Cricket 1907

58 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r il 11, 1907. mar School declared their innings closed when their first wicket fell at 288, made in 90 minutes. H . II. Gregg made 163 not out, and E. P. Barbour 101, whilst there were two dozan extras. The previous record for the Erst wicket of the S.G.C. was 272 by M. H. Blaxland and F. C. Rogers. U p to the time the Iasi mail left South America, Lacey’s batting average in the First Division Championship of Buenos Aires read as follows : —seven innings, six times not out, highest score 35 not out, total 108, average 108 00. T he South African Cricket Association has arranged to pay the Manager of the team now on its way to England £250 for his services. They have allotted £75 to be expended on entertaining. The estimated cost of the trio is £2,900, which is guaranteed by the affiliated unions. T h e cricketers sailed from Cape Town in the Durham Castle on Monday last. Those making thejourneyare as follows:— P. W. Sherwell (Transvaal), S. J. Snooke (Western Province), D. Saooke (Western Province), J. H. Sinclair (Transvaal), J. J. Kotze (Western Province), L. J. Tancred (Transvaal), C. A. Faulkner (Transvaal), A. E. Yogler (Transvaal), A. D. Nourse (Natal), W. A. Shalders (Transvaal), G. C. White (Transvaal), R. O. Schwarz (Transvaal), M. Hathorn (Transvaal), and Smith. It will be Sfen that neither Halliwell, Floquet, nor Robinson is of the party. D b . M ac D o n a ld , it willinterestEnglish cricketers to learn, will be in England again this year and appear in the Leices­ tershire X I. It is not generally known that it was D r. MacDonald’s recommend­ ation that secured an engagement on the Crystal Palace ground-staff for Alan Marshal, the young Queenslander, who is now qualified for Surrey. A r u m o u r has reached me to the effect that R. H. Spooner will probably be found but very seldom in the Lancashire side this summer, and that A. C. MacLaren will in all likelihood assist on rare occasions only. As Cuttell has received a permanent appointment at Rugby and Mr. Findlay has accepted the Surrey Secretaryship, the outlook for Lancashire is certainly not encouraging. T h e fact that the venerable Lord G wydyr entered upon his ninty-seventh year this month reminds me that the first baron was a good cricketer in his day, and, as Sir Peter Burrell, 2nd Bart., played for Kent in 1788 and 1789. In 1785 he played an innings of 97 for the White Conduit Club v. Gentlemen of Kent, in White Conduit Fields, but no particulars of his style of play have been preserved ; neither is a notice of him to be found in Scores and Biographies. He was, however, born in Upper Grosvenor Street, London, on June 16th, 1754, and died at Brighton of the gout on June 29th, 1820. As Deputy Lord Chamber­ lain he presided over the trial of Warren Hastings, and on June 16th, 1796, was created Baron Gwydyr, of Gwydyr, Co. Carnarvon. T h e balance-sheet of the Eisex County Club for 1906 shows a very favourable and greatly improved state of affairs. At the beginning of last season there was a deficit of £370 5». 7<3., but the Club received such increased support that this loss has been entirely wiped off, and there is now a balance in hand of £186 11s. 2d. T h e following interesting remarks con­ cerning Col. E. A. Bruce, the recently- app >inted Hon. Secretary to the Sussex County CO ., were contributed by “ Leather - Hunter ” to the Brighton Argus :— Colonel Edward Archibald Bruce was born at Secunderabad in India on 1st September, 1848. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and was Captain of the Eleven in 1868, being one of the best fast round-arm bowlers in Public School matches in the later sixties. A t Lord’ s, in his initial match against the M .C.C., in June, 1867, he was credited with 14 wickets against the premier Club, no fewer than eight in the first innings for 23 runs. He qualified for Gloucester­ shire by residence at Weston-super-Mare, and appeared for the “ County of Graces ” in the first match played against Sussex on our present County Ground, in 1872. The same year, in June, at the immortal Oval, he was in deadly form with the ball, securing 12 wickets in the match—six clean bowled— his figures being so good that I reproduce : O. M. E. W. 66'3 37 09 12 His victims were Harry Jupp (twice), Richard and Tom Humphrey, Pooley, Palmer, the veteran Caffyn, Freeman (twice), Marten, Chester, and Southerton. The fixture was most exciting, Surrey winning on the post by one wicket, mainly owing to an easy catch being dropped at the crux of the game by the Gloucestershire amateur, Mr. R . F. Miles. Colonel Bruce participated in the Gentle­ men v. Players match at the Oval in 1872, and also played for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the North at Prince’s Ground in June, 1873, capturing the wicket of the late Fred W ild in each innings, but his heavy military engagements subsequently prohibited him from partici­ pating in first-class cricket. During his engagements in India, he found time to play in several matches against English visiting teams, being Captain of the Madras Presidency X I. which met Lord Hawke’s English team at Bangalore in December, 1892. In this fixture Mr. E. H . D. Sewell, the Essex amateur, played for the Madras Presidency, contributing 70 not out Colonel Bruce is a keen enthusiast, a ready and clever speaker, and an excellent organiser. Sussex are fortunate in possessing such a gallant Hon. Secretary as the Old Cheltonian. He resides at 54 Cambridge-road, Hove. Colonel Bruce’s name was originally Brice. A short notice of him will be found in Scores and Biographies, vol. x., page 119. M r . E. B. N o e l , of the Winchester Eleven of 1896-’97-’98, and an old racquets and tennis Blue at Cambridge, has won the Singles Amateur Racquets Champion­ ship. In the final he beat B. S. Foster, a member of the Worcestershire brother­ hood, by three games to two. At Lord’s, in August last, he took seventeen wickets for 166 runs (eight for 89 and nine for 77) in an eleven a-side match at Lord’s for Gentlemen of M.C.C. v. Gentlemen of Holland, although one of the latter was run out. R o b e r t A b e l , who dropped out of first-class cricket a short time ago, will, during the summer, again be identified with the game of which he was for so many years one of the leading exponents. At the request of the Surrey Com­ mittee, he will undertake the coaching of the young players on the ground-staff. A few weeks ago he had the misfor­ tune, whilst crossing the Kennington Road, to be knocked down by a four- wheeled cab, which passed over his ankle, but happily he has by this time quite recovered from the mishap. A b a l l bowled by E. Bishop for North Perth v. Mercantile, at Perth (West Australia), on February 16th, struck and killed a swallow flying across the wicket. A s t a n d of 220 for the last wicket was made in the first-grade match between South Melbourne Juniors and East Brunswick, in Melbourne, on February 23rd, by J. Kyle (153 not out) and W. R. Robartson (82). Robertson is an old inter-State player, and has also made many large scores in America.' Together, they took the score from 342 for nine wickets to 562 for ten. E v e n more extraordinary was the performance of Harper (182) and Hum­ phreys (57 not out) for Riccarton v. Lin- wood, at Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand, in February. When the pair came together, 185 runs were required to win, and their partnership for the last wicket realised 188. Harper hit a 7, two 6’s, and twenty-five 4’s, and Humphreys nine 4’s. A m a t c h between Ladies with Bats (88) and' Gentlemen with Pickhandles (51) was played at Freeling, South Australia, on February 27th. It was arranged that the Gentlemen should also bat, bowl, and field with the hand other than the customary. The only double­ figure score in the Ladies’ total of 88 was 47 by Miss M. Wehr, but there were 26 wides. T h e remarkable bowling performance of Hugh Trumble at Richmond on March 2nd (remarks “ Mid-on ” in The Leader) accentuates the general feeling that he has retired all too soon from inter-State and international cricket. Indeed, when one remembers that Trumble is not yet 40 years old, and has never taken any liberty with his constitution, it seems ridiculous that he should be lost to “ big ” cricket, while Victoria is suffering a monotonous succession of defeats, and is looking in vain for a bowler. As usual