Cricket 1905

J u ly 27, 1905. CRlOKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 299 although everybody professes to be anxious that the games shall be finished, the want of punctuality at Manchester was noticeable. The game began at nearly twenty minutes to twelve instead of half-past eleven. The luncheon inter­ val exceeded the three-quarters of an hour by five minutes, and there was a tea interval of nearly half an hour. On Tuesday there was more than twenty minutes’ interval between the innings. T h e question of the authority or authorities who are in the future to manage Australian cricket seems to be creating some discussion over here, as well as in Australia, to judge by the correspondence between Mr. F. E. Lacey and Major Wardill, the respective secre­ taries of the Marylebone and Melbourne Clubs, as published in the Australasian of June 24th Major Wardill received by the last mail a letter from Mr. F. E. Lacey (secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club) stating that the position with regard to the formation of a Board of Control in Australia had become more intelligible, and that he would seek an opportunity to place the facts before his committee. Mr. Lacey had met Messrs. Darling and Laver, and hoped to be able to arrange a conference, at which Major Mork- ham (of the Melbourne Club), Messrs. Dar­ ling and Laver, and representatives of his committee would be present. Mr. Lacey went on to say that he felt sure his committee would welcome the formation of any Board of Control with whom they could negotiate, provided that such a board were fully repre­ sentative of all the interests involved; and if the Melbourne Cricket Club could occupy this position his committee, he had no hesitation in saying, would regard the appointment with satisfaction. Major Wardill to-day (June 19th) received another letter from Mr. Lacey, dated May 15th, in which he said that he had arranged the meeting, which he hoped would tend to satisfactory results. The conference referred to was evidently held at Lord’s during the Australians’ match against the M.C.C. and Ground on June 8, 9 and 10, as Mr. J. Cres- well, the secretary for the South Australian Cricket Association, received on June 12th a cable message from Mr. J. Darling stating that the Marylebone Club would not recog­ nise the Board of Control unless South Australia were included; that the Australian players would not agree to the constitution as agreed to by Victoria and New South Wales ; and that the Marylebone Club would not send a team to Australia in 1906. The last information is apparently an answer to the invitation (sent by the New South Wales and Victorian delegates to the proposed board) to the Marylebone Club to send out a team. T h e refusal of the South Australian Cricket Association to join the New South Wales and Victorian Associations in the Board of Control gave rise appar­ ently to some feeling on the part of the members of the N.S.W.C.A., to judge by the remarks made at its meeting on June 19th. Mr. A. W. Green moved a resolu­ tion, which was carried unanimously, “ That the name of South Australia be eliminated from the Board of Control.” The whole trouble, he said, lay in the fact that South Australia wanted to get as much money as she could from the Marylebone Club or the Board of Con­ trol, and would support the body that would pay best. Mr. McElhone (secre­ tary of the Board of Control) said the New South Wales Association objected to the Marylebone or any other club interfering with Australian cricket. The association had dealt generously with South Australia, and had given that association every opportunity to recon­ sider its position. A. P. Lucas, the old Essex and Cam­ bridge University cricketer, made 186 on Monday and Tuesday at Lord’s for M.C.C. v. Boyal Artillery. Hia hits included twenty-six 4’s. T h e M.C.C. American team won its first match at Philadelphia by seven wickets. The Gentlemen of Philadelphia made 108 and the M.C.C. replied with 181, of which 64 came from the bat of F. J. V. Hopley, last year’s Cambridge Blue. In their second innings the Gentlemen of Philadelphia scored 155, thus leaving the M.C.C. to make 82 to win. In the match at Ootacamund between the Gymkhana and Coimbatore the former made 522, which is a record for Southern India. Kamulu (the old Clifton College boy) made 255 not out, a score which has only been exceeded in India by the 257 not out by K. S. Ran- jitsinbji, and the 256 by K. M. Mistry. Bamulu is only twenty years of age, and is developing into a first - class player. He is very strong on the leg side. In another match at Ootacamund—against the Secretariat X I .—Bamulu and Dr. M. E. Pavri, the Parsi cricketer who played for Middlesex some years ago, put up 106 for the second wicket. Pavri made 40 and Bamulu 101 not out. A p p a r e n tly there will be only one matoh this year between Bombay Presi­ dency and the Parsis, which, as previously stated in Cricket, takes place on Septem­ ber 11th, 12th and 13th at Poona. There seems to have been an unfortunate mis­ understanding between the Bombay Gymkhana and the Parsis. The Parsis were naturally annoyed when, without being consulted in any way, they received in April last a communication from the Bombay Gymkhana transferring the date of the Bombay match from August, 1905 to March, 1906. For 13 years the Bombay match has taken place in August and that at Poona in September, and it had already been arranged to play the Poona match as usual. T h e chief reason given by the Bombay Gymkhana for their determination to alter the date wac that in the monsoon season the wickets were not fit for cricket, but as the Bombay season has for the past 40 years been during the monsoon season, one would think that it would have been better to have a consul­ tation between the two sides before attempting to make an alteration in date. Another reason given by the Gymkhana for postponing the date was that they had arranged for a Presidency match against the Hindoos in February or March, 1906, and wished to play the Parsis at about the same time. I n their reply to the Gymkhana the Parsis regretted that the Gymkhana had omitted to consult them as a matter of etiquette, but said they were willing to play the match, irrespective of the season, provided that both matches were played within four or five weeks of each other, since they were unable to get together a team in September and another team in February. As a result of this communi­ cation three representatives of the Parsis (Dr. M. E. Pavri, Mr. Patel, and Mr. Divecha) conferred with representatives of the Gymkhana, but the meeting ended in fiilure, since the Gymkhana declined to move frjm the position which they had taken up. Tneir ultimatum was that if the Parsis declined to play in February, 1906, the match would not be played at all. A CURIOUS and interesting question was asked by a correspondent in yester­ day’s Evening News, as follows :— May I point out a curious problem in the bowling averages in the Gentlemen and Players’ match r First Innings. Odell, 4 wickets for 84 .. .. Average 21.0 Thompson, 2 wickets for 45.. Average 22.5 Therefore Odell has the better average. Second Innings. Odell, 6 wickets for 64' ... Average 9.0 Thompson, 6 wickets for 69.. Average 9.83 Again Odell has the better average. Whole Match. Odell (4 for 84 and 6 for 54), 10 for 138 Average 13.8 Thompson (2 for 46 and 6for59),8 for 104 Average 13 So that, although Odell in both innings has the better average, yet in the whole match he comes above Thompson. I have asked several people, and all regard it as very curious. Of course the explanation of the apparent mystery is that Thompson took fewer wickets than Odell at the larger cost; if he had taken one wiclset for 22 or 23 instead of 2 for 46 he would have come out with a still better average on the whole match. A u s tr a lia n papers state that Henry Trumble, a brother of the great Hugh Trumble, has been killed by natives in the New Hebrides. Y e s t e r d a y , L. G. Wright and A. J. L. Hill both added their names to the list of batsmen who have made two separate hundreds in a first-class niatih. Their scores read as follows :— For Derbyshire v. Warwickshire. L. G. Wright, c Baker, b c Hargreave, b Santall.............. ..............176 Byrne ...........122 For Hampshire v. Somerset. A. J. L. Hill, c Braund, b Bailey.............................. 124 notout....................118 T hb chief articles of interest to cricke­ ters which are to be found in “ C. B. Fry’s Magazine ” for August are by Mr.