Cricket 1908

D e c . 24, 1908. CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 4 7 3 is a really good hat, 1hough he did not shape like it in Australia. One of the most interesting batsmen to’ watch is tho Queenslander, Marshal. He hits the ball all right. Against Sussex I saw him take five 4’s in successive balls from strokes all round the wicket. Rhodes has batted well, and bowled better than for some seasons. Sam Woods was asking about ou, and was verj pleased to hear you did so well 1st season. “ Ihe game has altered a lot since I played it over here. Back-play is much more in vogue, and getting in front to play the ball away to the on-side. If I was picking an English team 011 the season’s form I would have Fry, Hayward, Jessop, Tyldes­ ley, Hirst, Lilley, Brearley, Blythe, Denton, Now- steid, and Rhodes I don’t reckon Tarrant and Marslial, for they are Australians. Nor do I include Barnes, as he has played only minor county cricket. Personally, I have had quite a good season, and gathered in close on 1.000 runs. I was asked to turn out again for Sussex, but somehow all the grounds over here seem to have sunk a good deal since last I fielied on them. I expect to get back to Australia some time in November. The roads all through the country here are perfect, a great portion of them being tarred, on account of the motor traffic. The motor traffic all over England is wonderful. ” The old Oxonian’s reminiscences are very interesting, but liis remark that last season was the “ best for years ” for batsmen is not in accordance with fact. A t one period of the Melbourne innings against St. Iiilda, on the latter’s ground, on October 31st, thirty-five consecutive singles were scored. O n the Sydney Cricket Ground on October 10th B. .T. Folkird scored 149 out of 199 in one hundred and sixty-five minutes for Balmain v. Sydney Univer­ sity. His chief strokes were twenty-two 4’s. In addition to being a very good right-handed batsman, he is a medium- paced bowler of more than average merit. “ Not Out ” of the Sydney R eferee re­ marks. “ He strikes one as a player full of possibilities for an English tour, posses­ sing strength, stamina, and good abilities as batsman and bowler.” T h e Sydney Deaf and Dumb Institu­ tion and the Melbourne Deaf College played a match on the Institution’s ground on October 17th. It was drawn. The totals were : M. D. C., 88 (C. Robertson, 00 not out) ; Sydney D. and D. I., G5 for five wickets. On the Sydney Cricket Ground two days later the Melbourne Deaf team scored 179 (V. Harding, 64 ; C. Robertson, 49) against Petersham Superior Public School, who lost seven wickets for 76. T h e Sydney R eferee of October 28th records an instance of a team winning without losing a wicket. In the Northern Suburbs Association (Sydney), Methodist ran up 174 and applied the closure with­ out having lost a wicket. They then dismissed Naremburn for 53 and 113, and thus won by an innings and 8 runs. Leslie Lee scored 110 not out for Methodist and S. Brainwood 54 not out. P a d d in g t o n , who lacked the services of Victor Trumper owing to the death of a sister earlier in the week, were respons­ ible for a good run-getting performance against Sydney on the University Oval on October 3ist. They were set 284 to win in two hours and thirty-seven minutes and succeeded in making the runs for the loss o f four wickets. The opening pair, M. A. Noble (51) and R. Strange (61), scored 109 together in fifty minutes, the first 50 being made in nine­ teen, and F. Gow (103 not out) and G. L. Sayle (51) added 141 for the fourth wicket. Paddington made the necessary 284 runs in two hours and a-quarter and, in all, scored 309 for four wickets in one hundred and fifty-seven minutes. F ro m the Sydney Sportsman : — “ When the next Australian team is selected, the great problem which the selectors will have to solve is the gathering together of bowling talent. Some­ times a fairly good bowler in Australia will be almost a top-noteher in England. Take the case of Laver in 1005. Out here he was very seldom used, yet in England he performed with gi*cat success until bowled to a standstill. ” The same view has been expressed more than once recently in the columns of Cricket. T h e Queensland correspondent of the Sydney R eferee tells an amusing story of Redgrave when playing for Toowong shortly after his arrival from Sydney. Having great difficulty in getting a young partner to run for easy ones, Redgrave cut one past point, and, though his partner wouldn’t respond, Redgrave ran up and touched him, and before returning to his own wicket said quaintly, “ Never mind, Sonny, we’ll get the next one, won’t we '?” Redgrave, by-the-way, contributed 204 to Valley’s total of 321 against Toowong in Brisbane on October 31st. He hit nine 6 ’s and twenty 4’s. T h e Blairs C.C. made 240 without the loss o f a wicket against Ipswich Grammar School, at Ipswich (Queensland) on Oc­ tober 24th, J. McCormack scoring 140 not out and W . Campbell 99 not out. The Grammar School had been previously dismissed for 93. T a sm a n ia n cricketers are looking for­ ward to a busier season than usual. The North will meet the South in Hobart this week and at Launceston at Easter. On January 1st and 2nd a Bendigo teani will play at Hobart, and in February two inter - State matches will take place with Victoria, the first at Hobart and the return at Launceston. The official opening of the season was on October 24th. T h e k e was some fast scoring in Cape Town on October 31st. Greenpoint, having made 355 for seven wickets against Western Province in response to a total of 2 0 2 , declared their innings closed. Western Province made such excellent use of the time remaining for play that in the half-hour available they ran up 90 for the loss of only one wicket. On the same date Bennet (159) and Fock (104) added 245 for the third wicket o f Alma v. Cape Town. T h e following is taken from The Latest, the bright little sporting paper published at Durban :— Natal is noted for independent ideas in sport, as well as in polities, and no further proof was needed of tho integrity and sound principle which follow any action by a Natal body than the wholesale indifference to what other centres may think as to questions of policy pursued by this Colony in the field of sport. Take this litest case of the cricket squabble. Natal, hat in hand, decided to apologise for certain allegations, whether true or false, for the Natal authorities recognised the inevitable, and that the only way to reopen tho questions at issue was by bevng temporarily unconscious that any misappre­ hension exi-itcd as to the actual distribution of the tour profits being proportionate under the moral terms of an agreement which allowed for £150 to be put up, and the balance to he called on when wanted, and of which tho first half was paid. Tho amount of the guarantees could have b-jen had for the asking, and the doubt as to those guarantees being good was never in question, so why Natal should be the loser of sundry sums that have lieljjed to swell the revenue of another centre needed some more satisfactory explanation than to cast reflec­ tions as to why the money was not put up by a certain date, seeing that there was no necessity to collect such money. However, the most politic move, and at the same time the most creditable, was to adopt the attitude of firm, but polite, con­ ciliation, and await developments, what time the Whole matter is thoroughly threshed out to the satisfaction of all the centres concerned. In the meantime, now that an apology for the allegations Ins been sent to the S.A.C.A., the latter has seen fit to also make l'amende honorable, and the amount to which Natal was entitled has been voted to that centre. A P h il a d e l p h i a n team will play a series of matches in the West Indies in February under the captaincy of Dr. Lester. U p on the recommendation of the Com­ mittee appointed for the purpose, the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia have awarded mementoes to the members of the team which visited us last season. A. M. Wood was honoured for his batting, J. B. King for bowling—a most thoroughly well-deserved award—and C. C. Morris for fielding. F. S. White and H. Y. Hordern came in for special mention, the former for batting and the latter for fielding. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. II. P. B a ily . —The match was won by Harrison College inasmuch as when the eighth wicket fell there was no one left to go in. The innings of Pickwick was thci’cfore completed when the eighth batsman left, and in tho circumstances you state the first part of Law 45 has no bearing on the matter. “ L anka.” — Vou arc correct in assuming that Dr. W. G. Grace’s term of captaincy of the Glouces­ tershire XI. exceeds that of Lord Hawke’s of Yorkshire. “ X.K .Z.” (Scvcnoaks).—We fear that space is too valuable at the present time. Many thanks none the less. At Mackay, Queensland, on October 10th, II. L. Kelly (157) and Joseph (20 not out) added 123 for the last wicket. At Maryborough on the same day Gilbert Morton hit 45 runs off throe overs for United Exiles v. Aldershot. W. Smith scored 200 for Glebe 2nd v. Rcdfern 2nd at Erskinevillc on October 24. On the same day A. Lawrcnce, a left-hander, made 252 not out for Glebe 3rd v. Balmain 3rd at Birchgrove and E. P. Barbour 211 for Sydney Grammar School v. The King’s School. Barbour had previously made 75r86, St5, and 03 in consecutive innings. The AMERICANCRICKETER. Founded 1877. Published by H. K. Cornish on b e h a 'f o f The Associated Cricket Club? o f Philadelphia. An Illustrated Journal of Cricket, Association Football, Tennis, Golf, and Kindred Pastimes. 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