Cricket 1909

42 CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M arch 25, 1909. O n tlie East Fremantle Oval on January 30th and February Oth in a match between Australs and East F re­ mantle, the former, as the result of fast scoring, made 201 for five wickets during the first afternoon, and then declared their innings closed, leaving their opponents all the time available on the following Saturday to malse the runs or get out. The Australs were confident of success, but when play ceased the score was as follows :— E ast F rem an tle . O. Kelly, not out................................... 137 Hales,not out .................................... 120 Byes, &e.............................. 0 Total (no w k t)........... 203 To pull off a match by ten wickets after being set over ‘250 to win is a feat of the rarest occurrence. T he follow ing interesting tables were com piled by “ B e cord er” o f the Adelaide Observer :— 1,000 R uns in S h effield S hield M atches . M. A. Noble ... . . 4,897 H. Donnan ........... 1,784 C. Hill ................ . 4,457 G. H. S. Trott ... 1,777 S. E. Gregory . 8,266 J. Worrall ........... 1,707 V. T. Truin]>er . 2,030 A. J. Hopkins 1,572 F. L aver................ . 2,596 F. T. Hack ........... 1,559 W. W. Armstrong . 2,501 V. Ransford........... 1,428 F. A. Iredale ... , . 2,400 D. R. A. Gehrs ... 1,403 P. A. McAlister . . 2,886 N. H. Claxton 1,303 G. Giffen................ . 2,311) C. E. McLeod 1,281 J. C. Reedman . 2,239 J. J. Kelly ........... 1,233 H. Graham ... . . 2,153 W. Bruce ........... 1,208 R. A. Duff ... . . 2,149 F. Jarvis ......... 1,180 J. Darling ... . . 1,956 H. Trum ble........... 1,150 J. J. Lyons ... . . 1,820 A.C. K. Mackenzie 1,090 J. H. Stuckey . 1,798 50 W ickets in S h effield S h ield M atches . E. Jones .......... ... 200 A. McBeath ... .. 85 G. Giffen ........... ... 192 A. Cotter ................ .. 84 J. V. Saunders .. ... 174 F. Laver ................ .. S3 H. Trumble ... 159 J. C. Recdman .. 79 M. A. Noble ... 159 W. W. Armstrong . 70 W. P. Howell ... ... 157 G. H. S. Trott... .. 74 T. R. McKibbin ... 137 C. T. B. Turner .. 73 C. E. McLeod ... ... 109 J. A. O’Connor .. 0G A. J. Hopkins ... ... 93 F. Jarvis ........... .. 58 J. F. Travers ... ... 90 A. W . W right .. .. 51 F. B. Collins ... ... 87 It will be seen that Giffen, Trumble, Noble and McLeod have each made over 1,000 runs in addition to taking more than 100 wickets. H . P atten took four wickets with consecutive balls for Goodwood A.N.A. v. Klemzig, in South Australia, on January 30th. His analysis for the innings was seven wickets for 9 runs. F r o m the Adelaide Observer :— An unusual incident occurred at Norwood in the match between North Adelaide and East Torrens on February Cth. Reedman bowled to L. W. Herbert, and the ball hit the batsman on the loot and glanced into the wicket. The bowler made an appeal which was answered in the negative by the umpire (Mr. Harvey) who exp'ained that Reedman had crossed him and he could not see what had happened. The stump was knocked back, and Claxton, the North Adelaide captain, asked Reedman if he had appealed for leg before wiuket. The bowler answered in the affirmative, and Mr. Harvey again explained that he could not see. Claxton then appealed for bowled, and the umpire referred the point to his colleague at square leg. Mr. Watson had no hesitation in giving Herbert out. Although Reedman doubtless had leg before in his mind when he appealed, he Used the universal question, “ How’s that ? ” and strictly speaking the umpire’s reply covered everything at the bowler’s end. As the man was palpably out, the better course would have been for Mr. Harvey to have followel tbe iustructiors to umpires, an l to have recalled bis decision of not out as one made in the hurry of the moment, and then, if unable to give a verdict, to have asked Mr. Watson. Law 47 clearly provides for such a case, because it refers to “ any case in which an umpire is unable to give a decision.” L o k d D u d l e y , the Governor-General of Australia, who has shown such interest in the game of late, led a team against a Parliamentary side on the Adelaide Oval on February 8th. H is Excellency’s Eleven contained several well-known players, including George Giffen, Whitty, Jarvis, and Woodford, and won easily, scoring 200 for three wickets (innings declared closed) against 101 and 31 for three wickets. Giffen made 114 not out and Lord Dudley 8, and Whitty took four wickets for 7 runs. On February 15th the Governor-General’s team scored 309 for nine wickets (Capt. L. Rome 100, F. Jarvis 74 not out) against the Military (143) on the same ground. In this match his lordship made only a single. The following are the votes given in the plebiscite opened by the The Register, of Adelaide, on the Australian Eleven :— O’Connor . 82 Mayne ... .. 24 Ransford . 82 Barnes ... .. 23 Armstrong .. . 81 Parker ... ... 21 Noble .......... . 81 Hazlitt ... ... 10 C a r t e r .......... . 77 Vernon ... ... 14 Macartney .. . 75 McAlister .. 13 Gehrs .......... .. 74 Pellew ... ... 11 Cotter .......... . 73 Dolling ... .. 7 Hartigan . 70 Carkeek ... .... 7 Bardsley . 00 Dodds ... 7 Trumper . 00 Gorry ... . ... 0 Hopkins . 51 Claxton ... .. 4 Saunders . 41 L. R. Hill ... 4 Gregory . 35 Wright ... .... 2 Woodford . 30 Whitty ... , ... 1 The position in the list o f Whitty, who has been chosen for the tour, is decidedly interesting. I n a ladies’ cricket match in Melbourne on January 10th, between St. Mark’s and St. James’, Miss O. Biggs took seven of the former’s wickets for 11 runs and Miss A. Maguire eight for 13. St. Mark’s scored 17 and 7 for seven wickets. S in c e the publication of the last number of Cricket details have come to hand of the record-breaking match at Sydney between New South Wales and Victoria. The game ran into the sixth day and produced 1,911 runs for the loss of 34 wickets, thus :— First day... ... 305 runs for 3 wickets. Second day .. 440 „ 6 n Third day .. 209 „ 4 „ Fourth day ... 323 „ 9 ,, Fifth day... ... 320 ,, 5 »> Sixth day .. 182 „ 7 » It may interest those who are statistically inclined to know that New South Wales made 950 runs for fourteen wickets in eleven hours and three-quarters and Victoria 955 runs for twenty wickets in fourteen and a-half hours. The full score of the match will be found on page 37. I n the match between the Savage Club and Doctors, at East Melbourne on January 10th, the scoring was rapid. The former made 194 for nine wickets in an hour and a-half, and the Doctors put up 220 for two wickets in an hour and twenty minutes. Good hit freely for 101. He made his runs under the hour. S ince the Sheffield Shield competition was inaugurated in 1892 by Lord Sheffield donating a hundred guineas for the pur­ chase of a trophy, New South Wales have won 47 matches and lost 22, Victoria won 34 and lost 35, and South Australia won 20 and lost 44. V . T rumper ’ s only appearance in first- class cricket this season was a barren one. He made a blob (but was given out incorrectly, says the Sydney Referee, the ball striking his pad, and not his bat) and missed the only chance he received— one in the slips off Cotter. A few years ago V .T . was the great personality on any side he played w ith ; but ho has dropped to the level of the ordinary cricketer. A repetition of form of seven years ago in England within the next few months would strike a popular chord in Australia. A cable message states that in a club match in Sydney on March Oth he scored 200 in three hours and a-half, hitting ten 0’s and twenty 4’s. T he cost of the New South Wales team on tour to Adelaide and Melbourne was .£230, being ,£104 less than the average cost for the five preceding years. The visit to Brisbane cost .£113 17s., as against £195 in the previous season. The difference in the expenditure on the tours is principally the result of the Association having cut out the payment for loss of salary to players. The New South Wales Cricket Association has a credit balance of .£039 9s. 7d., largely through the donation of .£500 from the Trustees of the Sydney Cricket Ground. I n the match North Sydney A. v. Redfern, in the New South WalesWednes- day competition at North Sydney Oval on January 13th, the home team started their second innings at 4.50 p.m., requir­ ing 214 runs to win. They scored 233 for six wickets in eighty minutes, finish­ ing at 0.10 p.m., Boyd contributing 54, J. A. Spence 39, and Hunt 32. T he following amusing incident is related in connection with the dismissal of S. E. Gregory in the first innings of last month’s match at Sydney between the Australian Eleven and the Rest of Australia:—“ After a delay of ten minutes on account of rain, the game was resumed. A man from the shilling portion of the ground climbed over the fence and walked to Gregory. Reaching out his hand, he made an obeisance worthy of a Chinese Mandarin. Then he placed at Gregory’s