Cricket 1908

J u n e 4, 190 8. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. appeared occasionally for the second eleven o f Surrey in 1906 and 1907, averaging 35.41 in the form er year, when he carried his bat through the innings for 118 in the match with Lancashire 2nd X I. at Ashton- under-Lyne. Last season he scored 32 and 37 in the Freshm en’s m atch at O xford in addition to takin g five w ickets for 73 runs in a total of 304, and, awarded his Blue, made 12 and 18 not out in the match at L ord ’s. H e has a great deal of cricket in him , and, if he is able to play regularly in great m atches, should m ake a name for himself. T eesdale was in the W inchester X I. in 1904 and 1905, averagin g 45.83 in the form er year but only 14.18 in the latter. In his tw o matches against Eton he scored 71 not out in 1904 and 14 and 27 not out in 1905. In 1906, when he scored 26 for Surrey against O xford University at the O val, he made 44 and 1 in the Freshm en’s match and last year scored 13 and 15 in the Seniors’ trial. H is recent large inn­ ings should put him well in the running for his Blue. Like B ow ring, he is qualified for Surrey. I n a m atch played in connection with the Colne and D istrict Sunday School League on Saturday last, H . Lam bert, playing for C ottontree Wresleyans against Foul- ridge W esleyans, took six wickets with consecutive balls, all in one over. On the sam e afternoon J. W . Binns obtained eight wickets in 14 balls without a run being made off him for Ew yas H arold v. A ber­ gavenny Y .M .C .A . on the latter’s ground. In his second over he took five wickets, and also took six in seven balls. F rom the M orning P o s t :— “ It is not very pleasant to read of ‘ barracking ’ at L ord ’s, but it is hard to blam e spectators for show ing their dis­ approval when a man having made his hundred takes an hour to add another twenty runs to his score. H is action, re­ garded from the business point of view , is futile, for he is not helping his side on to victory in a three days’ m atch ; and it is difficult to see where the pleasure to the perform er com es in. Even first-class cricket is a gam e when all is said and done. W hen next a sim ilar set o f circum stances arises the ringleaders o f the barrackers would do well to organise a procession of the discontented to leave the ground. B ar­ racking only annoys the authorities and makes them unw illing to take action. But the hearts of a county comm ittee would be deeply touched if they saw ,two or three hundred sixpences w alking out of the gates ; the fear that they would not return on another day m ight cause a word in season to be spoken to the offending player. It has been suggested that power should be given to captains to close the innings of an individual batsman at his discretion, and substitute another for him . It would be regrettable if that suggestion had to be made effective, because cricket is already played under sufficiently artificial condi­ tion s.” T he same paper continues :— “ Another suggestion which is annually made, is that the leg-before rule should be altered so as to m ake it dangerous for a man to back up his bat with his pads. Nine practising cricketers out of ten are strongly in favour of retaining the present rule. They know from experience that their success with the bat is m ainly due to their footw ork. It is essential not only for defence but also for hitting that the player should move on to the line of the ball ; the doctrine of the imm ovable right foot is exploded. T herefore anything which cramps a man in the use of his feet strikes at the very foundation o f their science. T h e effect on the bow ler must also be considered. If a man is to be ruled out when a ball strikes his legs, the} being at the m om ent in front of the w icket, it ceases to be worth while to bow l outside the off stump. T h e law of supply and demand com es into operation, and bowlers will try to keep a length just outside the leg stump and m ake the ball com e in from that side. A rm strong, the Australian, rather than Lohm ann or Jack H earne, will be the model of aspiring bowlers, and in consequence batting will be a far duller thing to do or to watch. I n the In cogn iti’s match with K in g ’s and Clare C olleges at C am bridge on May 27th and 28th, each side went to the wicket tw ice but neither team completed an innings. T he C olleges scored 307 for four wickets and 252 for seven, the inn­ ings being declared closed on each occasion : the Incogniti responded with 283 for seven wickets, innings declared closed, and 202 for six w ickets. As will be seen on reference to the score on another page, the second eleven of Surrey had both their innings closed in their match with Yorkshire second eleven at the Oval last week. O n Tuesday Sir H arry R aw son, G over­ nor of N ew South W ales, presented M. A. N oble with a purse of tw o thousand pounds and a silver service in recognition of his services to Australian cricket. An excellent portrait of the late Mr. H enry C hadw ick, whose death w as an­ nounced last m onth in C ricket , appears on the cover of the current issue of the Am erican C ricketer. I n the Abbey at St. Albans on Monday Mr. H . Hesketh Prichard, o f H igh brook, A rdingley, A .D .C . to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, w as married to Lady Elizabeth Grim ston, daughter o f the Earl and Countess of Verulam . T h e w ell-know n Hampshire player has thus married into a fam ily lon g and prom inently identified with the gam e. (Dapt. E. G. W ynyard was best man. Mr. F.- F. K elly , of N ew Y ork, has forw arded me the score o f a match be­ tween O range A .C . and U nion County, at W eston O val, Jersey City, N .J., on the 9th .ult., wherein the form er were dis­ missed for 5— one of the smallest totals on record in Am erican cricket. T he score was as follow s :— O r a n g e A.C. G. Leach, b D . A . Gib­ son ............................. J. Bryer, ca n d b D. A . Gibson ................ L. Brakes, run out ... R . W illiam , b D . A . Gibson ................ J. Harrison, b D . A. Gibson ................ J. Bowm an, b D . A . Gibson ................ A . Cranna, b E. F . Goddard G. H unter not ou t ... W . H . Smith, c Drill, b D . A . Gibson W . Carroll, b E. F. Goddard ................ E. Schramm , b E. F. Goddard ................ Byes, &c... Total Thirty-three balls sufficed to dispose of the side. D. A. G ibson bowled 18 balls and took six w ickets without a run, and E. F. Goddard sent dow n 15 balls for four runs and three w ickets. H . V . H o rdern , w ho will visit England this year as a m ember of the Philadelphian team, took all ten w ickets for 8 runs in an innings of 22 for Pennsylvania U ni­ versity v. R adnor, at W ayne (P a.) on M ay 9th. T he score of the latter’s inn­ ings is appended :— R adnor . M . N. M cK night, H ordern H . F. A bbott, b H or­ dern ............................. H. S. Christman, not out ............................. A . L . Castle, b H or­ dern ............................. H . Row son, b Hordern E. E . Trout, c sub., b H ordern ................ C. G, Tatnall, b H or­ dern .............................. 1 S. A . A bbott, cM orris, b Hordern ............... 4 F. Tolau, b H ordern 2 E. J. W endell 2d., b H ordern ... ... 0 F. Jones, b H ordern... %0 Bye ................. 1 Total 22 In all matches in which he took part last year H ordern took 213 wickets, a feat which set up a record for the United States and Canada. T he reappearance in the cricket-field of the Jam of N aw anagar was quite the feature of last w eek ’s cricket. H e has put on flesh since he last played regularly over here— in 1904— but, although he scored only 9 and 31, he plainly showed that he still retains a very great deal of his wonderful dexterity and skill. It was interesting to notice how he was described by the various newspapers. Som e re­ ferred to him as H .H . the Jam Saheb of N aw anagar, others as the Jam of N aw a­ nagar, and the Field as H . H . R anjit­ sinhji. T he last possessed the m erit of preserving a nam e fam ous in the annals of the gam e, but was it correct to so describe him ? L eicestershire certainly cannot be accused of adopting too enterprising tactics in their match w ith Surrey at Leicester last week. They were set 304 to win and had a whole day in which to m ake them ; yet, although the w icket was g ocd , no effort w as made to obtain the runs. From the very start the batsmen set themselves