Cricket 1905

298 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 27, 1905. T h e Sussex men who played for their county last week are not likely to forget their experiences. In the first place 1598 runs were scored against them for 27 wickets, an average of nearly 60 per wicket. In the second place they were fielding for about twenty hours, and only had two innings. Their time record for the week was approximately as follows : h. m. Monday ... Fielded from 12.5 to 2.0 = 1 55 2.30 to 6.30, less 15 mins. for tea = 3 25 Tuesday ... Fielded from 11.35 to 2.0 = 2 25 2.50 to 3.10 Batted at 3.30, out at 1.45 on Wednesday 20 Wednesday Fielded from 2.45 to 5.50, 40 less 25 mins. for tea — 2 Thursday... Fielded from 12.0 to 2.0 = 2 0 „ 2.45 to 6.30, less 15 mins. for tea ■= 3 30 Friday Fielded from 11.30to 12.20 = 50 Batted at 12.30. Out at 1.50 on Saturday Saturday... .Fielded from 2.45 to 6.0, less 15 mins. for tea ... = 3 0 20 0 E x ce p t for a period of a little over an hour on the Wednesday, R. A. Young was on the field last week (less intervals for feeding and sleeping) from the Monday morning at midday until the Friday evening at about a quarter to six, when he completed his innings of 220 against Essex. It will be remem­ bered that he made 64 against Lancashire on the Tuesday. Vine had an almost similar experience. He was on the field (less intervals as above) from midday on the Monday until about twelve on Wed­ nesday, when he ended his innings of 124 against Lancashire. The remainder of the Sussex innings lasted for an hour and three quarters, and then Vine was on the field again until about a quarter past three on Friday, when he finished his innings of 53. Dr. Grace was once on the field all through a match between Gloucestershire and Kent, which lasted three days, but he then had a little rest. A co b b esp on d en t writes with refer­ ence to the fielding of Sussex last week: “ I remember that in 1897 Middlesex went in to field against Notts on a Tuesday, in June, I believe, and continued to field until the following Friday, when the Yorkshire innings came to a close. 832 runs were scored against them.” H . P. H a r ris o n , playing for Stone- house (2) v. Mr. H . G. Bockett Pugh’s X I. on the 7th inst., also took all ten wickets in an innings, and at a cost of only 25 runs. I f the statement in the Bombay Gazette that Captain Greig is due back in India on August 14th should be true, Hampshire cricket will be a heavy loser just when it most wants the services of a batsman, its most reliable all-round player. This summer, while he has been in England, the captain has shown himself the same consistent batBinan, one who never fails in fact, and his return to India at the moment will be an incalculable loss to English cricket. L ie u t. G. G. L in g, who has been bowling with a good deal of success in India just lately, was one of the most useful all-round players in the Bradfield College Elevens of 1897, 98, and 99. In his last season he headed the bowling averages with an aggregate of 47 wickets at a cost of H i runs apiece, besides figuring prominently in the batting tables. T h e success which has attended the efforts of the South African Cricket Asso­ ciation to obtain the necessary guaran­ tees from the different centres for bring­ ing out the English team the Marylebone Club has been asked to send out to South Africa this winter, has enabled the Wanderers Club of Johannesburg, who originally proposed to finance and) manage the tour, to withdraw their offer. The responsibility of the visit will therefore rest with the South African C.A. T h e Hon, F. S. Jackson has now played five innings of a hundred in test matches in England. He has not been to Australia with any of the touring teams. His hundreds are as follows: — 103 at the Oval in 1893, August 14,15, and 16. 118 at the Oval in 1899, August 14,15, and 16. 128 at Manchester in 1902, July 24, 25, and 26. 144 (not out) at Leeds in 1905, July 3, 4, and 5. 113 at Manchester in 1905, July 24,25, and 26. H a yw a rd is the only other batsman who has played two innings of a hun­ dred in the same season in test matches in England. A. C. Maclaren, like Jack­ son, has made five hundreds in test matches, but four of them were in Australia. In each of the first three test matches there was a decided difference of opinion as to the state of the wicket, among the journalists who were playing. There is the same difference of opinion with regard to the match at Manchester on Monday. A. C. Maclaren says in 1he Daily Chronicle: — The skipper was lucky again in the toss, for, although the wicket was somewhat soft owing to heavy rains on Saturday, it was more reliable than on previous occasions this season. The pitch dried fairly rapidly, and, of course, the ball got past the bat occasion­ ally, no matter who was batting. In the Daily Mail J. T. Tjldesley says :— The heavy storm in the early hours of Sunday morning had taken the fire out of the wicket, and had left a few damp spots in places. In the early part of the day, at the end of each over the batsman could generally find the spot where two or three of the balls had pitched, so that there was always the chance of one turning a little. Iredale, who may be presumed to represent the opinions of the Australians, hedges cleverly in the Sportsman : — An early inspection was made of the ground by both the English and Australian captains, and each very critically examined it as some dampness was visible upon the surface. The general impression seemed to be that it would play easy at first, but after- iwards it might not be quite so good. In a recent match between the Rood- en-Wit and the Amstels C.C. in the Nederlandsche Cricket Bond, C. J. Pos- thuma, who played for the London County C.C. regularly two years ago, took all ten wickets of Amstels for 51 runs. Amstels won by 1 run, scoring 117 to 116. For Rood-en-Wit, Kool’s 63 was the only double figure. M an y cricketers were interested last week in the discovery of a literary coincidence. Some years ago C. B. Fry, in the Windsor Magazine, wrote a characteristic description of L. C. H. Palairet’s batting, and the article in which it appeared was reproduced in a book entitled, “ Giants of the Game,” edited by the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton. On July 16th an article signed by Albert E. Trott appeared in the Weekly Dispatch. It contained an estimate of Palairet, in which about 160 words were identical with part of Fry’s article, with the single exception that Trott uses the word “ obtain,” where Fry, with a nicer appreciation of the sense, uses “ attain.” The coincidence seemed as remarkable as some of the coincidences between comments which appear in Cricket on a Thursday morning, and those in papers of a somewhat later date. But after all the coincidence turns out to have been due to a mis­ understanding, and in last Saturday’s Evening News Albert E. Trott says:— I have been taken to task for not stating that my opinion of Mr. Palairet’s style was really Mr. C. B. Fry’s expressed opinion. It was an omission on the part of my typist. Like all cricketers I do make mistakes, and I ought to have read my “ copy” more care­ fully. But I know “ C. B.” will forgive me. P.S.—By “ C .B .” I mean Mr. Fry, and not Campbell-Bannerman. I L o r d C h e lm sford , better known to cricketers as the Hon. F. J. N. Thesiger, has been appointed Governor of the State of Queensland. It will be remembered that he succeeded his father in the barony in April. In 1888 and 1890 he was in the Oxford University X I., being captain in the latter year. O f the fourteen men who formed the M.C.C. Australian team, six have played in each of the Test matches except the third. Bosanquet, Hayward, Tyldesley, Lilley, Rhodes and Arnold played in the first two matches. In the third match Hirst replaced Rhodes and Arnold ; and in the fourth match Rhodes and Arnold returned and Bosanquet went out. O n Saturday the three brothers Day each made a fine score. “ A. P .” made 71 for Kent v. Notts, at Trent Bridge, and helped largely towards winning the match for his side. “ S. H .,” the Kent cricketer and Corinthian footballer, made 77 for Beckenham v. Blackheath, at Beckenham; and “ S. E.” made 140 for Blackheath v. Beckenham, at Blackheath. A lt h o u g h the hours of play are lengthened in the Test matches, and