Cricket 1909

202 CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 17, 1909. whose ‘ trying ’ fever is infective, whose sparkling enthusiasm is an example for the frigidity of the demeanour common to certain indispensable Test match players who think that Tests were only invented to see them bat.” Two well-known lovers of the game have joined the great majority during the past week. Sir Frederick Paul Haines, the oldest Field-Marshal in the British Army, who passed away on Friday in his ninetieth year, had played a good deal in his younger days, but without gaining distinction. He was often at Lord’s, having been elected a member of the M.C.C. in 1890 under the rule which enables the Committee to admit yearly three distinguished men. The other enthusiast was Sir Daniel Cooper, second Baronet, who died in London on Sunday in his sixty-first year. He never made a name for himself as a player, but he was a patron of the game and followed the great matches with much interest. A t OldTrafford on the 9th inst., during the match between Manchester and the Mid-Lancashire League, Taylor, of Cadis- head, had the misfortune to break his knee-cap. I t is worthy of note that, although Dennett obtained fourteen Northampton­ shire wickets last week, he did not once hit the stumps, seven of the men he dis­ missed being caught, five stumped, and two leg-before-wicket. Therefore, if the old-fashioned practice of recording the bowler’s name only when a wicket was bowled down had been in vogue, Dennett’s name would not have appeared on the score-sheet. This recalls the fact that when the late Henry Arkwright took eighteen wickets for M.C.C. v. Gentlemen of Kent, at Canterbury in 1861, lie bowled but three of them, and that the late Edward Barratt took all ten wickets of the Australians for the Players of Eng­ land at the Oval in 1878 without hitting the wicket once. In the five matches in which he has bowled for Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire Dennett has had the following figures :— Year. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. 1907 ................ - { 15 1 8 9 12 8 7 J 33-5 12 51 7 >> ................- { 24 6 46 8 1908 ................ J 37 - I 2(5 14 63 77 3 ..........................46 16 77 5 1909 ................ 1 29-4 ” I 30-3 6 96 77 6 8 Totals ... .......... 248 77 508 59 Thus in five matches he has taken 59 wickets at a cost of 8-61 runs each. T h e late Mr. D. W. Evans, whose death was announced in Cricket of May 6th, left estate of the value of ±‘35,540 8s. 3d. He left ±'500 to the West of Scotland C.C., of which he had been a member since 1871. N. C. T o f n e l l , of Cambridge, and M. G. Salter, of Oxford, have been awarded their Blue. The Cambridge side is now almost complete, among those who will play against Oxford being Buchanan, Falcon, Ireland, Lockhart, Lyttelton, Macleod, Nason, Olivier, Tufnell and Wright. The remaining place appears to rest best between Collins, Mann, Prest and Ramsbotham. Prest played two fine innings at the end of last week for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower’s XI., but Collins is a player of great possibilities and should stand an excellent chance of being chosen. “ C r ic k e t at Eton,” says the Eton College Chronicle, “ is only too apt to be a game in which each man is playing for himself, in which each man plays not for his side to win, but that he may make runs or get wickets, and maybe be given a colour. Eton cricket has too much of the element of self and too little of cricket for cricket’s sake.” A f o r t n ig h t ago it was my pleasant duty to draw attention to the fine all­ round play of Ernest Robson in the match at Taunton between Somerset and Gloucestershire. Then, it will be recalled, he scored 103 and 85 not out and took six wickets for 45 runs. Last week, in the match with the Australians at Bath, he did little with the bat on a pitch ruined by rain, but he took eight wickets in the first innings for only 35 runs and twelve in the match for 80. In successive overs at the beginning of the Colonials’ second innings he dismissed Bardsley, Noble and Trumper without a run. He and Greswell almost won the match for the County, the Australians experiencing the greatest difficulty in making the necessary 66 runs in the final stage of the game. Eight wickets were lost before the winning hit was made, and, as Whitty was absent owing to indis­ position, the last five runs were made by the last pair available. Somerset made a very plucky fight, and a special word of praise deserves to be given to Braund for his innings of 51, which was by far the highest score made in the match for either side. K. G. M a c l e o d , the Cambridge Blue, has been gazetted to a second-lieutenancy in the Liverpool Scottish (10th Battalion the King’s, Liverpool) Regiment. A c o r r e sp o n d e n t draws my attention to a bowling performance of a very un­ usual nature recently accomplished in a Chesterfield and District League match. Playing for New Whittington against Holmewood Institute on the former’s ground on June 5th, H. Crockley, a fast bowler, took eight wickets without a run being made off him. Furthermore, six of the wickets were taken with consecutive balls. I n beating Sussex by three wickets at Manchester on Saturday, after being set 291 to win, Lancashire accomplished an excellent performance. It is compara­ tively seldom that a side succeeds in pulling off the match when set so large a task in the fourth innings, and as Sussex had Leach, Relf (A. E.), Vine, Cox, Vincett and Killick to bowl for them, the win was thoroughly deserved. Further­ more, Sussex had not previously been beaten this year, and one may feel sure that they made every endeavour to retain their unbeaten certificate. Sharp made his third hundred of the season, and Brearley did well enough to maintain his reputarion as the best fast bowler in the world. The two sides fi,rst met in 1869, and of the 55 matches played Lancashire have won 30 and Sussex 9. Clapp (153 not out) and Jagger (131 not out) put on 294 together without being separated for the third wicket of East Stirlingshire v. Stirling County, at Stirling on Saturday. The innings was declared closed with two wickets down for 303 and Stirling County were beaten by 166 runs. R h o d e s has now taken 2,011 wickets in first-class matches in England. His first season was 1898, when he obtained 154 wickets for 14'60 runs each. In 1900 and in each of the two following years he took over two hundred wickets, the numbers being respectively 261, 251, and 213. W h e n he bowled R . B. Heygate in the first innings of Sussex at Manchester on Thursday last, Walter Brearley took his 500th wicket for Lancashire. They have been obtained at a cost of 18-60 runs each. O f the forty matches played between Sandhurst and Woolwich, the former have now won 20 and the latter 9, the remaining 11 having been drawn. Scores and Biographies states (IX—35) that the match was first played—by permission of the Duke of Cambridge—in 1865. T h e following team has been chosen to represent the Western District in the match against the Australians which commences to-day at Partick:— J. Reid-Kerr (Greenock), captain; John Kerr (Greenock), J. M. Tennent (West of Scotland), H. C. Shaw (Uddingston), C. T. Mannes (Drum- pellier), A. P. Skiel (Drumpellier), A. Downs (Uddingston), W. Ferrier (Kilmarnock), Broadbent (Uddingston), Harry (Kilmarnock), and Benskin (West of Scotland). The eleven to play for Scotland at Edinburgh on the 28th and 29th inst. will b e :— M. R. Dickson (Arbroath), captain; G. K. Chalmers (Forfarshire), R. G. Tait (Forfarshire), H. D. Keigwin (Perthshire), K. G. Macleod (Cam- bridge), J. Bruce-Lockhart (Cambridge), T. A. Bowie (Clackmannan County), J. Anderson (Perthshire), G. W. Jupp (Carlton), Ringrose (Forfarshire), and Broadbent (Uddingston). It will be seen that Bruce-Lockhart and Macleod, the Cambridge Blues, will take part in the latter match. P. F. W a r n e r , writing in the West­ minster Gazette, declares that the tea- interval and the new ball after 200 runs have been scored are the two finest change-bowlers in the world. “ U n u s u a l incidents often happen at Gloucester,” says the Athletic News-