Cricket 1908

1 7 2 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 28, 1908. First innings. T yld e n . Second innings Robertson, run o u t .. ... 22 b C . W ells 103 Brown, b Sharrock ... ... 0 b W. Eedes 10 Bruce, b Sharrock ... ... 0 b C. Wells 11 Dell, b Sharrock ... 0 bC . W ells 19 Connock, b Sharrock ... 0 b C . W ells 3 Jete Connock............. ... 0 b C. W ells 14 Wylde, b Sharrock .. ... 0 b W . Eedes 13 Miller, b Sharrock ... ... 0 b W . Eedes 24 Stoddart, b Dell ... 38 b W . Eedes 32 Forward, b Sharrock ... 43 b W . Eedes 26 Kendall, not out ... 69 not o u t .............. 10 Byes ............. ... 2 Byes............. 33 Total............... ...174 Total 298 OBITUARY. C a p t. C . A. R. H o a rf.. Capt. Charles Arthur Richard Hoare, who had filled the post of President of the Hampshire County C.C. during the past three years, was born in London on May 18th, 1847, and died at his residence, Hall Place, West Meon; on Friday last, after an illness extending over several months. His batting was generally successful in the few matches wherein his name is found, but he never made his mark "in first- class cricket. He appeared in the Kent Eleven on one occasion in 1872, and had been a member of the M.C.C. since 1865, when he was only eighteen years of age. He was a Banker by profession,and was residing at Beckenham at the time he played for Kent. He founded, and main­ tained at his own expense, the training- ship Mercury, at Hamble, where over a thousand boys have been trained and edu­ cated. For several years he was Master of the Vale of White Horse Fox-hounds. HAMPSTEAD v. SURBITON.—Played at Hampstead on May 23. For Hampstead A. A. Barron took 6 wickets for 50 and G. A. S. Hickson 3 for 29. In his not out innings of 100 D. J. Crump made thirteen 4’s. S u rbiton . E. Andrew, b Barron A. W. Goodfellow, c Walters, b Challands 24 H. T. J. Sherriff, b Barron .............. 0 M. Weeks,c Challands, b Barron .............. 4 C. B. Worsley, b Hick­ son ........................34 J. C. Crier, c Cros- dale, b Barron ... 14 W. B. Windeler, b Barron ............11 W. J. Clayton, c Mc­ Gregor, b Hickson 1 W. N. Raeburn, b Barron ... ... 0 H. A. L. Sherriff, not n o t ......................... 47 F. Forsyth,b Hickson 10 B 2, 1-b 2 ...150 H am pstead . G. MacGregor,b Clayton 8 D. J. Crump, not out 100 H. H. Walters, lbw, b H. T. J. Sheriff ... 29 G. A. S. Hickson c and b Andrew ... ... 52 F. W. Orr, R. D. Robertson, E. S. G. Hewetson, H. S. Maclure, R. C. Challands and A. A. Barron did not bat. G. Crosdale, not out 5 19 Total (3 wkts.) 21S ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ U m p ire.” —Strictly speaking, your contention is correct; but it is one of those matters in which one has to obey the spirit and not the letter of the law. See “ Gossip.” A. E. B r a n fie i.d .— Many thanks. Tho information has been used. W . D. H a sk ll.—The scores, we fear, would not be of sufficient general interest for publication in Cricket. E. J ambs .—There is no book dealing at all ade­ quately with the matter you mention, but we be­ lieve that a “ Cricketer’s W ho’s W ho” will be pub­ lished this season. A. O. Jones made 113 for Notts Amateurs v. Repton School on Saturday. On the same afternoon B. L. Bisgood, of Somerset, scored 107 not out for Richmond against Hampstead, at one period of his Innings making eight 4‘s in two overs. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE v. KENT. Played at Northampton on May 25 and 26. Kent won by an innings and 54 runs. In unsettled weather, but 011 a good wicket, only 260 runs were made for eleven wickets on Monday in this match at Northampton. Neither side was at full strength, Northamptonshire being without East, and Marsham and Huish standing down from the Kent team. The home side made a poor start, Pool being caught in the slips off a rising ball at 4, and Kingston caught by the bowler off a skyer ten later. W. P. Walker, making his dehut for the County, appeared next, and he and Thompson made the stand of the innings. They commenced slowly, but after­ wards improved, for, whereas the score was only thirty at the end of an hour, the half-century was reached twenty minutes later. Walker batted 85 minutes and claimed 27 of the sixty runs added for the third wicket, which fell at 74. Cox helped to put on 24 for the fourth, and, five runs after the latter had been dismissed, Thompson was caught at third man for a sound but slow innings of 40 made out of 97 in two hours and a half. Buswell and Manning, owing to the leniency of the field, put on 50 in three-quarters of an hour, the former, much to the amusement of the spectators, being missed four times in making 27—at 1,17,18, and 22. The innings of 184 lasted four hours and lacked enterprise. In the last 80 minutes of the day Kent made 76 for one wicket. Munds, by attractive cricket, helped to make 66 for the opening partnership, and at the end of the day Hardinge carried out his bat for 42. Thompson and Wells shared the attack when the game was resumed on Tuesday, and with only 24 added, Hardinge was caught at the wicket for a faultless innings of 61 out of 100 in 95 minutes. Hutchings, having made 21 in ten minutes, was third out at 127. Woolley played a useful game and, before being bowled by Clarke, helped to put on 56 in three-quarters of an hour for the fourth wicket, which fell at 183. The second hundred was com­ pleted 165 minutes from the start, and seven runs later Seymour’s excellent innings was closed ; he showed strong defence in scoring 44 out of 141 in 115 minutes. The brightest cricket of the innings was seen during the association of Humphreys and Day, the pair putting on 73 for the sixth wicket in 55 minutes, of which number the amateur’s share was 49—a vigorous contribution which contained seven 4’s. Six runs later Humphreys was bowled by Wells for 43 made out of 103 in an hour and a half without a fault of any kind. Hubble and Blythe reached double figures, and the innings, after lasting 275 minutes, closed for 335. Northants, in a minority of 151, were all dismissed in 135 minutes for 97. Pool and Thompson added 40 together after three wickets had fallen for 19, but no one else did much, the tail col­ lapsing against Humphreys, who took three of the last four wickets for one run. Score and analysis :— N o rth am pton sh ire . First inning?. C. J. T. Pool, c Hutchings, b Fielder ............... 3 W . H. Kingston, c and b Blythe ...........................6 Thompson, c Muuds, b Blythe .......................... 40 W . P. Walker, c Hutchiogs, b Fielder ...........................27 Cox, c W oolley, b Blythe... 9 Buswell, c Harding, b Fair­ service ...........................27 T. E. Manning, st Hubble, b Blythe .......................... 35 H. Hawkins, b Fielder ... 10 Hardy, not out ...............10 G. W . Clark, run out ... 0 Wells, c Munds, b Fielder... 0 B10,1-b 5, n-b 2 ... 17 Total..........................184 K ent . Hardinge, c Buswell, bT hom psm ... 61 Munds, lbw, b Haw­ kins .......................29 Seyraour,c Thompson, b H aidy ...........44 K . L. Hutchings, b W ells.......................21 W oolley, b Clark ... 34 Humphreys, bWells 43 A . P. Day, c and b T h om p son .......... 49 Second innings, c and b Fair- service .. ... 21 c Fielder, b Blythe............... 1 c Fairservice, b Humphreys ... 32 c Hubble, b Fielder ... 3 c Munds, b Fielder.............. 15 c Fairservice, b Blythe...............10 b Fairservice .. 1 b Fielder...............10 c Hubble, b Humphreys ... 0 b Humphreys ... 0 not out ............... 2 B 1, n-b 1 ... 2 Total...............9* Hubble, not out .. 19 Fairservice, b Wells... 8 Blythe, c Clark, b W ells...........................15 Fielder, st Buswell, b Clark ... ... 8 B 3, 1-b 1 Total ... .335 N orth amptonshirr . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R.W . Fielder............... 30.4 14 57 4 ............... 14 3 38 3 Blythe ... .,.3 6 12 64 4 ............... 19 5 38 2 Fairservice ... 15 4 36 1 .. ... 9 2 23 2 Humphreys .... 6 3 10 0 ............... 3.2 2 1 3 Fielder bowled three no-balls. W ells ... Thompson Hawkins K e n t . O. M. R. W . O. M. R .W .. 34 3 131 4 1Clark .. 12.3 0 58 2 ...30 8 81 2 Hardy ... 9 1 24 1 ...11 2 34 1 YORKSHIRE v. SURREY. Played at Leeds on May 25 and 26. Yorkshire won by seven wickets. Just about the time that this important match should have commenced a drizzling rain began to fall, and,as a result, play was restricted on Monday to three hours and twenty minutes. Good progress was made during that time, however, thirteen wickets falling for 136 runs, and Yorkshire at the close being only 44 runs behind with seven wickets in hand. Each county made a change in the constitution of its eleven, Lord Dalmeny taking the place of Leveson-Gower in the Surrey side and Grimshaw taking the place of Rothery, who had injured his thumb whilst playing against Essex and was suffer­ ing from a cold, in the home team. When a start was made Davis fielded for Grimshaw, who had not arrived. Surrey won the toss, and Hayward and Hobbs opened the innings against Hirst and New- stead. With only a dozen scored Hobbs, who had made a fine square cut to the ring off Hirst, was caught and bowled by Newstead in the fourth over, as the result of a poor stroke, but Hayes, after almost being bowled by Hirst as soon as he went in, made some good hits, and proved a valuable partner to Hayward. After lunch, which had been taken with the score 21 for one wicket, the sun began to tell on the wicket, and at 40, when the second wicket had put on 28, Hayward was bowled by Hirst, who, two balls later, “ yorked ” Marshal. At the same total Haigh relieved Newstead, and the change was destined to prove very successful. Fifty went up in an hour and five minutes from the start, but a run later Crawford was bowled by Haigh. Hayes hit out, the right game in the circumstances, and, if his strokes sometimes lacked certainty, he managed to stay and make runs. When 39 he offered a chance to Rhodes at mid-off, but it was so difficult that it was not surprising it was not accepted. Strudwick, although scoring'only a single, stayed in whilst as many as 19 were put on for the last wicket, Hayes continuing to obtain the bulk of the bowling. Hayes, who hit four 4’s, was last man out, to a good catch at mid-off, for a very valuable innings of 58, made out of 78 in an hour and a-quarter ; his chief strokes were on drives and leg-hitb. Haigh kept a fine length and made the ball break back consider­ ably, and in 56 balls took six wickets for 13 runs. The innings of 90 lasted 115 minutes, the poor score being due as much to weak batting as to fine bowl­ ing. Smith and Crawford shared the bowling when the home side went in. Myers and Rhodes made 23 together in 40 minutes before the latter was bowled, and seven runs later Myers should have been caught and bowled, but Smith dropped the ball. Denton was bowled at 39, and Wilkinson caught at slip five later, after which Myers and Grimshaw added a couple before stumps were drawn, Yorkshire having then scored 46 for three wickets (Myers, not out 24) in 85 minutes. The Surrey fielding did not compare favourably with Yorkshire’s. On the second morning Smith and Crawford shared the attack, but at 68 tho latter retired in favour of Marshal. Five runs later, when the fourth wicket had put on 31, Myers was smartly caught at slip, after having been missed at the wicket in the same over; he played a patient game, and took a couple of hours to score his 35 out of 75 obtained whilst in. Three runs later Hirst and Bates fell to consecutive balls from Smith, and at 84 Haigh was caught at short-leg. Grimshaw was eighth out, at 82, for a most valuable 21, which took an hour and a-quartor to make. Newstead was run out at 94, but Lord Hawke and Hunter added a very useful 19 for the last wicket. The consequence was that the home side oould claim a lead of 23 on the innings. Smith, who took five wickets for 46 runs, kept a fine length and varied his pace well, and thoroughly deserved his success. Hirst and Haigh bowled when Surrey went in the second time, and with only 13 scored the former bowled down Hobbs’ wickot. At 28 Haigh retired in favour of Newstead, and four runs later, just before the interval, Hay* ward provided Hirst with another wicket. Hayes did not settle down after lunch, and at 45 was caught at the wicket, having made 21 of the 32 added whilst he was in. Marshal scored 13 ere being bowled by Haigh, but Crawford, who might have been caught and bowled by Hirst when 2, met with a similar fate when he had scored only 5. Holland was run out by Lord Dalmeny, who made a pair of spectacles, and Bush scored only a single. The last six wickets fell for 13 runs, and Yorkshire were set only 47 to win, a number they obtained for the loss of three wickets. Score and analysis S u r r e y . First innings. Second innings. Hayward, b H ir s t...............14 b Hirst .... ... 10 Hobbs, c and b Newstead .. 5 b H ir s t ............... 5 Hayes, c Hirst, b Haigh 58 c Hunter, b Hirst 24