Cricket 1910

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S e v e r a l letters have reached me on the subject of Yorkshire’s cricket at Trent Bridge last week, the correspondents being unanimous in condemning the unenter­ prising methods of the side on the first two days o f the match. For their slow scoring on the first day there was no excuse, and although there may have been good reason for not compelling the home side to follow- on— the Yorkshire bowlers, it should be remembered, are getting on in years, for cricketers, and the captain is hardly likely to have taken the step he did without consulting them— one cannot but feel that the side adopted very poor tactics in not attempting to force the game more after leading by 154 on the innings. Still, the play on the last day almost atoned for the earlier disappointments, Mr. Radcliffe declaring and leaving Notts about five hours and a-quarter in which to make 355. N o t t in g h a m s h ir e cricket has been rather disappointing this season, notwith­ standing the county’s success at Surrey’s expense at Whitsun, but on Saturday they played a rousing game and almost obtained a victory which would have become his­ toric. Bain caused the game to be stopped for ‘20 minutes, and the light afterwards was not good, yet when stumps were drawn the side were within 38 runs of victory and had four wickets to fall. A. O. Jones, with an innings of 116, can claim chief credit for the fine fight made, but Hardstaff scored 73—his best perform­ ance this year— and John Gunn 50. The side accomplished a great feat in doing so well against the bowling of Hirst, New­ stead, Drake, Bhodes and Haigh. A c o m p l e t e d match in which only 16 runs are made is something of a curiosity, and therefore the score of the game played in Yorkshire on the 4th inst. between Bramley Wellington Mills and Miers Brothers may be considered of interest:— M iers Bros. H. Hartley c Gaines, b Clegg... C. Townend, c C egg, b Marshall ........... G. Horner, b Marshall W. H. Heap, run out... W. Ripley, c Fell, b C legg.......................... W. Smith, b Marshall A. Oates, b Marshall M. Sowerby, c Booth, b Clegg ................... A. Walls, c Marshall, b Clegg ................... E.Cummings, b Clegg W. Firth, not out ... Byes, &c.................. Total ........... B ramley W ellington M ills . H. Marshall, not out ............................ 6 R. Fell, not out ................................. 2 Byes, &c.......................................... 1 Total .......................... 9 Marshall took four wickets for no runs and Clegg five for one. M o r e remarkable, however, was the match played a week earlier— at Walling- ton, inSurrey, on May 28th— between the DowerHouse School and Sutton Park School. The game, in fact, was of so unusual a character as to justify the full score being given in G o s s ip . On the.Dower House School ground, Healhdene Road Wallington, Surrey, May %8th, 1910. D ower H ouse S chool . D. M illin g to n , c Brough, b Lee ... 4 L. Greatbach, not out ......................... 0 B 8, w 4 ...........12 Total (7 wkts)* 110 F. Brown, b Wells ... 9 A. Robertson, b Wells 5 P. Popplewell, b Wells 40 H. Millington, b Wells 0 A. Maclachlan, not out 37 S. Wall, b W ells........... 0 H. Mason, lbw, b Lee 3 * Innings declared closed. Pridham and Page did not bat. S utton P ark S chool . First innings. Second innings. R. Wells, cand b Brown ... 0 b Robertson 0 Lee, run ou t........................... 1 b Brown ........... 4 Brough, b Robertson........... 2 st Maclachlan, b Robertson 0 Ron. Wells, c Robertson, b st Maclachlan, b Brown.................................. 0 Robertson 0 Harman, b Brown .......... 0 run out ........... 1 Ferrier, b Brown ........... 0 st Maclachlan, b Brown .......... 0 Wilkinson, b B r o w n .......... 1 c Wall, b Brow n. 0 Harding, not o u t ................. 0 c Maclachlan, b Robertson 0 F. Knowles, b Brown 0 b Brown ........... 0 T. Knowles, st Maclachlan, b Brown ........................... 0 not out ........... 0 Morgan, b Brown ........... 0 ht wkt, b Brown 0 Byes, &c. 0 Bye ........... 1 Total ................... 4 Total (> Unfortunately the bowling analysis was not kept, but the figures o f Brown, a medium-fast bowler, aged about twelve, must have been remarkable. In each innings of Sutton Park School the last five wickets fell without a run, and in tho first, which amounted only to 4, there was a change o f bowling, Popplewell, who went on first with Brown, taking himself off after three overs. The cricket played by Dower House School is of a really high standard considering that the average age o f the eleven is not more than twelve or thirteen, The head­ master, the Bev. B. J. Doble, is very keen on the game and when superintend­ ing the boys’ practice—nets are never used, a full side always being put into the field—causes special attention to be paid to fielding and throwing-in. “ W h e n our kinsmen from South Africa and Australia pay us a visit two years hence they will find that the game is still fairly well played in England,” remarks the Observer. “ Those who are building fears about the undoing of our young men by the ‘ googly ’ were engaged in a superfluous pastime. While the boys at the Public Schools are still taught to keep the right foot firm, the bat straight and the wript supple, there need be no anxiety. And as Mr. Herbert Fowler—a great hitter of other days— laid down, it is far easier to get singles and twos from the ‘ goog ly ’ than is commonly understood. He himself woujd sooner have played the South; African ‘ googly ’ men in his day than Fred Morley and Alfred Stiaw. The deadli­ ness of the ‘ googly ’ is something of a phantom which got on the nerves of our batsmen a few years ago. Mr. Bosanquet and Mr. Beggie Schwarz have had many imitators. But Hirst and Blythe and