Cricket 1908

444 CR ICK ET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O c t , 2 9 , : 9 0 8 . and to show unswerving loyalty to the person of my Sovereign.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proposed “ Our Indian Empire,” to which Sir E; T. Candy, C.S.I., responded. “ Famous Cricketers and County Cricket” was given by the Rev. A H. F. Bougbey, Senior Dean of Tiinity College, and Dr. W. G. Grace, Lord Dalmeny, Messrs. A. C. MacLaren, H. D. G. Leveson- Gower, C. B. Fry and others responded. SOME CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW . C h a p t e r II. • NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. (<Continued from 'page U28.) The return was a hollow victory for Vic­ toria, who had all the luck. McDonnell hit two 5’s and nine 4’s in his 61 ; Bonnor made 42, Blackham 37, Palmer 34, Scott 28, Boyle and Horan 21 each. On a bad wicket, with Alec Baunerman disabled from batting, the home side could make no show against Boyle (eight for 4b) and Palmer (nine for 61), who bowled unchanged throughout both innings. Spofforth’s 26 in the follow-on was the best individual score. There was some big scoring for each side in the first innings of the thirty-first match (Melbourne, Christmas, 1883), wheu Harry Moses, probably the best Australian batsman who never visited England with a team, A. P. Marr, a hopeful-looking colt who, like R. C. Allen, did not fulfil his early pronrse, and T. Nunn represented New South Wales for the first time, and Percy Lewis and Frank Walters each played his first game in the series for Victoria. The visitors led off with 412—Murdoch 158, with only one chance, Garrett 64, Jones 52, Evans 33, Allen 27, Nunn 24. Victoria went eight bet­ ter, scoring 420, to which Tom Horan con­ tributed a chanceless 126, H. J. H. Scott 114 not out, Bonnor 41, and Walters and Mc­ Shane 25 each. Horan and Scott added 161 together for the fifth wicket. By this time the pitch had worn; and Midwinter (seven for 53) and Palmer (three for 56) put the visitors out for 143. Alec Bannerman scored 34, Marr 29, Nunn 24, Murdoch 22. The home side had to struggle very hard for the 136 needed for victory; but thanks to Mc­ Donnell (42), Horan (21), McShane (17) and the coolness of Blackham and the colt Lewis at the finish, they got home by three wickets. Garrett had nine wickets for 202 in the match, and bowled in his very best form. Palmer had eight for 186, Midwinter nine for 123, and Evans five for 131, the veteran having a good deal to do with the fine bid the visitors made to win, for in the last innings of the game he bowled two hundred balls for 48 runs and three wickets. The return ended in an easy win for New South Wales, for whom Mose 3 (43 and 85) was the highest scorer. Alec Bannerman made 91 in the secoud innings, and he and Moses added 165 for the third wicket. Evans scored 28 and 16; Marr made 29 and Mur­ doch 25 in the first innings, and Massie 21 in the second. The losers’ batting was very poor, only Horan (16 and 29) and Bonnor (29 and 15) making over 30 in the match. Evans had ten wickets for 91, Garrett seven for 69; Palmer, for the visiting side, took eleven for 140, trundling in splendid form in each innings. John William Trumble played his first match for Victoria, scoring 16 for once out and taking four wickets for 145 runs. The scoring in the earlier part of the Melbourne match in 1884-5 was curiously like that of the corresponding game in the preceding season. New South Wales led off with 403, Murdoch scoring 97, Marr 69, Jones 59, Alec Bannerman 51, Pope 47, and Charles Bannerman 27. The visitors replied with 482 ; Blackham 109, his first and last century in big cricket, Trumble 87, McDonnell 81, Scott 58, Bruce 41, Palmer and Horan 24 each, McShane 20. The wicket had worn a good deal, and Palmer proved so deadly that New South Wales tumbled out for 74 in their secoud innings, no one scoring more than a dozen. Thus Victoria won by an innings and 5 runs after going in against a score of over 400! Palmer had eleven wickets in the match for 127 (six for 26 in the last innings) and Bruce seven for 120. This was William Bruce’s first appearance iu the series, and he did fine all-round work; but another newcomer, R. J, Pope, well- known in Great Britain later, seems to have caught the eye of the critics more effectually. W. O’Hanlon, a wicket-keeper of some con­ siderable ability, for New South Wales, and W. R. Robertson, who a few years back still kept up his cricket, far away from his native land, in California, but has since returned to Melbourne aud now plays with consider­ able success in junior cricket, were also debutants. Charles Banuerman incurred the wrath of the spectators by bowling under­ hand grubs in this game. The thiity-fourth match (S}’dney, Febru­ ary, 1885) was a wonderfully even and well- contested game. Bonnor, who had plnyecl for Victoria iu the Christmas match, now represented New South Wales, having re­ turned to the colony of his birtb. New men on the other side, as far as this series is concerned, were John Edward Barrett, of the 1890 Australian team, John Harry, who was chosen for the 1896 team, and was actually in England that year, though not as a member of the side, Harry Musgrove, the manager of the Ninth Team, John Worrall, who came here in 1888 and 1899, Sam Morris, the West Indian black, often wrongly spoken of as an aborigine, and J. S. Swift, a very big scorer in Melbourne club cricket, who never did himself justice in great matches. Victoria led off with 223—McShane 48 not out, Horan 45, Walters 28, Harry 26. Garrett had 6 wickets for 65. New South Wales replied with 221. Charles Bannerman showed a flash of his old powers, scoring 79 not out in fine style. A collection made for him realised £65. Garrett (38), Spofforth (36), and Massie (25) were the other chief scorers. J. W. Trumble took six for 84. Victoria made 206—Trumble 35, Swift 28, Worrall 27, Walteis 26, Morris 22 not out, Horan 21. Spofforth had five wickets for 95. With 209 required to win, tbe home side got home by three wickets, mainly owing to Alec Bannerman, in first, not out at the finish with 96, aud George Bonnor, who hit up 58, sending one ball over the pavilion. Tom Horan had one of his occasional succasses with the ball, taking four for 29. There were many points of interest about this match : the evenness of the scoring—all four in n iD gs being over 200 and under 250, and only two individual innings out of twenty- three of double figures being over 50 ; the fact that Massie sent Victoria in first on a perfect wicket; the allegation that Alec Bannerman was caught at point at 62 but given not out by the umpire, which, if true, probably de­ cided the result of the game ; the absence of McDonnell, Palmer, Blackham and Scott, all disqualified by the Victoria Cricket Association for refusing to play in a test match, from the Victoria side (McDonnell never played for his native colony again but removed to Sydney); and the presence in the visiting side of three men (Musgrove, McSbane and Worrall) who were represent­ ing Victoria against New South Wales for the first time, but ha I already played for Australia, in the match at Melbourne on New Year’s Day, when the abstenton of tbe Fourth Australian ^.team’s members left Australia very weak. John Mcllwraith, the man who disappointed his admirers so much when here in 188B, played his first match for Victoria in the series (he had played against Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in 1684-5, however) at Melbourne, Christmas, 1885, and ran up 133. H. J. H. Scott made 111 without a chance; and Bruce and Palmer scored 71 each. Scott and Bruce sent up 136 before a wicket fell. The total was 471. Against this New South Wales could only raise 168 and 234, and were beaten in an innings. Sam Jones (25 and 77 not out), the latter innings a notably plucky and dogged one, Garrett (17 and 50), J. Mather (49 and 7), Bonnor (15 and 29), and McDonnell (26 and 7) made most of the runs, Jones and Garrett adding just U0 together in the second innings. Mather, top scorer in the first innings,, was making his debut; a young player of considerable promise, he had his cricket spoiled by an injury to his eyes, caused by the bursting of a soda-water bottle. Spofforth had removed to Melbourne, and had ten wickets for 128 agaiust his old comrades in this match. New men on the visiting side, besides Mather, were Charles Thomas Biass Turner (the Terror), F. J. Burton, a good wicket-keeper, VV. W. McGlinchy, afteiwards a great man in Queensland cricket circles, and David Ogilvy, who, in the course of the game, was hit on the head by a ball returned by Palmer and lamed by Spofforth. Murdoch and the Bannerman brothers were absentees. The former was not chosen because he disregarded the selector’s notification that he must prac­ tise ; Alec Bannerman was left out because he demanded £15 as fee and expenses, and Charles for no reason that anyone could well guess at, after his brilliant form in the last match. Tim Garrett had five wickets for 121 in the long Victorian innings; but the “ Terror” had 44 runs scored off him with­ out taking a wicket; and on the other side George Palmer, who had in other years done such execution, could only secure one for 84. To be continued. The Hon. G. W. Lyttelton, of Eton and Cam­ bridge, has joined the Eton staff of masters. In a match at Shirehampton on September 5 E. Hill scored 34 runs (five G’.sand a 4) off an over. Mr. T. Swindells is preparing a book, to be pub­ lished in the spring, entitled Lancashire County Cricket Records, 1865-1908. It will be illustrated, and issued at Is. net. Me Beth’s engagement as bowler at Adelaide has expired, and the Committee of the South Australian Cricket Association have decided not to renew the agreement. The Queensland Association have re-elected its President, the H on. J. F. G. Foxton. and Mr. J. Allen to the Board of Control for the ensuing twelve months. In the last week of August A. B. S. White repre­ sented New South Wales against Victoria at hockey, and F. Laver and Vernon Ransford appeared for Australia against the American Fleet at baseball in Sydney. R ICHARD DAFT’S “ Nottinghamshire Marl.”— Particulars apply, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. [A dvt .