Cricket 1909

2 5 8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 15, 1909 me what he meant by the expression, but I imagine it was intended as an invitation to play forward. No, I can’t recall him bowl­ ing many wides : besides, nets are generally rather narrow and he had given up match- playing by the time I knew him. But he was always keen, and used to run the winter shed for practice. Thanks to Mr. Stanning, of Leyland, Alec Watson came down for about a month each season, and there can be no doubt that the boys benefited considerably from his tuition for he appeared able to teach us as much during his short stay as others could in the whole season.” “ And what of your matches with Marl­ borough ? ” “ Reginald Spooner played against us in two of the three and in each match made over a hundred. In 1899—my first appear­ ance at Lord’s as captain—he scored 69 and 198. I missed him when he had got to 98, and it seemed ages before he got out. His style was as finished and polished then as it is now, and one could not help being im­ pressed with it. A fortnight afterwards he was given a place in the Lancashire team against Middlesex at Lord’s, and scored 44 and 83 against Hearne, Trott, C. M. Wells and others. It is a pity he has not been able to play regularly in first-class cricket.” “ And how did you fare against Marl­ borough in your last year ? ” “ We had to make the runs against the clock, and the Marlburians were very good to us. Their captain, M. R. Dickson, made them change over smartly : no time was cut to waste, and we pulled through by nine wickets.” [Mr. Dillon, it should be men­ tioned, had a great deal to do with the Rugby success, seeing that he scored 30 and 110 not out—the highest score in each in­ nings. Among the bowlers opposed to him was G. G. Napier.] “ Your first great match, I think, was for London County? ” “ That was in 1900, my last year at Rugby. Dr. Grace asked me to play for him at the Palace against Worcestershire and I managed to make 108 and 29 not out: “ W. G.” got 72 and 110 not out, and we won rather easily. I imagine the invitation to play was was sent tome on account of my batting for Rugby that season, though it may have been because Mason had just before asked me to turn out for Kent.” “ How did you fare upon going to Oxford ? ” “ I seemed unable to get going for some time, and had it not been that I had done pretty well whilst at school would probably have been dropped. But F. P. Knox persevered with me with the result that, about half-way through term, I got 143 against Somerset and obtained my Blue as a Freshman. The match with Cambridge was drawn after some heavy scoriug. Marsham played a great game in his second innings and saved the game for us : he just managed to reach his hundred by the time the game was given up. He was captain the next year when Cambridge, after being set about 270 to win, pulled through by five wickets.” “ Was not that the match in which you made the highest score in each innings ?” “ I got 85 and 59, and Findlay 45 and 24. We went in first each time, scoring 118 together in the first innings and between eighty and ninety in the second. It is rather curious to recall now that I headed the Oxford bowling averages that year with my leg-breaks, and that W. H. B. Evans, although he bowled in the same number of matches, took two wickets less.” “ Did not Fielder’s hundred against Wor cestershire last week come to you as a sur­ prise ? ” “ It delighted, rather than surprised, us, for we all knew that he could get runs if he really turned his attention to batting. But he is wanted for his bowling and has not been encouraged to make big scores. His 112 not out was a really fine innings, and he gave no actual chance. Woolley made his highest score for Kent, after being out of luck for some time, and made only one mistake: he was missed in the long-field just before getting his hundred. As the pair were getting near the record for the last wicket they were quite at a loss to understand the various signals made to them from the score- box. At an early period of the partnership Fielder played steadily whilst Woolley was approaching his century, and later adopted the same tactics when his 150 was in view. Woolley returned the compliment when Fielder was bordering on his hundred. Neither knew what was the largest number added for the tenth wicket, so it is no wonder that our signalsmystifiedthem. When Fielder at last hit a single and set up a fresh record he couldn’t understand our applause at all; he knew he could not have made his 150, and he thought our demonstration too hearty to be an intimation to him to keep up his wicket until Woolley had passed the 208 made by Humphreys earlier in the season at Catford against Gloucestershire.” “ Did you ever play on the same side with Lord Harris? ” “ I wish I could say yes, but, of course, he had retired from serious cricket before my time and I did not happen to be playing for Kent when he re-appeared about three seasons ago against the West Indians. But I played against him last year in the B.B.’s Jubilee match between East Kent and West Kent, and bowled to him, but did not get him out.” “ And what of the Championship ? ” “ The position is most interesting, isn’t it? Perhaps--------- But really I must go and change.” And with that enigmatical remark Kent’s captain disappeared into the dressing- room. AT CLOSE OF PLAY. 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AYRSHIRE. — Played at Whitehaugh, Paisley, on June 30 and left drawn. ‘ Score:— R en fr e w sh ir e . J. Ferguson, b Booth 9 R. R. Waters, b Booth 87 J. Reid Kerr, c Steven­ son, b Barrow ... 20 C. A. Clark, lbw, b Barrow .................. 0 A. L. Graham, st Dun­ lop, b Barrow.......... 20 J. B. M'Kinley, b Welford .................. 40 A y r sh ir e . Rev. L. S. Byrde, c and b Booth .......... J. Scott, b Welford ... J. Galt, b Booth........... W. Henderson, st Dun­ lop, b Booth .......... A. J. Murdoch, not out Byes, &c............... Total ...230 T. C. Dunlop, b Mur­ doch ................... 0 J. Booth, b M'Kinley 35 A. Barrow, run out .. 1 J. Welford, b Bryde... 50 D. C. Stevenson, b M urdoch................... 6 A. Burnett, not out... 17 Byes, &c...............15 Total (5 wkts).. 133 R. C. Moffat, J. Ferguson, D. Highet, W. R. Drinnan, and J. M'Kinnon did not bat. R enfrewshire . O. M. R. W. Booth ... 19 2 59 5 Drinnan... 9 1 23 0 Welford... 9 5 0 29 2 M‘Kinnon 5 2 7 0 O. M. R. W. Barrow... 14 0 58 3 Burnett.. 6 0 20 0 Highet ... 3 0 13 0 A y r sh ir e . O. M. R, W. O. M. R. W. Byrde ... 15‘2 4 35 1 IM'Kinley 6 1 20 1 Murdoch.. 14 4 45 2 Clark ... 4 0 11 0 Henderson 3 0 7 0 FORFARSHIRE v. PERTHSHIRE. - Played at Broughty Ferry on July 3 and left drawn. Score : F o rfarsh ire . J. Sharp,b Keigwin... 18 Chambers, not out ... 48 R. M. Lindsay, not out ..........................20 Byes, &c.............. 10 J. W. S o r r i e , b K eigw in .................. 0 R. G. Tait, c Stuart, b K eigw in .................. 56 A. Lindsay, b Gregson 35 J. A. Kyd, c Bell, b Keigwin .................. 14 Total (6 wkts)..233 F. Batchelor,bGregson 23 C. Ferrier, G. K. Chalmers, and W. Stewart did not bat. P er th sh ire . A. K. Bell, b Lindsay 4 J. S. B. Brown, not out ..........................42 H. D. Keigwin,b Sharp 12 Joe Anderson, not out 25 Byes, &c.............. 7 Total (2 wkts) 90 Dr. Stuart, J. Martin, R. Gardiner, F. Smith, R. H. Smith, W. Lovat-Fraser, and Gregson did not bat. ABERDEENSHIRE v. FI FESHI RE.—Played at Aberdeen on July 3 and won by the home side by 98 runs. Score:— A berd een sh ire . W. Webster, c Aitken, b B ailey.................. 31 C. Stephen, c Stark, b Bailey ...................48 Cobley, n o to u t...........47 W. Mackintosh, b Dick 47 R. S. Clark, lbw, b Bailey .................. 13 E. Brander, b Bailey 2 J. Mortimer, not out 6 Byes, &c..................19 Total .......... 213 J. R. F. Elsmie, A. Lythgoe, S. W. Gibbons, and A. R. Mortimer did not bat. Bailey, b Cobley...........12 D. Connel, b Webster 15 J. Paton, b Webster... 4 C. C. Edmond, c and b Webster ..................32 J. Hagan, b Webster 0 G. Stark, c Elsmie, b Gibbon .................. 5 T.W. Aitken,bWebster 9 J.V. Marshall,bGibbon 0 J.N.Wardlaw, notout 18 W.Grandiston,b Web- J. B. Dick, b Cobley... 8 Byes, &c..................12 Total . 115 STIRLINGSHIRE v. CLACKMANNANSHIRE. —Played at Stirling on July 3 and left drawn. Score S tir lin g sh ir e . J. M. Waters, c Moir, b M‘Ewen ...........36 W. A. Miller, b Mar­ shall ..........................46 R. E. Adair, not out... 37 J. Gillies, st Scott, b Macfarlane ...........33 Gooder, c and b Mac­ farlane .................. 9 Byes, &c.............. 3 Total (4 wkts)*164 * Innings declared closed. C lack m an nan sh ire . J. Macfarlane, c and b Yellowlees ..........13 R. Cairns, b Gooder... 4 R. Marshall, c Brown, b Intin ..................12 A. G. Moir, c Miller, b Intin........................ 0 J. Scott, c Brown, b Intin ..........................16 J. Younger, not out... 8 Byes, &c............... 2 Total (5 wkts)... 55