Cricket 1909

J une 3, 1909. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 175 THE SITUATION. A CONVERSATION WITH MR. CHUCKERUP, THE UMPIRE OF A WEAK-MEDIUM TEAM. “ Good morning, Mr. Chuckerup, I haven’t seen you for a long time.” “ No, sir, I’ve been otherwise elsewhere as I might say. But I’ve just come back from Brumingham.” *•Been to see the Test match ? ” “ That’s so. My club sent me as a depita- tion, like/' “ What did you think of it ? ” “ Well, I thought the Austeralians didn’t play the right game, and didn’t make use of their best chance, and yet they was unlucky.” “ What makes you think that they did not play the right game?” “ Now, I ask you! what’s the good of batsmen being polite to Hirst and Blythe on a bowler’s wicket, and saying ‘ After you , gents ’ ? Look at Jessop, now. What does he do when he comes in ? Why he lets out at once, haphazard like, and gives a couple of chances and has a high old time. I was once watching a lot of kiddies playing on a waste-piece, and I says to a gent who was standing by me ‘ It’s a providential thing as some of them kiddies don’t get hurt by the ball flying about everywhere.’ He was a eddicated gent—not but what I’m a little bit that way myself, as you may have observed —and he said that it wasn’t so much provi­ dential as the law of chances. He said that if you was to take the space took up by a cricket ball and multiply it, or divide it, I’m not sure which, by the number of spaces of the same size tbat there was in the air it was about a million to one against a kid being hurt. So it is in first-class cricket. If you all has a go like Jessop you may come off, for the fielders cau’t be everywhere. You can’t get less than a duck’s egg anyhow, and that’s about what you generally gets when you plays steady on a bad wicket.” “ There may be something in what you say, but how do you make it that the Aus­ tralians did not see their best chance ? ” “ Why, when the ball was kicking about in the second innings, and yet Fry and Hobbs didn’t get out, why didn’t they try Cotter ? Anyone could see that he was eat­ ing his head off for want of a bowl, and he might have upped the whole show in half a jiffey.” “ Perhaps s o ; but you say that the Australians were unlucky?” “ Well, just think of it! How many times in the course of a season do you suppose MacLaren would have made his catch, or Jones his, or Thompson one of his, or Tyldesley his ? Not three times, you may bet your bottom dollar. The Australians was unlucky to win the toss, for they couldn’t in common decency help going in, and they was unlucky all through the match for every­ thing come off for us and nothing for them.” “ Then you think they may win the other Test matches ? ” “ Well, I won’t go as far as saying that. But they’re beggars to think, and they’ll think a lot. They’ve only got two class bowlers, if you don’ t, count Cotter, but they’ll think hard about Cotter, and I shouldn’t wonder if our people think hard about Brearley, or some other fast bowler. But I must be going. I want to see a man about a dog—a gent on the press as keeps bulldogs. So long, sir, till next time. ” W. A. B. (B egd ) T H E I D E A L M A T E R I A L FOR C R IC K E T , T E N N I S , €sc. DOES NOT SHRINK. M aster PHILIP TONGE in “ V I Y E L L A ” S U I T . “ TRUTH »» s a y s : “ The reason men like it so much irt that instead of getting hard in the wash it actually gets softer each tim e.” To be obtained from the leading Outfitters, Hosiers, &c. or name of nearest, with illustrated booklet, sent, on application, by “ VIYELLA,” 7, Viyella House, Newgate Street, LONDON, E.C. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK v. LLOYDS BANK.—Played at Catford on May 27 and 28. N. P. B an k. A. Harrison, b Smith 0 R. Wright, bStanley... 40 W. B. Palamountain, b Smith .................. 0 A. King, e Smith, b Osborne .................. 5 C. G. E. Jones, st Pen­ man, b Stanley ... 32 V. C. Manners, b Osborne ..................17 A. J. Vicary, run out 13 H. E. Moore, c and b Stanley................... 5 J. W. Richards, b O sborn e................ 8 G. A. Cosser, c— b S m ith ................. 0 J. Manners, not out 0 B 3, w 1, nb 2 ... 6 Total ...132 L loyds B a s k . W. Smith, b Richards 52 C. E. Melville, b King 14 E. J. Thomas, not out 34 O Leigh liennett, run out .......................... 0 . Morris, not out ... 10 B 9, lb 1, nb 2 ... 12 Total (3 wkts) 128 NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK v. RICHMOND. Played at Richmond on May 29. N ation al P ro vin cial B ank . R. Wright, b Cameron 3 C. G. E. Jones, c Lind­ say Holt, b Tooth... 87 W. B. Palamountain, b Tooth ................... 5 H. E. Moore, c Lloyd, b Cameron ........... 0 E. II. Stocks, b Cam­ eron ........................... 0 J. W. Richards, c M ei- calf, b Gabbett ... 7 R ichm ond . V. C. Manners, b Gab­ bett .......................... 3 A . K i n g , l b w , b Westmacott .......... 1 G. J. Driver, b Tooth 12 J . Manners, c Lindsay Holt, b Tooth........... 7 G. A. Cosser, not out 1 B 22, lb 2, nb 2... 26 Total ...152 G. A . M e d c a l f , b Richards.................. 1 W. J. Burningham, c Jones, b J. Manners 23 B. L. Bisgood, b Rich­ ards .......................... 4 J. McBryan, c V. Man­ ners, b liichards ... 12 E. Cameron, b J. M anners.................. 0 H. S. Tooth, not out... 19 A. G. Lloyd, b Rich­ ards .......................... 0 R. E. Westmacott, c Moore, b J. Manners W. L. Gabbett, c and b J. Manners.......... G. Lindsay Holt, b Richards .................. W. Williams, c Cosser, b Jones .................. B 5, lb 2, nb 1 ... Total .......... LINCOLNSHIRE v. SUFFOLK. Played at Lincoln on May 31 and June 1 and left drawn. Score and analysis :— S u ffolk . E. Pritchett, c Allen, b Harrison ..........126 C. L. Alexander, b Cooke .................. 2 H. Bassett, b Bacon... 20 Dr. Leeming, lbw, b Geeson .................. 2 W.Catchpole, b Bacon 6 H. L. Wilson, c Bacon, b Cooke .................. 9 D. Mustard, c Crookes, b Cooke .................. 5 C. Catchpole, c Harri­ son, b Cooke .......... 0 F. E. Smith, not out 36 Trudgett, b Cooke ... 1 Penfold, absent...........— Byes, &c..................25 Total .232 Second innings: W. Catchpole, c Alltn, b Cooke, 0 ; Alexander, not out, 16 ; Smith, notout, 8 ; Byes, &c., 7. Total (1 wkt.) 31. L in coln sh ire . Rev. C. G. Ward, b Bassett ..................42 W. Hibbert, b Trud­ gett .........................35 Geeson, b Trudgett... 21 R. E. Williams, c Pritchett, b Smith 12 W. E. Thompson, lbw, b Trudgott .......... 0 L. S. Harrison, c Pritchett,bTrudgett 68 E. T. Cooke, c Catch­ pole, b Bassett ... 1 C.L. Prior, b Smith... 0 J. E. Crookes, c Prit­ chett, b Trudgett... 88 Allen, b Penfold ... 11 Bacon, not o u t ...........10 Byes, &c.............. 15 T otal...........303 O. M R. W. O. M. R. W. Geeson .. 23 7 47 1 1Bacon 20 3 59 2 Cooke 20*1 4 57 5 Hibbert ... 7 1 17 0 Prior 1 0 4 0 I Harrison... 6 1 23 1 L in co ln sh ire . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Trudgett.. 23-4 3 77 5 1Alexander 6 2 IT 0 Bassett .. 23 3 66 2 Penfold ... 13 1 61 1 Smith 12 0 67 2 1 BOOKS RECEIVED. Memoir of Colonel the Rt. Hon. William Kenyon - Slaney, M.P. Edited by Walter Durnford. 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