Cricket 1909

May 6, 1909. CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 109 CRICKET AT OXFORD. THE SENIORS’ MATCH. Played on May 3, 4 aud 5. Brandt’s side won by 133 runs. M r . D . R . B r an d t ’ s S ide . First innings. H. C. Dunell, b Cattley ... 24 C. P. Leese, run o u t ........... 68 A. C. L. Clarke, c Hooman, b Cattley .......................... 9 M. G. Salter, c Hooman, b Braddell ........................... 8 F. B. Burr, c Hooman, b Cattley .......................... 25 D. K. Brandt, hit wkt, b Jesson.................................44 S. E. Gay, b Sheppard ... 16 H. R. Wakefield, b Cattley 15 F. H. Turner, not out ... 21 C. K. Langley, lbw, b Jesson 19 M. lv. Mackenzie, b Braddell 25 Lb 2, w 1. nb 1 .......... 4 Second innings, c Seitz, b Cattley 34 b Sheppard.......... 29 b Sheppard..........34 c and b Jesson ... 36 not out..................41 not out..................70 B 6 , lb 5, w 2... 13 S y d n e y G ram m ar S chool . Total .................278 Total (4 wkts)*257 * Innings declared closed. M r . C. V . L. H ooman ’ s S id e . First innings. Second innings. G. C. Latham, b Mackenzie 3 1) Mackenzie... 8 G. C. Strahan, b Langley... 0 b L a n g ley ..... 4 .J A. Seitz, c Gay, b Langley 1 b Mackenzie ... 47 R. L. L. Braddell, c Salter, b Turner .......................... 54 b Mackenzie ... 17 C.V. L. Hooman, b Langley 0 c Clarke, b Wake­ field.................. 21 H. Brougham, c Gay, b Mackenzie.......................... 1 cBurr, b Turner 20 J. R. Tylden, b Mackenzie 1 st B r a n d t, b Turner .......... 85 R. W. Jesson, c and b c Clarke, b Mac- Turner .........................10 kenzie ............ 42 F. L. Sheppard, not out ... 7 c Leese, b Turner 9 F. C. Cattley, b Turner ... 0 c Turner, b Mac­ kenzie ........... 2 J. C. Bailey, b Wakefield... 11 notout ........... 4 B 16, lb 4, nb 3.........23 B 26, lb 4, nb 2 32 Total ...111 T otal.......... 291 M r . B ra n d t ’ s S id e . O. M. R. W . O. M. R . W . Sheppard ... 18 2 42 1 ........... 15. 1 58 2 Jesson .......... 22 0 90 2 ........... 14 0 55 1 Cattley........... 27 5 78 4 ........... 17 2 74 1 Braddell... ... 182 364 2 ............ 8 0 57 0 Cattley bowled a no-ball and a wide, and Braddell two wides. M r . C . V. L . H oom an ’ s S id e . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Langley............ 9 1 18 3 ........... 12 1 52 1 Mackenzie ... 8 2 33 3 ........... 26 4 96 5 Turner ........... 6 1 22 3 ........... 14 1 47 3 Wakefield ... 4.2 0 15 1 ............ 15 3 64 1 Langley delivered three no-balls and Wakefield two CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA. RECORD SCOEING. S ydney G ra m m a r S chool v . S yd n ey C hurch of E ngland G ra m m a r S chool , on the North Sydney Oval on March 19, 20 and 22. The latter won the toss and, although their first wicket realised 139 and their total 301, they were beaten by an innings and 519 runs. S .G .S. established a world’s record for an inter-school match by scoring 916. Barbour batted six hours and a-quarter without a mistake, and hit sixty-two 4’s : he also took eleven wickets for 120. Farrar’s 229 lasted three hours and included a 6 , a 5, and twenty-nine 4’s : he offered only one chance, but that an easy one — when 120. Score and analysis:— S ydney C h u rch of E ngland G r am m ar S chool . First innings. Second innings. R. C. M. Boyce, lbw, b G regg..................................61 run out .........25 C. J. Tozer, c Gregg, b Barbour ..........................140 b B arbour......... 4 H. H. Merewether, c Gregg, b Barbour.......................... 31 c Buckle, b Scott 11 K. V. McDonald, c and b Barbour .......................... 20 b Scott................. 0 R. L.Sayers, b Sheldon ... 6 b Scott................. 5 A. B. Adams, b Barbour ... 13 b Barbour.......... 0 C. B. McCulloch, b Sheldon 1 b Scott.................. 7 J- W. Forbes, c Lamrock, b Barbour.......................... 5 b B arbour.......... 2 R. J. A. Massie, b Barbour 2 b B arbour..........IS K. A. Fraser, not out........... 1 not out .......... 5 N. E. Lillyman, b Barbour 0 b Scott................. 1 B 15, lb 4, w 2 ...........21 B 12, lb 6 ... 18 E. P. Barbour, c Mc­ Donald, b MeCulloch356 J. C. Lamrock, c and b Massie .................. 38 H. E. Pratten, b Tozer 31 F. Buckle, c Adams, b Massie .................. 14 N. M. Gregg, c Mc­ Donald, b Massie ... 27 G. R. Barry, c Mere­ wether, b Adams ... 47 1 2 3 4 5 F. M. Farrar, c Fraser, b M assie....................229 W. Sheldon, lbw, b McDonald ..............20 L. Scott, b McCulloch 32 C.R.Slieldon.bMassie 33 W. M. Pitt, not out... 9 B 68 , lb 9, w 3 ... SO Total ...916 155 216 268 345 466 606 653 831 870 916 S ydney C h u rch of E ngland G ram m ar S chool . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Barbour......... 25*5 4 78 7 ........... 13 2 42 4 Sheldon.......... 15 2 50 2 ............ Gregg ......... 16 3 37 1 ............ Scott ........... 13 1 48 0 ............ 7-2 3 17 5 Barry .......... 18 3 46 0 ............ 6 2 19 0 Buckle ........... 5 1 14 0 ............ Lamrock ... 3 0 7 0 ............ S yd n ey G ram m ar S chool . O. M R. W. O. M. R. W. Massie 64-1 8 225 5 Forbes ... 14 0 77 0 McDonald 37 4 138 1 Tozer ... 7 0 43 0 McCulloch 36 3 183 2 Merewether 6 0 36 0 Adams ... 13 2 41 1 Boyce ... 1 0 5 0 Sayers .. 19 1 88 1 SOME CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW. Total... ...301 Total... C hapter II. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. [Continuedfrompage %.) New South Wales won the seventieth match (Sydney, January, 1903) also, but had not yet caught up their old rivals, the score being 34 to 36. This was a far more interesting game than that at Melbourne. No one did very much against Pye (four for 53) and McBeth (four for 70) in Victoria’s first; Bruce, turning out again for his old side, was top scorer with 38 ; McAlister made 37, Noonan 29, Armstrong 26, Graham 25, and Ellis 23 ; the total was only 207. But after that the game was always interesting. There was a regular pyrotechnic display by Duff (132) and Trumper (130), who sent up 267 in one hundred and thirty-five minutes before the first New South Wales' wicket fell; but the other nine went down for an addition of 100, only Charles Gregory (37) doing any­ thing. Then the Victorians, with their backs to the wall, struggled manfully. Arm­ strong (118) aud McAlister (84) were their best men ; and these two added 102 in part­ nership for the fourth wicket. But others did well also. Ellis, the colt, made 53, Bruce, the veteran, 48, Laver scored 35. Hastings 25, and Mailer 24. The home side were set 268 to get to win. Trumper went for a duck, as did Charles Gregory, and Mackenzie only made 2. Duff (39) and Noble made something of a stand ; but five wickets were down for 120 when the colt, 11 N. Hickson, joined bis captain By play of the finest type they hit off the remaining runs, the crack being 103, the young-ter 89, at the finish. The two new men engaged in this match did nobly for their respective sides, Hickson with this timely contribution and Matthew Ellis with 76 in h's double effort. Ellis does not think he has had fair play from the Viclorian selectors, and has not scrupled to say so with an emphasis that may not have aided his chance of getting it; Hickson, who was stated after this match to be almost a certainty for the next team for England, dropped out, came in again, and, after proving rather disappointing, is now up-country and practically outside the field of selection. He is still quite a young man, however, and his career may not have finished yet. McBeth had nine wickets for 181 in the match ; Collins, auother player who has not realised expectations, took five for 85 in New South Wales’s first innings. The seventy-first match (Melbourne, Christmas, 1903) saw the welcome re­ appearance of Harry Trotfc, whom a mental ailment, from which he had now happily quite recovered, bad kept out of cricket for several seasons. J. F. Giller also reappeared ; and there were two new men, Eliot Moofries on the side of Victoria, and James Rainey Munio Macloiy on that of New South Wales. Monfries, a South Australian by birth, had only recently come to Melbourne, but had already represented Victoria four times (twice v. South Australia and twice v. English sides); he was thought to show ability far in advance of any of the home-reared stumpers, but did not lieep his place long. Mackay, known to Sydney as “ Sunny Jim,” has had the roughest of luck. After making a big repu­ tation on matting wickets up at Ural!a he came down to Sydney, and soon accommo­ dated himself to turf. Many thought he ought to have been included in the Australian team of 1905, and in 1905-6 he showed marvellous form. Then he went to Johannes­ burg, was within a very little of being chosen to visit us as a South African in 1907, was knocked down by a motor-cyclist after the Afrikander team had sailed, and is, to all appearances, out of first-class cricket for good, his eyesight having been badly im­ paired as a result of the accident. He returned to Australia, was for a short time at Melbourne, then went back to Sydney, aud has now sought his old home, Uralla. Perhaps the wider spaces over which the vision can sweep up-country will help to restore its old keenness and truth to Mackay’s eyesight. One hopes so. In any­ thing approaching his form of three years since, he would have been a certainty for the present Australian team. There was trouble with the crowd on the first day of this match, rain stopping play, and the spectators considering that it was not resumed early enough. Hugh Trumble was top scorer in Victoria’s first. He had turned out again because he was needed for the Test matches; and his capital 80 seemed to point to runs as well as wickets in them, but he never once got going with the bat against Warner and his men. Laver made 49, Armstrong 44, Trott 38, McAlister 34, and Charles McLeod 30 not out. Armstrong and McAlister put on 66 for the second wicket, Trumble and Laver 88 for the sixth, Trumble and McLeod 68 for the eighth. Noble had four wickets for 68. On a wicket that had been badly damaged by the rain Duff (41) and Kelly (31) sent up 51 before the first wicket, Duff’s, fell. Trumper (43) played in the same slashing style as Duff, and the 100 went up, with only two wickets down, in sixty-eight minutes. But Charles Gregory and Howell (18 each) were the only other batsmen who made double figures, and the innings closed with a deficit of 129, McLeod having bowled splendidly and taken seven wickets for 34. McAlister made 39, Trott 35, and Bruce 26 in the earlier part of Victoria’s second innings; but seven wickets were down for 131, and the play had been dull on the whole until Stuckey came in. The left-hander hit out finely, and McLeod