the end, though it Dever became as bad as when McLeod appealed at Nottingham. I n a match at St. Cloud, Paris, between the Stade Frangais and the National Sporting Club, the home team won by one wicket after a most exciting finish. J. W . H . T. Douglas, the Essex cricketer and amateur boxing champion, played for the National Sporting Club> but only made 5 and 0, although he took five wickets in the first inniDgs and three in the second. T h e following remarks by A. C. Mac­ laren in the Daily Chronicle will appeal to many cricketers: Fifteen days are now taken up by inter­ national cricket (the word Testis so fallacious tbat it is better left out) whereas but eighteen days at most would be required for games which would be finished, and would be a Test. Nowadays a change of front has been adopted, since it has been stated that county cricket should be put on one side and every­ thing sacrificed for the Tests. I ask why this change should now be requested at a time when sacrifices are made only for a series of drawn games, as annoying to the players as they are to the unfortunate spec­ tators. B u t he will not find so many cricketers to agree with him when he says: “ All my life I have preferred not so many as six bowlers playing on any side that has been given me to captain, maintaining that if No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 bowlers cannot help you, then it is too late for 5 and 6 to win you the match, and it is better to have in their place batsmen who will make up the lost ground by sound bat­ ting.” Australian teams have won a large number of matches chiefly through a fine performance by their fifth or sixth bowler. W r it in g on May 18th of the Surrey eleven, the London correspondent of the Pioneer, who must be a fine judge of a cricketer, said:— The Surrey eleven at the present moment does not contain more than three really first- class players—Hayward, Hayes, and Hobbs— for Lees, though a good all-round man, would certainly have to “ bustle for a place ” in either Yorkshire or Lancashire, and the rest of the side are hardly up to county form. I wonder what he said when, a day or two later, Lees was chosen among the first thirteen to play for England in the first Test match at Nottingham ? That Lees will yet play for England this season is more than probable. “ The rest of the side” have managed, too, to render a fairly good account of themselves, among other things by helping to defeat Lanca­ shire by ten wickets. F r a n k S u g g , the old Lancashire cricketer, made 161 not out on Saturday for Bootle v. Huyton, out of a total of 252 for eight wickets. The next score to his was 35. F r o m the Evening News :— Keigwin’s patience would render him an ideal test match spectator. F o r Aigburth against Neston and District two bowlers, R. Edwards and F. J. Brewin, each did the hat trick, although the total made by Neston was 150. Edwards took the first three wickets in the innings, and Brewin the last three j they only took one other wicket between them. I n these days of cricket heroics when colossal scores are the rule rather than the exception, one must be careful before one magnifies any performance to the high level of a batting record. Yet I should be inclined to suggest that the two hundreds of the young Carthusian, Howard, in the last two matches between Charterhouse and Westminster represent a feat unique in inter-school cricket of the first class. Anyway, his successive innings of 158 in 1904 at Godalming, and 139 at Yincent Square a fortnight ago, deserve full prominence. Y o u n g Hooman who, by the way, is a son of the Old Carthusian, T. C. Hooman, one of the most useful members of the Wanderers’ football team in the club’s early days, has still another summer at Charterhouse, after which he will in all probability go up to Oxford. He is a good all-round athlete, scratch at golf, and with every chance of developing into a front- rank pub’ ic school racquet player. S t e d m a n ’ s score of a hundred for Surrey’s second eleven v. Staffordshire at the Oval last Tuesday is, it may interest that good sportsman’s many friends out­ side as well as inside Surrey to know, his best performance bo far in county matches of either first or second rank. I have in my mind’s eye a score of 91 for the second eleven some time or other, but cannot at the moment fix the precise details. Anyhow, Stedman’s consistent run-getting for the second team this year would seem to suggest that he might be useful as a mere batsman, even if Surrey were in full strength. W. G. P r in g l e , the young amateur who took eleven Staffordshire wiekets for 86 runs, playing for Surrey’s second eleven at the Oval this week, is a left- handed bowler over medium pace. His first appearance in Surrey cricket was at the Oval on Whit Monday in the match between the second elevens of Surrey and Kent. On that occasion the wicket did not suit his bowling. What success he had was as a batsman and in the field, where he did a lot of good work. He plays mostly for Banstead, and is quite one of the most useful all-round cricketers in that part of Surrey. I hear, too, that he is in quite the first flight of ordinary golfers. T h e M.C.C. team which is to tour in America, left Liverpool on Tuesday on the Cunard liner “ Carpathia ” for New York. The tour begins at Philadelphia, and the team (which is by no means strong) is as follows :— E. W. Mann (captain), (Cambridge), M. W. Payne (Cambridge), H. C. McDonell (Cambridge), C. H. Eyre (Cambridge), F. J. Y. Hopley (Cambridge), G. G. Napier (Cambridge), R. T. Godsell (Gloucestershire and Cambridge), R. C. W. Burn (Oxford), H. J. Wyld (Middlesex and Oxford), K. O. Hunter (Oxford), F. A. H. Henley (Oxford), V. A. S. Stow (Oxford), and I-. J. Moon (Middlesex). I n July the M.C.C. team will be engaged in matches at Philadelphia.