Cricket 1908

A ugust 6,>1908. CR ICKET : A W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 331 doned, o w in g to rain, without a ball being bow led, realised ^ 7 9 3s. Another collec­ tion is to be made on the first day o f the Surrey v. Yorkshire match. P. A. Fryer, the headmaster of W ellin g­ borough Gramm ar School, who made his debut for N ortham ptonshire during the past week, had previously been associated with N orfolk cricket. For several years he made enorm ous scores for the W ellin g­ borough Masters, and in 1897 his average for the season worked out at 101.33 for twelve innings. H is highest score was 306 against E. Scriven’s X I. on the County Ground, N ortham pton, on June 2nd. Captain F. W ilson took all ten wickets for 29 runs for Bury and W est Suffolk against Colchester and East Essex at C ol­ chester on M onday. Readers of Gossip will recall that he w as credited with a sim ilar feat a m onth a go at the expense of Colchester Garrison. All w ho follow the gam e must have rejoiced to see that H ayes has at last been show ing form worthy of his deservedly- high reputation. D uring the Australian tour and the first part of the present sea­ son he w as quite unable to do him self justice, but in his last five matches for Surrey he has scored 52 v. H ampshire, at Portsm outh ; 49 and o v. Kent, at B lack­ heath ; 136 v. Sussex, at the O v a l; 53 and 12 v. Philadelphians, at the O v a l; and 49 in this w eek ’s m atch with Notts. T h e R obinsons of B ackw ell H ouse, Som erset, have again taken the field in a body. O n Saturday last eleven of them played Flax Bourton on the latter’s ground. T he hom e side made 273 (H . C hidgey 125) and the visitors 209 for three wickets (D . C . R obinson, 131 not out). T he fam ily must now have played nearly, if not quite, a hundred matches. S om e years a go a record of their doings w as issued in book form , but the publication, being for pri­ vate circulation only, is not in the hands of many. At a Comm ittee m eeting of the D erby­ shire C ounty C .C . on Tuesday evening Mr. W . T . T aylor, of W irksw orth, w as ap­ pointed secretary to the C lub in succession to M r. R . S. T . C ochrane, who recently resigned the position. M r. T aylor has appeared in the D erbyshire Eleven on one or tw o occasions. Som erset have experienced a rather de­ pressing season, and for that reason the great success m et with by P. R . Johnson upon his return to the side will have been hailed w ith the greatest satisfaction by all those w ho have the w elfare of the County at heart. H is two hundreds against M iddlesex this week rank as his best feat in first - class cricket. H e was born in N ew Zealand as recently as 1880, but has already been before the public for over a decade. H e w as in the Eleven both, at Eton and C am bridge, and w as at one tim e a useful ch an ge fast bow ler. H e has paid tw o visits to his native land, and it w as as a m ember o f M .C .C . ’s team that he scored 99 and 76 not out in the Test M atch with N ew Zealand at Christchurch. In 1906, his best season in County cricket so far, he scored 163 against W orcester­ shire on the W orcester ground and 96 and 109 against the same side at Taunton. W hatever the result of their m atch with Surrey at the O val this week, the visit of the M iddlesex team to Bradford on M onday is bound to occasion the greatest Interest. D uring A ugust the M etropolitans are able to put a very pow erful side into the field, and they m ay be relied upon to give their 100 per cent, opponents a g ood gam e. A win for M iddlesex w ould cause the struggle for the cham pionship to be a very interest­ ing one, especially as Kent are just now show ing m ore than a glim pse of the form which gained them the chief honours of the season o f 1906. T h e experiment o f starting the recent match between Lancashire and Yorkshire on Saturday, instead o f on the Bank H oli­ day as usual, must be regarded as an un­ qualified success. On the first day 13,009 persons paid at the gates and over 16,000 witnessed the play. It w as thought in som e quarters that the fact that the home side was not in a very flattering position when play ceased on Saturday would have an undesirable effect upon the B ank H oli­ day attendance. Such fears, however, proved to be quite groundless, for 22,493 paid at the turnstiles on the second day. T he only two occasions upon which the week-end suggestion has been tried have been when neighbouring counties, between which rivalry is keen, have been engaged, and it has, therefore, yet to be proved that it would be an advantage in every case to comm ence a first-class match on a Saturday. M ore than a passing word deserves to be said o f the heavy scoring w hich charac­ terised the m eeting o f W orcestershire and W arw ickshire on the W orcester ground this week. H . K . Foster played a delight­ ful innings for the hom e side and just failed to equal his highest 9core in first- class cricket— 216 against Som erset on the sam e ground five years a go. T he run- gettin g during the last tw o days was decidedly brisk, and W arw ickshire are to be congratulated upon saving the gam e so well. Glover, by his tw o fine innings, made one regret that he does not play regularly, and Q uaife made his highest score of the season. A ltogether, it was a happy time for batsmen. It w as regrettable— especially from Sur­ rey’s point of view— that rain interfered so sadly with the play at the O val yester­ day, for a g ood d a y ’s cricket had appeared to be in prospect. Surrey played a good gam e throughout, although on the evening of the first day it seemed not unlikely that Notts, would be able to claim a lead on the first innings. Leveson-G ow er, how ­ ever, as at Manchester earlier in the year, cam e to the rescue of the side and played a plucky and m ost valuable innings. W hen the gam e w as abandoned the posi­ tion slightly favoured Surrey, though, had it been found possible to play out the gam e after the showers, there is no telling what WTass and H allam m ight have done. T H E P H IL A D E L P H IA N S . 9TH M a tc h . — v. IR E L A N D . Played at Dublin on A ugust 3 and 4. The Philadelphians won by an innings and 7 runs. On Monday 260 runs were made for the loss of 20 wickets, the home side, when stumps were drawn, being 82 behind with all their wickets in hand. Meldon played well for 25, but King bowled with such effect that the whole side were disposed of for 86 in less than two hours. The batting of the Philadelphians was very uneven, but they obtained a good lead on the innings. The first three wickets went down for 20, but tho score was up to 136 before the sixth fell. Ross was the best of the home bowlers, his six wickets costing less than eleven runs each. On Tuesday the home side again found King too much for them, and retired beaten by an inn­ ings and 7 runs. Score and analysis :— I relan d . First innings. W. L. Bourchier,st Winter, b H ordern.......................... 19 G. F. J. Meldon, b King ... 25 R. H. Lambert, b Hordern 1 F. H. Browning, st Winter, b King .............. H. H. Corley, st Winter, King...................................... 4 T. M. Meldon, b King ... 3 T. C. Ross, not out... .. 11 W. Harrington, b King ... 0 S. C. Smith, c King, b Hor­ dern ...........................4 G. W. F. Kelly, b King 0 W. H. Napper, b King ... 1 Byes, Ac........................5 Second innings. c Hordern,b King run o u t ............... c Ne^hall,b King .. 13 b King c King, b Greene 27 not out ... ... 1 c Hordern, b King ...............12 c Winter, b King 1 b King ... b Greene... b King ... Byes, o:c. Total Total... ... 0 ... 10. ... 78 T h e P h il a d e l p h ia n s . H.V. Hordern,b Felly 0 W. Newhall, b Ross 28 F. A. Greene, b Ross 3 C. Winter, not out 4 Byes, &c. ... 11 Total ...171 C.C. Morris,lbw,b Ross 32 F. S. White, b Ross ... 5 N. Z. Graves, b Ross... 0 A. M. Wood, c Smith, b Harrington ... 4 J. B. King, b Harring­ ton ........................... 1 F. H. Bohlen, lbw, b K e lly ...........................43 J. Lester, b Ross ... 40 I r e la n d . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W K in g ............... 14.1 3 40 7 ... 16 8 23 7 Hordern ... 14 1 41 3 ... 11 2 35 0 Greene ... 5 1 15 2 Greene bowled one wide. T h e P h ila d e lp h ian s . O. M. R. W. O. Ross ... 18.5 5 64 6 1 Lambert 4 Harrington 11 2 34 2 Napper 1 Kelly ... 11 0 34 2 | M. R. W. 0 26 0 0 2 0 In consecutive innings for the Wanderers last week S. Colman made 100 v. Pallingswick and 103 v. East Molesey. Folkestone (191 and 246) beat West Kent (163 and 273) by 1 run at Folkestone on Ju ly 31 and August 1. H. D. Banking made 77 and 119 for the losers.