Cricket 1908

4 28 CR ICK ET : A W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 1 7 , 19 0 8 , Tom Kendall 43 each, Blackham 41 not ont, Boyle 36, Allan 34, three others double fig- ; ures) and dismi-sed New South Wales for 139 and 103, thus winning by an innings and 96 runs. The total of 338 was one run ahead of the previous record ; but the new one set up was not to stand long. Tindall scored 52 in New South Wales’ first, and Garrett 47 in the second, when Tindall was absent. The home side h al six bowlers on in the first innings of New South Wales, though the total was only 139. Iu the match Frank Allan took five for 16, George Alexander five for 64, aud W. H. Cooper four for 53. This was Nat Thompson’s last match for his colony. In twenty one seasons he ha 1 only missed one match. Kendall (who had already represented Australia, had been chosen to go to England, but was left out eventually because, it is said, he had grown too fa t!) played in the series for the first and last time. More than ten years later he appeared for Tasmania v. Victoria, being engaged at Launceston. The next season (1880-1) saw the inception of eleven-a-fide games between Victoria and South Australia ; but it was to be alongt'me yet before the=e began to vie in interest with the older series. There were several new faces iu both teams at Melbourne, Christmas, 1880. Victoria had John Dunlop Edwards, who came to England in 1838, and George Mackay, both couuty players, though Edwards had just come up to live in Mel­ bourne, and P. G. McShane; New South Wales Samuel Percy Jones, a fourth Gregory brother (Albert), and H. W. Hiddelston. William Midwinter, on a visit home, played for Victoria. He was a long way the highest contributor (with 76) to her first inniDgs total of 207 ; but Edwards (28 not out), Mc­ Shane and Horan ('27 each) and Mackay (26) all gave useful help. Allan (6 for 27) and Cooper put out New South Wal«s for 79, only Massie (29) aud Dave Gregory (11 not out) ranking double figures. In the follow- 011 , which reached ‘251, Gregory played the highest innings of his first-class career, 85 ; Evans made 51, Massie 42 aud Garreit 2'-'.. Towards the end of the venture Midwinter’s bowling was very effective (he took four for 39); but the total of 251 proved nearly, not quite, enough for victory. Set 121 to get to win, Victoria looked like being beaten, in spite of 36 from Tom Horan early in the innings; but Frank Allan (35 not out) and E. H. Elliott ('20 not out) made a very plucky stand, enabling their side to scrape home by two wickets. Evans had ten wickets for 105 in the match, Cooper eight for 138. New South Wales were without Spofforth, Murdoch, and Alec Bannerman, and Victoria lacked McDonnell, Palmer, Black­ ham, Bonnor, Boyle, and Alexander, on account of the tour of the second Australian team, which played a number of matches in Australia and New Zealand after its return from England. With the exception of Alee Bannerman all these players were absent from the Sydney match in February, too, but the game was a capital one in spite of that, with another comparatively narrow victory (by 30 runs) for Victorin. For each' innings a new wicket was used in this match. Victoria made 193 ; McShare 61, Edwards 31 not out, Allan and Horan 26 each. Evans had five for 62, Garrett four for 50. New. South Wales went 7 runs.better, Massie scoring a brilliant 70, Garrett 35 not out, Charles Bannerman 24. Midwinter took five wickets for 27. Then Victoria made 168; T. J. D. Kelly 50, Midwinter 42 not out, Horan 28. Evans had four for 49 this time, David Gregory four for 53. With 162 wanted to win, only Alec Bannerman, who batted doggedly for ' 52, could do much with the bowling of Allan, whose six for 37 (five bowled) undoubtejly won his side the victory. New men in the tweuty-seventh match (Melbourne, Christmas, 1881) were George John Bonnor, born in New South Wales, but playing by residence for Victoria, W. H. Moule, Beginald C. Allen, Joseph Davis, and F. Downes. Bonnor and Moule had already visited England. Allen was considered a likely selection for future tours, but he never quite fulfilled expectations. This was a particularly good match, New South Wales, after following on in a minority of 86 , losing by two wickets only. The great feature of Victoria’s first innings was a partnership of 105 for the fifth wicket between Tom Horan (95) and .J. D. Edwards (43). The total was 232. Palmer and Allan disposed of New South Wales for ]4 6 ; Alec Bannerman 27, Charles 25, Murdoch 21. The last-named made 43 and Hiddleston 30 in the early part of the follow-on ; but five wickets were down for 1 0 1 , and the game looked as good as over. Then, however, Davis (53) and Garrett (39) batted in the pluckiest possible fashion, and the home side was eventually set 12 9 to make for victory. Garrett followed up his good batting with some excellent bowling, and seven wickets were down for 86 , Mc­ Donnell having made 37, Horan 23, and Blackham 19 of these. A valuable partner­ ship of 29, against the keenest of bowling and fielding, by Moule (18) and Palmer (17 not out) put Victoria ahead again, and eventually Coulthard made the winning hit. Garrett had five wickets for 46. The twenty-eighih match (Sydney, Febru- aiy, 1882) was by far the most remarkable of the series thus far. Becords were broken wholesale. Though the Victorians made 637 runs in the g .me, they were beaten by an innings and 138, the home side scoring 775. The wickets fell thus:— 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 17’ 149 150 401 423 572 052 749 705 775 Murdoch made 321, Garrett 163, S. P. Jones 109, Blackham 104 (8 and 96, Horan 10 2 (in the follow-on, after a duck in the first inniugs), Palmer 82 (76 not out aud 6 ), F. Baker 68 (50 and 18), McDonnell 59 (48 and 11), and Bounor 51 (44 and 7). The whole match produced 1412 runs for thirty wickets. There were as many as 128 extras. Alec. Bannerman (30) helped Murdoch to add 132 for the second wicket. At the end of the first day’s play the score was 350 for three, Murdoch 183, Jones 91. These two added 245 in all for the fourth wicket. Garrett aided Murdoch to put on 149 for the sixth. The innings lasted thirteen hours, through Friday and Saturday and up to thtee o’clock on Monday; and it is on record that the Victorian’s fielded splendidly throughout. Murdoch’s wicket was the sixth to fall, at 572. Horan and Blackham made a long stand (169) for the third wicket in the second innings of Victoria. In the first Palmer and Cooper (29) added just 100 for the last wicket. The Victorians refused to attend the banquet given in Murdoch’s honour, on account of some remarks he had made concerning the umpiring. There was big scoring in the Christmas match at Melbourne in the succeeding sea- sou, when New South Wales won by seven .wickets. Alec Bannerman scored 78 and 101 not ou t; Tom Horan made 33 and 129 (four times missed by Murdoch behind the wicket), Murdoch 71 aud 67. Murdoch and Alec Barinerman added 136 for the second wicket in the first innings of New South Wales. Massie hit 51 in forty-five minutes; Mc­ Donnell’s 70 included two 5’s, seven 4's, and five 3’s, and at one period he made 21 in five minutes. Midwinter (17 and 38), J. Kosser (19 and 33 not out), and Bonnor (27, consist­ ing of two 5’s, fo'ir 4’s and a single, and 13) for Victoria ; S. P. Jones (15 and 25 not out), i-'pofforth (31), and Evans (22 not out) for New South YVales, alt contributed usefully. Garrett had five for 45 in the home side’s first; J. Cleeve, a new bowler, tix for 95 in their second, when the to'al was 371. H. J. H. Scott took four for 57 in the visit­ ors’ first innings. (To be continued.) PUBLIC SCHOOL AVERAGES, 19 0 8 . (Continued from page 335.) BRIGHTON COLLEGE. BATTING AVERAGES. Times Most not in an Total Inns. out. inns. runs. Aver. M. H. Clark ... ... 12 0 88 297 24-91 It. W . Dower ... ... 12 2 *73 213 21-30 A. I. Sheringham ... 17 0 71 361 21"23 W. M. Malleson ... 10 1 02 312 20-80 L. F. Dower ... ,... 10 1 **10 152 10-13 V. Waterfall ... ... 10 2 *36 130 9-28 K. A. II. Attree ... 0 2 15 35 8-75 W. E. I. Read ... ... 13 2 29 77 7-00 R. C. S. Johnstone ... 10 1 19 94 0-20 E. L. Turner ... ... 14 3 27 59 5-30 E. C. Baker ... 14 5 *12 27 3-00 * Signifies not out. BOWLING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. W. M. Malleson .. . 25-3 4 91 8 11-37 E. L. Turner.......... 240-5 33 725 56 12-96 R. C. S. Johnstone. 77 8 305 20 15“25 M. H. Clarke......... . 61 9 229 14 16-35 A. I. Sheringham.. 7 1 55 3 18-33 W. E. 1. Read , 58 4 272 13 20-92 E, C. Baker ........... 100-2 23 543 24 22-20 OBITUARY. M r . A . B urrows , Mr. Arthur Burrows, who playel f r Winchester against Eton at Lords’ in 1829, died at The Larches, Beckenham, on Sunday evening. As he was bom on August 26th, 1812, he was in his ninety-seventh year at- the time of bis death. He was the oldest liviDg cricketer who had played in a match of note at Lords’ and was known as “ The Father of the English Bar,” being the oldest practising barrister in England. He lived in five reigns and under eighteen Prime Ministers, and until quite recently went to his chambers in Lincoln’s Inn regularly two or three times a week. M r. C. 11. A. S ie g le . Mr. Charles Raymond Alexander Siegle, who was drowned with his fiancee at Staines on Sunday evening as the result of a punting accident, was in the Dulwich College XI. in 1904 and 1905. He was employed as a clerk by the London and County Bank in Lombard Street, and was only twenty-one years of age. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J ack T a r .— Mr. S. H. Cochrane's ground is sit­ uated at Bray, fourteen and a-half miles from Dublin.