Cricket 1908

J an . 30, 1908 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 15 C R IC K E T IN A U S T R A L IA . NEW SOUTH WALES FIRST XI v. NEXT XIII. Played at Sydney on November 9 and 11. Drawn. The best batting form for the Next XIII was shown by E. L. Waddy, who was, however, twice missed whilst scoring 96 ; with Gregory he made 95 for the first wicket, and with Hickson 105 for the second. On the second morning the innings was declared closed when Kelleway and Folkard had put on 4S without being separated for the tenth wicket. The Eleven lost Duff at 23, but Trumper and Noble were at their best and put on 219 whilst together. Trumper, who was missed in the long-field when 27, hit all round the wicket in brilliant fashion; he scored 160 out of 242 in one hundred and fifteen minutes, hitting three G’s and twenty 4’s. Noble gave a sound display, but was quite overshadowed by his partner. Score and analysis :— N ext XIII. T h ird X I. S. E. Gregory,c Waddy, b Cotter ...................55 E. L. Waddy, b Noble 96 R.N.Hickson, c Carter, b Bow den...................47 W. Bardsley, c Carter, b Duff.......................... 12 C. W. Gregory, c Macartney, b Duff 15 A. E. Johnston, c Dia­ mond, b Bowden ... 21 J. C. Barnes, lbw, b Cotter ...................31 W. Farnsworth, b Cotter .................13 B. J. Folkard, not out ..........................27 S. McCloy, run out... 7 C. Kelleway, not out 29 Lb 4, w 1, nb3 ... 8 Total (9 wkts) *361 C. R. Gorry and P. Connolly did not bat. * Innings declared closed. N ew S outh W ales . A. Cotter, c Bardsley, b McCloy.................. 14 B 4, lb 2, w 1, nb 6 13 Total (4 wkts) ...336 0 . M R. W. O. M. R. W. 30 4 in.; 3 Duff 11 2 48 2 27 3 95 2 Fisher .. 1 0 10 0 22 7 56 1 Diamond 1 0 8 0 16 8 35 0 N ew S outh W ales . O. M. R. w. O. M. R. W. 18 3 86 1 Barnes ... 2 0 26 0 13 0 72 0 Hickson.. 5 0 25 1 11-5 0 102 1 Folkard.. 4 1 12 0 V. Trumper, run out...160 R. A. Duff, c Bardsley, b Kelleway ...........17 M.A. Noble, b Hickson, 86 Rev. E. F. Waddy, not out .......................... 46 C. G. Macartney, A. Diamond, M. H. Blaxland, A. J. Bowden, H. Carter, and A. D. Fisher did not bat. N ext X III. Cotter Bowden ... Noble Macartney McCloy NEW SOUTH WALES THIRD X I v. FOURTH ELEVEN. Played at Sydney on November 9 and 11 . The Third X I. won by ‘292 rung. On the first day the Third XI. scored 436 for eight wickets off five hundred and ten balls in two hundred and twenty-five minutes. Henry Brisbane, who made 122, is described by the Sydney Referee as “ A right-hander, short and sturdy. He is very crisp and clean on the leg side, where he picks them up with the bat very cleverly. On the off side he is also good, but not quite so crisp. One of the young players the Glebe Club has brought out within the last year or two, he is a highly consistent run- getter. It is worthy of remark that no cricketers outside Sydney were invited to assist either of the tour State elevens playing on November 9 and 11. Score and analysis :— N ew S outh W ales T h ird XI. H. Brisbane, c and b W liiddon...................122 J. B. Baines, c Clarke, b Whiddon .......... 25 R. Carty, b Docker ... 29 P. Newton, not out... 65 A. Loudoun, b Docker 18 Byes ................... 5 T. Foster, c Newton, b W hiddon................... 2 A. J. Nicholls, b Whid- d9n .......................... 60 E. R. Bubb, st Pren­ tice, b Whitting ... 38 H.Cranney,c Goddard, b Whiddon ...........81 D. C. Reid, c Docker, b Whiddon ...........91 • S - Middleton, b W hiddon................... 3 Total ...539 a. Newton, c and b Carty... tti < g W. Prentice," b Carty 11 G. Gallagher, b Lou­ doun .......................... 27 H .Goddwd, c Newton, b Loudoun ......... 9 P*J^: Docker, c and b R e id .......... (;o ° v | D®an> c Bubbj b Newton.................’ 17 F ourth X I. W. Whitting, b New­ ton .......................... 23 A. B. Clarke, b Reid.. 23 L. A. M in n e tt, c Baines, b Foster ... 39 H. Whiddon, c New­ ton, b Foster...........16 F. W. Hill, n otou t ... 2 B 5, lb 3, w 1 ... 9 Total ...247 Hill ... . Whiddon . Minnett . Whitting. O. M. R. W. 8 1 33 0 0 189 7 1 64 0 4 88 1 31 12 18 O.M. R. W. Clarke ... 2 0 19 0 Docker .. 14*1 2 74 2 Goddard... 14 2 67 0 F ourth X L O. M. R. W. O. M.R. W- Carty.......... 16 4 66 2 1M iddleton.. 6 0 23 0 Newton ... 13 0 5-5 2 R e id ............. 8 0 37 2 Loudouu ... 16 5 49 2 jFoster ... 13 0 8 2 VICTORIA FIRST X I. v. NEXT XV . Played at Melbourne on November 9 and 11. The Next XV won by 51 runs. The Eleven were considerably weakened by the absence of Armstrong, who stood down owing to eye trouble. Hastings, whilst wicket-keeping, met with a curious accident. He stopped the ball, and was in the act of returning it when the sticky pre­ paration on the gloves caused the ball to strike him in the left eye, inflicting a cut which required two stitches in it. Score and analysis :— N ext F ifteen . J. Horan, b Hazlitt ... 18 G. Healy, b Saunders 46 R. S. Stephens, run out 12 P. Desmazures, b Tar­ rant .......................... 0 T. Horan, c Carkeck, b Tarrant...................31 T. Rush, b Tarrant ... 31 F. Delves, c McKenzie, b V ern on.................. 18 L. Smith, b Saunders 33 H. Fry, b Vernon ... 0 Second innings: R. S. Stephens, not out, 8 ; F, Delves, not out, 14. Total (no wkt) 22. V ictoria . W. Kelly, not out .. 37 F. Laver, c McAlister, b Vernon.................. 2 T. Hastings, c Mc­ Alister, b Saunders 0 F. Collins, b Saunders 0 E. Goss, b Vernon ... 9 G. Melville, b Hazlitt 12 B 9, lb 4 ...........13 Total ...262 F. Vaughan, c Delves, b F ry........................... 8 H. Stuckey, lbw, b G o s s .......................... 1 E. V. Carroll, c Laver, b Goss .................. 4 C. McKenzie, c Smith, b Collins .................. 66 F. A. Tarrant, c Fry, b Smith ...................17 P. A. McAlister,c Hast­ ings, b Melville ... 43 N ext F ifteen . G. Hazlitt, c Hast­ ings, b Collins ... 18 V. Ransford, c Delves, bF ry........................31 L. P. Vernon, c Hast­ ings, b Fry ............ 5 W. Carkeek, b Fry ... 3 J. V. Saunders, not out ............................ 2 B 10, lb l, w l, nb 1 13 Total ...211 First innings. Hazlitt Saunders .. Tarrant Vernon McKenzie . Collins Goss ... Fry ... Melville O. M. R. W. 25-1 7 57 2 . Second innings. O. M. R. W. 29 , 24 23 5 Carroll ......... 2 0 7 0 Ransford........... 2 0 15 0 V ictoria . 0 . M. R. W. O. M. R. W. 22 5 46 2 Sm ith 9 2 23 1 17 2 52 2 Laver 10 2 16 0 8-1 2 13 4 Kelly 6 •2 13 0 9 3 23 1 Desmazures 5 2 12 0 VICTORIA v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Plaj ed at Melbourne on November 29, 30, December 2 and 3. A TOTAL OF 699. Victoria won by an innings and 165 runs. In the absence of Hill and Darling South Australia were not at full strength, and, in the circumstances, Victoria’s win by an innings and 165 runs about represented the difference between the two sides. Victoria batted first on a slow and easy wicket, and from the very start runs came readily. McKenzie and Warnc made 50 for the first wicket in fifty-three minutes, and the latter and Ransford 149 for the second in two hours. The left-hander made his 109 out of 197 in one hundred and fifty minutes, hitting eight 4’s and giving only one chance—to the wicket­ keeper, Gehrs, off Claxton when 54. Tarrant and Armstrong indulged in a partnership of 224 for the fourth w icket; the former, who hit seven 4’s and was the first to leave, scoring 105 out of 272 in two hundred and thirty-five minutes without a mistake. Armstrong, after taking an hour and a-half to reach 50, made 100 in one hundred and fifty-seven minutes, and 200 in two hundred and sixty-nine : in all, he obtained 231 out of 379 in three hundred and fifteen minutes, hitting a six (a drive off Pellew) and twenty-five 4’s. His innings, the largest ever made for Victoria, was composed mainly of powerful drives and pulls, and was disfigured by only two chances, the first, a difficult one, to Townsend at long-on off O’Connor, and the second at 208. The total eventually reached 699, made in five hundred and thirty-five minutes. During the long innings O’Connor delivered five hundred and four balls, which is with but one exception—the 522 by George Giffen for South Australia against England at Adelaide in March, 1895—the largest number ever sent down by a bowler in one innings of a first-class match in Australia. Wright’s wicket was obtained at a record cost so far as first-class cricket in Australia is con­ cerned. The opening of South Australia s first innings was marked by a fine innings by Mayne, who made 50 in fifty minutes, 61 (out of 87) in fifty- four, and, altogether, 75 (out of 111) in seventy. He showed himself possessed of many strokes, and, apart from a hard chance to McKenzie off Hazlitt when 38, made no mistake. So greatly did he monopolize the run-getting that the first wicket realised 55 in half-an-hour although Gehrs scored only 9. The last four wickets fell for 17, and in the follow-on only Dolling, who hit five 4’s and scored 58 in eighty-five minutes, was seen to advantage, leaving the home side with the easiest of victories. In the second innings of South Australia, Carkeek allowed no extras and disposed of four men. Score and analysis :— V ictoria . C. McKenzie, c and b Claxton .......................51 j T. S. Warne, b O’Con­ nor ..............................82 V. Ransford, b L. R. Hill ............................ 109 F. A. Tarrant, c Dol­ ling, b O’Connor ...105 ! W. W. Armstrong, b O’C onnor.................... 231 j P. A. McAlister, c Clax­ ton, b O’Connor ... 24 | E. V. Carroll, c Clax­ ton, b O’Connor ... 29 G. Hazlitt, b O’Con­ nor ...........................21 T. Rush, c Maync, b Hill ... ................... 5 W. Carkeek, b Wright 22 J.V. Saunders, not out 6 B 5, lb 2, w 6, nb 1 14 Total ...699 S outh A ustralia . First innings. D. R. A. Gehrs, b Arm- stong ............ ... ........... 9 E. R. Mayne, c Armstrong, b Saunders......................... C. E. Dolling, run out Second innings, st Carkeck, b Saunders........... 9 J. H. Pellew, c Tarrant. Armstong ... 75 c sub, b Saunders 26 ...6 2 st Carkeek, b Armstrong ... 25 41 b Hazlitt C. B. Jennings, c and b c Carkeek, Warne.................................. 52 Armstrong ... 0 N. Claxton, c McAlister, b c McKenzie, b Saunders ...........................65 Hazlitt ........... 7 L. R. Hill, c Tarrant, b Saunders .......................... 32 c and b Hazlitt... 58 L. W. Chamberlain, b Hazlitt ........................... 4 R. J. B. Townsend, c and b Saunders ........................... 0 J. A. O’Connor, not out ... 2 A. W. Wright, b Hazlitt ... 0 B 9, lb 4, nb 2 ..............15 b Tarrant ...........34 c Carkeek, b Saunders.......... 1 not out ........... 5 b Hazlitt ........... 0 Byes, &c ... 0 O’Connor. Hill ... . Wright ., Total ...................357 V ictoria . O. M. R. W. . 83 17 249 6 . 36 6 106 2 66-5 7 222 1 Total O. Claxton ... 22 Chamber- lain ... 3 Pellew M. R. W. 5 57 1 0 10 0 41 Hill bowled 4 wides and a no-ball, and O’Connor and Claxton 1 wide each. S outh A ustralia . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. H a z litt...........22‘4 6 80 2 ........... 15*2 2 54 4 Saunders ... 33 4 92 4 ............ 21 5 60 3 Armstrong ... 31‘4 8 61 2 ............ 13 3 31 2 Tarrant............ 13 1 54 0 ............ 13 2 31 1 Warne ........... 8 0 42 1 ............ 1 0 1 0 McKenzie ... 2 0 13 0 ............ Saunders and Armstrong each bowled a no-ball. NEW SOUTH WALES v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Played at Sydney December 6 , 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 . REMARKABLE SCORING. South Australia won by 20 runs. After some remarkable cricket, South Australia succeeded in defeating New South Wales for the first time for seven years. (See Cricket, Vol. 26, page 472.) The home side lacked the services of Macartney and Cotter, who were playing in a scratch match against the Englishmen at Brisbane, and their absence undoubtedly cost their side the match. The