Cricket 1907

A ug . 22, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 361 Aldershot. It was there, four years ago, that he played an innings of 149 for the Army Service Corps against 2nd Man­ chester Regiment, and in partnership with Capt. Taylor (158 not out) added 303 for the second wicket. A. P a lm e r hit ten 6’s and twenty-seven 4’s in a not-out innings of 205 for Whit­ comb Wanderers against Honor Oak at Honor O ik on the 12th inst. IN a match at Sidmcuth on Friday and Saturday last, J. H . Hunt, the Middlesex amateur, in the course of an innings of 128 for Sidmouth v. Quixotics, scored 52 off eleven balls iu two overs. His hits were four 6’s and seven 4’s. A t an inquest held at Putney on the 14th inst. on Frederick John Hatfield, it was Btated that deceased, whilst batting in a match on Putrey Common, was struck on the arm by a ball, and very shortly afterwards fell back on the wicket dead. The evidence Bhowed that the blow on the arm caused concussion, and that if Hatfield had been in good health at the lime the blow would not have affected him. A verdict of “ accidental death” was returned. T h e Old Carthusians will probably long remember their visit to Canterbury last week, seeing that in an innings of 504 played against them there were thri e individual scores of over a hundred :— At Canterbury, August 14 and 15. S t . L awrence . 8. E. Gay, c Norris, b Ourwen................. 18 A. Latter, c Wreford-Brown, b Norris ... 113 A. O. Snowden, c Richardson, b Ourwen 146 A. M. Hilton, b Skewes-Cox .................117 Hon. W. James, b Curwen........................ 0 A. P. Trueman, c Richardson, b Norris... 14 A. I'Trench Blake, lbw, b Skewes-Oox ... 26 J. Dean, st Richardson, b Smith .......... 40 Skinner, c Skewes-Cox, b Norris .......... 9 O. E. Harry, not out ............................... 6 Clinch, hit wkt, b Smith ..................... . 2 Byes, &C. .............................. ... 13 T otal...............................504 Tne Old Carthusians scored 130 and 134 for four wickets. W . S. B i r d , playing for Old Malver- nians v. Eastbourne on the Saffrons on Thursday last, caught three and stumped one in the first innings, and caught one and stumped three in the second. He also made the highest score (78) in the match. D e y e s , who bowled so well for Y ork­ shire against Surrrey at the Oval on Thursday, has signed a five years’ agree­ ment with Burslem, a North Staffordshire League club. A n innovation at the Oval last Thurs­ day afternoon, during the long wait between the showers, deserves “ bold advertisement” in “ Gossip.” In order that the spectators might be made acquainted with the umpires’ opinion as to the time when play would probably be resumed, two men were sent round the ground carrying black-boards contain- . ing the information. J. W . H . T. DOUGLAS bowled a curious over in the early part of the South Africans’ second innings at Leyton on Friday. His first delivery bowled S. J. Snooke, follow ing which he was hit by Sinclair for 4 and 2, the latter off a no­ ball. Two more no-balls followed, and the last ball of the over proved fatal to Sinclair. In the Kent match at Tunbridge Wells last year, he sent down a somewhat similar over, in the course of which Seymour played-on to a no-ball, Huish was caught off another, Seymour was missed by Perrin, and Huish was bowled. Quite as curious was the experience of Mr. A. H . Heath, when playing for M.C.C. and Ground against Surrey, at Lord’s in 1876. The first ball of an over he sent down was a wide, the second jumped over long-stop’s head and five b j ee resulted, tbe third knocked Elliott’s middle stump out of the ground, the fourth nearly bowled Dick Humphrey, the fifth was a wide for which two were run, and the sixth was played by the batsman. I n a match on Saturday last between Old Burghleyans and Albert, H. Whit­ ney, playing for the former, took five wickets with consecutive balls. L ast week the Sussex team had an unusual experience. In the early part of the week they played a great game against Surrey at Brighton, and, but for the match being interrupted several times by rain, bad light, and sea mists, would undoubtedly have won easily seeing that, at the end of the third day, each side had made the same number of runs, and that Surrey had lost seven wickets in their second innings. In the second match, against Worcestershire on the Worcester ground, Sussex, in their turn, escaped defeat by the skin of their teeth, for when stumps were drawn the home side required only 3 runs to win, and had two wickets in hand. Tw o years ago, as doubtless the majority of Cricket readers will remem­ ber, an even closer finish than the last- mentioned was seen in the match at Blackpool between Lancashire and An England Eleven. The latter declared their second inniDgs closed with four wickets in hand, leaving the County 169 to win. In the last over of the day the scores were level, but as Cook was caught in endeavouring to make the winning hit, the game ended in a draw, Lancashire with three wickets in hand, requiring one run to win. A t Lord’s 56 years ago, when the match between X IY . of M.C.C. and Ground and the England X I. was drawn, the latter needed only one run to win and had five wickets to fall. M r. J. v a n d e r L e c k , in a letter from Rotterdam dated the 12th inst., kindly writes to me as follow s:— Herewith I send you the score of an innings, in which one of the howlers took all ten wickets. So far as I know it is the first time a howler has performed such a feat in Dutch cricket. It was the more remarkable because the batsmen were always at sea with the other bowler, who had already taken seven wickets in the first innings. The latter was always fighting against odds. He saw two catches dropped, and made several con­ fident appeals for leg-before wicket, but in every case the umpires could not give a decision. To complete his ill-luck ho hit the stumps of the last batsman very hard with a fast leg-break, but by some mysterious reason, the bails did not move. The score of that innings was :— Schierbeek, c J. v. d. Leck, b Stenger 4 Putten, b Stenger............................... 0 Pape, c J. v. d. Leck, b Stenger ... 0 Aernout, b Stenger... ........................10 BruynhoysB, b Stenger........................ 2 Kamperdyk, b Stenger........................ 1 Erdman, c D. v. Prooije, b Stenger ... 9 Gentis, b Stenger ............................. 0 Cancel, not out............................... ... 10 Raadshoven, b Stenger........................ 0 Henvers, b Stenger............................... 1 Extras ............................... 8 Total ... ......... 45 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W- G. Stenger ... 12 3 18 10 |J. v.d.Leck 13 3 19 0 A C ricket reader in Mauritius writes as follow s : — The enclosed cutting from one of our local newspapers may be worth inserting in Cricket as a specimen of how the cables are expanded so as. to be made clear to the Mauritian public:— County Cricket Notts Takes the Cap Aden, 7.7.07 (12.40 a.m.) In the competition for the English County Cricket Championship, Notts comes out on top with 7 matches won and 3 drawn, none being lost. Middlesex’ s figures are 4— 5— 0 ; while Wercester’s results are 5—3— 1 ; and Cam­ bridge comes in fourth with 5 wicket-finishes. T h e feature of the Honor Oak Week which concluded on Saturday last was the all-round cricket of H. A . Bates. In tix completed innings he scored 388 runs with an average of 64 66, and took twenty-three wickets at a cost of 13-69 runs each. In the second innings of the match with J. C. Peacock’s X I ., on the Wednesday, he and M. A. Jackson made 173 without being separated in 48 minutes, Bates scoring 102 of the number aud Jackson 53. The innings was then declared cloEed. T h e Victorian Cricket Association has agreed to the admission of Tasmania and Western Australia to the Board of Con­ trol. Unless West Australia is in a position to be directly represented at the beard meetings, it is feared that its admission will not receive the assent of the whole of the States now represented. And if that be so, West Australia will not be given a seat on the Board. M r . B. H a r d in g , aged 55, played an innings of 104 on the 8th inst. for Staten