Cricket 1908

266 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE CAME. J u ly 9 , 1908 . ing being remarkable even for these days of heavy run-getting. On Wednesday 510 runs were made during the day, and on Thursday 539. The w eek’s cricket pro­ duced an instance of three separate hun­ dreds made in an innings, a case of a side making 401 in the last innings of a match in 230 minutes and winning by four wickets, two partnerships of over 200, and a stand of 128 for the last wicket. I notice that the official score-card of the second match states H. Teesdale and the Hon. C. N. Bruce to have made 240 together for the first Oxford wicket, instead of 237. A similar error was made when Brown and Tunnicliffe scored 554 for the opening part­ nership for Yorkshire against Derbyshire on the Chesterfield ground ten years ago, the number being given as 553, though when a- few copies were printed later on satin as souvenirs of a remarkable per­ formance the mistake was rectified. K e n t ’s total of 615 at Derby is the largest ever made by the county. Their previous highest score was 610 against Hampshire at Bournemouth two years ago. A t the end of the first day’s play in last w eek’s match between Dorset and Surrey 2nd X I., at Dorchester, the latter had lost seven wickets for 90 in response to a total of 248. On the following day, as the result of some rather remarkable cricket, Dorset were beaten by ten wickets. Surrey 2nd X I. took their total to 213, Platt making 79 of the 123 runs added to the over-night score. The player named, in the course of sixteen overs and four balls, then took all ten wickets in the second innings of Dorset, which amounted to only 31, for 15 runs, and afterwards made 44 of the 67 scored without loss by the visitors in their second innings. It would be diffi­ cult to imagine a better all-round perform- G. J. P l a t t was born at Richmond, in Surrey, on June 9th, 1882, and became a member of the ground staff at the Oval at the age of 20. He has played occasion­ ally for the second eleven of the County, but has never done anything to lead one to suppose him capable of such a bowling feat as that recorded ab ove: in fact, in the four seasons, 1904-1907, he took only a dozen wickets for Surrey 2nd X I., and at a cost o f over 37 runs each. He is a very good club cricketer and has made several large scores for Surrey Club and Ground, including 150 against Battersea at the Oval in 1904 and 199 against Brixton WTanderers at East Dulwich in 1906. T h e Lord Hawke testimonial fund has now reached the sum of £1,830 . Subscrip­ tions have just arrived from the Yorkshire Society of New South Wales, who have sent two guin eas; from the Yorkshire Society of Canterbury (New Zealand), who have forwarded three guin eas; and from the Melbourne Cricket Club, whose dona­ tion amounts to five guineas. All these have been sent with sincere appreciation of the great work done for cricket by the Yorkshire captain. T h a t there is still a great deal of cricket in Frank Sugg, the old Lancashire cricketer, was demonstrated on a recent tour of Birkenhead Victoria in Ireland, where in one week he made the following scores against the best Dublin clubs :— 43 and 68 against W ood brook ; 107 against Phoenix ; 87 against Leinster ; 10 and 90 against Pembroke— in all 406 runs. D u r in g their tour through Australia the Fijians played 25 matches, of which 4 were won, 5 lost, and 10 drawn. The games took place in the following order :— H obart ................Drawn Launceston X I. of N.S.W . ... Drawn W oollongong ... ,, N ew castle ... Won W est M aitland ... Drawn Arniidale.................Lost X I. of Q ueensland Drawn Glen Innes ... Won Tamw orth ... „ Wangaratta ... Drawn Maryboro’ (V .) ... Won Castlem aino ... Drawn XT. of Victoria ... X I. of S. Aust. ... ,, Broken H ill ... Lost X I. of V ictoria... Drawn B e n d ig o ................ ,, Cam perdown ... ,, G e e lo n g .......................... W agga Wagga ... Lost Cootam undra ... Drawn G unning................Lost Goulburn ... Drawn Sydney University ... Lost The best batting averages were 26.1 by E. J. Marsden, 25.1 by Sokidi, and 23.7 by Ratu Pope. Samu Bainivanua took sixty-eight wickets for 17.8 runs each, Ratu Pope ninety-four at an average cost o f 20, and Liceni sixty at a cost of 21.5 a piece. T h e r e was some remarkable scoring dur­ ing the recent season in Australia in the Dandenong and Berwick Association matches in Victoria. A. Duff, of Clyde, scored (in order of merit) 279, 229 not out, 203, 154 not out, 120 not out, 118 not out, 105, 103 not out, 100, 54 not out, 45 not out, 24, 13, 12— a total of 1,559 funs for seven completed innings, average 222.71. He is said to have been out to palpably bad decisions in the 279 and 12 scores. G. Hobart, also of Clyde, made 148, 128 not out, 124, h i , n o not out, 105 not out, 102, 94, 41, 31, 25 not out, 9, 0, o— a total of 1,028 for ten completed innings, average 102.80. M. Paternoster, of Ber­ wick, scored 145, 140 not out, 139, 130, 108, 107, 105 not out, 88, 73, 58, 55, 47, 28 not out, 20, 20, 15, 9, 6— a total of 1,293 for fifteen completed innings, aver­ age 86.20. The competition was won by Clyde, who were undefeated, with an aver­ age of 36.69 runs per wicket for and 11.92 runs per wicket against. Duff is not re­ lated to the N .S.W . player of the same name. A t Rye Park, near Yass, N .S.W ., on April 25th, X I. Hortons (236) played X I. Gorhams (129). The winning side was made up from three families, all cousins, nine of the eleven playing with Wargeila, 11 miles from Yass. The Gorhams were drawn from five families. The Hortons’ team won the C om in’s Cup two years, and it is now the club’s property. For it they played 19 matches, winning 13, losing 2, and drawing 4. A photo of the team shows eight of the eleven to be wearing braccs. P la y in g for Trowbridge v. Bradford-on- Avon on Saturday last, T . Smart, the W ilt­ shire professional, obtained nine wickets in an innings, doing the hat-trick and taking four wickets with consecutive b a lls: he caught the tenth man and also scored 46 not out. On the same afternoon WT. R. Tyler performed the hat-trick twice in an innings for R egent’s Park Chapel v. Bur­ leigh in Regent’s Park, London. T h e Rt. Rev. Cecil Wilson and his brother, Leslie Wilson, played last week for Old Tonbridgians against Tonbridge School. They opened the innings together, ard the former scored 48 and 21 and the latter 18 and 74. Each did good service for Kent in his day. A t Bournemouth on Monday C. P. McGahey’s X I. made 558 for four wickets against Bournemouth and District, four players exceeding the hundred. The score of the innings was as follow s:— C. P. M c G ahey ’ s X I. J. W. II. T. Douglas, c Hatton, b P earce...Ill Freeman, b Cumm ins 120 P. A. Perrin, c Pearce, b C u m m in s.................130 C. P. McGahey, not out ..............................159 Reeves, b Law son Byes, &c. Total (4 wktfj.) Innings declared closed. ... 38 *558 C. Robson, Benham , H. Golding, P. Briggs, S. E. Jam es and Oldershaw did not bat. The Bournemouth side were dismissed for 143 and 162 and were accordingly beaten by an innings and 253 runs. On Tuesday W . B. Burns scored 334 in the second innings of Gentlemen of Worcestershire v. Gentle­ men of Staffordshire :— G en tle m en of W o r c e s te r s h ir e . W. B. Burns, c Hatton, b Russell ................334 F. W. Rom ney, b Finnis ... ... 42 F. A. Walsham H ow , c Boyle, b F. Tw igg... 28 A. W. Isaac, b Finnis 14 Capt. Fulton, c Boyle, b Rogers ... ... 3 \V. H. T aylor,not out 20 B. C. S. Clarke, c Boyle, b Russell ... 18 Byes, &c. ................. 8 Total (0 w kts.) 4(37 Burns’ innings lasted four hours and a-half and constitutes a record for the ground. I t seems very possible that Dr. E. M. Grace will play little, if indeed any, more cricket. The old injury to his knee is again troubling him so that he can only just manage to get about, and, in conse­ quence, he has retired from the Thornbury eleven, for which he had played for thirty- five seasons. His bowling had continued to meet with such success that it was hoped and expected that he would be able to keep up the game for many more years. Dur­ ing his wonderful career he scored 76,705 runs and took 11,959 wickets. As recently as 1905 he took 303 wickets and in the fol