Cricket 1906

J u l y 26, 1906. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 297 in July, 1904, and 1,427 for twenty-one ■wickets in Surrey v. Sussex at Hastings in July, 1902. In the matter of the average per wicket, the Worcestershire-Leicester- shire match is easily first. For Australia, where the game sometimes lasts for a week, the record is 1739, in New South Wales v. Stoddart’s Team at Sydney, February 1898. S c o t t i s h cricketers must have lived in a pleasurable state of excitement for many years in regard to the question whether matches played by Scotland against first-class teamsare to be reckoned as first-class or not. When they play the Australians they have the honour of being counted as first-cla's; when they play Surrey, a county which generally makes the Australians go all the way, and has even several times been known to beat them, the match is placed on the same level as one between the Olympian Hooligans and the Park Legbeforers. 1 M.C.C. v. Royal Engineers, 1,099 runs were scored for 24 wickets. I n the above match at Lord’s P. F. Warner had some excellent practice, and was within a very little of scoring two hundred in the first innings and a hundred in the second. As it was he had to content himself with 194 and 100, which is a pretty good haul for two day’s work. Another batsman, F. Penn, made two hundreds in a minor match this week at Burton Court, viz., 101 and 123 not out for Household Brigade v. Royal Artillery. O n e of the most remarkable points iu connection with this season’s batting is the innings in which Hayward has dis­ tanced all competitors in the matter of aggregate. Iu Monday’s table his aggre­ gate for the season was 2,500, while thal of Tyldesley, who was next to him, was only just over 1,500. Even Dr. Grace, in the days of his prime, can seldom, ii ever, have been able to point to so in about an hour and three-quarters and his hits included eight 6’s. Tbe contrast between the first innings played by his team and the second was so great that the score is appended :— G. H. S aiaman ’ s XI. First innings. Second innings C.E.DeTrafford.bHarrisson 4 b Messer .............. 57 A. S. Partridge,c& b Cooke 2 b Harrisson ... 0 Eev. O.Wetenhall,b Harris- son ............................... 0 b Cooke ............ 6 V. F. S. Orawford, b Cooke 3 not out....................202 J O. Robertson, c Ward, b H arrisson........................ 4 b Harrisson ... 3 T. P. Harrisson, b Cooke ... 0 b Cooke ..........15 G. C. Harrisson, not out ... 2 b Harrisson ... 0 G. Hazlerigg, b Cooke ... 1 c & b Harrisson 1 J. R. Frisby, b Harrisson... 4 b Harrisson ...46 G. II. Salaman, b Cooke ... 1 c Ward, b Cooke 8 Astill, b Cooke ................. 0 c Whitsed, b Harrisson ... 11 Extras|......................... 1 Extras............11 Total ..........22 Total..........360 ANOTHER somewhat remarkable inn­ ings was the 85 of P. J. de Paravicini for W. F. Lowndes-Frith’s XI. against Dr. W. G. Grace’s X I., at Chesham, for among the hits were seven out of the A BIRTHDAY REMINISCENCE. On Jiis 58th birthday “ W. G.” captained the Gentlemen against the Players at the Oval and scored 74. I t is almost a curiosity of cricket that Warwickshire, twice losing the toss against Surrey this season, had to face a total of over 500 a little before lunch in each match on the second day, and when stumps were drawn in the evening were still in possession of the wicket. But the second match differed from the first, for whereas at the Oval Warwickshire had lost nine wickets on the sec3nd evening when stumps were drawn, at Edgbaston they had lost only four, and when the innings ended on Saturday they were but 52 runs behind. During the match, 1,231 runs were scoredfor the loss of 23wickets. S e v e r a l other large aggregates were made at the end of last week. Thus, in Lancashire v. Sussex, at Manchester, the total was 1,003 for 39 wickets; in Essex v. Northamptonshire it was 1,056 for 36 wickets; and in West Indians v. Derby­ shire 951 for 34 wickets. In the two-day match at Lord’s between Gentlemen of marked a difference. As there is still more than a full month’s first-class cricket this year, Hayward seems to have an excellent chance of beating the record for aggregate, viz., 3,309. T h e return of A. C. MacLaren to the Lancashire team on Monday, at Lord’s, after a long absence was very welcome to the spectators. He played the only innings of the day which could be said to be wholly attractive, and, although he missed an easy chance in the slips, he caught two men in the same position, one of these catches being of the kind which always produces a roar of delighted applause. T h e r e were two or three remarkable individual innings at the end of last week in minor cricket. One of them was the 202 not out of Y. F. S. Crawford for G. H. Salaman’s X I. against Moulton and Distriot. He scored 202 out of 360 ground. Paravicini’s side had to make 345 to win in two hours and a-half on the second day, and managed to get within eleven runs of victory for the loss of four wickets. J. B. K in g , the bowler with a swerve, who was so successful in England with the Gentlemen of Philadelphia on the occasion of their last two visits, has been asserting his capacity as a cricketer of many parts during the last few weeks. In another part of the paper will be found the score of a match between Belmont and Merion B in which he made the record innings (344 not out) for America. Three days later (July 10th) his all-round cricket was the most important factor in the easy victory of the United States over Canada. In this case, in addition to an innings of 63—the highest of the match, by the way—he had the remarkable analysis of eight wickets for seventeen runs in Canada’s second knock.