Cricket 1907

M arch 28, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF IJTL GAME. 37 Surrey v. Derbyshire, at the Oval, August 27th, 28th and 29th.—During the Surrey innings, Lord Dalmeny (86) received from Purdy (J. H .) a ball which hit the leg-stump without removing a bail and went to the boundary for four byes ; he also hit a ball from Purdy on to the roof of the Pavilion. In the second innings of Derbyshire, Surrey had three substitutes in the field, Lord Dal­ meny, Hayes (E. G.) and Strudwick (H .) all being injured. Spring (A. W .), by arrange­ ment, kept wicket in place of the last-named. Yorkshire v. M.C.C. and Ground, at Scar­ borough, August 30ih, 31st and September 1st. - On the first day Hirst (G. H .) took his 200th wicket of the season, having two days before—v. Somerset, at Bath—completed his 2,000 runs. This is a performance unique in the annals of first-class cricket. THE END. CR ICK ET IN BUENOS A IR E ? . N O R T H v. SOU TH . Played at Hurlingham on Feb. 10, 11 and 12. The South won by nine wickets. The principal feature of this match, which is the chief event of the season in the Argentine Republic, was the splendid innings of 98 by Toulm in. In the corresponding match of the previous year he made 94. Score and analysis:— N orth . First innings. H. G. Garnett, c Fraser, b Dorning ......................... 4 G. A. himpson, c Whaley, b Fraser...................................31 C. A. Godwin, st R. E. H. Anderson, b Doming ... 15 W. D. Gardom, c Brown, b Tosetti...................................10 R. W. Traill, b Whaley ...20 Hon.L.E.Bingham, b Dom­ ing ...................................24 H. A. Cowes, c Burnett, b Whaley ............... ... 8 A. T. Spens, c Tosetti, b Doming ......................... 8 F. A. Sutton, b Fraser ... 45 O. A. Rathbone, b Doming 29 E. Traill, not out................. 4 B 2, nb 3 ................. 5 Total ................233 S outh . H. T. Mawson, c Bingham, b Spens.............49 Jas Giftord, b E. Traill..................................22 E. Toulmin, c and b Bingham................... 98 G. Tosetti, c button, b bpens .................. 1 H. Doming, c Bingham, b E. Traill.............4(5 J. <>. Anderson, c Bingham, b Gardom ... 40 R. E. H. Anderson, run out...........................17 A. S. Burnett, c Simpson, b Sutton........... 8 George Brown, c Godwin, b E. Traill ... 43 O. Whaley, notout......................................... 33 H. Fraser, b E. Traill ................................ 4 B 4, lb 10, w 1, nb 2 ....................17 Total ......................... 37b Second innings.—Tosetti, not out, 33; Whaley, c Spens, b E. Traill, 20; R. E. H. Anderson, not out, ; byes, 2. Total (1 wicket), 74. N orth . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Dom ing.......... 28.1 8 74 5 .......... 26 6 77 3 W haley.......... 12 2 57 2 .......... 24.2 7 49 4 Tosetti .......... 17 4 51 1 ........... 14 2 56 3 eraser .......... 9 3 31 2 ........... 3 0 3 0 Toulniin.......... 3 1 15 0 ........... 2 0 13 0 Whaley bowled two no-balls, and Tossetti one. S outh . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Spens .......... 32 5 87 2 ........... 4 1 17 0 Traill.......... 33.5 6 104 4 .......... 6 0 32 1 Bingham.......... 31 1 100 1 ........... 7 2 17 0 Gardom.......... 13 0 40 1 .......... 2.2 0 6 0 Sutton .......... 7 0 30 1 Bingham bowled one wide and Sutton two no-balls- OlOHARD DAFT’S “ Nottinghamshire Marl.”— 1 v Particulars apply, Radclifie-on-Trent, Notts. [A dvt . Second innings, c Whaley,c Dom­ ing ................ 32 b W haley..........36 b Whaley ..........10 b Tosetti ......... 7 cFraser.bDorning 2 c J. O. Anderson, b Tosetti......... 26 c Burnett,bDorn- ing .................24 b W haley......... 26 c and b Tosetti... 28 not out................ 7 b W haley......... 0 B 12, lb 6, nb 1 19 Total ..........217 C R I C K E T CHAMP IONS : No. 6. THE AUSTRALIANS.* B y th e R ev. H a r o ld A . T a te . In treating of the doings of the cricket heroes of the Antipodes, we naturally place them by themselves, and not in juxtaposition with their English rivals. This is because not only the climate, but the conditions of play, are so different. An examination of statistics shows that Boglish cricketers in the Colonies rarely reach their home standard of excellence, and Australians in England usually have far lower batting averages than those of the foremost Englishmen. Many crick­ eters, indeed, of proved reputation at home on both sides have proved utter failures under the changed conditions prevailing at the other side of the globe. A few preliminary remarks must, there­ fore, be made about the Australian climate and grounds. The early English settlers no more found cultivated expanses of English grass awaiting their use in the first decades of the nineteenth century than Caesar and his legions found them in Britain in 55 B.C. And it was not until the gold diggings rush in the early fifties that the Colonies were opened out to any great extent. Then, however, population increased by leaps and bounds; Sydney, from being a city of some 40,000 inhabitants, rapidly ran into the hundreds of thousands, and, from being merely Port Philip, in an incredibly few years the stately and beautiful city of Melbourne sprang up. With in­ creased resources, the Colonists, with their growing native-born population, could give more time to recreation. Thus cricket, the national game of the majority of the settlers, began to receive more attention. Near to the Govern­ ment Houses of both the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria were situated lovely parks, and English grasses imported for these soon laid the foundation of pitches as good and true as any to be found in the old country. All this, however, naturally occupied some time, and hence in early years, and until the later seventies, we find scores and batting averages much lower in Australia than they were in England at the same period. This was attiibutable not only to the grounds being in the course of development, but also to the fact that classplayerswere few and farbetween. February 11th and 12th, 1851, saw the first inter-Colonial match — between Tasmania and Victoria—played, but a more important epoch of Australian cricket began on January 1, 1862, when Messrs. Spiers ar.d Pond introduced to Colonial soil H. H. Stephenson’s team of 12 first-class professional players. Thousands from the back-blocks tlocked into Melbourne and Sydney to see the Englishmen play, and as Lawrence, of Surrey, remained behind, the rising Aus­ tralian generation had the benefit of the coaching of a painstaking and correct player. Ia another two years an even L*In the January issue of Cricket, owing to a slip of the pen, I .stated that it was the / eft leg that Seotton used to advance. The error was due to confusion of thought owing to my having bcotton’s left-handedness before my mind.] finer team left English shores, a team that could hardly have been improved upon as representative of all England at that time. It included George Parr, the best batsman of the day, Hayward and Carpenter, the famous Cambridge pair, who were hardly inferior to him, Lock- yer, unequalled behind the wicket, Jack­ son and Tarrant, the deadly fast bowlers, R. C. Tinley, great as lob-b jwler and fieldsman, Anderson, the Yorkshire “ crack,” Caffyn, the best all-round man in England, and the famous “ little doc­ tor ” (as he used to be called, as distin­ guished from his big brother), E. M. Grace, whose brilliant but unorthodox batting together with his matchless fielding at point had earned for him, even at that early period of his career, such a reputation that the Australians expressly stipulated upon his inclusion in the team. This combination, unbeaten at the end of its tour in Australia and New Zealand, naturally did immense good to Colonial cricket and, as Caffyn remained for some years to coach first the youth of Melbourne and then that of Sydney, it will be seen that Antipodean cricket could not fail to make great strides. Nearly ten years, and then W. G. Grace, the Leviathan, and G. F., his gifted and much - mourned - for brother, appeared on Australian soil, and, though the Colonials were not able to meet the Englishmen on level terms, they found that with 18, and not 22 as before, they were quite able to hold their own. Indeed, in one game, XV III. of Victoria gained an innings’ victory over the Englishmen which, however, was largely due to the fine play of B. B. Cooper, himself an Englishman and a recent arrival in the Colony, whose stand with W.G. in 1869, when they put on 283 for the first wicket in Gentlemen v. Players of the South remained a record until 1892. Lillywhite’s team (1876-77) found themselves for the most part opposed to X V .’s (instead of X V III.’s and X X II.’s) of Victoria and New South Wales, whilst at the end of their tour, being challenged and beaten by an eleven of combined Australia, ever afterwards Australia met England on level terms. Thirty years have gone by since Charles Bannerman played the wonder­ ful innings which caused the defeat of Lillywhite’s men. Since then, though always able to put into the field a team strong enough to oppose any English combination, it has been remarked that, apart from some score or so of first-class players, Australia has not produced the number of cricketers of high-class rank which might have been expected. People have remarked that an Australian team might be opposed by another team “ nearly as good,” drawn from players who could not make the journey, or who were in the running for selection and just missed, and then, they say, after these you have no really first-class men in Australia. They read, too, of the fine dry climate of Australia, and of the Australian winter being hardly colder than the English summer. They think good cricketers should be turned out by