Cricket 1908

CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 2 , 1908 . cellence.” Winchester beat Eton that year by eight wickets, and Mr. W right, by scoring 29 and 53 not out, had a large share in the success of his side. In the match with Haverford he made 115, and it was due very largely to him that W in­ chester were that year an unbeaten side. Proceeding to Oxford, he at once made his mark by scoring 52 and 38 in the Fresh­ men’s match, and he afterwards played so consistently that the season was still com­ paratively young when it became an assured fact that he would be awarded his Blue. Against Cambridge he did exceed­ ingly well, making 95 and 26 and so prov­ ing the highest scorer in each innings ; he was, however, on the losing side, the Light Blues winning by 40 runs after being headed 101 on the first innings. In 1906 he played a fine second innings of 79 in the L ord’s match when O xford’s position was hopeless, hitting fourteen 4 ’s and driving with great power. Last year he succeeded Mr. W . S. Bird as captain, and, with 51 as his highest score, averaged a fraction over thirty and a-half runs an innings, his run-getiing be ng remarkably consistent. Oxford lost at Lord’s, the bowling of Morcom and Nap’er proving altogether too much for many of the Dark Blues, but Mr. W right, by a fine second innings of 49, proved that for him the attack had few terrors. He has played occasionally for Lancashire, but has not yet been seen at his best in County cricket. As he is still only twenty-two years of age, however, there is yet plenty of time for him to distinguish himself in the more serious branch of first-class cricket. M r. R. A. Y o u n g . Mr. R. A. Young, the Cambridge cap­ tain, although born in India as recently as September 9th, 1885, has already done much to achieve celebrity in the world of cricket. It was as a very small boy at Ascham House School, Eastbourne, that he made his first acquaintance with the game, but it was not until he went to Repton that he took to it at all seriously, lie obtained a place in the Repton Eleven in 1901, when his batting average was 13.29 and his place in the list as low as tenth. In the, following season he showed a most marked improvement, averaging 30 runs an innings with 129 as his highest score, whilst in 1903, when he made 129 not out against Uppingham, his average was as high as 60. In his last year he did not prove so prolific a run-getter, but he made 94 not out against Malvern and scored 630 runs in fourteen completed inn­ ings. In his first year at Cambridge he batted very successfully and practically at once put himself in the running for a Blue. He followed scores of 29 and 21 in the Freshmen’s match with 66 for the I-irst X II. v. Next X V I., and, tried for the University, played an innings of 63 against Warwickshire. In his very next match—against Gloucestershire— he* very narrowly misled the distinction of making two separate hundreds in a match, scor­ ing 120 and 91. This display sealed his reputation as a batsman and invested his future doings with great interest. In the match with Oxford he was top-scorer in the first innings with 51, and in all first- class matches for the University that year he made 532 runs and was nineteen times dismissed. The form he had shown had been so good that he was tried for Sussex, and with the happiest results. In his first five innings for the County he made 64, 220, 35, 68, and 53, whilst later in the season he compiled an innings o f 120 against Hampshire. His great score of 220 was made in an innings of 611 against Essex at Leyton ; he was missed four times —once before he had made a run— and obtained his runs in four hours and a-half. In 1906 he was for some time quite off his game, but he recovered his form against Surrey at the Oval and in the University match played an excellent inn­ ings of 150— the third highest score in the history of the Oxford v. Cambridge match. In the game referred to with Surrey, che University, set 298 to win, made the runs for the loss of only two wickets, M. W . Payne, who made 128, and Young, who carried out his bat for 103, scoring 186 for the first wicket in an hour and a-half. The last-named played in no first-class match that season outside the University programme, Sussex therefore not benefit­ ing by his assistance as in the previous year. In 1907 he headed the Cambridge averages with 40.70 runs an innings, his highest score being 132 against the Gentle­ men of England at Eastbourne: At L ord’s, against Oxford, he made 6 and 45 in a low-scoring game, the latter innings, which lasted an hour and a-half, being clearly the best in the match played for either side. In the Gentlemen v. Player’s match at the Oval he made 49 and 2 , and for Sussex scored 392 runs with an aver­ age of 23.05. At the end of the season a considerable amount of surprise was ex­ pressed when it became known that he was to visit Australia as a member of the M .C .C .’s team as under-study to Hum­ phries, for most of those people who once knew that he kept wicket whilst at Rep­ ton appeared to have forgotten the fact. It cannot be said that his selection pre.ved particularly successful, but in failing to play up to his English form upon his first visit to the Colonies he only experienced the luck which had previously fallen to the lot of several men. This season he has shown himself to be the most reliable run- getter on the Cambridge side, and a great responsibility will rest upon him when he opens the Light Blues’ innings next week. He possesses many strokes and wields a very straight bat, and, like J. N. Crawford and Killick, plays in spectacles. B R IX T O X W A N D E R E R S ‘ 2 nd v. G R A N V IL L E A .— Played at D ulw ich on June 27. B r ix t ^ n "VVandkhi its 2 n d . C. W . Phillip**, c Heath, b Johnston 1 W . A . M itchell, b Passm ore ................10 J. Faulkner, b Heath 78 A . V . Storer, lbw, b Johnston C. Hosrg% b Lincoln D. M cD . Dickson, Lincoln G. Stubbs, not out W . R . Ceesar, c Helder, b Lincoln... 0 A Harbert, b Pass­ more ............................. 9 J. E. Godrich, c Thom son, b Lincoln 0 W . J. Benge, c Thom ­ son, b Lincoln ... 1 B 17, 1-b 6 , w J, n-b 1 25 R oy Johnston, Bengp... F. 11 .wbotham , b Benae .......................... R . E. Lincoln, c G od­ rich, b Benge H . E Thom son, b Godrich ...‘; J. E. H eath, b G od­ rich ................ J. R. H ollingw orth, b Benge.................................; G ranvii . lr A . Total . 210 L . T. Passmore, c Dickson, b H arbeit 14 H . Smith, not out . 20 C. Helder, c Godricb, b Benge ................ 0 V . E. Thom son, c Dickson, b Benge ... 17 W ig g le w o r t h , b Benere ................ 0 B 18, 1 -b 2 .. .2 0 T otal . 128 •O X FO R D & C A M B R ID G E C R IC K E T SCORES * B IO 3R A P H IE S , 1827-1901.’ ’-C ro w n 8 vo, about 300 pages, cloth. Contains full scores o f every inter- U niyersitv m atch, biographies o f over 700 players. O riginal price 6 s. A few copies can be had at 29 9d f rom Betham , R cse Cottage, Sedbergh, Yorks. N O R B U R Y v. S T R E A T H A M .-P la y ed at N orbury on June 27. N orbu ry . N . Hamm ill, c N . M iller, b Haworth .. P. F . W ikon , b N. M iller............................. Y. A . J. Hicks, c E. H . Leaf, b Scott ... J H. K . Whiteing-, c Holm es, b N M ill r W . E. H obbs, b Haw orth ................ C. B. W ood, b M ille r.............. X. A .J . Blake, c Thom as, b H ooper ....................24 F. L . Johnson, c H ooper, b M iller ... 31 L . G. A bney, c E. Miller, b Haw orth 6 S. E. H ooper, b b H aw orth . . 7 J. J. M acaldin, not out ... Total 0 ...121 N. M iller, stM acaldin, J. C. M . M iller, not b W ilson ... ...101 out ......0 E. H. Leaf, b Blake .. 24 C. M . Thom as, c H am - 111 ell, b Johnson ... 17 E. B Gillett, b W ilson 19 B 6 , 1-b 4 ... 10 D. H Jenson, c W hiteing. b Blake 6 T otal (5 w kts.) 177 H . H . Scott, J . F. W . H ooper, R. J. H aw orth, F. G. Y . H olm es aud E . B. M iller did not bat. LUDGROVE 1 st X L v. SOUTH LOD G E 1 st X L — Played at Ludgrove on June 24. S outh L odcje 1st XI. I. G. Owen, run o u t ... 1 | J. P. Blissett, b Anson 14 B. S. Cole, st Nugent, b Cobbold ................37 L. W. Lloyd, c R em ­ nant, b Cobbold ... 0 C. R. Rom er, c and b Stancliffe ................ 3 M. L. Rom cr, c and b Stancliffe ................ 7 C. W ilson, b Stan­ cliffe D. P. F. Uniacke, c and b Stancliffe ... 10 G. C. L evick, hit w kt., b Menzies ... 1 G. C. Watson, b M en­ zies ............................. 6 J.R .B ourch ier,notout 0 B 6 , 1-b 5, w 5 ... Hi Total Ii. J. F. Rem nant, c Uniackc, b L loyd ... 3S M. E. Im pey, c Owen, b Wilson ................17 N. F. E. Anson, b W ilson ................ 4 T. E. G. Nugent, b Bourcliier ................23 R. S. Stancliffe, c C. Rom er, b M. Rom er IS W. W. McD. Scott, b Bourchier ................ 8 L cdorove 1 st X I. ...105 I. G. Menzies, run out R.H . W alker,c Wilson, b M. Rom er L. R. S. M onckton, c Owen, b Bourchier J. G. Fortescue, not out .............................. J. M. Cobbold, b W il­ son ... ................. B 11, w 4 .................: Total ... .'..15 LUDGROVE M ASTE US v. FHEE FO R ESTERS.— Played at Ludgrove 011 J une 27. F rkk F orestfrs . Captain A. Macrae, run out ................. 7 A. E. Leatham, not out ................................. 32 E. C. M ordaunt, c Oakley, b Sm ith ... 27 K. Christopherson, • run out ................. 0 G. Pile, not out ... 11 H. G. Peachey, b Cur­ w en ............................. T( J. Leslie, c sub, b Curwen ................. 2 E. H. Crake, c Bird, b H enley ................ 7 E. C. Lee, c Bird, b S m ith .............................12 H on .J . R. S. Tufton, c H enley, b Sm ith... 58 E. B. T. Lee, b Curwen 4 R. C. Byass, c Curwen bStanbrough ... 44 L udorove M astrrs . W. S. Bird, c and b i A. R.Severn,cLeatham . L eslie............................. 41 W. P. Blore, c M or­ daunt, b Leslie ... 19 E. Sm ith, c Crake, b B yass.............................52 W. H . J. Curwen, b Bya ss... B 2 0 ,1-b 1 Total b M ordaunt M ajor Blore, n ot out H . R.Parkes, n otou t L -b 1, w 2 Total (5 w kts.) 21 G. O. Sm ith, F. A. H . H enley, W. F. H . Stanbrough, and W. J. Oakley did not bat. C. C. Morris, o f Philadelphia, scored 103 for Elstree Masters v. Free Foresters at Elstree, on June 20. “ The m ost valuable bow ler is the m an w ho gets his w ickets at frequent intervals, because he m ini­ m ises the tim e during w hich the batsm an at the other end is scoring runs .”—The Morning /‘out. “ Mr. Jessop puts so m uch force in to his m is-hits that the low ones are on to the fielder before he is ready for them , and the ball w hen it goes high spins so m uch that it alm ost loses shape tem porarily.”— The Morning Post. “ T he suggestion pleasantly put forw ard b y the Johannesburg correspondent of the Sjnrtsman that the Australians are afraid to m eet the South Africans is too puerile to be w orth a m om ent’s consideration. The Australians have their faults, but w ant of courage in connection w ith cricket is assuredly not one o f them . It seem s to m e that in South African cricket circles the disease of sw elled head is becom ­ ing epidem ic; not, I hasten to add, am ong the players them selves, but am ong their over- zealous supporters 011 the Press.”— “ Balin ” in The Refer**-