Cricket 1905

A ug . 3, 1905. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD,,OF THE GAME 315 and made a very poor show indeed in the second innings. The England bowling was good and the fielding superb in the second innings, although in the first innings it was the worst he had seen in such an engagement. O n Tuesday N. A. Knox, the Surrey fast bowler, took his hundredth wicket for this season. He is the only amateur Surrey bowler who has accomplished this feat since 1884, when C. E. Horner took 110 wickets for Surrey at an average of 14-70. I n an impassioned speech in the House of Commons on Monday night Mr. Crooks, the Labour M.P., referred to the game of cricket two or three times. According to the Daily Telegraph he said : He had to do the beat he could about holidays, and although he did not object to others having them, he did object to social and society functions overriding the business of that House. He asked that this Unem­ ployed Bill should be put down on a certain day. How was he to know that it was the day of the Eton and Harrow cricket match— two not unimportant schools? (Laughter.) His master never gave him a day oil because his boy was playing cricket in Victoria Park. (Loud laughter.) On the other hand his remarks, as given in some of the other papers, were as follows:— A Friday or two ago I asked you to take the Unemployed Bill; but I forgot it was the Eton and Harrow match. When I was a boy playing cricket, I never heard that my father got a holiday off to see me play. The Daily Chronicle gives an addition : Night after night he had seen Members in that House “ stonewall” and “ keep their end up ” until someone else had finished a society function in which there were fifteen courses. Meanwhile the hungry might go hungry. J. N. C r a w f o r d , the young Reptonian, who proved such an acquisition to Surrey last season, will resume his place in the Surrey Eleven on Monday, at the Oval, for the Notts match. In view of the exceptionally fine all-round cricket he has been showing in the Repton School Eleven this summer, one is justified in hoping even greater things of him for Surrey than marked his record in 1904. In M ig n o n , who bowled with such success against Surrey at the Oval last Monday, Middlesex has at least a cricketer born and bred in the county. He lost his length, as well as a good deal of his pace, when he went on in Surrey’s second innings on Tuesday. At the same time it must be admitted that the wicket played much easier than it had on the previous day. Anyhow, as he is only some twenty years of age, there is no reason why he should not, with ordinary care, develop into a really useful bowler. T h ou g h Philadelphia during the past week or two has been fully occupied over its own cricket with the English amateurs, under the captaincy of Mr. E. W. Mann, Philadelphian cricket is at the moment well represented in England. S. G. Thayer, of the Germantown C.C., is just returning home, as Hazen J. Brown, the old International cricketer, has reached London. Messrs. Sydney Young, the secretary of the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia, and Sam Welsh, in a few days, will be leaving for England with the intention of witnessing the final appearance of the Australians in London in the middle of the month. The last Test match, indeed, bids fair to see a Cosmopolitan gathering, from all one hears. A q u a in t cricket story is going the rounds of the newspapers. It is to the effect that a Major Barker was playing in a match at Hook in Hants, and found his team one short. He wired to a Lieutenant Hall, at Reading, “ Come and play.” But as the telegram was addressed simply to “ Hall,” it was handed to the bandmaster of the regiment, his name being Hall. The bandmaster promptly called out the members of his band, and went to the cricket ground at Hook, where the Major dropped his bat in sheer amazement when he saw the band approaching. It may be concluded that the band did not turn up by lunch time, for it is a some­ what roundabout journey from Reading to Hook. A t this time of the year there are generally rumours, when an Australian team is in England, that a few of its members have accepted appointments in England. It is now stated that D. R. A. Gehrs will reside in Glasgow at the end of the tour, having received an appointment in a firm of engineers. T h e teams which have been chosen for the North v. South match at Blackpool during the Festival are as follows. It will be noticed that they are not in the least representative, and the match might almost be entitled Notts and Derbyshire v. Essex and Worcestershire: — North : A. O. Jones, E. E. Hemingway, Iremon- f er, Gunn (J.), Gunn (Gk), and Hallam (Notts), A. E. awton, Warren and Humphries (Derbyshire), and Peel (Blackpool). South: 0. McGahey (captain), P. Perrin, J.W.H.T. Douglas and Buckenbam (Essex), W. B. Bums, Arnold, Bowley, Bird and Wilson (Worcestershire), O. Robson (Hampshire), and in all probability, Reeves, of Essex. F o r Mr. W. Trask’s X I. v. Mr. Hambro’s X I. at Eastbourne on Monday and Tuesday, the Rev. A. M. Sullivan scored 203. On the same days Capt. F. Jones made 56 and 229 for Incogniti v. United Service at Devonport. W h e n Denton had brought his score to 100 on Tuesday for Yorkshire v. Gloucestershire, a ball from Watts hit his wicket, but although the bails were lifted up they fell back in their places. Denton continued his innings and made 172. T h e re are many cricketers who argue, with good reason, that in such a case a batsman is out, in accordance with the laws of the game. Law 20 says : “ The wicket shall be held to be ‘ down ’ when either of the bails is struck off, or if both bails be off, when a stump is struck out of the ground.” Now tbe law says nothing at all about the future history of the bail which has been struck off, and it is surely reasonable to argue that it does not matter in the least what becomes of it as far as the batsman is concerned. The bail has been struck off, and that should be the end of the matter. If the bail took a perpendicular course when it jumped up, and were caught by the wicket-keeper, would any umpire under the sun give a batsman not out on the ground that the bail might have returned to its socket ? A n o th e r interesting case occurred at Brighton during the Sussex-Australian match. When C. B. Fry had made 8 in his first innings an appeal was made against him for l.b.w. by Armstrong. The umpire held up his finger, and Fry Left bis crease under the natural impres­ sion that he was given out. But the umpire recalled him, explaining that he had said “ not out.” Now, suppose that in a similar case a bowler were to shy at the batsman’s wicket and hit it, after he had left his ground, what would happen — say in a match between league teams ? I n connection with Fry’s case it may be mentioned that in the M.C.C. “ In­ structions to Umpires ” there is the following note. “ It is not part of the umpire’s duty to call back a batsman who is leaving under a misapprehension.” But presumably the umpire reasoned, as he had a perfect right to do, that although it was “ not part of his duty ” to call Fry back, the Instruction does not say that “ it is part of an umpire’s duty not to call back a batsman.” T h e Lancashire County Committee have decided to set apart the proceeds of next year’s August Bank Holiday match at Old Trafford, between Lancashire and Yorkshire, for the benefit of J. T. Tyldesley. S om e notes referring to Sir Timothy O’Brien, the old Middlesex and Oxford University cricketer, appear in Madame of last week. The writer of the notes states that Sir Timothy is a descendant of a branch of the O’Briens of Inchiquin and Thomond in Co. Clare, that he has two sons and eight little daughters, and that he and his wife and children spend the ;greater part of the year at Lohort Castle, Co. Cork, which is described as “ one of the most interesting of old Irish residences, as it is practically the only instance of one of the very ancient square towers of Ireland having been converted into the most commodious and up-to-date of dwelling houses.” P a r t V II. of “ The Empire’s Cricke­ ters ” contains reproductions from crayon drawings of B. J. T. Bosanquet, C. J. Burnup, E. A. Duff and Tom Hayward. Haywardis represented in the act of cutting