Cricket 1908

474 CR ICK ET A W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. D e c . 24, 1908. OBITUARY. M r . H. M. F a i t h f c l l . Mr. Henry Montague Faithfull, who was born at Springfield, near Goulburn, on June 16th, 1847, died at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, on October 22nd. He was a most serviceable all-round player, and was right- handed both as batsman and (medium- paced) bowler. He has been described as “ Standing over 6 ft., a big-boned man, with dark copious side whiskers, he made a striking figure on the field. . . Among cricketers of the old brigade no man was more highly respected.” He played for Sydney University for several years and in December, 1870, captained the side in the first of the long series of matches played between the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney. The game took place at Melbourne, and, although Mr. Faithfull scored 18 and 37 and took seven wickets for 19 runs in the second innings, the home side proved successful by a couple of wickets. He appeared twice for New South Wales against Victoria—at Sydney in March, 1871, and on the same ground exactly four years later. Without doing anything remarkable, he obtained a double-figure average with the bat and took a few wickets at a reasonable cost. He was for several seasons President of the Sydney University C.C. and for some years occupied a similar position in relation to the New South Wales Gun Club. By profession he was a solicitor. M r . H. C. E. Newcom be. Mr. Henry Charles Edwin Newcombe, an old Australian cricketer, died at Randwick, Sydney, on October 26th in his seventy- fourth year. He played for New South Wales against Victoria in 1861 and two following years, making 47 runs in five completed innings, and appeared for his State against the English teams which visited Australia under the captaincy of Stephenson and Parr. For many years he filled the position of Deputy Registrar-General in the Lands Titles Office, Sydney. M r. J. R ow ley . Mr. Joseph Rowley, a member of the well- known Lancashire cricketing family, died at Dee Bank, Queensferry, near Chester, on November 20th, in his seventy-eighth year. He assisted in establishing the Lancashire County C.C. in 1864 and for some years was one of the most active members of the organization. In the first match played by the Club—against Birken­ head Park at Warrington on June 15th and 16th, 1864—he played an innings of 57, the highest score made for either side. Mr. Rowley was a fine all-round athlete. When past sixty years of age he took to golf and soon became a scratch player, and as recently as 1904 carried off prizes. BOOKS RECEIVED. A>ires’ Cricket Companion. Edited by W. R. Weir. London : F. H. Ayres, 111, Aldersgate Street, E.C. Price, 6d. Early Cricket in Southland. By J. W. II. Banner­ man. Invercargill: W, Smith, Commercial Printer, Esk Street. Price, Is. History of Otago Representative Cricket. By J. W. H. Bannerman. Dunedin: Crown Printing Co., 25, Princes Street. Price, Is. tid. Sport and Athletics in 1908. London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd. Price, 5s. net. Ltaves from an Old Country Cricketer's Diary. By W. E. W . Collins. Edinburgh and London: Wm. Blackwood and Sons. Price, 6s. R ICHARD BAFT'S “ Nottinghamshire Marl.”— Particulars apply, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. [A uvt . SOME CHAPTERS OFAUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW. C h a p ter II. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. [Continued from page UUU.) New South Wales won the return by 150 runs, though Murdoch and Alec Bannerman were again absentees. Charles played this time, his last match in the series. R. Houston was the only new man on either side. The winning side had all the luck of the weather. Moses (74), Garrett (45), and Evans (22) alone made more than fourteen in their first innings. In the second Bonnor (missed at least half-a-dozen times) slogged up 84, and Jones played a sterling defensive innings for 67, the two adding 114 in an unfinished partnership, Bonnor’s left hand being hurt, so that he was unable to resume on the fourth morning. He finished his innings later on, making half-a-dozen runs one-handed. A. P. Marr scored 24, and Turner 22. Palmer (28 and 21), Blackham (20 and 23), Walters (36), and Bruce (28) in the first innings, J. W. Trumble (30) and Houston (24) in the second, did best for Victoria, whose last five wickets in the second went down for nine runs on an awful pitch. Garret had twelve wicketsfor 111,Evans seven for 101; Spofforth, for the losers, took eight for 136. There were five “ run out” decisions in the two New South Wales’ innings. Each side batted on a separate wicket; but this did not even up matters, for Victoria’s luck was of the worst. The thirty-seventh match was made mem­ orable by the most extraordinary innings ever played in the series. There were notable new men in this match, George Henry Stevens Trott, who had been reserve for Victoria in the corresponding fixture of the season before, and for New South Wales John James Ferris, who lies now under the South African mould, and CharlesRichardson, who later migrated to New Zealand and led the Canterbury provincial eleven, as well as the All New Zealand team, on several oc­ casions. McDonnell captained New South Wales, and obtained first innings for his side. Turner was top scorer with 57, Jones made 46, McDonnell 30; then wickets tumbled rapidly, but Ferris hit with more pluck than science for 36, and he and Burton (5 notout) made a valuable stand for the last wicket. Palmer (77), Midwinter (45), J. W. Trumble (42), Bruce (39), and Horan (22), the first five Victorianbatsmen,made225amongthem; the other six totalled 30. The wicket had not worn well, and the second innings of New South Wales was expected to be very short. So it would have been, very probably, but for McDonnell. Moses (29) and Richardson ( 20 ) were the only other batsmen who did much. “ Percy Mac ” made 239! He scored 158 in one hundred and eighty minutes—on a bad wicket, remember—on the Wednesday, and 81 in fifty-eight minutes on Thursday morning, so that his rate throughout averaged almost exactly one per minute. With Alec Bannerman as his partner he made 47 out of the first 50. He hit three 5’s, nineteen 4’s, ten 3’s, thirty-nine 2’s, and forty singles. There were only three chances-—a difficult one to Houston at long-off at 28, a second to Palmer after the century stood to the batsman’s credit, and a third to McShane at 193. Victoria, wanting 323 to win, fell before the new firm of Turner and Ferris (six for 42 and four for 42 respectively) for 138. The “ Terror ” did the hat-trick, clean bowling Palmer, Horan, and John Trumble. The last-named, by-the-way, was one of the most successful of the home-side bowlers, taking six for 84 in the match, the black, Sam Morris, having six for 82. Turner’s complete record was ten for 135. The score of the thirty-eighth match (Sydney, January, 1887) seems to take us back to quite the early days, for only 260 runs were scored in it for the loss of thirty- four wickets. Bad weather was the explana­ tion. The game was to have begun on January 22nd, a Saturday; but rain pre­ vented a start until Monday, interfered with play on Tuesday, and caused Wednesday and Thursday to be blank. On such a wicket Turner and Ferris were bound to be deadly, and Spofforth on the other side was only less so. In the match Ferris had nine wickets for 45, Turner eight for 49, Spofforth seven for 61, Garrett 3 for 16, J. W. Trumble two for 11, and P. G. McShane two for 12. The highest individual innings were 28 by Garrett, 27 by Trumble, 26 not out by Turner, 25 by McDonnell, and 19 by McShane. New South Wales won by six wickets, and was now fast making up her leeway in the series. It was another brilliant achievement by Turner and Ferris that enabled her to get home by two wickets in the Melbourne match of 1887-8. On a bowler’s wicket Victoria went out for 35, of which John Mcllwraith made 20 , while four such capable run-getters as William Bruce, J. W. Trumble, Blaekham, and Harry Trott could not raise a run among them. Turner had five for 17, Ferris four for 17. McDonnell had won the toss and had sent the home side in. Moses (29) and McDonnell (22) were the chief contributors to the New South Wales total of 102. Hugh Trumble, making his first appearance, bowled in fine form, taking seven for 51. On a much improved wicket Victoria did better, J. W. Trumble (57), Horan (54 not out), Bruce (38), Mcllwraith (31), Worrall (26), and Boyle (23) all contributing usefully. With 200 wanted to win, New South Wales had to fight hard. McDonnell (35) and Alec Bannerman (38) did well in the earlier part of the innings, Tom Garrett made 52, and F. J. Burton 21. Only five wickets were down for 173, and the game seemed as good as over ; but the fight came after that, three more wickets falling before the 15 runs needed were scraped together. Besides “ Long Hugh,” Harry Donnan, and William Richardson each made his debut in the series. In the whole match Turner had nine wickets for 114, Ferris eight for 107, H. Trumble seven for 8 8 , and Harry Trott six for 60. This was the first match of the series in which six balls were bowled to the over. The fortieth match (Sydney, January, 1888) made the results 20 all. New South Wales won by an innings and 35 runs, thanks mainly to Harry Moses, who performed the greatest feat of his career in scoring 297 not out. Victoria had first innings, and started well. William Bruce ran up 55 in fifty minutes; Horan (63) and Blackham (54) added 88 for the fifth wicket; but after the board had shown five for 218 the total only reached 267, Worrall (31) alone doing any­ thing in the inglorious second stage of the innings. Turner’s one wicket cost 79. It was the fast bowling of William Richardson (four for 18) that did most of the damage. Moses batted the whole of one day and some considerable time on each of two others— ten and a half hours in all—for his big score. He is stated to have given four chances, and