Cricket 1909

J une 17, 1909. CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 203 “ When Lancashire last played there a local doctor created a scene because A. H. Hornby had to interfere with his attempts to treat Board when that player was injured. On Thursday, when the game was temporarily suspended owing to rain an elderly man, who once played regularly for the Gloucester club, walked out to the wicket, bowled an imaginary ball at one end, proceeded to the other, scattered a double hand full of sawdust over the foot- holes, and was about to repeat the per­ formance when a policeman interfered.” S. S tewart took all ten wickets for 10 runs in 39 balls for Barbarians v. Alameda at San Francisco on May 2nd. The total of the innings for 34. S. L eak , playing for South United in the Adelaide and Suburban Association matches during 1908-9, commenced nine innings, of which six were unfinished, and scored 439 runs with an average of 146’33. His highest score was 166 not out against Parkside. W hilst England were failing against Armstrong at Lord’s yesterday, the Kent men were going down in startling fashion at Tonbridge before Burrows. The Wor­ cestershire fast bowler is becoming some­ thing of a veteran now, seeing that he recently entered upon his thirty-eighth year. But by taking six Kent wickets in 20 balls for 7 runs he accomplished the best feat of his career. M iddlesex is now the only unbeaten first-class county, but few persons would be bold enough to say that their position at the head of the Championship table is deserved. On two occasions—against Gloucestershire and Sussex—rain came to their aid and saved them from defeat, and it is of interest to note that a reverse would place them below Surrey, Lancashire and Kent. If they had James Douglas, Wells and Bosanquet always available they would stand a good chance of going through the season with­ out a defeat, but in their absence it is too much to expect them to accomplish the feat. T he positions of the counties in the Championship table are now as follows:— P. W. L. D. Pts. Percent. Middlesex ........... 6 2 0 4 2 100-00 Surrey ................... 11 8 1 2 7 77-77 Lancashire........... 9 6 1 2 5 71-42 Kent ................... 8 4 1 3 3 60-00 Yorkshire ........... 12 4 2 6 2 33-33 S u ssex................... 8 2 1 5 1 33-33 Notts .................. 6 3 2 1 1 20-00 Leicestershire ... 7 3 3 1 — — Worcestershire ... 6 2 3 1 —1 — 20-00 Hants ................... 5 1 2 2 —1 — 33-33 Somerset ........... 5 1 2 2 —1 — 33-33 Essex ................... 7 1 3 3 —2 — 50-00 Gloucestershire ... 7 1 4 2 —3 — 60-00 D erbyshire........... 8 1 5 2 —4 — 66*66 Northants ........... 7 0 6 1 —6 —100-03 Warwickshire 8 0 3 5 —3 —100 00 C RICKET BATS.—Advertiser has for sale 6 New Guinea Bats, “ Ayre’s," owing to club collapse, 12s. 6d. each, or 70s. the lot.— Kingham , 30, Chidding- stone Street, Fulham. KENT v. WORCESTERSHIRE. Played at Tonbridge on June 14, 15 and 16. THE TONBRIDGE WEEK. Worcestershire won by 108 runs. The opening day’s play went somewhat in favour of the visitors, who scored 240 and dismissed four Kent men for 94. Pearson and Bowley made 51 for the firstwicket and Arnold and Burns 53 for the third. Arnold was seen at his best and made his 70 out of 135 in two hours and a-quarter: he hit seven 4’s and drove well. Considering how true the wicket was Blythe’s analysis of five for 77 was distinctly good. Kent made a poor start, three good wickets falling for 24. Hutchings, however, hit freely and claimed 40 of the 57 runs put on for the fourth wicket in 35 minutes. The stand by Woolley and Day for the fifth wicket realised 70, but after they were separated there was such a collapse that the last five wickets put on only 15. Woolley played very well indeed for two hours for CO, and then played-on to Burrows, who, a little later, sent Fairservice’s off-bail spinning 40 yards. Worcestershire led by 62 on the innings, but upon going in the second time lost half their wickets for 41. Then Simpson- Hayward made 37 out of 62 in 45 minutes, and, with Cuffe batting an hour and a-quarter for 42 and Gaukrodger and Hunt making double figures, the total reached 154. Kent, set 217 to win, scored 51 for the loss of Humphreys’ wicket in the last 50 minutes of the day. On Wednesday Dillon and Seymour remained together until, at 78, the former was caught at slip after batting 75 minutes for 41. Then came a startling collapse and almost before the spectators had time to realise what was happening the whole side had been dismissed for 108, leaving the visitors with a pronounced victory. Burrows took seven wickets for 37 runs, his last 20 balls being sent down for 7 runs and six wickets. It was a great piece of bowling. Score and analysis:— W orcestershire . First innings. Bowley, c Woolley, b Blythe ..........................27 Pearson, c Huish, b Fair­ service ..........................3S Arnold, st Huish, b Blythe 70 W. B. Burns, b Fielder ... 31 Cuffe, c Blythe, b Fielder 5 W. H. Taylor, lbw, b Fair­ service ..........................19 G. H. Simpson-Hayward, b Blythe .......................... 0 Burrows, b Blythe .......... 24 Gaukrodger, not o u t.......... 5 Hunt, b Blythe .................. 4 Hickton, b Fielder ........... 5 B 7, lb 3, nb 2 .......... 12 Second innings. b Fielder ... 15 c Huish, b Fielder 13 c Huish, b Fielder 0 b Blythe ........... 3 c Hutchings, b Fairservice b Blythe ... c Hutchings, Blythe ... b Blythe ... b Fielder ... not out b Fielder ... B 7, nb 2 Total .......... 240 K ent . Total............154 Second innings, c Cuffe, b Bur­ rows ......................41 c Cuffe, b Burns 0 b Burrow s.......... 40 b Burrow s.......... 11 b Burrow s.......... 1 First innings. E. W. Dillon, c Taylor, b Burns.................................. Humphreys, b Cuffe.......... Seymour, c Burrows, b B u rn s.................................. K. L. Hutchings, b Cuffe... Woolley, b B u rrow s........... A. P. Day, c Burrows, b Pearson .......... Hardinge, not out Fairservice, b Burro Huish, c Arnold, t son ................... Blythe, b Pearson Fielder, b Pearson B 2, lb 1, w 1 Total WORCESTERSIIIRE. First innings. Second innings. . ... 31 b Burrows ... ... 0 .........10 b Cuffe........... ... 3 s ... 1 b Cuffe......... ... 0 Pear- .. ... 1 b Burrow s... ... 5 ......... 0 b Burrows ... ... 1 .........10 not out ... 1 ......... 4 Leg-byes ... 5 ......... 178 Total... .. 108 O. M. R. W. O. F ield er........... 23-2 1 89 3 ........... 19 Blythe .......... 37 12 77 5 ........... 28 Fairservice ..1 8 4 47 2 ............ 11 W oolley............. 5 1 15 0 ............ Fielder bowled four no-balls. K ent . First innings. O. 7 25 9 8 M. R. W. 2 0 21 25 8 2 . 21 0 , Burns . Cuffe Arnold . Burrows Simpson- Hayward 4 0 13 0 , Pearson........... 9*1 3 16 4 Second innings. O. M. R. W. Pearson bowled one wide. 1 37 7 1 26 0 NORTHANTS v. SURREY. Pluyed at Northampton on June 14, 15 & 16. Surrey lacked the services of Hayward and Hobbs, who were playing for England at Lord’s, whilst, owing to business reasons, the home side were without Vials. The low scoring which took place was surprising, for, although the wicket was true, sixteen wickets went down for 330 runs. Kingston and Pool made 46 for the first wicket of Northants, whilst Hawtin and Smith put 011 42 for the third, and the latter and Thompson 43 for the fourth. Smith played a bright game, and made his 44 out of 85 in 100 minutes. The fourth wicket fell at 140, but the last six added only 49 more, Lees bowling with great effect and taking seven wickets in the innings for 65. When Surrey went in they lost their first six wickets for 61 runs in 65 minutes, but Davis and Hitch pulled the side round by putting on 80 without being separated in 45 minutes. On Tuesday Davis was out without a run added, and, so well did Thompson bowl, that the innings closed for 155. During the morning Thompson took three wickets for 10 ru n s; for the innings his analysis was six for 53. With an advantage of 34 on the innings the home side added considerably to their lead by Kingston and Pool making 55 for the first wicket in 40 minutes. Smith made 20 and the others to offer much resistance were Wells and East, who put on 32 for the seventh wicket in 40 minutes after six had fallen for 96, and the latter and Thorp, who added 48. The last wicket put 011 a valuable 30 and Surrey were left with 242 to win. Marshal was bowled without a run, but by the end of the day Hayes and Harrison had taken the total to 92 without further loss. Yesterday Harrison was lbw when the second wicket stand had realised 118 in 105 minutes. Ducat and Crawford failed but Davis stayed whilst 62 were put on in three-quarters of an hour. Curwen, Hitch and Lees left in quick succession, the eighth wicket falling at 215. Strud­ wick, however, proved equal to the occasion, stay­ ing in whilst the remaining 29 runs were added in 15 minutes. Hayes played a very great game for his side and made 144 out of 242 in 220 minutes. He reached 100 out of 175 in 160 minutes and hit sixteen 4’s. Score and analysis :— N ortham ptonshire. First innings. Second innings. C. J. T. Pool, lbw, b Lees... 31 cHitch, bRushby 27 W. H. Kingston, b Lees ... 15 c Strudwick, b A. P. R. Hawtin, c Strud­ wick, b Crawford .......19 S. G. Smith, c Strudwick, b Hitch ...................... 44 Thompson, c Rushby, b Lees ......................... ... 23 J. S. Denton, c Strudwick, b L ees.............................25 Wells, b Hitch ................ 2 East, b Lees......................... 1 C. Thorp, lbw, b Lees ... 7 T. E. Manning, notout ... 6 Buswell, b L e e s ................ 0 B 8, lb 8 ...............16 Rushby c Strudwick, b Hitch ........... 1 b Rushby ...........20 c Strudwick, b L e e s .................. 0 c and b Rusliby.. 2 c Davis, b Lees... 17 lbw, b Hayes ... 39 lbw, b Hayes ... 21 not out.................. 14 b Hitch ...........16 B 4, lb 1, w2, nb8 15 Total ...189 Total ...207 S urrey . First innings. Marshal, st Buswell, b Sm ith..................................28 Harrison, c Hawtin, b Sm ith..................................15 Hayes, b Thom pson............. 10 Ducat, b Thom pson........... 0 J. N. Crawford, b Thomp­ son .................................. 3 Davis, c East, b Thompson 44 W. J. H. Curwen, b Smith 0 Hitch, b Thompson ...........45 Lees, e Hawtin, b Thomp­ son .................................. 5 Strudwick, c and b Smith 0 Rushby, not out.................. 0 Leg-byes ................... 5 Second innings. b Thompson ... 0 lbw, b Thompson 29 not out ...........144 lbw, b Thompson 1 b Wells ........... c East, bSm ith... 37 c Buswell, b East c M a n n in g , b Thompson c K in g s to n , b Smith ........... 2 not out ...........12 B 3, lb 5, 11 b 1 9 Total ................. .155 Total (8 wkts)242 N orthamptonsii re . First innings. Second innings. O M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Lees ......... . 34*2 15 65 7 .. ... 30 4 55 2 Hitch ......... .1 7 3 52 2 ... ... 17*2 2 66 2 Rushby... . 4 0 13 0 ... ... 19 5 47 4 Crawford .1 6 5 34 1 ... ... 3 2 5 0 Hayes ......... . 3 0 9 0 ... ... 8 2 19 2 Lees bowled two wides and Rushby eight no-balls. S urrey . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Wells ......... .1 0 3 20 0 ... .. 15 5 36 1 Smith .......... 20*1 5 61 4 ... ... 32*4 7 83 2 Thompson ...1 5 3 53 6 ... ... 32 6 89 4 East ......... . 2 0 4 0 ... ... 12 4 25 1 D en ton ........., . 2 0 12 0 .. Thompson bowled one no ball.