Cricket 1909

CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 27, 1909. THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of the South African Cricket Association at Johannesburg on the 1st inst., a letter was read from the M.C.C. stating that matters were proceeding satisfactorily regarding the sending of a team to South Africa in the autumn, and asking the terms and programme. It was decided that a sub­ committee should draft a programme and submit same at a meeting on the following Friday. A letter was also read from the Australian Board of Con'rol with rcfereuce to tbe visit of a South African team to Australia during 1910-11, aud suggesting the matter be discussed and arrange 1 during the Triangular Conference at Lord’s this summer. (Agreed to). An invitation was read from the New Zealand Cricket Council asking to play five or six matches there when the South Africans sent a team to Australia. It was decided to reply that the Association would beTglad to consider this when the matter with Australia was settled. The Association decided to approach other sporting bodies in South Africa, to whom the late Sir D. Currie gave cups, suggesting that subscriptions, with a limit of Is., be made, for the purpose of erecting a memorial to Sir D. Currie in South Africa. SOME CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW . C hapter II. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. (Continued from page 110.) There were as mariy as seven new players in the two elevens at Melbourne, Christmas, 1904. For New South Wales (who lacked. Trumper) the Rev. Ernest Frederick Waddy, George Leonard Garnsey and P. B. Johnson, all three talked of at one time or another as likely members of Australian teams, appeared; the Victorian side included Veruon Ransford and W. Carkeek, who are member* of the Thirteenth Australian Team, as well as R. M. Osborne and W. J. Scott, who have not made their marks to anything like the same extent. New South Wales led off wit i 213. No le’s chanceless 85, wlrich occupied 145 miuutes in compilation, was the only big score. Syd Gregory (31) helpe 1 him to put on 53 for the fourth wicket, and Hopkins (14) stayed with him while 50 were added for the fifth. Howell score 1 27. McLeod took 4 for 42. Victoria reached exactly the same total as the visitors. Stuckey made 73by sound cricket; Arm-trong scored 46, and Ransiord 23. The men from Sydney did mnch better at their second attempt. Noble was again the backbone of the defence, scoring 70 ; but he was very slow, averaging only just over 20 ruus an hour. Duff (60) an I Hopkins (30) s nt up 68 for the first wicket; bill Howell, who made 64 in 70 minutes, did the lion’s share of the scoring during his partnership of 101 for the fourth with Noble ; Waddy (63) and Kelly (56) added 87 for the eighth ; and Cotter (56 not out) and Kellv 64 for the ninth. Collins's analysis of 5 for 103 in an iunings of 480 was distinct­ ly good. It would have been a big feat for Victoria to w in; but at least the Rome side made a good attempt. McAlister (59) and Stuckey (75) put up 130 before a wicket fell. Armstrong (37) helped Stuckey to add 54 for the third wicket. The fourth and fifth wickets went cheaply ; but McLeod (57) and Ransford (43) offered a determined resistance, and added 75 for the sixth. Scott and Carkeek each scored 24 ; but it was only delayir g the inevitable, and New South Wales won by 135. Johnson’s leg-breaks had 7 for 134 in the match. By winning the Sydney game New South Wales pulled level, for the first time since the forty-sixth match, fourteen years earlier. The Sydneysiders’ first innings of 421 was marked by very even scoring, and a succession of useful partnerships. There were ten double-figure innings; Trumper made his 81 by brilliant cricket in 88 minutes, and Noble his 65 in 97 minutes. Hopkins (37) helped Trumper in a stand of 102 for tbefirst wicket; Trumper and Noble added 48 for the second, Howell (34) and Noble 49 for the third, Kelly (50) and Waddy (35) 50 for the eighth, Kelly and Garnsey 53 for the ninth, and Cotter (21 not out) and Garnsey 23 for the last. Syd Gregory made 40. Garnsey’s score was only 16; but he was in while 76 runs were added. Thanks mainly to a very dogged display by Giller, who batted just on five and three- quarter hours for his 125, being first in and ninth out, Victoria raised 345. Giller gave two chances. Ransford (62) helped him to add 107 for the second wicket in two hours ; and he also found useful assistants in Carkeek, who made 25 of the 37 added for the thiid, Armstrong, whose share of the 81 for the fourth was 55, and McLeod (22) with whom he added 47 for the seventh Giller had to have a runner for the greater part of his innings; Noble asked Carlton, who was act­ ing in tbat capacity, to put on pads when the score had reached 152, and directly following on the resumption after this stoppage Carkeek got out. Cotter took 5 for 83. Noble’s 112, made by beautiful cricket in 116 minutes, was the only remarkable feature of New South Wales’ second innings, the other chief scorers being Hopkins (30), Duff (26) and Kelly (22). The last-named helped Noble to add 69 for the third wicket; Syd Gregory was in with him while 50 were put on for the fourth, and Waddy while 42 were added for the fifth. Johnson and Hopkins made a stand of 42 for ttie tenth. Armstrong had four wickets for 57. Any outside chance the visitors might have had was spoiled by rain. They could only make 132, Carkerk’s 46 and Scott’s 21 being the principal items. Hopkins, whom such a wicket generally suits, had 4 for 14. This was the seventh successive match at Sydney in the series in which over 1000 runs had been registered. The sequence was to be broken in 1905-6. Noble’s four efforts against Victoria, three of them top scores for his side in the innings, in ] (104-5, were 85, 70, 65 and 112—a total of 332. As was the case a year earlier, there were seveu fresh faces in the two teams at Melbourne for the Christmas match of K.05-6. Por New South Wales appeared Charles George Macartney, John Aloysius O'Connor, S. J. Redgrave and B. Grounds ; for Victoria, E. V. Carroll, then quite a youth, a player who should yet find his way into Internation­ al cricket, James Horan, son of “ Felix,” and A. H. Christian. Three of the seven, though still playing first-cla^s cricket, are no longer identified with the States they then represented. Less than a year later S 'U ili Australia called upon O’Connor to come over and help them, and he went; Redgrave migrated to Brisbane a season ox- two ago ; and Christian is now a West Australian. At the end of the season of 1903-4 Grounds had taken six wickets for 8 runs v. Queensland at Brisbane — a remarkable feat whatever the state of the wicket—but he did not get another chance, even against Queensland,, in 1904-5, and the match now under review is the only one in which he has repr esented New South Wales since. It was noted that of the eight Sydney players included in the Twelfth Australian Team a few months before, only two—Cotter and Noble—appeared in this game. The others were not missed, though Victoria began well. McAlister won the toss; and Christian, a left-hander, with Warne for a partner, immediately set about the bowling. The first wicket realised 144 in ninety-one minutes, and of these Christian made 98, including sixteen 4’s. His inclusion kept Giller out; and it must be admitted that the spectators profited by the change. Warne kept on the even tenor of his way, unbustled, unhurried. McAlister (40) helped him to add 73 for the second wicket, Armstrong (43) 90 for the third. Thus 307 were up when the third wicket fell; but, after Warne was out at 309, having batted just on four hours for his 115, in which he gave two chances, a slump set in. Laver (24) and Ransford (22 not out) added 38 for the eighth wicket; but theirs was the only resistance to Garnsey, Cotter and Macartney after Warne had gone, and the total was only 367—60 for the last teven wickets. Then New South Wales performed as follows—the figures show the fall of wickets:— 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 78 ’ 345 ’ 570 ’ 643 ’ 643 ’ 657 ’ 754 ’ 756 ’ 797 ’ 805 ' These figures are worth giving, for 805 is the record score in first-class cricket on the Melbourne Ground. {To be continued.) J. P. Willson took four wickets with consecutive halls for Turnham Green v. Kingsland United on the formor’s ground on Thursday last. NOT-OUT 261 TI.o Ccunc'aKo Eat - 21/- A Popular County Captain and Test Match Player after one of his characteristic fire­ work displays with his favorite Bat—the Boundarie. The best Driving Bat, Perfect Shape, und thoroughly seasoned. Jessop Boundarie Bat 25/- Lancashire Witch Bat.. 17/6 Ranji Bat..................... 15/- Sug&’s Spccfal Club .. 12/6 Do. Klynkcr .. .. 7/6 Co. 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