Cricket 1907

A ug . 1, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 313 T h e successful reappearance of Tyler, of Somerset, in the Sussex match at Hastings, has naturally provided a topic of conversation among cricketers. Prior to last week, he had assisted the county only five times since 1900, and it was generally thought that his career as a first-class cricketer bad ended. Going on first change, after Vine had been dis­ missed by Lewis, he took all the remain­ ing nine wickets at a cost of only 83 runs, keeping a fine length throughout and frequently beating the batsmen with his break. He was born on Oatober 13tb, 1866, and is therefore in his 41st year. As he is a very slow bowler and does not quickly tire, there would seem to be no reason why he should not again obtain a regular place in the side. William Lillywhite, Clarke, and Southerton all appeared in great matches when over 60 years of age, the first-named, in fact, beiDg 57 when he assisted the Players for the last time. It will, perhaps, be recalled by many that, at the historic meeting of the county captains at Lord’ s, in Decem­ ber, 1900, Tyler was one of the bowlers whom it was thought should be warned by their Committee to be more careful as to the fairness of their deliveries. I was fortunate enough to see Tyler’s perform­ ance against Sussex last week, and can unhesitatingly declare that not the least exception could then ba taken to his action. T y l e r , however, was not the only veteran who distinguished himself at the end of last week. Frank Sugg, whose powerful hitting was at one time the delight of cricket crowds in general and those of Lancashire in particular, showed on Saturday that be can still hit to some tune. Playing in a benefit match for Bootle against Liverpool, he scored 119 not out, included in which were three 6 ’s and eleven 4’s. At E liubu^gh on the same day, Mr. L. M. Balfour-Melville made 123 out of 177 in an hour and a- half for Grange against Brunswick. This was a noteworthy performance for a man who represented E linburgh as far back as 1871, and who, a year later, played an historic innings of 150 in the first match ever arranged between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Scotland, it is safe to say, has produced few batter all-round athletes, for in addition to his many cricketing triumphs, he has gained great distinction at Rugby football, golf, and lawn-tennis. P l a y in g for Bar v. Barristers’ Clerks, at the Oval on Saturday, A. M. Latham (74 not out) and W. L. Samson (54) added 90 for the ninth wicket ia twenty- five minutes. The former hit seven 4’s and five 3’s, and the latter a 5 and seven 4’s. M e . E. W. E lliot , of Sunderland, has been presented with a solid silver salver by the members and friends of the Durham County C.C. in recognition of his four years’ captaincy of the County Eleven. G eorge D ennett ’ s bowling in the two matohes played this year between Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire has been altogether remarkable. H ii analyse) have been as follows:— ( for *7 for iSI at Gloucester. 8 for 46 } ^ or^ amP^on- * Only seven wickets fell. Of the thirty-stven wickets lost by Northamptonshire, he took as many as thirty at a cost of only 118 runs. Of the remaining seven, one was run out, so of the thirty-six obtained by.the bowlers he was responsible for all but six. J oe V in e makes his 200th consecutive appearacce for Su b^-x to-day, in the match with Derbyshire at Brighton. This, although a very notable occurrence, has been exceeded by Killick, who played his 250th successive match for the same county earlier in the season. Mr. Alfred D. Taylor kindly draws my attention to the fact that Vine recently distinguished himself by making lii* 1 0 , 0 00 th run for Sussex, the only other batsmen who can claim to have done so being Ranjitsinhji, W. Newham, G. Brann, G. B. Fry, and Killick. E ncore “ W. G .” ! Playing for Lon­ don County v. Banstead, at the Crystal Palace on Thursday last, the G.O.M. took thirteen of the seventeen wickets which fell for 60 runs. W r itin g in Monday’s Morning Post , “ W.G.” relates the following amusing anecdote : — Once on a Bank Holiday at Brighton play was stopped just after luncheon by a heavy drizzle, and the crowd came to the front of the pavilion and boo’d and hooted the players. Ranji’s brother, who had only arrived in England a few days before and could not then speak English, was in the committee- room with Ranji and myself. Upon seeing the spectators behaving in this way, he said to Ranji: “ They are not so big as ‘ W.G.’ Why does he not go out and kill them all?” H ouse matches at the leading colleges and soriools have frequently been charac­ terised by remarkable scaring, but not until this season had one produced two double-hundred performances. The game alluded to was played at Eton, on Dutch­ man’s Farm, on July 16th and 17th, be­ tween Mr. Heygate’s a id Mr. Broad- bent’s, and resulted as follows:— M r . A. O. G. H eygate’s First innings. G. H. Cartwright, b E. Vennl38 V.A.Onslow, b G. Kekewich 8 J. O. Maitland, c G. Keke­ wich, b Boyd ................. 9 A. O. Combe, b E arl.......37 R. C. Freer, run o u t ........ 0 G. S. Monk, c G. Kekewich, b Swire ........................75 P. W. Foster, nin out...... 54 G. O. Chance, b Swire ... 29 E.F. Lawson, c Hall, b Swire 0 H. M. Phillips, b Oorkran... 8 A. Wentworth-Stanley, not out...................................... 1 Extras... ..............46 Total.............405 Second innings, c E.Venn, b Boydl70 b E. V enn..........13 H. c Hall, b E.Venn c and b Boyd ... b H. Venn ... c Turton, b Venn b H. Venn... b E. Venn ... cSwire.b E. Venn cWaley.bE.Venn notout......... Extras... Total ..........301 M r. H. B roadbent’s First innings. G.Kekewich, b Wentwortli- Stanley ....................... 137 E. Venn, lbw, b Cartwright 4 E. Turton, b Maitland ...34 J. Kekewich, b Maitland .. 88 H. Venn, lbw, b Cartwright 21 R. Corkran, b Cartwright... 16 R. Hall, c Combe, b Cart­ wright ............................... 6 A. Earl, b Maitland ......... 0 C.Swire.c Monk, b Maitland 20 C. Boyd, b Maitland.......... 2 E. Waley, not out .......... 0 E xtras.......................17 Second innings. lbw, b Maitland..ll2 b Cartwright ... 12 b Cartwright ... 5 b Maitland......... 0 b Cartwright . . 40 b Cartwright ... 0 b Cartwright ... 3 c Maitland, b Cartwright ... 14 c Onslow, b Cart­ wright .......... 0 b Maitland.......... 1 not out................. 6 Extras......... 7 Total..................... 345 Total..........200 As far bick as Ju l/, 1871, H. P. AUeyne scored 106 and 105 not out at Eton for Mr. Austen Leigh’s v. Mr. Hale’s, whilst two years ago J. J. Astor made 112 and 126 not out for Mr. de Haviland’s v. Mr. White-Thomson’s. D r , H a r r y C am p b ell , of Winmole 8 treet, in the course of an interesting letter to the Lancet , says:— A colonial community of less than 750,000 sends to us a team to compete in our national game, and displays not only a decided superiority over our county teams, but bids fair to hold its own against a representative English XI. chosen from both professionals and amateurs. There is, perhaps, no game which makes greater demands on what may be termed manly excellence than cricket, requiring as it does not only muscularity, agility, and en­ durance,' but judgment, decision, patience, good temper, unselfishness, and “ nerve.” All these qualities our brothers from over the seas have displayed in a remarkable degree, and it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that the conditions under which they live are more favourable for the develop­ ment of some of them, especially perhaps of endurance and nerve, than the conditions obtaining in this country. They seem in Greater Britain to be breed­ ing a hardier and more virile race than in the mother country, and it is probable that, given equal opportunity, the same superiority which the Australasians and South Africans have displayed in cricket and football would be equally manifest in tennis, polo, and other games of the kind. M r . W. B. D blacjm bb , who ha* ably filled the pDst of Secretary to the Derby­ shire County C.C. for eighteen years, has placed his resignation in the hands of the Committee. Everybody in the County would have liked him to contiaue in office, but the demands made by an increasing practice caused him to adopt the course mentioned, so that a Secretary might be found who could devote the whole of his time to the County’s cricket- ical affairs. I sh o u ld much like to know whether the presence in the Warwickshire team of twin brothers, in the persons of the Old Rossallians, F. G. and G. W. Stephens, has ever been paralleled in important cricket. At the moment of writing I seem to recall an instance of twin brothers playing in one of the Public School matches at Lord’ s, and of the umpires objecting to the second one going in to bat on the ground that he had already