Cricket 1905

348 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 17, 1905. T h e special statistician of the Evening News has compiled some tables, showing an analysis of each batsman’s strokes off each bowler in the Test match at the Oval. A few of these very interesting statistics are appended :— F ry , 144, received from :— Cotter ... 58balls, scoring 31runs, including 5fours Noble ... 41 , „ 34 „ 5 McLeod ... 32 „ 20 „ 3 Armstrong 51 „ 19 „ 3 Laver ... 26 „ 16 „ 3 Hopkins... 17 „ 10 „ 1 Duff..........21 „ 14 „ 3 246 144 23 J ackson , 76, received from :— Cotter ... 34balls, scoring 21runs, including 3fours Noble ... 6 „ 4 „ 0 McLeod ... 9 „ 9 „ 1 Armstrong 20 „ . 3 „ 0 Laver ... 35 Hopkins... 38 Duff... .:. 3 145 17 21 1 76 10 T he same statistician goes yet a little further, and gives the rate of scoring per ball by each batsman. Thus :— ENGLAND’S FIRST INNINGS. Brearley Tyldesley Lilley ... F ry .......... Rhodes ... Jackson... B e l o w will be found the score of the Belmont innings in which J. B. King, the well-known Philadelphia cricketer, made his 315, to which reference was made in Cricket a week or two ago. The opposing team was Germantown B, and the match took place on July 4th and 5th:— Runs Runs per ball. per ball. . 1.83 Hirst ......... ... 0.41 . 1.23 Hayward ... 0.40 . 1.00 Arnold......... ... 0.40 . 0.58 Maclaren .. ... 0.23 . 0.57 Spooner ... 0.00 . 0.52 B elmont . J. B. King, c Freeland, b Newhall..................315 C.M. Graham, b White 36 A. M. Wood, c Leser, b Newhall.................. 106 E. M. Cregar, b Leser 10 W. Graham, not out... 59 E. K. Leech,b Leser... 13 F. L. Altemus, c Jor­ dan, b Newhall ... 1 W. F. Keenan, jr., b N ew hall................. D. Graham, c Jordan, b Newhall .......... N. S. Hales, b Leser... W. A. Allison, c New­ hall, b Middleton... Extras................. Total ...572 A n o t h e r innings which is somewhat remarkable, as far as American cricket is concerned, is that of the Belmont team against Germantown A, on July 16th, 17th, and 18th. It is as follow s:— B elmont . J. B. King, c Shoe­ maker, b Graves ...125 O.M.Graham.c O'Neill, b G raves.................102 E. M. Oregar, c Pear­ son, b Haines..........70 A. M. Wood, not out...114 W. Graham, b Clark 28 O. R. Hammond, b Clark........................ 0 I. Brower did not bat. * W. F. Keenan, jr., b Graves ................. 1 E. K. Leech, c Pear­ son, b Clark .......... 5 F. L. Altemus, b Graves ................. 1 D. Graham, not out... 34 Extras................. 7 Total (8 wkts)*487 Innings declared closed. A t Littlehampton on Tuesday, during a match between the M.C.C. and the local club, one of the M.C.C. batsmen made a hard cut and the ball hit a spectator full in the face, first bound, causing very serious injury to one of his eyes. R e f e r r in g to the members of the M.C.O. team which recently played against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, the American Cricketer says : — Our visitors were a fine, fresh-looking lo^ of young chaps, who would, indeed, be a credit to any club or country. Everyone of the team is a University man and might sit for the portrait of “ Tom Brown at Oxford,” although the majority of them are Cantabs. Even if the trip from England was not taken by these gentlemen from purely philan­ thropic motives, we should feel exceedingly grateful to them, as the benefits that Phila­ delphia cricket has derived from their visit will be none the less great. A w e ll-k n o w n personality in Aus­ tralian cricket passed away on July 5th in the person of H. Hale Budd. For many years he was actively identified with the Victorian Cricket Association, and for some thirteen seasons was hon. sec. of the East Melbourne C.C. Though a keen lover of cricket, as a player he was better known as a footballer, doing splendid service for the Old South Yarra Club, when, J. Conway, the manager of the First Australian Cricket Team which visited England, and H. C. Harrison, among others, were in their prime. He was 61 years of age. Th e two sons of the Prince of Wales, Princes Edward and Albert, with Prince George of Sparta, were both interested spectators of the first day’s play in the Test match at the Oval this week. Prince Edward was bom at White Lodge, and takes, naturally, particular interest in Surrey cricket, as does his brother by the way. Prince Georgeof Sparta, too, is an enthusiast over the game. As Lancashire lost at Bristol to Glou­ cestershire, Yorkshire takes the lead in the championship table, as is here shown : Percent- P. W. L. D. Pts. age. Yorkshire ............. 24 ... 17 ... 3... 4 ... 14 ...70. Lancashire............. 22 ... 12 ... 3... 7 ... 9 ...60. Th e remaining matches to be played by Lancashire and Yorkshire are as follows:— Y orkshire . v. Essex .......... home v. Middlesex ... home v. Essex .......... away v. Sussex .......... away It will be remembered L ancashire . v. Derbyshire ... home v. Middlesex ... home v. Leicestershire., nome that the first match between Surrey and Lancashire at the Oval was not played owing to rain, hence Lancashire will end the season with 25 matches instead of 26. STREATHAM v. WIMBLEDON.—Played at Streat­ ham on August 12. W imbledon . D. Ford, b Miller ... 4 D. Dangar, st Kerr, b Feeny .................199 G.Ohurchill.b Morgan 1 W.Lipscombe.b Miller 3 W.Martyn.b Phillipps 56 Morgan, sen., c Miller, b Phillips................. 4 F. Teboult, c Bark­ worth, b Miller ... 9 F. W. Colman, b Leaf 14 R.M.E.Reeves.b Feeny 5 B.Morgan,jun.,not out 4 B 9, lb 2 ..........11 N. Miller, c Martyn, b B. Morgan ......... H. S. Barkworth, b B. Morgan ................. H.M. Leaf, c Martyn, b B. Morgan ......... H.T.Cross,c Morgan, b B. Morgan ......... C.L.Morgan,cColman, b Reeves............. *Innings declared closed. S treatham . Total (9 wkts)* 310 65 40 J.L.Phillipps.bReeves 12 C.M.Thomas,b Reeves 0 L.A.M.Fevez,b Reeves 9 D. O. Kerr, b Reeves.. 12 V. F. Feeny, b Reeves 4 F. Manassee, not out... 1 B 27, w 1, nb 1... 29 Total ...219 THE AUSTRALIANS. THE FIFTH TEST MATCH. Played at the Oval on August 14, 15 and 16. Drawn. To all cricketers who do not regard a cricket match as a mere medium for gaining or losing a point in a table, the last of this season’s test matches offered as much interest as the first. On the other hand to those who think everything of the point and nothing of the game thematch had lost all its attractions, because England was already two points up and therefore couldnot be deprived of its lead, whatever happened. The general public,which goes to a match to see cricket, turned up at the Oval on Monday to the number of about twenty thousand and saw an entirely satis­ factory day’s play. For the fifth time in succession <1ackson won the toss for England and as there was no reason whatever why he should send the Australians in first, he chose first innings. For a time there was excite­ ment. Cotter made the ball bump consider­ ably as he had done at Nottingham, and the batsmenwho went in early had great difficulty in dealing with the bowling. He disposed of Maclaren and Tyldesley before he became dangerous, but Hayward and Fry held out, and when they had both become settled the Australians had a trying experience. For while Hayward played his usual perfect game, never hurrying himself and never making a mistake, Fry was showing masterly cricket. In each of the three other test matches in which he had played the state of the wicket compelled him to adopt defensive methods. Here he was able to show his real form, and the Australian bowlers were powerless to keep him quiet. The theory that they well knowhow to cramp his play had to be almost abandoned in the Sussex match, and it was shown to be un­ tenable when he met them at the Oval. He was not content merely to make his ordinary strokes ; he invented new ones, and his off- play was forceful and masterful to a surpris­ ing degree. In fact, no better innings has ever been seen in a test match. In the course of an hour and a-half he and Hayward put on 100 runs, and so easily were both men playing the bowling that there seemed no reason why they should ever get out. But Hayward, in trying to hit a Bhort one from Hopkins to leg, miscalculated his distance from the wicket, with the result that he knocked off a bail. His fine innings lasted for two hours and ten minutes, and once more he showed that he is quite at his best in a great match. Jackson joined Fry, and again the bowling was mastered. Fry reached his hundred—his first in a test match, and his second against an Australian team—in two hours and forty minutes, and it was not until just after the tea interval that the partner­ ship was broken, after producing 151 runs in two hours and five minutes. Fry was then bowled by a ball from Cotter, which kept very low. His 144 runs were made in three hours and a-half by cricket which was almost faultless; he hit no fewer than twenty-three 4’s. Spooner did not repeat the success with which he met at Manchester, and Hirst only remained at the wicket for a few minutes. Jackson also was well caught from a ball which he had skied. He was at the wickets for two hours and three quarters for his 76, and although his innings was not one of his greatest it was good. With Jackson’s dis­ missal seven wickets were down for 322, but Arnold (25) and Rhodes (32) then slowly played out time, the total when stumps were