Cricket 1907

S ep t. 19, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 429 at the last moment in delivering this particu­ lar ball.” “ Why this off-breaking leg-break is such a dangerous ball needs some explanation. Every cricketer knows the difficulty in play­ ing a good length leg-break at a fair pace if pitched on the wicket. When you have a bowler who can with one and the same type of delivery bowl a leg-break as well as an off-break, it follows that the batsman’s diffi­ culty is doubled. I must apologise for technicalities, but it is not possible to explain matters without indulging in them. Watching tho ball from the pitch is quite the best way to meet this form of attack if the bowler is bowling a length, but watching the good length ball from the pitch is practically only a defensive measure, and does not bring grist to the mill, otherwise runs, and without runs a side cannot win. So it follows, assuming the bowler is keeping a length, that the best way to play this bowling is just to keep your wicket up and wait for the bowler’s mistake; that is, to play it as you would any other form of bowl­ ing. That, however, has not succeeded in practice. It has been urged in some quarters that there is nothing unplayable about the bowling, and that the best way to play it is to hit it. I maintain that when it is properly bowled it is an impossibility to hit it, in fact, more so, than any other kind of good length bowling....................I would rather have Messrs. Schwarz and Yogler at their best on my side on any wicket than any other pair of bowlers also at their best that could be named. I do not believe we have yet seen these bowlers at their very best under good fast wicket con­ ditions—the conditions they prefer! Most bowlers like rain and a very hot sun. And whatever there may be or may not bj in the new bowling it is of a kind which is bound to come into cricket. It will last as long as any other form of attack, and be equally deadly long after its novelty has worn off.” “ At the same time, one cannot help noticing that with regard to the success which attends this kind of attack, a little knowledge—and imagination—is a very dangerous thing. Amateurs who, one may at once allow, possess more imagination than professionals have failed signally, so far as the tour has gone at the time of writing* against the new ball. Until Mr. Jessop’s great innings, and it was conceded on all hands to be one of the greatest he has ever played, no amateur had scored 50 off the South African attack on this tour, and only four professionals had exceeded that figure, while none had reached the hundred, until Braund, largely helped by the demoralising effect of Mr. Jessop’s hitting, did so in the first Test match. Whether this fact is due to the amateur paying more attention to what is written about these bowlers in the columns of the daily papers than the professional does may never be determined. Personally, I don’t think what is written has anything to do with this case, but I do think themore vivid imagination of the majority of amateurs is likely to conjure up difficulties which would never suggest themselves in the same light to the professional brain. Really, it should be the other way round. The professional earning his livelihood by the runs from his blade ought to be the more careful and thoughtful of the two. It is just cricket that he is not, and has proved in practice that he is not.” * Mr. Sewell completed his article on July 6th.— Ed., Cricket. ** ....................The declaration rule, in one-day cricket at all events, has done bowling harm, and I am not sure that if there was no declaration rule in first-class cricket it would not be better for the game. A batting side when it has made enough runs can easily get rid of superfluous wickets. One views with regret the growing tendency on the part of batsmen to hit the ball a second time or even to pick it up and throw it to the bowler or wicket-keeper. The ball was thus handled and thrown to the bowler in the Test match at Lord’s this season. This is not cricket, and is the thin edge of the wedge. The batsman hits the ball back to the bowler usually to save the wicket-keeper trouble. It is intended as an act of courtesy. Why the batsman should not go further and run after the ball which he has j ust hit to the boundary in order to save other fieldsmen trouble cannot be explained on the score of consistent politeness. At Lord’s during the first Test match, Blythe was injured and had to have his hand bandaged. At the time Messrs. Nourse and Faulkner were struggling to retrieve a bad start. Not only did a delay of ten minutes occur before a substitute was sent out to field, but when that substitute was sent he proved to be Tarrant, who was not one of the reserve players of the chosen thirteen for England. Moreover, he is not an Englishman. This is not cricket as it is meant to be played. The delay was as good as a tea interval, perhaps better, to the fielding side, and most likely to unsettle the bats­ men. One of them was out not long after resuming . . . W. G. QU A IFE ’S ENGLAND ELEVEN TOUR. (Continued from page 399). 3 r d MATCH.—v. XV. OF NEWQUAY. Played at Newquay on September 4 and 5. Drawn. New quay XV. First innings. G. Lyttelton, c Kinneir, b Santall...............................10 H. Hargreaves, c W. G. Quaife, b Cuffe ......... 14 W. P. Harrison, b Cuffe ... 0 Major Jervois, c Kinneir, b Santall ........................15 E. Cawley, c Hargreave, b Santall............................... 1 Trevarthen, b Cuffe ......... 0 Second innings, c W. G. Quaife, b Hargreave ... S b Santall .......... lbw, b Santall ... i lbw, b Cuffe C. Lyttelton, b Cuffe......... 12 Rev. H. T. Adams, b Cuffe 12 Rev.R. Mackintosh, b Gunn 15 L. H. Adams, b Cuffe ... 4 Whiting, c Hargreave, b Gunn ................. .......... 5 A. Goldsworthy, b Cuffe ... 4 E. Ryle, st Oates, b Gunn... 5 Spratt, not out .................21 F.Ivimay,c Pearson, b Gunn 1(5 Extras ........................ 4 Total .................138 b Gunn ..........18 c Hargreave, b Cuffe ......... 5 c Pearson, b Cuffe ft b Cuffe.................13 c W. Quaife, b Cuffe ......... 11 c Oates, b Santall 17 b Cuffe................. 1 c Gunn, b Santall 25 c Oates, b Santall 4 st Oates, b Cuffe 3 not out .......... 1 Extras ......... 25 Total.. ...109 W. G. Q u aife’s E n glan d XL Pearson, c Cowley, b C. Lyttelton.................16 Kinneir, b C. Lyttelton 4 Quaife (W.), b Whiting 6 Gunn (J), c Ryle, b C. Lyttelton ... ... ..50 Baker (C. S.), c Ryle, b C. Lyttelton......... 13 Quaife (W. G.), c C. Lyttelton, b Whiting 17 Hayley-Lever, run out 20 Cuffe, c Harrison, b W hiting.................47 Santall, c Golds­ worthy, b Whiting 23 Oates, c Hargreave, b Whiting................. 0 Hargreave, not ou t... 28 Extras.................27 Total ...258 N ewquay XV. First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Santall .......... 14 1 40 3 ........... 23 4 07 5 Cuffe .......... 24 4 50 7 ........... 21 3 50 7 Gunn ......... 10 1 35 3 .......... S 1 23 1 Hargrcave ..12 (5 25 1 E ngland XI. O. M. R. W. O. M. It. W. C.Lyttelton 15 0 70 4 IHargreaves 1 ft 21 0 Trevarthan. 10 0 51 0 Adams ... 3 0 1ft 0 Whiting ... 23 3 70 5 | 4 t h M A T C H .— v. XY. of CAM BO RN E . Played at Camborne on September 6 and 7. Drawn. The feature of the play at Camborne on Saturday was the fine bowling of Santall. Scorc :— W. G. Q uaife ’ s E ngland XI. First innings. Second innings. Gunn (J.), c Romer, b Trevarthen........................25 b Whiting........... 2 Baker (C. S.), c and b Whiting ........................15 b Tresawna.......... 3 Quaife (W.), run out ............. 0 not out ...........13 Pearson,cHoman,bWhiting 41 c Hayes, b Escott 34 Cuffe, c W. N. Bickford- Smith, b Escott ......... 55 not out................. 41 Kinneir, lbw, b Escott ... 3 lbw, b Tresawna 0 Santall, lbw, b Whiting ... 4 F. Ivimay, c J. C. Bick- ford-Smith, b Escott ... 0 Quaife (W. G.), b Whiting... 85 Hargreave, not out ... ... 5 Oates, b Whiting.................... 1 Extras ........................14 Extras ......... 0 Total .................257Total (4 wkts)*102 * Innings declared closed. C amborne XV. First innings. Second innings. Major Jervois, b Santall ... 0 E. Hain, b Santall .......... 4 b Pearson ...... 0 Tresawna, lbw, b Cuffe ... 4 c Oates, b Har­ greaves ........ 3 H. Hargreave, c Gunn, bc Kinneir, b Pear- SantaU...............................00 son ............ 7 Trevarthen, b Santall.......... 0 b Pearson ...... 3 W. N.Bickford-Smitli, lbw, b Santall ........................ 2 b Hargreave ... ft S. Hosking, b Santall......... 34 n otout....... 38 R.Holman,c Baker,b Santall 2c Oates, b Pearson 7 J. C. Bickford-Smith, notc Kinneir, b Pear- out ...............................21 son ............ 7 T. Romer, b Santall .......... ft st Oates, b Har­ greave 5 H. Hayes, c Cuffe, b Santall 18 b Pearson .....17 G. Escott, c Baker, b Santall ft not out ...... 2 F. Bawden, b Santall.......... ft W.Phillips, stOates, b Gunn 2 Whiting, c Hargreave, b Gunn ............................... 0 Extras ........................ 6 Extras ........ 7 Total ..171 Total (0 wkts) 06 S T A N D A R D (A .C .) P A R IS TOU R . (Continuedfrom page 399.) 6 t h M A T C H .-v . W O R T H IN G . Played at W orthing on A ugust 26 and 27. Standard A .C . won by four wickets. E . T olfree took thirteen wickets for 118 runs. Score :— W orthing . First innings. Second innings. J. Johnstone, c Browning, b Peschier........................ 8 c and b Tolfree ... 0 W. C. Blaker, lbw, b Peschior ........................ll b Peschier........20 R. C. Gambill, c Burgin, b Tolfree ........................13 b Peschier.......... 31 H. Neville, c Burgin, b Tolfree ........................15 c Burgin,bTolfree 15 J. Matthews, b Peschier ... 6 b Tolfree ........19 J. C. Gainsford, c Brook, b Tolfree............................... 8 c Brook,b Tolfree 26 O. Riddle, b Tolfree .......... 1 not out ..........50 A. Goodwin, c Stanfield, b Tolfree...............................n b Tolfree ...........21 H. Mitchell, c Browning, b Tolfree..................................15 b Tolfree ........... 5 R. Collett, b Stanfield.......... 2 c Browning, b Tolfree .......23 Capt. Sutherland, not out... 0 absent................ 0 B 3, lb 4 ................. 7 B 10, lb 5 ... 15 Total... Total(0wkts)234