Cricket 1905

CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Nov 30, 1905. N'tter wait for them until you come back, We will Jteep your situations open. If you start now you will lose the interstatematches. ’ The consequence was that they did notigo hack. They waited for the lfiatchcs, and naturally put in accounts for part of the loss, and; were paid for that. I don't call that professionalism.’ ’ .» - D irling then proceeded to refer to Howell as follows : — “ Howell’s case I can give you in full, for I have his permission. As you know, he has a property about forty miles out of Sydney, on which several men are employed. He leaves them every Saturday to play in club matches, and he has never asked for payment. The inter-state matches come at a busy time for him, and ho has to leave the farm to the five men, without a mas'er for three weeks at harvest while he makes the trip to Melbourne and!Adelaide. For loss of time and work he asked £15—a very reasonable amount, which docs not represent the money he is out of pocket—and because he accepted it the Now Sjputh Wales Association made him a profes­ sional. Howell said he was not particular what they called him, so long as he was recouped for his loss, but he is not a profes­ sional in the sense in which the term is generally lindcrstood. ” From the Daily Chronicle : - Our Melbourne Correspondent writes,:— There is trouble ahead for the next English cricket eleven which visits Australia,- owing to the determination of the cricket organisa­ tions to ostracise the tour if they may not control the arrangements. The Jlarylebone Club should obtain a definite understanding with the leading Australians and the Mel­ bourne Cricket Club if disaster is to be avoided. The Sydney organisations talk of boycotting the visitors if they are denied control. T he officers at Cambridge University for next season are as follows :■—Captain, C. H. B yre; hon. secretary, M. W. Payne; assistant treasurer, E. A. Young. T he annual report of the Melbourne C.C. hag made its appearance in its usual form of a neat little volume. The financial position of the club is practically the same as it was at the end of the previous season, and therefore most satis­ factory. The number of members is 3,519 as against 3,526 last season, and the total receipts are £6,699 13s. as against £6,816 6s. A l l cricketers will regret to hear that Mr. C. E. Green, the president of the M.C.C. and the old Cambridge Blue, has been ill for some time, and that, although he is better than he was, he is still an invalid. Best wishes for his speedy recovery. M r . O. R. B orradaile , the Essex secretary, has also been ill, but I am glad to say that he is now himself again. J. T. Gwynn, the youngest of the well-known brothers who have been so prominently connected with Irish cricket, has been appointed to the Indian Civil Service, and will shortly proceed to India, if he iBnot already on his voyage. F o r Aldelphian A v. Westbourne, Adelaide, R. Yelland took all ten wickets for 21 runs. He bowled six, caught and bowled two, and the other two were caught. A. Harrison, for Semaphore A V. Seaside, bowled nine for 27, and the other man was run out. A t Sydney, on October 14th, P. C. Rogers and B. Harvey went in first for University against North Sydney. Their sc res were as follows: — It, Harvey, c Hordern, b W hile.......... ... 31 U. C. Rogers, c Hordern, b White ... ... 31 It may be added that each rnau hit five 4’s. I n the course of a speech at the annual dinner of the Yorkshire Cricket Club, the Hon. P. S. Jackson siid :— I shall never forget that shortly after I had been asked to, and had accepted the position of captain, I received at least half-a-dozen letters, each enclosing a small coin. It was all very wrong, but each of them told me exactly how X could win the toss. It is a very curious thing, but in the excitement of the moment I clean forgot all about those coins—I am afraid I put them in my pocket and spent them. At any rate, I did not toss with any of them, although I had most excited letters from each of the gentlemen who sent the coins telling me that they knew exactly what I should do when I tossed with them. . . . I received applications from hundreds of people asking for inclusion in the England team. I also actually received applications from two celebrated cricketers thinking that they ought to play themselves. P r in cb C h a r le s o f D enm ark, who haa just ascended the throne of Norway as Hakon the Seventh, has all the love of sport which one might expect from one who has spent so much of his time in England, and taken such an interest in English ways. Cricket in any caBe has great attractions for him, as those who remember his visit to the Oval in com­ pany wito the Prince of Wales on the occasion of one of the Australian matches in 1902 can attest. SUCCESSFUL FAILURE. [After all, saj's C. B Fry, successful failure is its own reward.] The song I sang to catch the ear Of half a waiting universe— Declined t( with thanks ” or silence, near That far extreme that means a curse. The innings when I failed to score; The easy catch I did not hold ; The vain attempt to earn and store For rainy days some little gold. Now first I know how truly great Are all these things that I have done ; Now first ran truly estimate What rich rewards I must have won. And yet, the truth is passing strange: Ihe failing honours I possess, I hereby offer in exchange For grosser guerdons of success. Daily Chronicle THE PAST SEASON IN AMER ICA . By W. N. Moricb, i i th-> American Cricketer. By division into a consideration of the international and other fi rst-cliss m itches and the contest for the Halifax Cup, a resume of our first-class cricket season may be spoken of more clearly. Tne former, being the more important, will be considered first. Looking at it from any standpoint, it would certainly take an optimist of the most pronounced type to be satisfied with what our players have accomplished, and, worse still, the future, or at least the immediate future, does not hold out great hopes for any decided forward step in the class of our cricket. In fact, it caa be seriously questioned if we have even held our own. The matches against the M.C.C. team, with the excep'.ion of the Colts’ match, were decidedly disappointing. Mr. Mann’s side was not a strong one, compare 1with some of the other teams we have had over, and, in fact, some went bo far as to say it was the weakest team we have ever had from abroad. Be this as it may, it is very generally conceded that it was a comparatively weak eleven, and yet the first match was lost by a wide margin and the second won solely by reason of the very fine all-round play of Captain Lester. Oar batting was a great dis­ appointment, especially at Manheim, when, on a soft wicket, we showed conclusively that our lack of practice against very good slow or medium- paced bowlers was a great handicap. Not one of our batsmen was ever entirely at home with McDonell, except J. A. Lester in the second innings of the Haverford match. C. C. Morris did very fine work in both matches, not once fail­ ing to score 20 or over, his average for the four innings being a small fraction under 50. Captain Lester was also con­ sistent, his lowest score being 16, and his average being just under 45. F. S. White made one good score, and J. B. King totalled 83 in the first innings at Haver­ ford, but it could hardly be said to have been a fine exhibition, and was marred very much by the number of runs thrown away by poor judgment in calling. As to the rest of the batting, the less said the better. The fielding can be dismissed with the comment that with one or two exceptions it was very poor indeed. Had our opponents been a Btrong batting side, they would have been able to run up very big scores. The two standbys of Philadelphia cricket in bowling, Messrs. J. K. King and P. H. Clark, were very ineffective as a rule, although the latter rattled out the tail at Manheim in the first innings in quick order. It seemed strange to find these two “ demons” of old not causing the batsmen any trouble at all, especially on the hard wicket at Haverford. Have thev gone back or were they simply not in form at the moment ? If the former, will they regain their old effectiveness and last for at least another five years ? It is certainly to be hop :d so, for with