Cricket 1910

M ay 19, 1 9 1 0 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J37 sian and bowls right-hand medium-paced, whilst Cowie was the Charterhouse fast bowler of 1907. The latter must have improved considerably during the last two seasons, for the nine wickets which he took for Charterhouse cost 24‘77 runs each. It was nothing less than a triumph for the latter to get rid of H ay­ ward in each innings, and for such small scores as 3 and 14. C h ie f credit for the Cambridge victory, however, notwithstanding the bowling referred to and the capital first innings of Susskind, clearly rested with J. F. Ireland, the Old Marlburian, who scored 107 in the final stage of the match and made the winning hit after the seventh and eighth wickets had fallen with the game a tie. He allowed very few opportunities of scoring to escape, and his display must be regarded as the best he has yet given for the University. For three years, commencing in 1905, he was in the Marl­ borough Eleven and in his last season headed the averages with 64‘72, his aggregate being 712 and his highest score 177 : against Cheltenham he made 21 and 99 and in the match with Bugby at Lord’s 57 and 6 . Writing of him in Wisden'« Almanaclt for 1908, Mr. C. Toppin said “ Naturally a free run-getter, he could, and did when necessary, exercise plenty of self-restraint, and always played well within himself. I doubt whether he has any superior among school batsmen this year, and his average is wonderfully good.” As a Fresh­ man he obtained his Blue for Cambridge in 1908 on the strength of his innings of 46 and 123 against Mr. G. J. Y. Weigall’s X I. at Eastbourne: whilst making the latter score he and Mr. K. G. Macleod (119 not out) put on 24G together for the seventh wicket in 130 minutes. Against Oxford he made only 1 and 12 , and Cambridge were beaten by two wickets, but later in the season he appeared for Suffolk and, playing nine innings, headed the averages with 58'88, his highest score — the largest ever made for the County— being 221 against Cambridgeshire at Newmarket. He made his runs in two hours and forty minutes and hit thirty-five 4’s. Last year he averaged 29-09 for Cambridge, his best per­ formance being in the unfinished match with Oxford wherein he scored 65 and 29. H . J. K n u t t o n , the Oxfordshire-born fast bowler who has played for Warwick­ shire but has been engaged for several years past by Bradford, was at his best in last Saturday’s Yorkshire Council match against Wakefield on the Bradford ground. After his side had declared with seven men out for 176, he took all ten wicket-s in an innings of 90 for 31 runs. He will be best remembered for what he did when playing for An England Eleven against the Australians at Brad­ ford in June, 1902. Then, in a total of 402—Duff scored 182 and Trumper 113— he obtained nine wickets for ' 100 , clean bowling Noble, H ill and Darling in his second over. During the last four years he has taken 352 wickets in Yorkshire develop into one of the most useful mem­ bers o f the Yorkshire team, is also an Association footballer of note. For some time he was with the Queen’s Park Ban­ gers, but has recently been with Sheffield United, where he had Ernest Needham, o f Derbyshire, and Hardinge, o f Kent, as club-fellows. An interesting case of a small bird being killed by a cricket ball has been commu­ nicated to the F ield by Mr. E. G. Bust from The Nook, Boydon, Essex. Mr. Rust wrote, “ In the evening of May 4th while I was bowling a cricket-ball to my son, who was batting, the ball struck and killed a sedge warbler which was flying across the wicket, about two feet from the ground. After killing the bird, the ball pitched, kept low, and hit the middle stump, the batsman being surprised and not playing at it. I am having the bird set up.” H ow expensive a missed catch may prove was shown at Cambridge last week in the University’s match with Surrey. In his first innings M. J. Susskind was let off by the wicket-keeper before he had made a run, and the result was that he scored 92 and Cambridge won by two wickets. T h e b e was a very close finish on the Trinity ground, Cam­ bridge, on Friday last, in the match between Trinity College and K ing’s College. The former closed their innings with six wickets down for 160 and pulled off the game by a single run. For King’s C. G. Forbes Adam made 100, and the only other players on the side to reach double-figures were S. Dow (13) and G. C. Firth (10). R eeves and W a it s . A REMINISCENCE OF THE COLD WEATHER EXPERIENCED AT CAMBRIDGE DURING THE TRIAL MATCHES. * Council matches for Bradford at a cost of 8 25 runs each. T h e Bev. L. Hamilton, who captained Cheshire last season and had been invited to do so this year, has informed the County Committee that his appointment as Chaplain to the H igh Sheriff will prevent him from undertaking the duties. S in c e B. H . Spooner left Marlborough, the College has produced several players of great ability. Among those who occur to me at the moment of writing are G. G. Napier, L. G. Colbeck, H . J. Goodwin, J. F. Ireland and B. O. Lagden. A f e a t u r e of the cricket played this season by Yorkshire has been the admir­ able wicket-keeping of Watson, who gives every promise of proving an able successor to Hunter. Against M.C.C. and Ground at Lord’s last week, he did better than perusal of the score-sheet would lead one to suppose, the manner in which he gathered difficult balls on the leg-side from Hirst being worthy o f all praise. He was born—at Barnoldswick— on September 26th, 1884, and is therefore more than four and a-half years the junior o f Strudwick. A l o n zo D r a k e , who appears likely to D u r in g the past week or so a story has appeared in a great many English papers telling how, on the authority of an Aus­ tralian journal, a ball struck a fieldsman on the top of his helmet—it was a military match played in Ceylon— and, instead of bouncing off the helmet it went right through it and rested on the fielder’s head. The batsman, o f course, retired. There was much in the anec­ dote which seemed familiar, and I was not surprised to find that it appeared in Cricket seventeen years ago. An almost identical occurrence— also in connection with the game in Ceylon— was chronicled in Gossip of January 26th, 1899. I n last week’s match between M.C.C.