Cricket 1905

J uly 13, 1905. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 267 New York will then be visited, and the programme for the remainder of the tour is as follows :— At New York-August 4th and 5th. At Toronto—August 7th, 8th and 9th. At Ottawa—August 10th, 11th and 12tli. At Montreal—August 14th and 15tli. R e fe r r in g to the bowling of Lees in the Surrey match against Lancashire at Aigburth, the Manchester Guardian says : It is little wonder that tbe Lancashire batsmen were unanimously of opinion that he was by far the most difficult bowler they have had to face this season. Though he took seven wickets for 95 on Thursday, be might well have taken all ten at a less cost, so frequently did he beat the bat and so numerous were the unintentional scoring strokes. He bowled almost as well on Friday evening, but was very unlucky, while on Saturday, though he bowled well, he was for once in a way overshadowed by Knox. O n Monday C. B. Fry required 106 runs to complete his two thousand, but his average was reduced to 78.91. No one else had scored 1,200 runs, and Hirst, Quaife, Tyldesley, Iremonger, Hayward, Denton, Armstrong and Noble were still the only other men who had reached the thousand. On Tuesday Brearley brought his total of wickets for the season to 101, and thus joined Lees, who was leading with 111 on Monday. O. T. N o rris , the well-known Corin­ thian footballer, who received his cricket Blue for Oxford last year, although he was unable to play in the ’Varsity match on account of an injury, scored two separate hundreds in the match between Oxford University Authentics and Northumber­ land. He went in first in each innings and his scores were 167 and 104 not out. It will be remembered that he was left out of the Oxford eleven this year, but he is in such good form just now that the omission seems to have been a mistake. M ea d, the old Essex professional, has dropped out of notice of late, but on Monday and Tuesday he was in fine bowling form for Mr. H. D. G. Leveson- Gower’s X I. against Gentlemen of Ire­ land, taking twelve wickets in the match for 66 runs. N. A. Knox, the Surrey bowler, took six wickets for 39 in the second innings for the same side. Mead’s analysis for the two innings is as follows : O. M. R. W. First innings .......... 18.4 7 32 8 Second innings.......... 18‘5 9 34 4 LASTyearfortheGentlemenand Players match at Lord’ s Hayward, the Surrey professional, was chosen for the Players as eleventh man at the last moment. In the match he was sent in first—an unusual experience for an eleventh man. This year for the same match Lees, the Surrey professional, was not chosen at all, but at the last moment acted as substitute for Warren, who was unable to play. In the match he was put on to bowl first in both innings—an unusual experience for a twelfth man. H e r e are a few scores in club matches by well-known players :—Captain W. L. Foster, who is one of the Worcestershire brothers, 120 for Captain Wheble’s X I. against R.M.C. Staff on July 8th; George Brann the Sussex player, 101 for Esher against Old Wykehamists on the same day ; J. R. Mason, the old Kent captain, 61 for Butterflies against Black­ heath on Saturday ; E. Barnett the Gloucestershire cricketer, 155 on Satur­ day for Guy’s Hospital v. Gravesend; G. O. Smith, the old Oxford Blue and international footballer, 66 and 85 not out for Mr. Micklem’s X I. v. Mr. Whit- well’s X I. on July 4th and 5th. A t Ealing on Saturday 610 runs were scored for eight wickets, in the match between Baling and Pallingswick. E. S. Littlejohn, the Middlesex player, made 191 not out, and his brother A. R. made 160, their partnership for the second wicket producing 322, of which 187 were made in an hour after lunch. E. S. hit four 6’s and twenty-one 4’s, and A. R. one 6 and nineteen 4’s. The total of the innings was 388 for two wickets (closed) and Pallingswick replied with 231 for six wickets (E. P. Harburg, 125). The Ealing score is as follows :— E aling . A. R. Littlejohn, b Houghton ... ...160 R. H. Mallett, c Collins, b Eckstein ... 3 E. S. Littlejohn, not out .................. 191 E. Martin, not o u t ................................. 15 Extras.........................................19 Total(2 wkts) ...........388* * Innings declared closed. From the Manchester Guardian : — Of course the championship is not lost. The county, as was said on Saturday at Liverpool, has something in hand yet. The Lancashire percentage is to-day gre ater than that by which Middlesex won the champion­ ship of 1903. What we have to look to is that there is no further fall during the series of important games which opens next Thurs­ day at Leyton, when A. C. Maclaren will be back in the team. The loss at Liverpool must be placed on the debit side as a contrast to the credit side, which will show that of forty-six matches played from and including the last loss, in August, 1903, at Bradford, twenty-eight have been won by Lancashire, sixteen have been drawn, and two lost. Of these no fewer than ten have been won with an innings to spare. W h e n the Lancashire te.im went out to field after their first innings against Surrey, at Aigburth, last Thursday, Brearley anxiously examined the hole which had been made by Knox when bowling. He found that it came most awkwardly for his left foot, and after trying various experiments to bring it to a shape to suit him, he jumped on it several times, to the great satisfaction of the crowd. But he never seemed to get a firm footbold. Any bowler knows how difficult it is sometimes for him to bowl with his usual confidence when another man has made a hole in an awkward place for him. T h e matchbetween Bombay Presidency and the Parsis is to be played at Poona, on September 11th, 12th and 13th. T h e re are two or three circumstances in connection with the test match at Leeds to which I had no opportunity of referring last week. England declared at a quarter to one, which was the time of the declaration at Nottingham ; Eng­ land had five wickets down in their second innings, as at Nottingham; the Australians had to make 402 runs to win, as at Nottingham ; and lastly the Australians at the end of the day had to appeal against the light, as at Nottingham. A fa c s im ile of the card of the match between Essex and the Australians has been printed on silk, and may be obtained at the price of a shilling from Phelp Brothers, 450, High Road, Leyton. T h e Australians have suffered two serious misfortunes this week. On Monday evening, after playing against Derbyshire, Hopkins out his hand severely with some glass, and may not be able to play again for some time, while on Tues­ day Gregory had an attack of sunstroke. The annual meeting of the Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society, of which Mr. Henry Luff is the secretary, was held at Lord’s on Monday evening, when Captain W. E. Denison, the president of the Society, was in the chair. The chairman announced that the receipts amounted to £574, and that the expenditure had been less than ever before, owing to the absence of sickness among the members. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :—President, Captain W. E. Denison; vice-presidents, Messrs. F. E. Lacey and J. E. Farmer; treasurer, Mr. G. F. Hearne; auditors, Messrs. H. Perkins and J. S. Chappelow; solicitor, Mr. Harvey Fellowes; secretary, Mr. Henry Luff; committee, Messrs. Louis Hall, G. Burton, G. G. Hearne, F. Martin, Geo. Hay, W. Gunn and H. Wood. A t the above meeting Lord Harris told an amusing story about Harry Fryer, an old Maidstone player. The Mote C.C. had their doubts about winning a certain match, and on the day after it was over Fryer was asked what had happened. He replied, “ All right. We made a draw. We won the toss and put them in first, and they kept in all day.” Lord Harris also made the following remarks :— It was quite an ordinary custom, both by speakers and leader writers, to use the words “ it is not cricket,” when they wished to indicate something that was not fair, straight­ forward, or right. That was to say, that in the minds of those people who used it, the word “ cricket ” was synonymous with what was right and straightforward. It was highly satisfactory that a game over 200 years’ old should have achieved such a reputation, and one that all its lovers were proud of. . . . Mr. Pycroft, in his book • ‘ The Cricket Field,” said that years ago betting men used to sit under the rails at Lord’s, and lay the odds to the members that sat inside. Nowadays that was an impossibility, for now the chances of the game were so many that betting men avoided it as a profession. He did not suppose that in the whole of England £1,000 was wagered on a Test match, whereas