Cricket 1905

412 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S ept 14, 1905. bowling had not so often been sacrificed for what was considered the good of the side, he would doubtless have done very much better—both for himself and the team—and it may be taken for granted that if the Test matches could be played over again, his bowling would be much better managed. The team had a tail this year, although Cotter showed himself to be a useful and resolute hitter. Gehrs came to England with an excellent repu­ tation, but for some reason or other he entirely failed to do himself j ustice; his doings in Australia during the next two seasons will be watched with interest by English cricketers. "Without doubt the bowling was the weakest spot in the team. Cotter, of whom much was expected, was practically regarded by his own side as a failure until he shortened his run and began to do himself justice. For all that he ought to have been played in all the Test matches. For a time Laver met with a success which was absolutely bewildering. He came as manager only, and at once proved to be the great bowler of the team. During the first half of the season he fairly and squarely beat the best of batsmen. But he overworked himself and afterwards met with fewer successes. If he could have kept up his form to the end he would have gone down to history as worthy to be classed with Trumble and Palmer, if indeed he may not be classed with them now. Be this as it may he will be able to look back on the tour with the greatest satisfaction. Noble and Howell were often useful bowlers, but some of their old skill has left them. In fielding the team fell a little short of the highest standard. Every cricketer must have noticed that there have been scarcely any references in the Press this season to Darling’s captaincy, a reticence which is significant. W. A. B. Below will be found a table showing how the toss went in the Australian matches:— < £ 1 ...won.. 2 ...won.. 3...10.t.. 4... won.. 5...10.t.. 6 ... won.. 7...won.. 8 ...10.t.. 9... won.. 10 ...10.t.. 11 ...10.t.. 12 ...10.t.. 13...108. .. 14... won.. 15...lost., 16...10.t., 17... won. 18...lost.. 19...won. 20 ...10.t. 21 ... won. 22 ...won. 23...won. 24...10.t. 25... won. .Australians .........G. of England (Cryst’l Pal.)...drawn. .Australians .........Notts.......... .Surrey ................. Australians .Australians .........Oxford Univ. .G. of Eng., Lord’s Australians .Australians .........Yorkshire (Sheffield) ...won. .Australians ........ Lancashire (Mancli’st’r) ...won. .England (Not­ tingham ...........Australians ...lost. .Australians ........ Camb. Univ. ...won. .Yorkshire (Brad­ ford ............... Australians ...drawn. .M.O.C....................Australians ...aban. .Leicestershire ...Australians ...drawn. England (Lord’s)...Australians ...aban. .Australians ........Dublin Univ. ...won. .Essex ...............Australians ...lost. .Warwickshire ...Australians ...won. ..Australians .........Gloucestersh. ...drawn. England (Leeds)...Australians ...drawn. ..Australians ........Hampshire ...won. ..Australians ........Derbyshire ...won* ..Australians ........Somersetshire ...drawn. ..Australians ........ Scotland ...........drawn. ..Australians ........ XV. of Scotland drawn. ..England (Mnchstr)Australians ...lost. ..Australians ........ Surrey ...............won. ..drawn. ..drawn. ..won. ..won. 2 5 P o £ 26...won. 27...won. 28...10.t.. 29... won. 30 ..lost.. 31...10.t.. 32... won. 33...won. 34...won. 35...10.t.. 36... won. 37...10.t.. 38...10.t . .Australians ........ .Australians ......... .South Wales......... .Australians ........ .England (Oval) ... .Northamptonshire .Australians ......... Australians ......... .Australians ......... .England XI. (Bournemouth)... .Australians ......... .Mr. Thornton’s XI. .South of England.. CO© O T 3 0^'cQ .Sussex ........ Worcestershire. .Australians .Middlesex........ Australians Australians Lancashire (Aigburth) .. K en t.............. Gloucestershire. •Australians Essex......... Australians Australians .won. .drawn. .aban. .won. .drawn. .won. .won. .won. .drawn. ..won. ..drawn. ..drawn. ..drawn. ♦Australians batted first. THE AUSTRAL IANS . THE MATCH AGAINST SOUTH OF ENGLAND. THIRTY-EIGHTH AND LAST OF THE TOUR. Played at Hastings on September 11,12 & 13. Drawn. In this match, the second of the Hastings Week, there was no play on Monday owing to rain. On Tuesday the South won the toss and batted on a very soft wicket which became difficult after about an hour. Yine and McGahey were soon disposed of, but Hayward and Braund made a stand which produced 32 runs. Hayward made 38 in an hour and drove a ball out of the ground. Braund and Sswell took the score to 121, the former playing with care, and the latter hitting well, and then the batting completely broke down against the bowling of Noble and McLeod, the last six wickets only producing 13 runs. The wicket rolled out well, and the Australians made 81 for the loss of three wickets, thus having much the best of the game when stumps were drawn. Noble was not out 8, and Gregory not out 16. Yester­ day the wicket was difficult, and the Australians fared so badly for a time, that it looked as if they would hardly exceed the total of the South. But Hopkins and Kelly hit hard, and put up 64 in a little over half- an-hour. Hopkins was at the wickets for an hour and twenty minutes, and hit a 6 and six 4’s. The South went in again just before lunch and lost Yine with the total at 5. After­ wards Hayward andMcGahey played such fine cricket that all danger of defeat was averted. In seventy minutes they made 97 runs. The innings was declared when six wickets were down, not that there was any chance of getting the Australians out. But Armstrong had another opportunity of trying to bring his total for the season to over 2,000, and was successful. S o u th o f E n g lan d . First innings. Hayward, c Hopkins, b Mc­ Leod ...................... ... 38 Vine, c Laver, b Armstrong 1 C. McGahey, c and b Armstrong...................... 8 Braund, c Darling, b Mc- I-eod..............................33 C. O. H. Sewell, c Darling, b McLeod......................32 G. L. Jessop, b Noble ... 0 J. N. Crawford, b Noble ... 0 Lees, c Armstrong, b Mc­ Leod ............................ 6 Dr. W. G. Grace, b Noble... 2 Butt, c Laver, b Noble ... 0 N. A. Knox, not out ......... 5 B 8 , lb 1 ................ 9 Second innings, c Hopkins, b McLeod.........76 c & b Armstrong 0 b Noble b McLeod b McLeod . b Noble b McLeod . notout... Extras... 24 J. Darling, c Grace, b Crawford............... z W. W. Armstrong, b Crawford............... 19 C. Hill, st Butt, b Braund ............... 19 M. A. Noble, c Hay­ ward, b Crawford... 14 S.E.Gregory,b Braund 16 R. A. Duff, b Braund 5 A u st r a lia n s . A. J.Hopkins, not out 50 C. McLeod, c Lees, b Braund ................ 5 A. Cotter, b Lees ... 8 J. J. Kelly, c Lees, b Crawford.............35 F. Laver, b Braund... 1 Extras.............37 Total ...211 Second i n n i n g sW . W. Armstrong, b Jessop, 21; S. E. Gregory, notout, 11; A. Cotter, b Jessop, 0; J. J. Kelly, not out, 11; b 1, lb 1, nb 1.—Total (2 wkts.) 46, S o u th o f E n g la n d . First innings. O. M. R. W. Armstrong ... 182 37 2 ... Laver ......... 10 1 33 0 ... McLeod......... 12.3 2 30 4 ... Noble ......... 5 1 25 4 ... A u st r a lia n s . O. M. R. W. Lees ............ 132 36 1 ... Crawford ... 20 1 69 4 ... Braund......... 19.2 3 69 5 ... Jessop... Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 14 2 34 1 ... 11 5 15 0 ... 10.5 3 50 4 ... 13 1 43 2 O. M. R. W. 1 33 0 1 10 2 THE AUSTRALIAN AVERAGES. Matches played, 38; won, 16 ; drawn, 19; lost, 3. BATTING AVERAGES. No. Times of not Total mns. out. W.W. Armstrong(V.) 48 ... 7 . M. A. Noble (N.S.W.) 49 ... 2 . J. Darling (S.A.) ... 53 ... 8 . C. Hill (S.A.) .........51 . V.T.Trumper(N.S.W.) 51 . A.J.Hopkins (N.S.W.) 42 . R. A. Duff (N.S.W.)... 49 . S.E. Gregory (N.S.W.) 31 . D. R. A. Gehrs (S.A.) 35 . C. E. McLeod (V.) ... 43 . J. J. Kelly (N.S.W.)... 35 . A. Cotter (N.S.W.) ... 45 . F. Laver (V.) .........37 . P. M. Newland (S.A.) 18 runs. .2002 ..1768 Most in an inns. .. 303*. .. 267 .. .. 117 3 ...1846 ... 181 . 1 . ..1798 ... 110 . 5 ...1094 ... 154 . 0 . ..1417 ... 146 . . 3 ... 717 ... 134 . 4 ... 675 .. 83 . 6 ... 722 ..,. 103*. .12 ... 411 ... 74*. . 3 ... 740 ... 48 . . 6 ... 480 ... 78 . . 8 ... 121 ... 25*. . 9 ... 194 ... 46 . Aver. . 48-82 . 4634 .. 39-28 .. 38-45 .. 35*96 .. 29-56 .. 2891 .. 2560 .. 21*77 .. 19-51 .. 17-86 .. 17-61 .. 15-48 .. 1210 .. 8-81 W. P. Howell (N.S.W.) 31 BOWLING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdns. Runs.Wkts. Avr. W. W. Armstrong (V.) 1027 ...308...2288...130...17 60 F. Laver (V.)............... 8481 ...245...2092...115...18 19 W. P. Howell (N.S.W.) 589’2 ...169...1528... 79...1934 A. Cotter (N.S.W.) ... 754-1 ...127...2460...124...1983 C. E. McLeod (V.) ... 814-3 ...230...2004... 91...2202 R. A. Duff (N.S.W.) ... 111-5 ... 33... 326... 12...27 16 M. A. Noble (N.S.W.)... 587‘5 ...158...1558... 59...26-40 A. J. Hopkins (N.S.W.) 260 ... 60... 825... 27...3055 S. E. Gregory (N.S.W.) 71 ... 0... 47... 0... — The following also bowled: C. Hill(S.A.) (8*4-2-16-2), D. R. A. Gehrs (S.A.) (6-1-0-33-1), J. J. Kelly (N.S.W.) (2-0-7-0), V. T. Trumper (N.S.W.) (2-1-4-0), and J. Darling (S.A.) (2-0-10-0). LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK v. CAPITAL AND COUNTIES BANK.—Played at Beckenham on September 2. C . & C . B a n k . H.A. Cook, b Williams 24 A. S. Lipton.b Browne 4 W. Goldie, b Williams 24 A.Stennett,b Williams 0 H. B. Perry, not out... 26 J. A. Withers, c House, b Williams 0 T. A. Stephens, b Williams................ 5 J. S. Cobb,b Williams W. Mitchell, lbw, b Reading............... F. O. Kennish, c Browne, b Reading H. A. Dart, c Randall, b Reading ......... Extras ......... Total ...108 L. J. S. B an k . F. M. Randall, c Withers, b Cobb ... 36 J. R. F. Williams, inn out ...................... 0 J. 8 . Lloyd, c Ken­ nish, b C obb.........40 P. G. Reading, b Goldie ............... 12 F. A. Gibbons, not out ...................... 3 C. Browne, b Cobb ... 4 G. Eliott-Lockhart, b Goldie............... 12 Extras ......... 2 Total (6 wkts) 109 Total ............... 134 Total (7 wkts) *166 * Innings declared closed. H. Raeburn, R. S. Bird, G. W. House and H. Morris did not bat. C RICKET Report Sheets, lOd. per dozen, post free Order of Going-in Cards, 7d. per dozen, post free; Cricket Score Books, 6 d. and Is. each; postage 2d. extra.—To be obtained at the Offices of “ Cricket,” 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.O.