Cricket 1906

§8 ORtCKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r i l 12, 1906. A. O. Harris, b Wy- ness ..............................10 E. M. Fisher, b Healy 31 A. D. Story, c Thom­ son, b R. Strahorn 71 G. S. Marich, c Aspi- nall, b R. Strihorn 54 D. S. Laidley, not out 22 Extras .................63 I n a match at Sydney on February 17th between Petersham Electorate and Y.M.O.A. 500 ruus were scored in three hours and a-half. Y.M.C.A. made 210 in aD hour and ten minutes, and Peter­ sham 290 in the remaining time. W. T. J. Finneran scored 68 for Y.M.C.A. in twenty minutes, 65 of the runs being made from boundary hits. I n the school matches at Sydney the Sydney Grammar School made 658 against Scots College, winning: by an innings and 502 runs. The S.G.S. score was as follows :— S ydney G ram m ar S ch onl . R. E. Hunt, b Came­ ron ................................................. . . . .85 E. Barbour, c Came­ ron, b Healy ....................... ..... ............................... 29 C. L. Leslie, b R. Strahorn.............................. ..... ............................... 43 J. H. Mackinlay, c Thomson, b Wyness 88 C.V. Gale, c McDowell, b Wyness.................................................................... 34 R. S. Evans, c and b Total ..........658 Wyness ................. T h e S cots C o ll e g e — First innings, 102; second innings, 54. A g o l f anecdote which appeared in Country Life a few days ago, is curiously reminiscent of another about cricket, which, related by Mr. 0. I. Thornton, appeared in The Cricket Field on Sep­ tember 3, 1892. The two anecdotes are as follows:— A deputation representing the golf of Oxford University once waited on those authorities in whose hands such great re­ sponsibility rests as the granting of the “ colours,” and humbly requested that they might be given “ a blue” ; upon which it is related that the then president of the boat club replied: “ Golf! golf! What is that? Something to eat ? ” — Country Life, 1906. During one of the matches when I took my England team to Cambridge, Posno was playing for me, and so was W. G., but, as it happened, Grace had never heard of Posno. So when I asked him to go in first with Posno he was quite bewildered, and asked in astonishment, “ Posno, Posno! What’s that ? Is it something to eat ? ” The Cricket Field, 1892. I t will be noticed from the report of the Essex County C.C., appearing on another page, that Mr. C. E. Green has engaged Lockwood and Peel to bowl to Essex players for three weeks, beginning on Monday, April 23rd. It will also be noticed that the committee are making an appeal to the members in order that the finances of the club may be placed in a more satisfactory position. In a letter to the Times, Professor T. Case, the President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, makes the following suggestion:—“ As the umpire cries ‘ wide’ when the ball is out of the batsman’s reach, so when it is within it, but is left alone, let him cry ‘ near.’ While ‘ wides ’ are scored by addition to the batsman’s side, ‘ nears” should be subtracted from the batsman’s own score, which in some cases might become an actual minus to the side. Cricket would then not be so dull, because it would be once more a game.” W. F. GlFi'KN, who visited England with the Australian team of 1893, recently made scores of 110 (retired) and 101 (retired) for the Mitcham C.C. at Adelaide. He is a brother of George Giffen. A t the special meeting of the Minor Counties Association last Friday, Mr. K. J. Key, the old Surrey cricketer, pointed out that under the new scheme Surrey II. would not be able to play their most interesting matches against Yorkshire II., Lancashire II., and Glamorgan. It seems a pity that, because of the honour and glory which are sup­ posed to lurk in points, teams should not be able to choose their own opponents. The details of the scheme, as approved at the meeting, will be found on another page. F or Ootacamund Gymkhana against the Cheshire Regiment on March 10th C. T. Studd, the old Cambridge Blue, made 94. In the same match Lieut. G. Turner made 71 and 129 for the Regi­ ment, and E. Marsden 131 for the Gymkhana. II tjgh T rumble scored 58 for the Melbourne C.C. against Fitzroy on February 17th, and on the following week took five wickets for 33 in 16 overs on the following Saturday. On March 9th the Review o f the River Plate said:—“ The M.C.C. team now touring in South Africa are doing remark­ ably well, and we should imagine that those who wrote complaining of the weakness of the team must be feeling rather small.” Which is, alas! another case of the maxim that it is never safe to prophesy unless you know. T hb latest news about the Australian Board of Control is that Tasmania has declined to join it, and that the Board has asked the Victorian C.A. to elect their third candidate. It will be remembered that this candidate was to be representa­ tive of the Melbourne C.C. Cricketers in Australia are becoming anxious because of the slowness of the Board in getting to work, and it is thought that unless some satisfactory arrangement is arrived at soon, it will be impossible to arrange for a visit from England this winter. I f it were not for the desire to regain their lost laurels, Australians would hardly yearn to see another English team in the States just yet, for it seems to be admitted on all sides that the interstate matches suffer as badly from the visit of an English team as the English counties suffer from the visit of an Australian team. The ordinary spectator becomes blase, and wants better value for his money than mere interstate or county matches can give him. M c K ibbin , the old Australian slow left-hand bowler of 1896 is a member of the Kanowna C.C., which, I believe, has its headquarters near Kalgoorlie, where- ever that may be. He injured his back in November when playing a match, and it is feared that he will never be able to bowl again. I t is reported that Mr. Framjee Patel, whose book on Indian cricket was re­ viewed in Cricket a short time ago, is about to sail for Europe, and that he hopes to be able to arrange for an Indian team to come to England next year. A t a meeting of the members of the Melbourne C.C. it was stated that in the last forty-five years the club had spent £100,000 on buildings, improvements to the ground, and payments to groundmen and players. Other expenses nearly doubled the total. F rom the American Crickiter: — While travelling in the western portion of the United States, an elderly gentleman, who in his day was a very active cricketer, happened to be thrown into unavoidably close contact with a rather shabbily-dressed individual, who afterwards turned out to be an Englishman. At first they were rather shy of one another, but the American finally plucked up enough courage to break the silence with some commonplace remark. Having discovered the nationality of his travelling companion by the unmistakable accent which cropped out here and there in his speech, he soon inquired whether the Btill bashful Briton had ever played the game of cricket. At the mention of the word, all semblance of shyness disappeared and the Englishman was almost hysterical with de­ light when he found that his interlocutor was an old “ wielder of the willow.” For the rest of the journey they were very voluble friends, and, in fact, the Englishman even went so far as to change his original plan of travel in order to have the pleasure cf conversing with an intelligent and ex­ perienced man, upon the game of cricket. A t Buenos Aires on February 22nd the Great Southern Railway scored 280 and dismissed four of the Northern Camps for 92. On the following day the Northern Camps, thanks largely to a score of 160 not out by H. A. Cowes, who went in sixth wicket down, raised their total to 468 for eight wickets and declared. They then dismissed their opponents for 79. I n the course of the second grade match at Sydney between Central Cum­ berland and Glebe a ball from Hogne hit the wicket and removed the bail, which, in falling, dropped on the wicket and remained with one end on the other bail, and the other on the leg stump. The batsman, J. Anthony, was about to march sadly towards the pavilion, but his partner, noticing what had happened, and seeing that the ball had been missed by the wicket-keeper, called to him to run, with the result that two byes were added to the score. F or the obituary notices of Mr. C. S. Currer and the Rev. R. A. Bathurst I am indebted to Mr. J. D. Betham.