Cricket 1905

A ug . 24, 1905. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 363 budding cricketer, “ Here, Hawke and Smith, just come out and give me a ball or two.” A photographic group of Lord Hawke, Lord Dalmeny, the Hon. F. 8. Jackson, and, say Mr. G. 0 . de Trafford, posing as “ virtual professionals,” would probably command a large sale. A n innings of 201 which was made on Monday at Hounslow by G. A. M. Docker for 7th Begimental District v. 31st Regimental District. The total of the 7th Regimental Distict innings was 324 for 4 wickets, and the score is as follows-:— 7 th R egim ental D istrict . Sergt.Miller, b Eynott 19 R. Howlett, not out... 61 B 11,1b 3 ... ... 14 Total (4 wkts)*324 C. Saunderson, c Wil­ liams, b Nutt.........23 G.A.M.Docker,notout 201 C. H.Wickham,b Nutt 6 Qmr.-Sergt. Burns, b Eynott ............... 0 *Innings declared closed. T he teams which have been chosen to oppose Yorkshire and the Australians at the Scarborough Festival are given be­ low :— M-O.c. AND GROUND v. YORKSHIRE. August 31, etc. M.C.C. a n d G ro u n d : H. D. G . Leveson-Gower, W. Findlay, R. H. Spooner, G . J. V. Weigall, King, Thompson, Mead, Vogler, East, Murrell and Llewel­ lyn. Mr. 0. I. THORNTON’S ENGLAND XL v. AUSTRALIANS. September 7, etc. Mr. C. I. T h o rn to n ’ s XI.: Hon. F. S. Jackson, A. O. Maclaren, R. |H. Spooner, B. J. T. Bosanquet, Tyldesley, Hirst, Rhodes, Denton, Hunter, Haigh, and Thompson. A t the same Festival the teams for the North v. South match on September 4, 6 and 6 are as follows :— N o rth : Lord Hawke, Hon. F. S. Jackson, R. H. Spooner, A. C. Maclaren, E. Smith, Tyldesley, Hirst, Rhodes, Hunter, Denton, and Haigh. S o u th : H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, S . H. Day, G. G. Napier, B. J. T. Bosanquet, Cox,Killick, Thompson, Mead, Board, Tarrant, and Llewellyn. It will be noticed that whereas the North team is representative the South does not include C. B. Fry, Hayward, Jessop, Warner, Knox, Lees or Hayes. In the Sportsman “ Wanderer ” says: To say that averages do D o t tell everything as regards,the value of services rendered is perfectly true, yet it is equally absurd to condemn them in the wholesale fashion that some would do. For instance, Trumper’ s average iu Test matches of 17"85 with a test of 31 speaks for itself, and Clem Hill and Noble would themselves admit that they were disappointed with their achievements. Too much may have been expected from Victor Trumper, and he has without doubt suffered from the fact just as C. B. Fry has done. Still in 1902 the Colonial was an extraordinary cricketer; to-day he is a good bat, but not a phenomenon. Much the same sort of thing befel “ W.G.” ; when he ceased the sequence of “ centuries” prophets pre­ maturely regarded him as done, but it was only as a marvel that his reign was over; he was still able to take a place among the leading players of the day. A r e m a r k a b l e reference to a cricket match as a form of trial by ordeal appears in “ Notes and Queries.” It’s origin is given as Mist's Weekly Journal of September 3rd, 1726, and the extract is 8s follows :—• “ On Monday is to be determined a Suit of Law on Dartford Heath by a Cricket Match between the Men of Chinkford and Mr. Steed’s Men ; they had a Hearing about two years ago before the Lord Chief Justice Pratt, when the Merits of the Cause appear’d to be that at a Match between the above-said Players, the Chinkford men refused to play out the game at a time the other side had the advantage; but the judge, either not under­ standing the game, or having forgot it, referr’d the said Cause back to Dartford Heath, to be play’d on where they left off, and a Rule of Court was made for it accord­ ingly.” T he dates of the Oxford and Cambridge match for 1906 have already been fixed for July 5th (Thursday), 6th and 7th, at Lord’s. On the following Monday the match at Lord’s between Gentlemen and Players will begin. Yorkshire will prob­ ably renew their match with the M.C.C. at the beginning of May. D uring the Scarborough Festival Lord Hawke, who has been connected with the Festival for twenty-five years, is to be presented with a testimonial. In the Sydney Referee L. O. S. Poide­ vin writes thus of Lees, the Surrey bowler :— He bowls right-hand, a little above medium pace, perhaps about the same as M. A. Noble’s “ out for keeps” pace; a length bowler, whose best and most dangerous ball is one that swings away from the right-hand bats­ man. As you would expect, most of his wickets accrue from catches at the wicket or in the slips; still, he is not above bowling you neck and crop, either with a sheer good break back or with a swerver that you had fond hopes of glancing to fine-leg for a few. Many a time has one seen the off stump laid low, what time the batsman is busily engaged in finishing a hopeful leg- glide stroke. Cricketers know what that means. The new ball with ‘ ‘ t’gloss on’t ” in the hands of Lees is very elusive, and for the first few overs in a match the best of batsmen find it difficult to establish proper friendly relations between bat and ball. T he following list shows the names of the men who have ever made ten or more hundreds in first-class cricket during a season. It will be noticed that the record is 13, made by C. B. Fry in 1901, and that before W. G.’s record of 10 was beaten by Banjitsinhji and Abel, there was an interval of nearly 30 years :— Year. Batsman. No. 1901 ............ C. B. Fly .............................. 13 1900 ......... Abel ............................. 12 1900 ......... K. S. Ranjitsinhji ......... 11 1902 ......... Y. T. Trumper................ 11 1904 ......... Hayward ...................... 11 1871 ......... W.G. Grace ................ 10 1896 1900 1900 1904 1905 K. S. Ranjitsinhji C. B. Fry ......... Hayward ......... C. B. Fry ......... *C. B. Fry ......... * To date. 10 10 10 10 10 D uring the recent visit of the M.C.C, team to America some of the New York newspapers were a little mixed as to what was the exact name of the club represented by the three well- known letters. One of them plumped boldly for MABYLBONE, another for MABYLABONE and a third for MABY-LEBONE, thus getting very near to the MABY-LE-BONE of Box all’s book. A n American contemporary, referring to J. A. Lester’ s fine performance in taking seven wickets for 33 for the Gentlemen of Philadelphia in the return match against the M.C.C., sajs ;— As a rule the captain of a cricket team, whose very best recommendation to head an eleven, so many think, lies in his inability to bowl, is very chary about displacing any of his regular trundlers andsubstituting himself. But yesterday was an occasion that demanded heroic action, so Lester evidently believed, and, not mincing matters, he possessed him­ self of the sphere at one end with the result that he virtually defeated the Englishmen single-handed, if such a thing can be said of a man who has ten fielders to support him. The state of the wicket, which, on account of the rain’s pranks, was unfortunate from an English point of view and which responded readily to the persuasive twists that Lester is able to command, no doubt influenced that player to a large measure to act as he did, and in consequence America has to thank, not alone his individual efforts with bat and ball, but his longheaded generalship as well for the memorable achievement credited to the premier cricket city. Truly, if ever a cricketer cut an heroic figure in an inter­ national contest it was Captain Lester, with his “ century ” off the bat, and the record of seven wickets for 3 3 runs, which he accom­ plished yesterday and which constitutes one of the finest bowling feats that any Yankee can boast of. O n Tuesday S. S. Harris, the inter national footballer and old Cambridge Blue, helped Nice to put up 237 for the third wicket of Surrey Club and Ground against the Borough of Southwark. Harris made 113, and Nice 166 not out. STREATHAM v. BIOKLKY PARK.—PlayedatBickley on August 19. S t r e a t h a m . N. Miller, c Dolan, b Thoms ............. .’.47 E. P. Pulbrook, b Clap- ham ...................... 2 J. F. W. Hooper, c Nicholls, b Clapham 9 H. T. Cross, c Hodgson, b Hurlbatt .........53 L.E.Gillett, b Hurlbatt 18 N. Tuckwell, c & b Hurlbatt............... 6 G. Goggs, b Allen ... 2 E. B. Miller, c & b Hodgson.............1U F. K. Simmons, hit wkt, b Hodgson ... 1 N. Horncastle, not out 81 J. L. Lake, Ibw, b Clap­ ham ....................... 9 B 9, lb 8 ...... 12 Total ..200 B ic k l e y P a r k . T. 1*’. Hodgson, c & b Miller......................28 D.G Hurlbatt,cHooper, b Miller ................ 0 A. Barrow,lbw, bMiller 0 A.E.Clapham, cGillett, b Miller ................10 A. N. Brand, b Hooper 83 E.P.Nicholls, b Hooper 0 A. Jeffrey, c Cross, b Miller...................... 0 L. C. Dolan, c Lake, b Miller ............... W. A. Thoms, c Gilletr, b Miller ............... W. A. Everington, c Miller, b Hooper ... O. R. Allen, not out ... B 2, lb 1 ......... Total 0 0 8 , 78