Cricket 1909

266 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 15, 1909. obtained his 1,000th wicket in first-class cricket. His record, season by season, is as follows:— I n E ngland . Season. Ovrs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. 1900 ........... 245-2 83 651 26 1901 ........... ... . 6S0-2 208 1,827 66 1902 ........... 798-5 274 1,9-15 70 1903 ........... ... 1,050-4 365 2,335 124 1904 ........... ... 1,124-1 339 2,657 102 1905 ........... ... 1,176-2 390 2,604 111 1906 ........... ... 1,100-4 33S 2,464 106 1907 ........... ... 1,017-1 335 2,340 112 1908 ......... ... 1,301-3 428 2,648 151 1909t ........... 571 207 1,193 75 t To July 11th. I n A ustralia . 1903-4 113-4 37 274 9 I n S outh A frica . 1905-0 16-2-1 42 404 16 I n N ew Z ealand , f 1907-8 98 40 159 20 1908-9 150 68 205 17 Totals ... 9,589-5 3,154 21,706 1,005 f Plunket Shield Matches. A brief calculation will show that his many wickets have been taken at a cost of 21’59 runs a-piece. O n Friday and Saturday last Lord Hawke scored 45 and 42 for the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s team against Oxford Uni­ versity Autlientics at York. T h e Australian have every reason to be fully satisfied with what they have done during the past fortnight. They thoroughly outplayed and defeated Eng­ land at Leeds and had all the best of a drawn game with Warwickshire. Since then they have beaten both Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in an innings, and should consequently take the field in the return match with Surrey to-day with every confidence. Englishmen were slow to appreciate the real merits of the side, but now the general opinion is that it would be very difficult indeed to find a team able to oppose them with much prospect of success. Bardsley and Rans­ ford have given fresh evidence of their skill, and, provided the weather keeps fine, should continue to score largely. Despite the rain-spoilt wickets they have had to contend with, they can both point to a better record than that gained by Hill during his first visit to England. R e s u l t s of matches played between the Australians and Gloucestershire :— 1878 Clifton, Australians won by ten wickets. 1880 Clifton, Australians won by 68 runs. J Clifton, Australians won by inns, and 159. 1 Clifton, drawn. / Clifton, drawn. \ Cheltenham, Australians won by inns, and 136. issf 1Clifton, drawn. l&ao j Cheltenham, Australians won by 26 runs. 1888 I Clifton, Gloucestershire won by 257 runs. 1 1Clifton, Gloucestershire won by eight wickets. 1 8Qrt J drawn. I Cheltenham, Australians won by eight wickets, is,.., I Bristol, drawn. I Cheltenham, Australians won by eight wickets. l 8 Qr J Bristol, Australians won by inns, and 91. t Cheltenham, Australians won by inns, and 54. i eon I Bristol, Australians won by six wickets. I Cheltenham, drawn. I Bristol, Australians won by inns, and 222. 1 Cheltenham, Australians won by inns, and 10. ^...... f Bristol, drawn. 1Cheltenham, drawn. 1909 Bristol, Australians won by inns, and 5. Twenty-three matches in all, of which the Australians have won 13, and Glou­ cestershire 2. A t Worcester to-morrow a match will be played between Worcestershire Ladies and Gloucestershire Ladies for the benefit of the funds of the Worcestershire County C.C. On September 4th Mr. H. K. Foster is to captain a Worcestershire Gentlemen’s X I against Worcestershire Ladies. P. F. W a r n e r , in an article entitled “ Is Bowling More Scientific ? ” in the Pall Mall Magazine, says:—“ The reason why we do not see quite so much off- driving and straight driving as in former years is because there are fewer half­ volleys bowled. The present-day bats­ man longs just as much for a half-volley as his predecessors, but the old theory of ‘ chucking them up ’ to let the batsman have a ‘ go,’ was found to be too expensive a mode of attack. The modern bowler does n o t 1 feed’ the batsman: on the contrary, he makes him fight for every run.” D u r in g this week’s match at the Oval between the Australians and Surrey a collection will be made in connection with Tom Hayward’s Testimonial Fund. The occasion is an appropriate one, for in the previous match between the sides the player named was seen at his best in making over 90. He carried his bat through the innings and had a very great deal to do with Surrey’s win by 5 runs. T h e death occurred in the Ashton- under-Lyne Infirmary on Monday of Frank Wooliscroft, aged 10, of Higher Lord Street, Dukinfield. Whilst playing cricket on June 2nd he was struck in the left eye with the ball. The eye was bathed, but grew worse, and he was con­ veyed to the Infirmary. A g o od run-getting performance was accomplished by R. E. Foster for H. W. de Zoete’s X I. against Witham, at Witham, Essex, on June 19th. Witham declared with four wickets down for 343 (E. M. Toulmin, 139), leaving their opponents 95 minutes in which to make the runs. When four wickets had fallen for 60 in 20 minutes, Foster went in and, in the remaining hour and a-quarter, made 206 out of 285. The score of the innings follows:— M r . DE ZOETE’S XI. C. C. Pilkington, run out ............................ 8 A. P. Selby, b G im son.................................... 9 H. I{. Chinnery, c Brice, b Toulmin .. 13 H. D. Sheldrake, cWakelin, b Toulmin ... 17 J. C. Tabor, b G im son................................... 61 R. E. Foster, not out ....................................206 Capt. Tersey not out ;.....................................14 Byes, &c.............................................. 17 Total (5 w k ts)............ 345 C. Round, R. W. Brice, T. Fordham, andH.W . de Zocte did not bat. Foster hit six 6’s and thirty-four 4’s, and at one period of his innings made 60 off eighteen balls. A c o r r e sp o n d e n t writes: “ Very often have I listened with amusement to Craig’s speeches on cricket and football grounds. His stock of witticisms was perhaps limited, and old and crusted—like -that of nearly all public performers—but he was often able to make a very clever im­ promptu reply to a challenge. Once, and once only, I saw him worsted. It was on the old Tottenham Hotspur football ground outside which some hooligans had gathered together on a mound. As they had not paid for admission they naturally thought themselves entitled to make the rudest comments on everybody and everything connected with the match. They went for Craig and he rebuked them in a whimsical little speeeh. They retaliated most volubly and Craig, recog­ nising sadly that, as he was not a bargee, he had no chance at all against them, retired without saying another word.” To treat the match between the Gentle­ men and Players at Lord’s as a trial for the next Test match is a new departure. Yet it is understood that the sides were selected, in part at least, with this object. From this point of view the match was decidedly instructive both in its positive and negative aspects. In the first place it is abundantly evident that in D. W. Carr England possesses a googlie bowler who is the legitimate successor of Bosanquet, and more nearly approaches the South African standard than even Bosanquet. The inventor of the googlie was erratic; he could touch both extremes and was either very good or bad, while he often bowled the weirdest deliveries ever seen in a first-class match. Carr is far more dependable and, though like all bowlers—the accurate school of the past perhaps excepted — he cannot always command a length, he is in no sense erratic, much less does he approach in weirdness Bosanquet not at his best. G o o g l ie bowling, even when not deadly, is apt to be demoralising by in­ ducing hesitation and two minds. Hence a googlie bowler can help other bowlers to wickets and is always worth playing, if at all good — and Carr is good—on moral as well as material grounds. In the two matches between Gentlemen and Players Carr took fifteen of the thirty- five Players’ wickets that fell at a cost of about 17 runs each—an excellent and, so far as his merit is concerned, a convinc­ ing proof of the value of bowling of this type, especially when regard is had to the fact that the pitches were too slow for him and that catches were missed off his bowling. As to the other bowlers in the Lord’s match, Barnes once more showed that he is the best bowler of his pace in England. No one has the same com­ mand over pace and pitch, while no one hsts bowled a slow ball without any change of action with the same skill since the palmy days of Lockwood. The other bowlers were ordinary com­ pared with these two, though Evans and Hirst both bowled well. Gilbert was, however, disappointing. As to the batting, Tyldesley has not played more like his old self than in any game this season, while Hayes was also seen to advantage. Hayward seemed handicapped by rheumatic stiffness, while MacLaren, though he can make his