Cricket 1909

444 CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O c t . 28, 1909. T h e guarantors of the G loucestershire C ounty C.C. received a letter on M on d ay from M r. H . W . Beloe, C h airm an of the Club, asking them to forw ard to the C ounty Secretary at their earliest convenience cheques for the amounts guaranteed. In h is letter M r. Beloe stated that, like so m any other C ounty Clubs, Gloucestershire did not get through the season w ith ou t a considerable loss, wet weather having had a disastrous effect on the takings at the gates, especially at Cheltenham . T h e gross takings amounted to only £1,888, the smallest since 1894. Th e accident w h ich kept M r. Jessop out of the field during J u ly and August also told very m uch against the success o f the matches. I f the C lub had not received £308 as its share o f the Test match receipts the fin an cial position w ould have been most serious. There is at present a sum of £539 due to the bank, and, w ith w inter pay to the professionals and other expenses, the am ount w ill be increased to about £800. T h e guarantees w ill not come to more th an £480, leaving the C lub w ith a deficiency of about £820- A t their recent A n n u al M eeting the Gore C ourt C.C., w h ich has ju st completed their 71st season, decided to revert to their form er custom o f em ploying a groundm an to do duty as bow ler for next season. T h e club has an excellent little ground of 3,[ acres at Sittingbourne, and its quality m ay be judged by the fact that the K en t C ounty C.C. have decided to play a 2nd X I . C ounty fixture on the enclosure next year. F o r the past three or four seasons the Club have had some good amateur b ow ling to rely upon, but in this depart­ ment there is a falling-off at the present time, and so the management are looking round for assistance. Th e Club is o f the solid K entish type and has a membership o f just on 120. T h e President is L o rd H a rris, and the H o n . Secretary M r. R . S. Jackson, jun., o f H ig h Street, S ittin g ­ bourne. C R IC K E T IN SCO TLAND . Played at Inverness on September 27th and won by the visiting side, which contained seven members of the Australian team. Hopkins made 24 runs off an over. Score - XIII. of th e N o rth ern C ounties . G. Milne (Elgin), b Whitty ................... J. B. Munro (Nairn), b Beattie ................... l. Major Brown (Forres), b W h itty .................. M. J. Grant Peterkin (Forres), c Noble, b Whitty ...................: Major Ritchie (Fort- George), b Whitty... R.C.Hamilton (Elgin), c Ransford,bDawson Lieut. Burt Marshall (Fort - George), c Noble, b Dawson ... : A. Grant (Forres), c M’Alister, b Bowie MajorMaclean(North- ern Counties), b Bardsley................... 7 D. Scott (Elgin), c Cotter, b Ransford 10 H. Mirtle (Northern Counties), b Rans­ ford ........................... 0 C. Murray (Forres), c Hopkins,b Bardsley 18 J. M. Lowson (North­ ern Counties), not out Byes, &c. Total M. A. Noble, run out 43 W. Campbell, b Mirtle 0 W. Bardsley, c Murray, b Mirtle ................... 5 T. A. Bowie, lbw, b Maclean .................. 1 V. S. Ransford, b Grant 30 A. J. Hopkins, c Ham­ ilton,bBurt Marshall 2\) R. Dawson, c Grant, b Mirtle .................. 3 A u stralian s . P. A. McAlister, b Mirtle ................... 2 A. Cotter, b Low son. 15 O. Beattie, not o u t... 2 W. J. Whitty, c Major Ritchie, b Lowson. 7 Byes, &c..............17 OBITUARY. M r . B . C arr . Mr. Benjamin Carr, of Barnsley, York­ shire, for many years a member of the Barnsley C.C. and a very enthusiastic supporter of cricket, dit d on September 30th in his sixty-fourth year. Total ...154 Mr. J. C onway . Mr. John Conway, who was born at Fyans- ford, near Geelong, on February 3rd, 1843, die<J at Frankston on August 22nd. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and was only 19 years of age when he was chosen to play for Victoria against H . H. Stephenson’s team on the Melbourne ground. The Englishmen scored 305 and won by an innings and 96 runs. Conway made only one run in the match, but he sent down 205 balls for 60 runs and four wickets. So much interest was centred in the game that the takings on the first day alone paid the expenses of the whole tour. H is bowling was very fast and in later years he developed into a sound and useful batsman and an able captain, whilst his fielding at slip was always of a very high order. A week after the match mentioned he played for Victoria against New South Wales and took five wickets for 39 runs, bis bowling having a good deal to do with the success of his Colony by ten wickets. Iu the game between the same sides at Sydney in Decem­ ber, 1865, he took eight wickets and scored 33, Victoria winning by an innings and 20 runs. He played with the St. Kilda, M el­ bourne, East Melbourne and South Melbourne clubs in turn, being captain of the first eleven of the last-named for several years “ and by his strenuous efforts raising it to a high level of excellence ” When Australia beat Lillyw hite’s team in Melbourne in 1876 7 the victory (says “ Felix,” writing in the A u stra las ia n ) :— caused Conway to conceive the idea of banding together an Australian team to visit England, and, being a man quick to act, he set to work without delay; and, with undaunted spirit overcame all obstacles, and had his team ready in November, 1877, to tour Australia and New Zealand, under the captainship of his old friend, the famous New South Wales batsman, Dave Gregory. How well that first Australian team did in England is well known, and to Jack Conway, and to him alone, the credit is due for initiating and establishing these visits to the old country and America—visits which have proved by far the best advertisement Australia ever had. So satisfied indeed were his comrades with the able part he played as manager and promoter that, in addition to his share, he was voted T|per cent., in recognition of his exceedingly able work. In all, he received about £1,200 when the final division of profits was made. He was a good judge of a young cricketer and was the first to recognise the promise shown by T. Horan and Blackham. More­ over, he was an interesting and talented writer on the game who, in addition to contributing frequently to some of the leading newspapers of Melbourne and Sydney, edited the A u s tra lia n C ricket A n n u a l which bears his name. Sydney Donahoo, the well known left-handed batsman, is a nephew of the deceased. Mr. W . F. P h illpo tts . M r. W illiam Francis Phillpotts, a well- known sporting barrister, died suddenly from heart failure at his country seat, Strete Wimple, Devon, on October 14th. Born on June 15th, 1837, he was educated at W in ­ chester and Oxford a n l was in the former Eleven in 1855. In his match against Eton he took two wickets and made only one run in his two innings ; Winchester were beaten by 46 runs. J. B. D. D r . J. A. S cott . By the death of Dr. J. Allison Scott at the early age of forty-four American cricket has lost one of its most enthusiastic supporters and a player who made his mark on the fields of England as well as of his native land. Born on May 20th, 1865, he had only just completed his nineteenth year when be played his first match in Great Britain as a member of the Philadelphian team of 1884, which was captained by Mr. R. S. Newhall. Just before sailing he played a fine iunings of 145 for Philadelphia Zingari against Pitts­ burg on the latter's ground, and although he did not make a single three-figure score whi st over here he batted so consistently that he obtained the highest aggregate and average for the side. H is cutting and for ward play were excellent, whilst his defence was strong : moreover he was a fine field and could keep wicket if required. His largest innings in England were 93 v. Gen­ tlemen of Liverpool, 80 v. Gentlemen of Somerset. 71 not out v. United Services, 64 v. Gent’emen of Cheshire, 63 v. Scarborough and 57 v. Gentlemen of Scotland, but per­ haps his best display was in making 44 against M.C.C. at Lord’s. Mr. John P. Green in his account cf the tour remarked : “ It is a pity that demands of professional life have forced Dr. Scott to restrict his ciicket to occasional outings, for he was pronounce 1 by the grand jury that occupy the pavilion seats at Lord’s to be one of the most finished bats they had seen in their long cricketing career.” Dr. Scott was a- seriated with the Belmont Club, (f which he was captain for several years and Presi­ dent for two. An excellent portrait of him was published on the cover of The A m erican C ricketer for September. H is brother, the late Mr. W alter Scott, was also a fine p’ayer and when in this country exactly twenty years ago scored 125 against the Gentlemen of Liverpool and 142 v. the Gentlemen of Surrev. THE BARBADOS ANNUAL.* This useful and interesting Annual is now in its fifteenth year, a fact which says a good deal for theenthusiasm of Mr. J. Wynfred Gibbons, whohas edited it from the start. A ll tbe old features of the work have been retained and a few improvements have been effected. F u ll particulars of the chief clubs in the island are, of course, given, and in addition the scores of the inter-colonial matches areincluded. A feature of the book is an article on Cricket at the Lodge School by E. Dalrymple Laborde. * Barbados Cricketers' Annual for 1908-9.— Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Barbados: Globe Office, Victoria Street. Price Is. SURREY v. YORKS. Copies of the Official Score, printed on satin, of the match played at the Oval between Surrey and Yorkshire. P r ic e 1/-, including Post -ge. “ Cricket” Ofice: 168,UpperThames St., E.C.