Cricket 1906

2 0 2 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 14, 1906. both innings, for 7 and 11, and also made a catch, so that he may fairly be said to have done honour to his country, despite the fact that he went in last. T h e averages for first-grade matches in Sydney in the season just over show J. R. M. Mackay, the New South Wales Inter-state cricketer, in a class by him­ self at the head of the batting tables. In all he made 972 runs in twelve innings with three not outs, so that his average was just 108. Toe next batsman on the list was A. B. S. White, with 628 for ten completed innings. Victor Trumpor comes out seventh with an average of 51'83 for seven, while M. A. Noble is a long way down, having scored only 123 in the same number of innings. In bowling Noble had to be content with seventh, and A. Cotter with fourteenth place. The former’s twenty-five wickets cost nearly 16, Cotter’s thirty-one just under 17 runs apiece. T h e West Indian team, who were most hospitably entertained by the West Indian Club at a dinner at the Imperial Restaurant, on Saturday, have accepted an invitation to dine with the Surrey County C.C. on the 25th inst, the first night of their match against Surrey. The Sportsman points out a curious coincidence in the two West Indian tours. The first team of 1900 opened their pro­ gramme on June 11th with a match at the Crystal Palace against London County C.C. History repeated itself singularly this year, as the active part of the second tour was begun on the same ground and on the very same day against the same side. E b n e s t J o n e s , the fast bowler of several of the later Australian teams, who left Adelaide for West Australia some time since, was one of the star per­ formers in the final match for the premiership of the Goldfields Senior Association, played at Kalgoorlie at the end of April. T. R. McKibbin, another Australian familiar to English cricket crowds, was taking part in the same game. Of the two ex-Australian bowlers, McKibbin was the more successful, taking six wickets at a cost of only 64 runs. Jones, who dismissed three batsmen for 31, also knocked up 28 in his first innings. T he generally observant cricket critic seems to have been napping or a good performance of Captain W. McCanlis for Kent’s 2nd v. Surrey’s 2nd at Town Mai­ ling last Thursdaywould have had some­ thing like justice done to it. The Cap­ tain, who so carefully watohes over the rising talent of Kent, made exactly 100 (16 not out and 84) in the match for once out, and even iu the second innings had the bad luck to be run out. Captain McCanlis was playing for Kent as long ago as 1871. In any case, his double innings at Town Mailing last week was a great achievement for a a cricketer who in a few months will oomplete his sixty- sixth year. A m b id e x t e r it y is only the outcome of long practice, and is the gift of a very few cricketers. A curious instance of its possibilities was seen in the match between Surrey Club and Ground and Barnes at the Oval list Friday. S. E Busher, who took five wickets in the first innings of the former with his usual delivery (right hand), in the second bowled both right and left handed. He finished with four overs of the latter, and not only kept a good length, but should have had a wicket, one of the Surrey batsmen surviving an easy catch just at the close. B y playing a hard-hitting innings of about 250 the other day, D. H. Butcher seems to have fallen among robbers who would take away his reputation as a sportsman. His chief crime is that some of his runs were made after the other side had been beaten, and that because he made them certain members of his side did not get an innings, while the mem­ bers of the beaten side, poor things, suffered the agony of haviog to bowl and field after their case had been decided. It is quite unnecessary to defend Mr. Butcher, but it may be remarked that nearly everypast and present player who comes under the heading of “ a good sportsman ” has made a large score under similar circumstances. I t is the irony of fate that J. W. H. T. Douglas was “ booed ” on Saturday at Trent Bridge because he played tbe proper game for his side, contenting him­ self with keeping up his wicket as runs were of no consequence. Some of the older spectators (not so very old either) must have remembered the time when it was quite the fashionable thing at Trent Bridge for members of the Notts team to play the some game as was played by Mr. Douglas. No importance need be attached to the severe defeat experienced by the West Indians at the hands of Dr. Grace’s team. A couple of hard hitters happened to come off for London County, and the Doctor’s bowling has always been notori­ ously effective against men who are playing it for the first time. It has always looked the easiest bowling in the world, but it has always had something deceptive about it in the flight of the ball. M a n y cricketers will bepleased to hear that W. H. Patterson, the famous old Kent and Oxford University batsman, is still playing, and can still make runs. Last week he scored 51 for J. R. Mason’s X I. against Marlow. N. A. K nox ’ s fast bowling for Surrey this week resulted in the downfall of thirteen Sussex wickets at a cost of a fraction under eight and-a-half runs apiece. In their second innings yester­ day, he took seven of the ten wickets, five of them bowled, for twenty-six runs. The ball with which he bowled Cox was pitched so wide on the off-side that the batsman made no attempt to play it. It broke in at a tremendous paca and hit the top of the middle stump, sending the bail a distance of forty-five yards. T. P. O’Connor’s new paper P. T. 0. —I had almost written T. P. O.—pub­ lished yesterday, contains the following reference to two members of the We 3 t Indian team just arrived in E jgland :— P. T. 0. recalls that when Lord Brackley’ s team was in the West Indies in the spring of last year A. E. Harragin won all the nine events for whioh he entered at the Trinidad sports. He threw the cricket ball 127 yards, jumped 5 feet 5 inches, and put the 16 lb. weight a distance of 39 feet 10 inches. I believe it was at the same sports—at all events it was while the Englishmen were in the western islands—that one of the coloured professionals of the present team, Layne, of Barbados, threw the cricket ball six times. The first throw was only a matter of 107 yards, the sixth measured 117. A ll six varied between those two distances. “ Don’t think I ’ll throw any more,” was all Layne said. Laconic, and rather like the decision of the coloured umpire: “ Nart out, sah, batsman my foster-brother, sah ! ” From The Cricket Press we have received copies of the 1906 issue of the Cricket Calendar and the Cricket Direc­ tory. Each is a handy little publication, issued at sixpence. STREATHAM v. DULW ICH-Played at Streat­ ham on June 5. S treatham . E. S. Bailey, c Ellis, b Proctor .................49 O. J. Parton, c Ellis, b Proctor .................60 H. P. S. Adams, c Ellis, b Cryer.......... 6 L. D. Bailey, lbw, b Procter .................16 H. M. Leaf, c Huntley, b Oryer ................ 1 E. H. Leaf, bCryer ... 13 Q. V. Campbell, b Proctor ... .......... J. L. Phillips, c Huntley, b Proctor E. B. Miller, b Cryer D. O. Kerr, c Slater, b Procter... .......... E. P. Pulbrook, not out ........................ B 14, lb 6 ......... Total ..190 D ulw ich . C. P. Tregellas, b Campbell................. 1 P. H. Slater, b Phillips 28 A. H. Williams, b Phillips ... ... ... 14 F. W. Ellis, c Kerr, b Campbell... ......... 1 H. G. Cryer, b Camp­ bell ........................15 G. P. Shaw, b Pardon 30 W. M. Frizweli, b Campbell.................13 S. E. Huntley, c sub., b H. M. L eaf..........82 Q. Proctor, st Kerr, b E. H. Leaf ..........56 S. Hanna, si Kerr, b E. H. Leaf .......... 1 F. W. Greene, not out 6 B 4, lb 8, w 1, nb 2 15 Total ...262 LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK (3) v. CROYDON (3).—Played at Norbury on June 6 and 7. C roydon (3). ,T. Campbell, b Wood 0 W. Helson, c Sharpin, b Wood ................. 1 D. T. Robiliard, b Willson .................68 A.C.McAdam,b Wood 10 J. 1). Davies, c Smith, b Willson................. 7 F. J. Allen, b Willson 0 R. F. Barley, c Dun­ lop, b W o o d ..........18 R. J.Duff, b Willson 5 L. Hine, not out ... 15 L. B. Long, absent... 0 E. F. Barley, not out 24 B 11, lb 3, w 1... 15 M. G. Dunlop, b Long 4 W. E. Smith, b Long 19 F. L. Sharpin, b Long 5 G. O. Anson, b Long 1 C. H. Chapman, b L ong........................ 9 S. Wood, b Robiliard 21 T. W. Patch, b Long 10 H. C. Willson, b Robiliard... ........ 22 Total (8 wkts) 163 L. & W. B. (3). W. I,. F. Holland, b Barley ................. 7 J. L. Challis, b Robillard .......... 0 R. F. Dickinson, not out ........................ 2 Bo, lb 3 .......... 8 Total ...108