Cricket 1909

io 6 CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 6, 1909. teen wickets for 7'89 runs each. Every­ one would rejoice if Northants had a good season. T h e late Mr. Richard Digby Cleasby, who played for Eton in 1855 and two following years, left estate of the gross value of j£45,758. The old Lancashire cricketer, Mr. Joseph Rowley, said to be the original of Taffy in Du Maurier’s “ Trilby,” left estate valued at £'10,972 gross, of which .£5,519 is net personalty. “ K in g W il l o w ” writes :—“ Apropos of the paragraph respecting ‘ Felix's’ reminiscence of the Scott-Wade incident at Sheffield in 1886. The crowd probably did yell for Wade to be put on to bowl, but, after Scott had done with him by hitting the four balls of the over for 6-4-4-6, the match was over, only 19 runs being required when Wade began his over. So clearly ‘ Felix ’ is in error about the crowd’s second yell of ‘ Take off Waad.’ It makes a good yarn, of course, but unfortunately does not appear to be founded on fact.” [Memory often plays one curious tricks, and doubtless “ Felix,” when telling the anecdote alluded to, had in mind both the Sheffield match of 1886 and the game v. I Zingari at Scarborough in 1882, and, like the critic of the Eatans- will Gazette ,“ combined his information.” The majority of “ Gossip” readers will recall that in the Scarborough match Bonnor made 0-4-4-6 in the course of a four-ball over from A. P. Lucas, who was then taken off.—Ed., Cricket.] T h e South Australian team which left Adelaide near the end of March for a tour in West Australia arrived at Fremantle on the first of last month. On the following morning—a Friday—they w'ere accorded a civic reception by the Fremantle Muni­ cipal Council, alter which a few of the players had some practice. The first of their three matches against West A ustralia was to have commenced on the Fremantle Oval on the Saturday, but rain prevented a ball being bowled and the start was necessarily postponed until the Monday. issue of Cricket. The deceased’s work covered operations in such far-reaching institutions as the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Agricultural Society of South Australia, and the New Zealand Insurance Company in addition to the South Australian Cricket Association. “ F e l ix ” writes in the Australasian : “ Whitty took my fancy very much, and if hard trying will conduce to success, then one may be sure that the South Australian left-hander will come out with a good bowling record. He told me that he is 22 years of age, and that this is only his third year in cricket.” For a player who has taken part in the game for so short a time his selection for an inter­ national tour must be considered alto­ gether remarkable. In the match between Prahran and North Melbourne on March 20th, E. Bean had made 7 when his exit was caused by a wonderfully fine bit of work by Stephens. He was fielding at silly mid-off. Bean gave him a word of warning to the effect that it was rather dangerous to stand so close. Just after the warning Bean hit one hard. The ball bounced from the turf, and appeared to be going over Stephens’ head. He jumped and with marvellous celerity got the ball in his hand, and all in the one action let fly at the wicket, and fairly astonished Bean, who had started for a run. He had to start for the pavilion, and was loud in his praise of Stephens’s grand piece of work. The Australasian characterised the effort as “ one of the finest bits of fielding ever seen on the Prahran ground." R a ym o n d B a r d s l e y , aged 14, a brothe of Warren Bardsley of the Australian team, made 109 out of 150 for the last six wickets in a competition schools' match on March 17th for Forest Lodge v. Stanmore without giving a chance. Stanmore made 172 and Forest Lodge 171, so that his side was beaten by one run. the Match and Ground sub Committees and any other special Committee, except the Finance Committee, Members of the Club who are not Members of the General Committee. ” Such sub-Committees shall periodically report their proceedings to the Committee. Any sub-Committee shall consist of not less than three Members,two toform a quorum. Theex-officio Members of the Committee shall be ex-officio Members of all sub-Committees. ” The permission of the members will also be asked for the sale of seats in the East Wing of the Pavilion in front of the Press-box in such matches as the Committee may think fit. Y o r k s h ir e have opened their season, at Derby, in characteristic fashion, quite outclassing their opponents in all depart­ ments of the game, but not even their most enthusiastic supporters will, I imagine, expect them to repeat their performance of last year, when they did not meet with defeat on a single occasion. Their programme has been arranged so as to clash as little as possible with the Test matches, and the only occasion upon which they may be called upon to take part in a Championship game with a depleted side is in June, when they will meet Sussex whilst the international match is in progress at Lord’s. In addition to playing twice against the Australians, Yorkshire will also be called upon to lend some of her best players for the two matches arranged for the visitors against a combined team of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Altogether, it will be a heavy season for the men under Lord Hawke’s leadership, and, as several of the best of them are not getting younger, the strain involved by the extra matches is almost bound to tell its tale. D a v id D e n t o n almost succeeded in making a hundred in his first match of the season for the third year in succes­ sion. In 1907 he scored 149 against the Gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bray, and last year 110 at the expense of Northampton­ shire on the latter’s ground. This season he was stopped at 97, being caught whilst trying to hit a boundary in order to com­ plete three-figures. A l t h o u g h Surrey won their match at the Oval this W'eek with a good deal to spare, Northamptonshire deserve hearty congratulations upon plaj ing such a good game on the opening day. Bearing in mind that they won only three of the twenty-two championship matches they commenced last year, it came as a pleasant surprise to find them heading Surrey on the first innings. The fact that S. G. Smith, the West Indian, has completed his qualification, should strengthen the side all round consider­ ably : at the Oval he failed with the bat, but his bowling accounted for nine wickets at a cost of 13 runs each. In the matches in which he took part against the South Africans and the Philadelphians, in 1907 and 1908 respectively, he made 135 runs in three completed innings and took nine­ T h e Adelaide Observer records that F. Laycock, who a couple of years ago was one of Glenelg’s crack bats, has been scoring well at Redhill. For the Redliill C.C. last season he batted seven times, and only once did the opposing side manage to capture his wicket. His scores were:—23, 71 retired, 90 not out, 101 not out, 13 not out, 5‘2 retired, and 47 not out. Laycock was once out, there­ fore, for 397 runs—a fine performance. F r o m the same source I learn that A. Chase, playing for Bute against Wokurna, did some remarkable hitting, the best, in fact, ever seen on the Wokurna Oval. He made 63 in sixteen hits. His figures in the scoring bock speak for themselves :— 6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 2, 1. The Register newspaper of Adelaide has opened a shilling fund for the erection of a memorial to the late Mr. Creswell, whose death was chronicled in the last T h e averages of the four leading bats­ men of the Sydney Grammar School Eleven in competition matches during the past season work out as follows:— Most InnNot in an ings. out. inns. Buns. Aver. E. P. Barbour... ... 11 0 356 878 79-81 J. C. Lamrock ... 11 1 184 747 74-70 F. M. Farrar ... ... 8 1 229 467 66-71 G. 11. Barry .. ... 5 1 146* 246 61-50 * Signifies not out. Barbour’s scores in the matches mentioned were 356, 211, 120, 64, 43, 25, 17, 15, 12, 10 and 5. He also took 56 wickets at a cost of eight aud a-half runs each. A. W r ig h t took four wickets with consecutive balls for Marylebone v. St. Benedict’s in Moore Park, Sydney, on March 20th. Two wickets were bowled down and two caught. A c u r io u s incident is reported to have occurred recently in a country match in Australia. One of the players wore