Cricket 1909

37 8 CR ICK E T : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 2, 1909. In the m atch between N otts and D erbyshire H a llam and W ass bowled unchanged through the two in n in gs o f the latter, th eir form being quite rem iniscent o f 1907, when they performed the feat on a couple of occasions. E a ch obtained ten wickets, W ass by so doing just m ik in g his total for the season a three- figure one. P l a y i n g for E x e V a lle y against Cul- lom pton at E xeter on Saturday, a bowler named P in c h in took eight w ickets w ith ou t a ru n being made from him . Th e total o f the innings, w h ich included tw o extras, was 4. O n the same day T. L a y to n did the hat-trick tw ice in an in n in gs for P irb rig h t v. T rib e and Kobinson's, at Guilford. O n ly 22 balls were bowled d u ring the innings, w h ich am ounted to 4. T h e Comm ittee o f the M . C. C. met at L o rd ’s on M o n d ay and it was sub­ sequently announced that the follow ing players had been invited to jo in the team w h ich the C lub are sending to South A fric a this w inter. Several o f the players have already accepted provisionally. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower (Surrey) (captain). F . L . Fane (Essex). G. H. Simpson-Hayward (Worcestershire). Capt. E . G. Wynyard (Hampshire). M. C. Bird (Surrey). Hobbs (Surrey). Strudwick (Surrey). Woolley (Kent). Thompson (Northamptonshire). Denton (Yorkshire). Rhodes (Yorkshire). Blythe (Kent). Buckenham (Essex). A second wicket-keeper has s till to be chosen. T h e latest w h ich reaches me concerning the tour o f the M .C .C . team in South A fric a is to the effect that the G riqualand W est match, w h ich was to have been played at Kim berley, has fallen through ow ing to the lo cal in a b ility to undertake the necessary guarantee. T h e vacant dates thereby caused have been offered to the Transvaal for another m atch at Johannesburg, if the Transvaal pay the South A frican C ricket Association ,£125 additional guarantee. In accordance w ith B loem fontein’s request, it is most probable that the dates w ill be altered fo r the m atch playable there to suit B loem fon ­ te in ’s requirements. A t Copenhagen on M on d ay the Y o rk ­ shire W anderers defeated a D a nish team by 29 runs. M a n y thousands o f spectators were present at the match. A m o v e m e n t is on foot in W est A u stralian cricketing circles to arrange, if possible, for the A u stralian cricketers to break their voyage at Frem an tle on the return journey and play a match against the State. I understand that a cable to this effect was to have been sent to M r. F . Laver, the manager o f the team. I n the event o f the proposal fa llin g through it was suggested as an alternative scheme that the five V icto rian members of the team— Arm strong, Laver, Ransford, M cA liste r, and Carkeek— should break their journey at Frem antle, and that six other V icto ria n players should go over from M elbourne to jo in them . It has been arranged for a V icto ria n team to go to W est A u stralia next season, and it was thought that by this means the visit o f a strong eleven w ould be ensured. F kom “ Recorder’s ” notes in the A d e­ laide O b s e rv e r :— “ In his book ‘ Reminiscences of South Australian Cricket’ Clarence P. Moody did not get quite so far back as the first 12 months of the Province’s history. Quite accidentally the other day I came across some auto­ biographical particulars written for The R egister by Mr. James Hoare, who arrived in the ship Cygnet in 1836, a few weeks after Colonel Light reached the new colony to survey the land. Mr. Hoare explains that he was engaged by Mr. B. T. Finniss as agricul­ turist to manage his proposed farm in the new country, and he made the first wheel­ barrow in South Australia, with which he conveyed the goods of his employer from the shipside to Adelaide— a distance of seven miles. It was early in 1837 that Mr. Hoare went to North Adelaide, across the Torrens River. ‘ There was a baker,’ he wrote, ‘ who used to bring bread over in a large basket and put up a challenge to play any man in the colony a game of cricket for anything from 5s. to £5. After three months, being a man of Kent, I took it up, and we played about where the Oval now is. Bat, ball, and stumps were all new, and I beat him by an innings and 1 ran. He east the bat on the ground, and wanted to play me the next day for £10 ; but I knew better, for he was the better player.” T h e executive o f the N ew South Wales C ricket Association and the Sydney Cricket G rou n d Trustees came to an agreement at a conference on J u ly 23rd w ith regard to the terms on w hich the ground should be used for matches. Th e Association w ill receive one-third o f the m oney re­ ceived for members’ tickets after .£4,200 has been reached. Th e fu ll fee for a mem ber is two guineas. Th e Association w ill pay 10 per cent, on matches w ith Queensland, Tasm ania, on the gross re­ ceipts from the Sheffield Shield, inter­ state, and international matches, but no charge w ill be made in respect to N ew Zealand teams. Th e agreement has to be ratified by the N . S. W . Cricket Association. H . H . t h e Jam S a h ib o f N a w a n a g a r made 13 for Jam nagar against Bom bay on the ground o f the form er on August 9 and 10. A n account o f the m atch says that “ Th e Jam Sahib was soon at work, and made some beautiful strokes, but w ith h is score at thirteen he was caught off a m is-hit in try in g to force the game.” Jam nagar made 233 and w on by an in n in gs and 64 runs. G. G. N a p ie r , the Cam bridge and M iddlesex bow ler o f a few years back, is now stationed at Quetta. It was hoped that he w ould go on tour w ith the Bom bay team in August, but unfortu­ nately he was unable to m ake the long journey. F o e the first tim e during h is career B ly th e has taken 200 wickets in a season, and it is very probable that he w ill be the only bowler to obtain so m any this year. H is record to date is 213. In 1908 he took 197 w ickets and in the previous year 183. T h e B rig h to n Festival, now in its second year, proved a very pleasant function, and w hen it has been longer established, and its attractiveness become better known, is bound to be as w ell patronized as it deserves. D u rin g the past week the streets and ground were gay w ith bunting, and an excellent idea was carried out in having the flags of the chief cricket clubs in the C ounty placed in conspicuous positions round the field o f play. Concerts and other amusements were arranged for the benefit o f visitors, and the presence o f several tents on the ground gave a very picturesque touch to the scene. O n some o f the days, too, a band was in attendance during the play, and assisted in adding to the general gaiety of things. M e . W i ll ia m M i l t o n , an artist, of A shton -u n der-H ill (Gloucestershire), died under tragic circum stances on Saturday evening. W h ile taking part in a cricket- m atch against the H in to n eleven, M r. M ilto n suddenly collapsed, and on being picked up it was found that he was dead. A L e y t o n correspondent calls m y attention to an instance o f a player bow ling down the w hole o f the ten wickets in an innings. T h e successful bow ler was F . W oollen, and he per­ formed the feat mentioned at a cost of 19 runs in a total o f 66 for Coopman and Sons against Sw ifts at T h e E lm s, W altham stow , on Saturday. O n e o f the most attractive innings seen in L o n d o n this season was V iv ia n C raw ­ fo rd ’s 172 not out against Surrey this week. B y the w ay he commenced it did not appear probable that he was destined to score largely, for he seemed lacking somewhat in certainty. B u t it was not long before he began to h it b rillian tly. H e took m any risks but offered o n ly one chance and m onopolised the scoring to such an extent that w h ilst he was in only 94 other runs were made. Those who witnessed his innings saw a spectacular display w hich was w orth going a very long way to see. “ P o s s e s s e d of tremendous energy and unbounded confidence in himself, M r. Brearley,” says M r. P . F . W arner in the W e s tm in s te r G a z e tte , “ always imagines he is a better bowler than the batsman is a batsman— quite the righ t frame o f m ind for a bowler, and one w h ich largely explains his success. W ith his nice, easy action, short run, and length w h ich aim s at defeating the bats­ m an by a good ball rather than bumping