Cricket 1908

M ay 7, 1908. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. CR ICKET IN AUSTRAL IA . (1 Continued from page 76.) THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN v. REST OF AUSTRALIA. Played at Sydney on March 20, 21, 23 and 24. n o b l e ’ s t e s t im o n ia l m a t c h . The Eleven won by an innings and 3 runs. Set apart as a testimonial match for Noble, the game between the Australian team and the Rest of Australia did not, unfortunately, prove so great a success as was hoped. Enthu­ siasts had been treated to a very heavy season, and it was not altogether surprising that the match failed to attract so many of them as it would have done ordinarily. Two capital sides were got together, but M cAlister, who was un­ able to obtain leave to play, was a notable absentee. The first innings of the Rest, who were led by Laver, was rather disappointing, the side being disposed of on a good wicket for 289. McKenzie and Warne made 62 for the first wicket, the latter, who hit six 4’s and cut and off-drove well, being third out, at 125, for a faultless 53, which took two hours and 20 minuts to make. Bardsley, Mayne, and Dolling made useful scores, but Hopkins was bowled first ball, and it was left to Laver to save the side from a poor total. The captain played a sound game and hit six 4’s during1the 100 minutes he was in, and, when the last wicket fell, carried out his bat for 61. Aus­ tralia, although losing their first three wickets for 53 runs and six for 152, found no difficulty in obtaining a long lead. Hill, who hit eight 4’s, claimed 52 of the 76 runs added with Ransfovd for the fourth wicket in 44 minutes, but Trumper fell to a catch in the slips off the third ball he received. Ransford hit nine 4’s and offered one chance during the F5 minutes he was in. The brightest cricket of the match was shown by Gregory, who made 1C6 of the 192 runs added in an hour and three-quarters with Noble for the seventh wicket. He scored 12 off the first three balls he received, and made his first 28 runs in thirteen minutes whilst Noble obtained but 2. He hit well all round the wicket, made seventeen 4’s, and offered no chance. Noble made ten 4’s in his sound dis­ play, but was quite overshadowed bv the bril­ liancy of his partner. Armstrong and Windsor added 225 for the ninth wicket in 135 minutes, and when the innings closed for 569 the former, who had hit a 6 and seventeen 4’s, carried out his bat for 146 made out of 225 in 140 minutes : he offered only one chance—a hot return to Warhe when in the seventies. It is worthy of note that Gerry allowed only three byes during the long innings, and that in totals of 289 and 277 W indsor’s analysis worked out at one wicket for 193 runs. In the second innings of the Rest McKenzie and Warne again gave the side a use­ ful start, scoring 56 together, and their effort was well seconded by Bardsley, the left-hander who had performed so well in the return match between England and New South Wales. The last-named, by faultless cricket, made 67 out of 119 in 110 minutes. Save Barnes, who tarried out his bat for 58 as the result of 66 minutes’ play, no one else did much, and the Eleven won by an innings and 3 runs. The gross takings of the match amounted to £529 8s. lid. Score and analysis :— Rh st of A ustralia . First innings. Second ini.ings. C. McK nzie, e Cart* r, b Noble ........................... 33 b Wind? or . 30 T. S. Warne, c Armstrong, b Noble ........................... 53 b Saunders .. 21 V . Bardsley, c Trump r, b Armstrong ... ... 31 b Saunders ... 67 E. R. Mayne, b Macartney 32e Carter,b Noble 36 C. E. Dolling, b Macartney 30 c Ransford, b Saunders ... 16 A . J. Hopkins,bMacartney 0 b Macartney ... 18 F. Laver, not out ... ... 61 run out............. 0 J. 0. Barnes, c Ransford, b Saunders.............. .. 18 not out ... ... 58 L. A. Minnett, b Noble ... 1c Ransf ird, b Macartney ... 5 F. B. Collins, c Armstrong,c Gregory, b b Saunders ............... 6 Trumper ... 16 C. R. Gorry, c Ransford,c Trumper, b b Saunders .............. 15 Saunders ... 0 B 1,1b 4, w l ... 6 B 6, lb 4 ... 10 Rev. E. F. Waddy, b Warne .............. C. G. Macartney, st Gorry, b Warne V. Ransford, c and b Laver .............. H. Carter, lbw, b Warne ... 14 C. Hill, b Collins ... 52 M. A. Noble, c Hop­ kins, b McKenzie 87 V. T. Trumper, c Collins, b Laver ... 0 12 63 S. E. Gregory, c and b Barnes .............. 106 W . W . Armstrong, not out .............. 146 E. A. W indsor,b Hop- kins........................... 78 J. V. Saunders, BefcA**** o u t .......................... 0 B ?, w 2, n-b 1 Total 5P9 R est of A u str a lia . First innings. Second innings. Total ... 289 Total... Windsor . Saunders .. Macartney Noble Armstrong Minnett . Warne Collins Laver O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . 27 4 102 0 .......... 22 1 :'l 1 19.1 2 45 3 ........... 22 6 58 4 24 3 65 3 .......... 13 2 33 2 23 7 56 3 ........... 9 1 29 1 16 0 15 1 ........... 11 5 15 0 Hill 3 1 8 0 Gregory ... 3 2 1 0 W addy ......... 3 0 23 0 Trum per.......... 2.2 0 9 1 Windsor bowled a wide. A u str a l ia . 0. M. R. W . O. M. rt. w * 22 5 111 0 Barnes . . 12 1 49 1 25 0 143 3 Hopkins 11 0 45 1 17 1 82 1 McKenzie 11 3 51 1 23 4 82 2 THE TRAN SVAAL TEAM ON TOUR. (Continued from page 111.) 3 RD M a t c h .— v . DURBAN. Played on the Albert Park Oval, Durban, on March 25 and 26. Drawn. This match should have commenced at Lord’s on March 2Itb, but heavy rain bad ruiued the ground, and so play started a day later 0:1 the Albert 1'urk Oval, which was fortunately available. H.fci. the Governor was one <f the interested spectators. Vogler bow.ed splendidly on a wicket which did not assist him, and only Nourse and Collins readied double figuivs. Tbo»e two, however, made 157 between them, and their ten companions only 20; their stand for the third wicket realised exactly 1(X>. Nourse went in first wicket down before a run had been made, and was last man out; he made his 95 out o f 196 in 177 minutes, and hit a 6 and six 4’s. He followed up his fine innings by taking five w ckets fur 46 runs, but, although Carter also bowled we<l the visitors obtained a lead of 11on the innings. On the second afternoon play ceased at 3.30 iu order to enable the visitors to catch the mail boat, the game ending in an even draw. Durban were not at full strength, whilst the Transvaalers were without Norden, their only left-hand b »wler, who had con­ tracted tonsilitis, and was c jntined to his bed. Score and anal> sis :— D urban . First innings. Second innings. A. C. Tweedy, c Schwarz, b Vogler ................... ... 0 A . C. King, c and b Schwarz 0 not o u t .............. 8 A. D. Nourse, b Billing ... 95 G. C. Collins, c Lindsay, b Zulch ..........................62 b V og ler............. 7 D. Taylor, c Heeley, b Vogler .......................... 4 W . R. Beningfieid, b Schwaiz .............. 5 L. D. Dalton, c Lindt ay, b Vogler .......................... 5 H. W . Taylor, b Vogler ... 3 1L. A. liayner, b Vo^ier ... 0 C. P. Carter, b Zulch ... 3 T. H. O’Flaheity, not out... 0 n o t o u t ............. 11 B 15, lb 4 ...............19 Byes ................ 3 T o t a l .......................... 196 Total (1 wkt.) 29 T he T ransvaal T kam . N. V. Lindsay, lbw, b Nourse .............. 31 J. W . Zulch, run out 36 I. D. Ditford, b Nourse 28 It. O. Schwarz, c D. Taylor, b Nourse ... 0 M .E. Billing, c Nourse, b Carter .............. 21 A. E. Vogler, c Bening- lield, b Carter ... 41 H. N. Heeley, c O’Fla- herty, b Carter .. 23 R. W . Stanton, Carter A. J. Atfield, Nourse T. W. Bell, not out . J. M. Graham, Nourse B 11, lb 7 . First innings. D u r b in . O. M. R. W. Second innings. O. M. R. W . Vogler ... ... 21 4 50 5 .......... 6 2 11 1 Schwarz ... 19 2 53 2 .......... 6 1 9 0 Lindsay ... 4 0 27 0 ........... 1 0 6 0 Zulch ... ... 9 1 31 2 ........... Billing ... ... 3.1 0 16 1 ........... T he T r a n svaal T eam . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. w O’Flaherty 15 8 22 0 Nourse .. 28.4 12 46 5 Carter 32 8 55 4 D. Taylor 3 0 U 0 Dalton 12 1 38 0 King ... 2 1 3 0 Rayner ... 8 2 14 0 CR ICKET IN NEW ZEALAND. (Continued from page 46.) OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. Played at Dunedin on February 19 and 20. Otago won by an innings and 78 runs. W inning the toss, Southland went in first but collapsed in three hours and a quarter for 171. The only feature of the innings was the bat­ ting of D. Hamilton, who, by faultless and aggressive cricket, made 95 out of 118 in 108 m inutes: he hit well all round the wicket, made a 6, a 5, and thirteen 4’s, and was always master of the bowling. Eckhold and Austin scored exactly 100 for Otago’s first wicket in 90 minutes, whilst the former and Siedeberg added 78 for the third, of which number the last-named claimed as many as 57. Eekho’.d, who made some good square cuts and leg-hits, scored 95 out of 241 in 225 minutes, but was missed at the wicket early in his innings; he hit nine 4’s and his last twelve scoring strokes were all singles. Bannerman, who made 57 in 40 minutes and with Macfarlane put on 90 for the eighth wicket, at one period of his innings scored i6 (6, 6, 4) off three consecutive balls. The Otago total of 361 was made in 270 minutes. The second innings of Southland !ast:d only a couple of hours, leaving the home side successful by an innings and 78 runs. There was little variety in the Southland at­ tack. Score and analysis :— S outhland . First innings. Second innings. Keenan, c Eckhold, b Fisher ..........................17 b Fisher ... 0 F. Glasgow, c Ogg, b Austin .......................... l b Corbett ... 14 D. Hamilton, lbw, b c Eokho.d, b Austin ..........................95 Fisher ... 10 N. Keane, b Fisher ... 0 run out ............... 6 J. Doig, b Fisher ... 3 b Watson ... 27 Crockett, run out ... 3 b Corbett ... 2 F. C. Liggins, not out... 21 run o u t .............. 2 Poole, c Siedeberg, b Fisher .......................... 9 b Corbett ... 13 H. Hamilton, b Corbett 5 not out .............. 3 Huntley, b Corbett ... 11 c W illiams, b Watson ... I Derbie, b Fisher ... 0 c Macfarlane, b Watson ... 21 B 3, lb 2, nb 1 ... 6 Byes, kc. ... 13 Total G. G. Austin, Keane, b Doig Eckhold, Total .112 Crockett W. Ogg, b Keane H. G. Siedeb?rg, c H., b D. Hamilton 57 H. C. Watson, b Huntley ...............23 A. H. Fisher, b Crockett ... 171 O tago. Macfarlane, run out 46 S. Foster, b Huntley 6 H. Bannerman, 0 H. Hamilton, b Keenan .............. 59 F. Williams, not out 8 C. Corbett, b Keenan 0 .. 46 b .. 95 1 S o u th la n d . First innings. Byes, &c. Total 13 Fisher Austin Bannerman Ogg Corbett O. 30 16 4 6 14 M. R. W. 13 51 5 ... 8 35 2 ... 1 20 0 .. 0 22 0 ... 3 37 2 ... Watson.. Second innings. O. 11 9 M. R. W. 1 21 2 3 14 0 9 10.4 Fisher bowled a no-ball. 37 27 b O. M. R. W. O. .. 0 Doig ... 27 8 58 1 Poole ... 3 D. HamilHuntley 15 ton ... 28 3 94 1 H. Hamil.. 18 Keenan 21.3 3 65 3 ton ... 6 — Crockett 15 5 46 2 210 Doig bowled two no-balls. 23 0 33 2 1 15 0