Cricket 1909

O c t . 28, 1909 CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 4 3 5 bridge Blue and Rector of Marton-in-Cleve­ land, who literally worked himself to death. He was a most valoab'e member of our home club and of the Yorkshire Gentlemen C.C. In a match on the latter’s ground, at York, against Scarborough Visitors in September, 1874, he and I were in together when he made among many other fine hits a magnificent on-drive all along the ground for seven, all run. The wicket was pitched rather further up the ground than usual or we could not have done it. Shns went iu second wicket down and ran up 116 without giving a chance. I went in sixth and scored 21 not out and 10 at the second attempt. The Scar­ borough Visitors were a very strong side including as they did such names as C. I. and P. M. Thornton and I. D. Walker. When I went in C. I. Thornton had just bowled F. B. Dury for 0 with one of his daisy cutters, which for a time worked a good deal of havoc, even among really good batsmen, and so I was naturally curious to see what they were like on close inspection. The amount of spin and leg-break he put into them was, I think, the greatest I have ever seen : I do not think that I exaggerate when I say that the versed sine of the arc they described was sometimes as much as 4 feet or even more than that. When the Visitors went in he played a splendid innings of 125 without a chance until he had made 123, when he gave a catch to me in the very deep field from one of his tremenious drives. That chance, I am sorry to say, I missed and as a result experienced feelings which can be better imagined than described.’’ “ And did you not play sometimes for Yorkshire United ? ” “ The first match played by that body was in August, 1874, on the Castleton ground, Rochdale, against Lancashire. It rained heavily during almost the whole of the two first days, and I believe I could have sculled a light boat over quite half of the fiel 1, and of course play was out of the question. On the last day, although the ground was really unfit for cricket, it was decided to make a start. When I went in, fifth wicket down, the highest score made for us was only eleven. Vernon Royle bowled to me, and I played the first b a ll; tbe next two pitched in a muddy pool and never reached me—but the mud did, and spoiled the beauty of my flannels; the fourth 1 spooned up and Barlow caught me before I ha i ma'le a run. After that George Anderson went in and made 14, but our total was only 66. It was raining again when Lancashire went in, and it was rt ally absurd to play at all. Heaps and heaps of sawdust were used, but with very little benefit, our bowlers slipping about in all directions. However, the Lancashire and Yorkshire lapers spoke very kindly of the fielding of C. Ullathorne and myself and attributed our being headed by almost a hundred runs on the innings to the miserable weather, to which it was suggested the home side were thoroughly acclimatised. I was fortunate enough to catch F. Taylor, Vernon Royle and J. Leach, who, with Barlow, W. E. Leach, J. Mackinsou— one of the finest amateur bats of his day— R. Dewhurst and H. B. Parr, were among tbe best Lancashire players of the period. After the innings Mr. J. Leach, whom I hadn ever met before, came up to me as I was walking to the pavilion and said, 41 congratulate you on that catch. I would not have thought it possible that it could have ’ been made.’ I ha 1 been standing in my usual pos;tion of mid-on ; Leach spooned the ball up to the on-side umpire, I ran at my utmost speed and, without checking it, I got my right hand under the ball about three inches off the ground, held it and threw it into the air while still running. My next match for the United was at Darlington the same month against C. J. Smith’s XI., which included C. I. Thornton, J. W . Da’e and C. E . Boyle, who played in the name of Courtenay. We had a better side than at Castleton, an 1the weather was delightful and the wicket perfect. A finer bat than Dale I have rarely seen. His clean hard driving and cutting and the way in which he timed and kept down the ball were a treat to watch ; in fact I was half sorry to end his beautiful innings, by catching him off Bosomworth’s bowling, when he had made 108. H is side scored 217 and the United 220, of which I was responsible for 54, the highest score on either side except Dale’s. In the second innings of Smith’s team Thornton failed to make a run, but Dale played another beautiful innings and carried out his bat when the game ended with four of their wickets down for 94.” “ And what of the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s matches?” “ In 1877 or 1878 they played against Cheshire, but considerable latitude was given to the latter as both E. K. and A. N. Hornby and I were allowed to play for them, our qualification being that we had often eaten Cheshire cheese and that the two former kept a Cheshire cat. I have no details by me, but I know I made a useful score, for when I reached the pavilion, after carrying my bat for about 30, E. K. Hornby came to me and, apologising for putting me in so late, asked me where I had learnt my cricket, and I was proud to be able to say I had done so under Dr. Grace, senr., and Alfred Pocock. On the evening of the second day, as we were all sitting down to dinner at the Station Hotel, I called A. N. Hornby’s atten­ tion to the fact that a man whom we had passed iu the morning when driving down to the ground was just about to start playing out-ide on his harmonipan, which w.is a kind of glorified hurdy-gurdy. Iu an instant Hornby was on his feet and, without a moment’s loss of time, filled his pjekets with the round balls or rolls of bread about the size of lawn-tennis balls almost always (in those days at any rate) placed on the dinner tables in Yorkshire, went to one of the windows which was wide open, and let fly at the poor fellow, hitting him over and over ag^in until he was driven off. The crowd, who had collected to greet the Lord Max or of York on his return from London, cheered Hornby vociferously, and the cheers were renewed again and again when his Lordship’s carriage and much-bedecked coachman and footman were routed in like manner. It was not long before all Hornby’s ammunition was exhausted, and then we had our dinner in peace. I must not forget to say that at about two or three o’clock in the morning of this day I had been awakened by a great noise in the first-fluor corridor. I jumped out of bed, opened my door and biheld the ever-playful ‘ Monkey ’ and two or three others steeple -chasing over all the towel- horses and baths they had been able to collect. I can give you an instance of the marvellous agility of the well-styled *Monkey ’ Hornby. In one of the two matches in which 1 played at Middlesbrough against Harrow Wanderers Emmett made a big but lofty hit to leg, over Hornby’s head The fieldsman darted off at his fastest with his back to the ball, and when he got to within about twenty yards from the boundary — a ditch— he spun round, ran backwards almost as fast as he had been going forward, sprang into the air on the very brink and brought off a magnificent, one-handed catch which I shall never forget.’’ “ When I went to live at Fairlie, in Ayr­ shire, I joined the Grange, the Kelso C.C., Major Dickens’ Kelso Wanderers and the Roxburgh County C.C., and met with fair success in all of them. I had to make occasional journeys to the north of England and took advantage of any cricket that was to be had during the season, and in one of the matches at Coatham, when I made 49 not out, I have a very clear recollection of our old umpire and groundman sitting in the Lobster Inn and saying to me as I was nearing one of the open windows on the conclusion of our innings, ‘ Give me your ha-a-nd, Mr. Dook. I is gla-a-d to see ye pla-ay like tha-at; now I ca-an dee ha-appy!’ ” C AN AD A v. U N IT E D S T A TE S . Played at Montreal on August 23 and 24 and won by Canada by 143 runs. Godwin took eleven wiekets for 84 runs and shared the honours of the game with Heygate. Score and analysis C an ada . First innings. Second innings. A. H. Gibson, b Patton ... 17 c P a t t o n , b F ollow s......... 7 O. Wallace, b Patton..........24 b Henry ............22 G. H. Southam, c and b M iddleton.......................... 18 b Henry ............ 0 H. J. Heygate, st Sadding- ton, b Fellow s.................. 24 c Evans, b Henry 55 F. C. Evans, b Patton .. 7 b Patton ........... 18 W. C. Baber, c Patton, b c Middleton, b Fellows .......................... 4 Fellows .......33 H. Ackland, not o u t ...........18 c Evans, bMac- D on ogh .......23 W. Johnston, b Patton ... 22 lbw, b Patton ... 4 D. Cordner, b Fellows ... 0 b Patton ............20 T. Seagram, b Fellows ... 4 c Cregar, b Mac- D on ogh......... 2 C. B. Godwin, c Sadding- ton, b Fellows................... 4notout.................... 1 Byes, &c.......................14 Byes, &c. ... 9 Total ...........156 Total.......... 194 U nited S tates . First innings. Second innings. J. L. Evans, c Cordner, b Godwin .......................... 2 c Evans, b Baber 42 J. J. MacDonogh, b God­ win .......................... ... 12 lbw, b Godwin ... 3 G.F. Bottomley,c Southam, b Godwin ... .................. 18 b Wallace ...11 R. Patton, b Wallace.......... 12 c Wallace, b God­ win 6 E. M. Cregar, b Godwin ...23 c Johnston, b G odw in ........13 A. J. Henry, b Godwin ... 0 c C o rd n e r, b Johnston ... 2 H. W. Middleton, run out 4 c Baber, b John­ ston ................... 1 W. M. Fellows, runout ...10 cBaber,bGodwin 20 R. H. Hilles, b Godwin ... 0 b Johnston............. 0 H. H. Cornish, b Wallace... 0 c Wallace, b God­ win .................... 3 B. Saddington, not out ... 0 notout.................... 8 Byes, &c............... 4 Byes, &c. ... 13 Total...........122- Total ...................85 C an ada . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Fellow s...........14’1 3 34 5 ............ 12'2 1 40 2 Patton ...... 20 2 63 4 ............ 15 0 63 3 MacDonogh ... 6 1 21 1 ............ 4 1 8 2 Middleton ... 6 0 8 0 ........... 3 1 7 0 Cregar ........... 4 1 8 0 ............ 3 0 7 0 C ornish........... 1 0 8 0 ............ Henry .......... 10 0 39 3 Bottomley ... 4 0 21 0 MacDonogh bowled two no-balls and Fellows one, and Patton a wide and a no-ball. U n ited S tates . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. G odw in...........13’2 3 40 6 ........... 14*5 2 44 5 Johnston ... 3 0 12 0 ............ 8 2 11 3 W allace........... 10 1 29 2 ............ 7 1 24 1 Seagram ... 3 0 14 0 B a ber............. 4 1 13 1 Johnston and Baber bowled one no ball each. R i c h a r d d a f t s N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e MARL.—Particulars apply Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts.