Cricket 1906

J u l y 5, 1906. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 249 To go in against a total of 366 and come out with little or none the worst of the game is a rare experience, I should say, for a school team, and on their opponents’ ground. The Felsted eleven have the satisfaction of remembering that they did this in their recent match with King’d School, Canterbury, at Canter­ bury. Felsted might well indeed have been ahead had an innings been com­ pleted. As it was, they replied to King’s score of 366 by making 311 for the loss of only six batsmen, with one of the not outs (E. M. Durrant, 120) going very strong. On the other side (j. F. Howell’s 161 is a record for King’s School, Canter­ bury, the previous best having been 146 by G. C. Covell against Sutton Valence School last year. S ir K enelm E. D igby , K.C.B,, K.C., who has just been made a Knight of the Grand Cross, was in the Harrow Eleven from 1852-55, and subsequently repre­ sented Oxford University from 1857 to 1859 inclusive. I can remember him well as captain of the Harrow Eleven in 1855. Unless my memory fails me, George Parr had an engagement of some sort at Harrow School in that year. At all events, I can recall vividly a splendid hit of his to leg which took the ball over the fence of the old cricket ground. T he “ T yke ’ s ” A ppeal . “ 0, haste thee, Wilfrid,” Eedmond cried, “ Undo that wicket.” —Scott’s Bokeby. The fear which is gaining ground in Yorkshire that Rhodes is losiDg his bowl­ ing is causing the greatest uneasiness. — Vanity Fair. A coincidence ! In the matches played at the Oval and Leyton at the latter end of last week the home side in each case led by 93 on the first innings, scored 204 in their second, and left their opponents 298 to win. F ob Free Foresters on Saturday, C. J. Kortright, the old Essex fast bowler, took all ten wickets of the Stanmore Park Masters for 12 runs in the first innings. The score of the Masters is appended :— W. R. Collins, b Kortright.......... ... 0 H. Alexander, b K ortright.......... ... 10 J. M. Quinton, b Kortright......... ... 1 W. N. Roe, b Kortright .......... ... 1 C. H. Bodington, b Kortright ... ... 8 D. W. Carr, b Kortright .......... ... 1 H. F. Terry, b Kortright .......... ... 19 R. Tomlinson, b Kortright ... 1 Major D’Aeth, c Kemp-Welch, b K ortright............................... ... 8 Major Trevor, b Kortright......... ... 0 C. E. L. Hammond, not out ... 0 Extras ............................... ... 4 Total........................ ... 53 H arrow S chool gave a very creditable account of themselves on Saturday against a strong team of I Zingari, which included C. T. Studd, E. M. Dowson, G. M. Buckston, J. R. Mason, Captain Wynyard, C. M. Wells, H. D. G Leveson- Gower, W. H. Patterson and A. J.Webbe. The School made 204, but I Zingari managed to run up 207 for eight wickets before time. A fter the match against Surrey on Saturday the Cambridge team was definitely completed, in accordance with anticipation, and is as follows :— *0. H. Eyre (capt.) (Harrow and Pembroke), *M. W. Payne (Wellington and Trinity), *R. A. Young (Repton and King’s), *C. C. Page (Malvern and Clare), *L. G. Colbeck (Marlborough and King’s), *A. E. Morcom (Repton and Clare), *P. R. May (Private and Pembroke), *G. G. Napier (Marlborough and Pembroke), *R. P. Keigwin (Clifton and Peterhouse), J. N. Buchanan (Charterhouse and Trinity), and H. Mainprice (Blundells, Tiverton, and Jesus). *An Old Blue. It will be noticed that there are no fewer than nine old Blues. Buchanan is a Freshman, and Mainprice a Senior. T he Oxford team is also now complete, and is as follows :— O xford . *W. S. Bird (capt.) (Malvern and New College), *G. T. Branston (Charterhouse and Hertford), *G. N. Foster (Malvern and Worcester), *E. G. Martin (Eton and New College), *N. R. Udal (Winchester and New College), *E. L. Wright (Winchester and New College), R. G. Barnes (Harrow and Balliol), W. J. H. Curwen (Charterhouse and Magdalen), R. V. Buxton (Eton and Trinity), J. H. Gordon (Winchester and Magdalen), and C. A. L. Payne (Charterhouse and New College). * An Old Blue. It will be noticed that Udal is down to play. It seems that he did not break down in the Sussex match, but retired as a measure of precaution, on feeling a slight reminder of his old strain. I ntending visitors to Lord’s will find it of use to know that play will begin to-day at 11.30, and on Friday and Satur­ day at 11 o’clock. The luncheon hour will be 1.30, and stumps will be drawn at 6.30, unless a definite result is possible by an extension on Saturday, when the game will be prolonged to seven o’clock. O n Monday T. G. Grinter was not far from accomplishing the unusual feat of making a hundred in an innings while nobody else on the side has scored double figures. He made 105 out of 167 for Leyton and District against Essex Club and Ground, and the only other score on his side over nine was 14. G eorge H irst is the first cricketer this season to take ahundred wickets and score a thousand runs. Moreover, he took his hundredth wicket before anyone else had done so, although on Saturday Haigh had brought his total to 99. H ayward ’ s total runs to date is 1,932, so that hehas a possible chance of beating the record for a season. Hayes, who can claim the second aggregate, has made 1,158, and is thus 774 runs behind him. Only three other men, Hirst (1,126), Tyldesley (1,106) and Denton (1033) have scored a thousand runs to date. Perrin’s aggregate is 996. O ne would think that the last place in the world to find an advertisement of the match between Essex and Middlesex at Lord’s would be at Whitechapel Station, yet on Monday it was there. After this no one will be surprised to hear that on the same day, at the same place, there was a fine and large advertisement of the Lawn Tennis Championships, admission Half-a-Crown. Whitechapel is, perhaps, becoming a seat of fashion. A pine bowling performance was done by Mead for Eisex against Yorkshire on Thursday and Friday of last week, re­ minding one of some of the doings of Alfred Shaw in the days of four balls an over. Alfred very frequently had fewer runs scored off him than the number of overs which he bowled, and, on the basis of four balls an over, Mead would have bowled 44 overs and 3 balls for 37 runs. I t was not a little singular that both the Universities on Saturday afternoon should have given a performance of which neither of them would on the previous day have been deemed capable. Cambridge went in at the Oval against Surrey at a quarter past three to make 298 runs, and were victorious by eight wickets. Oxford had to make 244, and went in at five-and-twenty minutes to five, and at half-past six had scored 200 for the loss of four wickets. As there was a prospect of finishing the match if stumps were drawn at seven the game proceeded, and at five minutes to seven Oxford, a man short, were beaten when within 19 runs of victory. I t is notoriously unsafe to prophesy as to the result of the University match, and this year it would be more than usually unsafe to do so. Udal seems to be the only bowler of any class on the Oxford side, while in Morcom, Napier and May Cambridge have three really good men. In fielding Oxford seem to be rather the better. Cambridge have three or four batsmen who are almost a class above anyone in the Oxford team, but on the other hand they all seem to have a sensitive temperament, and this in the University match may mean much. I f F. A. Iredale’s cablegram to the Daily Mail should herald the adjustment of the differences between the various Australian cricket authorities, every one will be glad that a regrettable incident should have come to an end. The latest news is that the Victorian Cricket Association and the Melbourne Club have come to an agreement to support the repetition of an invitation from the Australian Board of Control to the Marylebone Club to send a repre­ sentative team to Australia in October. According to the Secretary of the Aus­ tralian Board of Control,the recommenda­ tion of that body to our M.C.C. will be contingent on the removal of the sus­ pensions passed by the New South Wales Association on the principal players of that State. All this surely means that the Australian difficulty is over. T here might have been a good finish at Sherborne, on Saturday, in the match between Sherborne and Tonbridge Schools had circumstances admitted of the game being played out. As it was, there was not much in it at the close. Tonbridge, after being 70 behind on the