Cricket 1906

2 6 6 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TltE GAME. J u l y 12, 1006. first-class cricket. The two men put on 90 in an hour for the last wicket of Oxford in their second innings, and some of their hits were remarkably good. I t is very sad to hear that C. B. Pry was induced to believe that his leg had sufficiently recovered to enable him to play in a local match last week, for the result was that the leg again gave way, and Fry had to ba carried off the field. There is reason to fear that this second accident will keep him out of the game for the rest of the season. Fry’s accident has been nothing less than a calamity to cricketers, as well as to himself. M e a n w h ile in Fry’s absence Sussex has “ bucked up ” in a manner which has given the greatest pleasure to all cricketers, and although the county is hardly likely to hold as high a place in the county championship table at the end of the season as it would have done if Fry had been playing, it will make a good fight to hold its own. Now that Young has played himself into form his services ought to be very valuable. But where, and oh where, is our Ranjitsinhji gone ? I s h o u l d think that it is out of the ordinary run for umpires to have to give decisions which involve the dismissal of mare than one-half of the wickets that fall in a match. This was what Day and Thompson, the arbiters in the game between the second elevens of Kent and Surrey at the Oval this week, had to do. As a matter of fact, seventeen of the thirty wickets which went down to complete the match were only obtained after appeals to the umpires had been given against the batsmen. In the match, Stedman, the Surrey stumper, had a hand in the downfall of seven Kent wickets, six caught and one stumped. Cricket readers one and all will be particularly gratified to learn that “ the earliest recorded match between Gentle- and Players took place in the summer of 1806, when Napoleon was in the zenith o f his power.” One gathers from the same source that “ the 1832 match was the year of the Reform Bill.” My authority for this interesting information in con­ nection with an historic oricket match, I may say at once, is an article which appeared in a London evening news­ paper of Tuesday last. The name at the head of the article, whioh was that of Albert Trott, of world-wide fame, will be sufficient to satisfy any one that the facts do not admit of even the elements of a doubt. Two of the new holders of English Amateur Athletic Championships, as the outcome of last Saturday’s meeting at Stamford Bridge, belong to the noble army of active cricketers. A. E. Harri- gin, of the West Indian team, who is a champion of champions in throwing the cricket ball, had no opponent in the pole jump, in which he compassed 10 ft. 4 in. C. H . Jupp, who this time was successful in the 220 yards championship, is well known in Surrey cricket. He was one of the sixteen selected to oppose the county eleven at the Oval at the commencement of the season. The Jockeys, in both their matches against the Amateur Athletes, have had the best of oppor­ tunities of appreciating his capabilities as a rapid run-getter. S u r r e y ’s second team, just at the moment, are emulating the run-getting propensities of the couuty eleven when the conditions are favourable for scoring. Their total of 481 at the Oval on Monday was got in four hours and three-quarters, which means an average of a fraction over 100 runs an hour. Their easy victory over Kent’s 2nd was the more noteworthy for the fact that the eleven was practically a Surrey side in the strictest sense. Ten were, indeed, born in the county, and the eleventh has lived in Surrey since he was a few months old. Jointly, Surrey’s first and second elevens, in the last three innings, have scored 1,645 runs:— Surrey v. Warwickshire, Oval .......... 634 Surrey v. Scotland, Edinburgh .......... 530 Surrey 2nd v. Kent 2nd, Oval .......... 481 T h e Surrey executive have agreed to give F. C. Holland a benefit during the season of 1907 in recognition of the valu­ able service he has rendered to the County during the last thirteen years. A South Londoner by birth aud training, Holland joined the ground staff at the Oval in 1892. He was then only in his seventeenth year, and he was not twenty when he appeared first in the Surrey Eleven. Two innings represented the extent of his cricket for Surrey in 1894, but as the sum total was 107 runs for once out, it will be seen he was successful at the outset. Since 1893 he has been a regular member of the Surrey X I. His best years were those of 1898, 1903 and 1905, when he had aggregates of 1,072, 1,129 and 1,079, respectively. To judge from the harmony which prevailed at the Annual Meeting of the Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society on Monday night, that deserving institution is in a satisfactory as well as a prosperous condition. Not the least important part of the business was the election of Lord A1verstone as a trustee in the place of the late Mr. Y. E. Walker. With such a koen supporter of the game to support old and valued friends like Mr. W. E. Denison, the President, and Lord Harris, among others, the management of the Cricketers’ Fund can always count on the best and most practical advice. T h e death is announced of Lieut. M, M. Carlisle, of the Harrow Eleven of 1901 and 1902. In the former year he scored 24 against Eton, and in the latter 6 and 12 not out. He afterwards pro­ ceeded to Sandhurst, where he was in the Eleven. He was a younger brother of Mr. K. M. Carlisle, of Harrow and Oxford, and died last month in Lucknow at the early age of 21. I n the first innings of Staffordshire v. Lancashire 2nd X I., at Burnley, on Monday last, Barnes made 99 and Fere- day 95, each, curiously enough, hitting nine 4’s, two 3’s, and thirteen 2’s. J u s t ic e would perhaps have been batter served if Warwickshire had saved the game with Surrey on Saturday at the Oval. As it was, thankB to the fine batting of Lilley and Baker, they very nearly suoceeded, and the last wicket, indeed, only fell within three minutes of time. Though the young left-hander, Baker, had some little luck in the middle of his innings, he played attractive cricket, if in point of intrinsic merit his play was hardly up to the standard of L’lley’s batting, which was a splendid all-round exhibition from first to last. The three days’ cricket realised an aggregate of 1,206 runs for thirty wickets. O n the principle that one cannot paint the lily, it will be sufficient merely to mention the performance of A. Fielder for the Players at Lord’s on Monday in taking all the ten wickets in the first innings of the Gentlemen, a feat never before recorded in this match, though this is its csntenary year. Fielder, who was born and bred in Kent, has alrealy had experience of Australian as well as English grounds, though his career as a first-class cricketeronly dates back to 1903, having bean a membsr of the M.C.C. team which visited the Colonies in 1903-4 under P. F. Warner’s captaincy. He will be 28 years of age next Thursday. T h b New South Wales Cricket Associa­ tion has suspended the Paddington Club for refusing to suspend M. A. Noble, V. Trumper and A. Cotter. That is the latest development of the Australian dis­ pute. But oh the pity of i t ! T h e Eton and Winchester match at Winchester last week was a veritable triumph of the bat over the ball. The scoring, indeed, was abnormal with an aggregate of 953 as the outcome of the two day’s cricket with three completed innings. I saw it stated somewhere on Saturday night that Winchester’ s total of 373 is the highest in the series of matches. If I mistake not, Eton’s 444 at Eion in 1863 is still the record. T h e Brighton College Eleven gained a very creditable victory over their Sussex rivals of Lancing College on the Sussex County Ground at Brighton last Satur­ day. Left at the end of the day with 200 to win, they got the number required in two hours and five minutes with two wickets in hand. Their success, too, was the outcome of some good level batting. W. M. Malleson, A. B. G. Castle, H. K. Pearce and F. B. Kendall, all of them,, got betwe jn thirty and forty runs. R a in unfortunately prevented the annual match between Clifton and Mal­ vern College, at Clifton, on Friday last, getting even within measurable distance of a definite finish. As it was, the scor-