Cricket 1910

6 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an 27, 1 9 1 0 . CRICKET IN AU STR A L IA . SOUTH AUSTRALIA v. VICTORIA, Played at Ade'.aide on November 13, 15, 36, 17 and 18. South Australia won by an innings & ‘209 runs. Neither side was at full strength, Victoria, who were weak in bowling, lacking the services of Arm­ strong, Hansford, Laver and McAlister. Rain prevented a ball being bowled on Saturday, but runs came readily on Monday as is evident from the fact that during the day the home side made 356 for the loss of three wickets. After Saunders had bowled L. R. Hill and Mayne, the former at 5 and the latter at 74, Gehrs joined C. Hill and in three hours the pair added 253 for the third wicket, not­ withstanding that each was handicapped by an injury sustained before the match. Of tne 253 runs mentioned Gehrs, who hit seventeen 4's, mado 118 : ho reached 50 in 72 minutes and 100 in 170, but was missed when 55 and again when 118. C. Hill, let off by McKenzie off Hazlitt when 43, reached 50 in 85 minutes and 100 in 145 and, when stumps were drawn, carried out his bat for 171. He did little on the second day, adding only 5 before a misunderstanding with his partner lost him his wicket. He hit fourteen 4’s and made his 176 out of 360 in 280 minutes. It was an excellent innings. S. Hill and Woolcock made only 25 between them, but Hewer and Claxton put on 58 together b.-fore the latter, who hit nine 4's, was caught at point for a faultless S 8 made out of 157 in two hours and a- quarter. Rees claimed 26 of the next 35 runs, and Campbell, who succeeded him, played so useful a game that, although he made only 5, he put on 67 for the ninth w icket: of that number Hewer claimed 60 and there were 2 extras. When the iunings closed for 590 (made in 425 minutes) Hewer carried out his bat for 83, in making which he hit eleven 4's. After nearly two days in the field, the visitors fared badly upon going in and by the end of the day had tive wickets down for 75. Warne played a most u.-eful innings at a critical time and Scott stayed whilst 46 were added for the sixth wicket. Still, the total was only 140 when the seventh wicket fell. At that point Spiers joined Hazlitt and played a valu­ able game. He might have been run out when 17 and was missed when the total was 182, but he scored 49 and helped to put on 126 for the eighth wicket. Saunders did little and, with Reeves too ill to bat, the innings closed for 284. made in four hours and 20 minutes. Hazlitt was not out 82 at the close a most praiseworthy display. Only 5 runs had been made in the foliow-on when rain caused stumps to be drawn for the day. The break up of the weather made the Victorians’ task a hopeless one, and the only question was by how much the home side would win. Except Warne, who again played a fine game, no one offered must resistance to Kecs and L. R. Hill and the innings closed for 97. In the whole match Rees took ten wickets for just under 13 runs each. Score and analysis:— S outh A ustralia . E. R. Mayne, b Saun- W. A. Hewer, not out 83 ders ..............................32 R. B. Rees, c Delves, L. It. Hill, b Saunders 5 b Saunders •............26 C. Hill, run o u t...........176 G. C. Campbell, c and D. R. A. Gehrs, b b Scott ................... 5 S c o tt.........................118 L. E. Howard, b N. Claxton, c Ainslie, j Scott........................... 0 b Saunders ........... 88 B 16,1b 10,w 3, nb3 32 S. Hill, b Scott........... 18 ■ A. H. Woolcock, lbw, i Total .......5S» b Scott ............... 7 1 V ictoria . First innings. Second innings. F. T. Delves, c Hewer, b I {eC8 .................................... 8 c Claxton, b Rees 16 J. Ainslic, b Rees ........19 c C a m p b e ll, b L. R. Hill ... 4 T. S. Warnc, st Campbell, b Hewer ........................57 not out....................24 C. McKenzie, b L. R. Hill.. 7 st Campbell, b R ees................... 0 D. Smith, c Gehrs, b Rees 2 cGehrs.b Claxton 3 .1. Horan, lbw, b Itees ... 11 c & b L. It. Hill... 15 W. J. Scott, c Claxton, b c S. Hill, b L. It. Howard ......................19 H ill .................. 0 G. Hazlitt, not out ........82 c H o w a r d b C la x ton ........... 8 N L. Spiers, c Gehrs, b Woolcock ........................49 c Gehrs, b Rees .. 19 J. V. Saunders, b Rees ... 5 b R e e s ................... 1 \V. Heeves, absent ........... 0 c Maync, b Uecs.. 0 B 3, lb 16, w 3, nb 3 ... 25 B 3, lb 3, nb 1... 7 Total .................... 284 Total.. S outh A ustralia . O. M. R. W. Saunders. 56 15 173 4 | McKenzie. Hazlitt ... 39 8 132 0 Warne . Spiers ... 18 3 53 0 Ainslie Scott .. 24*2 1 91 5 | .. j Ainslie bowled two wides, Hazlitt a wide and two no-balls and Saunders one no-ball. O. M. H. W. 0 53 0 0 46 0 0 10 0 V ictoria . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. H ow ard........... 20 6 64 1 ............. 1 0 6 0 Rees ........... 31-1 6 88 5 ........... 13 0 41 5 L. R. Hill ... 19 6 36 1 ............. 7 1 14 3 Hewer ........... 10 0 39 1 ............ 3 1 5 0 Claxton........... 6 0 12 0 ............ 10 3 24 2 Woolcock ... 3 0 201 ... ... Howard bowled two wides and two no-balls and Hill one wide and two no-balls. QUEENSLAND v. NEW SOUTH WALES. PI tye 1 at Brisbane on December 11, 13 and 14. New South Wales won by seven wickets. Neither Hartigan nor Sewart was able to assist Queensland in thin match, the former owing to pressure of business and the latter because he had returned to Victoria. Furthermore, Hutcheon was not included in the side as he had been somewhat out of form. The visiting team, although contain­ ing several players new to representative cricket, held the upper hand almost from the start and won by seven wickets. Early in the game Fletcher, an ex-Sydney man, played a good innings, but the only real stand was made by Thomson and Fennelly, who put on 59 together for the fifth wicket. Docker, whose analysis was four for 65, took his last three wickets for 4 runs. Goldie Thomas, by aggressive cricket, played a fine game for 96 when New South Wales went in : he made 71 for the first wicket with Cranney (who was missed when 5) and 84 for the third with Minnett. The feature of his innings was his off-driving : he should have been stumped when 89. but made no other mistake. Goddard afterwards made 108 out of 204 in 170 minutes, but was missed when 84 ; when the last man went in he had scored 93, but by obtaining the greater part of the bowling succeeded in reaching three-figures, llodgkinson showed capital form for just over an hour and a half, and in partnership with Goddard added 120 for the sixth wicket. The 380 runs scored in the innings took four hours and three quarters to make. Queensland, upon going in again with arrears amounting to 200 , made a very poor start, but another sound innings by Fennelly, who was making his debut for the State, enabled them to sond the visitors in the second time. He was seen to much advantage in making 97, and after adding S5 for the seventh wicket with Evans MacLaren helped to put on 47 for the eighth. W’hen New South Wales went in to make 61 to win the batting order was changed and three wickets fell before the runs were obtained. Score and analysis :— Q ueensland . First innings. K. It. Crouch, b Docker ... 4 .J. \V. Fletcher, b Itandell. 35 W. B.’Hayes, st Harvey, b Itandell .......................... S. J. Redgrave, lbw, b Randell .......................... J. Thomson, c Randell, b Sm ith.......................... S. J. Fennelly, c and b M iddleton........................ W. Armstrong, b Docker W. T. Evans, c Goddard, b Sm ith.................. B. Cook, c Thomas, b Docker F. Fett, b Docker, ........... J. W. MacLaren, notou t... B 1, lb 3, nb 1... ... Second innings. b Docker ............ 0 b Docker ............ 1 0 b Docker ......21 15 b Docker ...... 0 47 41 19 12 1 0 b Docker ... c C ra n n ey, Goddard ... run out c Reid, b Randell 33 b G oddard...........23 c Minnett, b God­ dard ................... 2 not out ...........40 B 10 , lb 3, w 3 ... 16 Total 260 Total .................. 180 N ew South W ales . First innings. Second innings. II. Cranney, b MacLaren... 30 notout ........ 17 (}. Thomas, b MacLaren ... 96 notout ......11 1). C. Reid, b MacLaren ... 3 c and b Hayes ... 23 It. V. Minnett, c & b Hayes 42 J. Hodgkinson, run out ... 62 H. Goddard, not ou t.........108 F. S. Middleton,bMacLaren 2 b Hayes ....... 5 G. Harvey, b Fett ........... 3 b MacLaren ... 5 C. Docker, c and b Hayes... 15 J. Itandell, c Cook, b Red­ grave ................................... 6 J. Smith, c and b Redgrave 1 B 2, lb 6 , nb 4 .........12 Lb ..... 2 Total ...................380 Q ueensland . Total (3 wkts.) 63 First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. It. W. Docker ... . . 11*2 1 65 4 .. ... 21 3 67 5 Itandell... . . 8 0 55 3 .. ... 9 1 52 1 Smith ... . . 8 0 36 2 .. ... 16 1 54 0 Middleton . 5 0 19 1 .. 7 2 20 0 Goddard .. ... 10 0 51 3 N ew S outh W ales . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. F e tt.................. 14 1 58 1 ............ 3 0 16 0 Hayes ........... 24 2 101 2 ............ 6 0 35 2 MacLaren ... 27 3 107 4 ............ 3 1 10 1 Redgrave ... 14 2 54 2 ............ Cook ............ 4 119 0 ................. Thomson ... 8 2 23 0 ........... Fletcher ... 3 0 6 0 .................. At Adelaide on December 17, 18, 20 and 21 South Australia (397) beat New South Wales (184 and 209) by an innings and 4 runs. C. Hill scored 205 and J. N. Crawford took six wickets for 59 for South Australia. For the visitors E. L. Waddy played a first innings of 118. At Melbourne on December 27, 28 and 29 New South Wales (287 and 263) beat Victoria (93 and 185) by 272 runs. For the successful side W. Bardsley scored 77 and 149 and S. H. Emery obtained twelve wickets for 113 runs (seven for 28 and five for 85). At Sydney on December 31, January 1, 3 and 4 New South Wales (185 and 417) were beaten by Queensland (37l» and 224 for seven wickets) by three wickets. E. 1*. Harbour made 124 not out for New South Wales and K. V. Minnett 169. At Melbourne on January 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Victoria (206 and 458) be «t South Australia (360 and 223) by 81 runs. In the first innings of South Australia C. Hill made 185 and J. N. Crawford 75, while in the second of the home side D. Smith scored 146 and W. W. Armstrong 124. At Sydney on January 7, 8 , 10 and 11 New South Wales (92 and 289) were beaten by South Australia (207 and 178 for three wickets) by seven wickets. In the second half of the match C. Kelleway made 108 for the homo side and J. N. Crawford 73 not out for the visitors. In the first innings of New South Wales W. J. Whitty took five wickets for 43 runs and in the second Crawford obtained seven for 92. S. H. Emery took five for 55 in South Australia’s total of 207. TH E SYD N E Y GROUND . A New Sv.uth Wales Parliamentary paper contains a report and statement of receipts aud expenditure in connection with the Sydney Cricket Ground for the year ended 30th September, 1909. Mr. C. Oliver, chair­ man of trustees, iu his letter forwarding the statement to the Minister for Lands, states that the year closed with a debit balance of £3,839 2s. lid . This arose owing to the large expenditure, £10,547 15s. id., in improvements to provide increased accommodation, including the erection of a new grand-.-tand costing £13,495 6 s. 5d. A considerable sum has also been expended on the northern ground, in order to afford increased facilities for practice and to relieve the pre?sure on the main ground. Some additional expenditure has yet to be incurred to complete the northern ground, but it is not expected that auy further large ex­ penditure will be required for some years. It is stated in the report that “ The effect of this expenditure is that the trustees have been able to provide facilities for cricket and other sports, and accommodation for the public desiring to view them, unequalled, it is believed, by those of any simi'ar ground in any part of the world.” Ground membeis’ entrance fees and subscriptions amounted to £4,874 12s.; cricket revenue, £309 8 s. 6 d .; football, £899 11s. ; bar r ghts, £ lJ65. The sum paid in salaries and wages was £2,672 2s. Id., and the rent paid to the Lands department was £240. The old famous Sydney cricketer, H. H. Massia, signs as hon. treasurer .—The Au'siralasiun. F. Meares scored 213 foi Ashfield v. Campbclltown in New South Wales on November 13, and on Decem­ ber 4 P. Grove made 209 in a B grade match in Adelaide between Sturt and Glenclg. R IC H A R D D A F T ’S N O T T IN G H A M S H IR E MARL.—Particulars apply RadclifTe-on-Trent, Notts.