Cricket 1907

M arch 28, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 45 the hat of mid-off. The bowler pulled up suddenly, and said in tones which I am sure quite disguised the intensity of her horror, “ Oh, Elsie, dear (I do not know whether that was the name, but it will serve), your hat pin is coming out.” Play was suspended while the hat pin was being adjusted, and on my saying, “ Go on with the game,” the young and fair bowler with some surprise in her voice replied, “ Oh, you have no idea what a dreadful thing a hat pin is.” One girl took off her hat, and in order that it would not blow away stabbed it to the ground with no fewer than three elaborate-knobbed headgear weapons................. When the other side came in I was asked which side I was barracking for. I replied with an effort that I was neutral. This was not satisfactory. “ Surely you must want to see one side or the other win.” Then it was pointed out that the umpire should have no feeling about the matter. Still, the lady persisted, and then I replied, ‘ ‘ Of course, I want to see your side win.” Then she was satisfied. It was this lady who, in answer to a question as to why she did not make a catch off a leg-hit, gave the unexpected reply that she quite forgot to do so. bhe, however, did remarkably well to stop the ball at all. One of the wicket­ keepers explained that Ihe reason why she did not always stop the ball was that thtre was a hole in the glove. Set 209 to win in a o;uple of hours, Forest Range scored 245 in 105 minutes on their own ground against the East Torrens Association on January 28th. Of this number R. J. B. Townsend, who hit twelve 4’a and twenty 3’e, made 126 not out in 75 minutes. T h e match played in Sydney, at the end of January, between New South Wales and Victoria produced some curious cricket. In the first innings of the latter nine players scored only 17 between them, whilst in the second the whole side were dismissed for 31, of which two were byes and two leg-byes. The smallest aggregate scores in first-class cricket in Australia are now as follows :— Score. Season. 15 Victoria v. England, at Melbourne ... 1903-4 18 Tasmania v. Victoria, at Melbourne ... 1868-9 23 South Aust. v. Victoria, at Melbourne.. 1882-3 28 Victoria v. N.S.W., at Melbourne ... 1855-6 31 Victoria v. N.S.W., at Sydney ......... 1906-7 Victoria, it will be seen, have been con­ cerned in all five of the above events. In this year’s match they were obliged to bat on a wicket ruined by rain, but, even so, it was a very meritorious feat on the part of Noble and Macartney to dis­ pose of them for 31. The latter, who obtained his four wickets iu five overs before a run had been made tff him, is described by “ Not Out ” of the Sydney Referee as “ the best left-hand bowler produced by Australia since J. J. Ferris was in his prime. On a bowler’s wicket he is the most difficult Australian bowler one has seen since Turner’s day. In accuracy of pitch J. V. Saunders is clearly hiB inferior.” A fte r leaving Sydney, the Victorian team visited Goulburn and played a local XV III. The scores were:—X V III of Goulburn, 193 and 67; Victoria, 332 (Ransford, 122, retired; Carroll, 101). In order to amuse the spectators Victoria went in a second time and made 114 for two wickets, Armstrong scoring 83 in 33 minutes. Saunders, in the whole match, took sixteen wickets for 63 runs. T h e following is the score of the match, mentioned in last month’s “ Gossip,” between the Lindley C.C. and eleven sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sam White Dell, of Lindley. The eldest son playing was 39 years of age, and the youngest 13, and nine of the eleven served in the Boer War. With but one exception they are all farmers. Played at Lindley, O.R.O., January 2.3,1907. T he D ell F amily . C. J. Dell, b Carr ........................ ... 45 F. VV. Dell, run out ........................ ... 7 M. S. Dell, c Craven, b Rowan......... ... 5 G. J. Dell, lbw, b van Seim ......... ... 10 P. R. Dell, b Herholdt .................... ... 15 S. E. Dell, e Rowan, b Craven ... 13 A. W. Dell, c Fisher, b Carr ......... ... 7 E. W. Dell, b Carr............................... ... 1 M. M. Dell, b Craven ........................ ... 3 G. B. Dell, not out............................... ... G C. M. Delll, b Carr................................ ... 0 Extras...................................... ... 0 Total ........................ US L in d l e y , O.R.C. W. A. Rowan, b Gill Dell ................. ... 7 Joe Craven, c F. Dell, b Mort Dell ... ... 3 A. Long, c Gordon Dell, b Gill Dell... ... 1 S. Muller, c A. Dell, b Gill Dell......... ... 14 E. E. Carr, c Sid Dell, b Gill Dell ... ... 0 T. A. Skirving, b Mort Dell ......... ... 3 J. D. Herholdt, e C. Dell, b Mort Dell 2 R. Van Seim, b G. Dell........................ 2 Du Toit, not out ............................... io Fisher, b M. Dell ............................... .. 9 Faurie, run out ............................... ... 7 Extras ............................... 2 Total ................. ... 00 CuiCK&TEivS in Buenos Aires were, as usual, very busy in the first part of February. The chief attraction was, of course, the match between North and South, the full score of which will be found in another column. Harold G. Garnett, the old Lancashire batsman, although he did not meet with much success in the big fixture, made 76 and 21 not out for Northern Camps v. R. Leys’ X I. and 41 and 59 not out—the highest scores in the match—for the same side against R. E. H. Anderson’s X I. On February 8th, another well - known cricketer, Lord Hawke, to wit, played for J. O. Anderson’s X I. v. North Camps, but was dismissed leg-before-wicket when he had made only 8. P l a t in g for Southern and Western Camps v. Southern Railway on the Palermo ground, Buenos Aires, on February 8th and 9th, Brooking (68 not out) and C. Wilson (39 not out) added 103 together for the tenth wicket with­ out being separated. On the latter date H. Collins (113 not out.) and C. Winning (43) put on 139 for the last wicket of Paddington v. Waverley, at Waverley. A MATCH has been played at Ktugers- dorp between teams of Kaffirs represent­ ing Krug-'radorp and Randfontein. The sable performers were stimulated to their best efforts by the presence of a number of gaily - dressed Kaffir girls. The cricketers wore blazers and well-cut flannels. The language spoken was English, and the form shown by both ' teams was (says the Natal Advertiser) surprisingly good, particularly in the bowling department. It was remarked that the absence of profanity epoke well for the missionary influence. N o w a d a y s one seldom hears of any cricketer making long throws with the ball, like W. F. Forbes and Bonnor used to do in former years, although the performances last season of A. E. Harra- gin, the West Indian, must not be forgotten. At one time throwing the cricket ball was invariably found in the programme of athletic sports in con­ nection with schools and colleges, but gradually the event has lost its popularity. Perhaps the change may be attributed to the introduction of boundaries, which has 1' ssened the long-fields’ work enormously. I was led into making thes9 remarks by reading that on the conclusion of a match between Ballarat and Bendigo, on February 9th, E. Stubbs, of Ballarat, threw a ball 129 yards, 2 feet, 7 inches. T h e Melbourne Argus reports that in a junior competition match, Pembroke v. Royal Oak, on February 9tb, E. Castle- how made 51 not out. In one over he hit the six balls over the fence for six each time, and facing the s line howler in his next over hit the first ball over the fence into a passing train on its way to St. Kilda. The match was played alongside tt e St. Kilda Railway line, south of Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, on a ground known as the Paradise. This probably cot stitutes a world’s record. It would be interesting to know at what dis­ tance from the feLCe the wickets were pitched. A t Devonport, on February 9th, the inter-State ladies’ match between Victoria and Tasmania was won by the former. The scores were:—Victoria, 61 ; Tas­ mania, 38 and 28 for six wickets. A p a r tn e r sh ip of over 300 runs is so rarely recorded in any class of cricket that the instance chronicled in a recent match in Melbourne deserves bold advertisement. Playing in a second- grade match at Carlton on February 9th and 16th, for Malvern v. Carlton, J. Ballantyne (151) and T. Grant (141) added 302 together for the second wicket, after the first had fallen without a run. The former hit fourteen 4’ s and the latter a 6 and eighteen 4’s. M r. J. M. B a n n o n , hon. secretary, Cungegong C.C., writes as follows to lha Sydney Referee of February 13ch :— A rather sensational match took place on the 9th inst, at Muttama (a small village out­ side Cootamundra), between teams represent­ ing Muttama and Cungegong. Muttama put together 143 in the first innings. A. Last, going in first and last out, batted splendidly for 81 not out. Cungegong replied with 113 (M. Hickey 40, Joe Harrold 22). Muttama's second innings realised 78, Last again being first with 28. Joe Harrold, for Cungegong, secured all ten wickets for 36, clean bowling nine, the remaining one being smartly stumped by Hickey. Cungegong again went to the wickets, with 106 to get in an hour, and the last wicket fell on the call of