Cricket 1910

J u l y 14, 1910. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 265 of him in taking seven wickets for 58 runs in a total of 237. Going on for the last time at 196, he found the new ball provided with the score 200 quite to his liking, and in ten overs, of which three were maidens, took five wickets for 26 runs, although, as a matter of fact the wickets were obtained in 31 balls for 21 runs. The last six overs he delivered resulted thus :— ! •' ’ 1 4 ‘ 3 ■ 3 1 1 4 • 11 w I | • w |w • 1 1 ‘ 1 3 • ! i ■ I w w 1 Hobbs, Tyldesley, Sharp and Jayes were numbered amongst his seven victims. I t was most unfortunate for the Gentlemen that Y . F. S. Crawford sustained an injury, and was thereby prevented from doing himself anything like justice. He has played some excellent innings this season, and had he been able to piay his own natural game at the Oval last week it is probable that ho would have done well, for it was a wicket on which those who indulged in a free-scoring game met with the most success. His place in the field was taken by Hitch, who did some really brilliant work, the best thing being perhaps, the manner in which he ran out Tarrant by a fine return from the long-field. O ne of the best all-round performances in Metropolitan club cricket on Saturday was by P. C. Burnett for Sutton against Croydon on the latter’s ground. After scoring 87, in which were a 6 and thir­ teen 4’s, he took seven wickets for 31 runs in a total of 94. E rn est K illic k was responsible on Saturday last for one of the most remark­ able bowling feats of the season, taking seven wickets for 10 runs against Essex at Leyton in 7'2 overs. It is true that, whilst he was on, his opponents were trying to make runs fast, as they possessed a substantial lead, and that their tactics may have contributed to some extent to his success, but his per­ formance was nevertheless a very note­ worthy one. Against Hampshire at Chichester two years ago he took five wickets for 2 runs, which still ranks as his most remarkable feat with the ball from a figure point of view. Killick, who made his first appearance for Sussex in 1893, has taken part in every match played by the county since July, 1898, and next month, when Lancashire will be met, takes his benefit at Brighton. I t cannot have been with very much confidence that Essex took the field against Sussex, for three of their best players in Perrin, Gillingham, and Fane were away. Yet, strange to say, the side held the lead from the start, and won comfortably on the third afternoon by 147 runs. Buckenham and Tremlin bowled beautifully in the final stage of the game and were well supported in the field, Kenneth Gibson, behind the wickets, being in exceptionally fine form. W h en A. E. R elf bowled J. Freeman in the first innings o f Essex he obtained his one-thousandth wicket for Sussex in first-class matches. In the second innings of the same match, when he got Kenneth Gibson caught at the wicket, he took his one-hundredth wicket o f the season in first-class cricket. In the circumstances, Belf is likely to remember his visit to Leyton in 1910. H abry T u r n er , a Lancashire player who is engaged this season with the Ayr C.C., took five wickets with consecutive balls on Saturday against Lord Eglinton’s X I. The latter had made 126 for five wickets when Turner commenced his sen­ sational over. With each of his first five deliveries he obtained a wicket, and all his victims were clean bowled with the exception of the third, who was leg-before- wicket. “ I t is sufficiently interesting to see a slow bowler follow exactly in the steps of his father,” says the Evening Standard , “ we may even marvel at it, but we shall marvel less if we attend to what modern physicists tell us of heredity. They say that the father is to some extent the elder brother of his son, that some portion of a faculty handed down perhaps from a grandfather lies latent in the son, to be handed on in its full vigour to the grand­ son. And that elder and younger brothers frequently share the same gift requires no proof. We have only to look in cricket itself at the Lytteltons, Fords, Thorntons, Palairets, Hearnes, and many others. In golf we have the Blackwells, Martin Smiths, and a score of other examples; in football the Birketts. Everywhere the same phenomenon meets the eye.” I n the semi-final match for the Sir F. Harrison Cup at Wembley on the 4th inst. between L. & N. W . Railway (Lon­ don) and Crewe Permanent Way, the former won by 235 runs without losing a wicket. The full score is worthy of a place in Gossip :— L . & N.W. R a il w a y (L o n d o n ). H. J. Paris, not out ...................................... 122 A. J. Wilson, not o u t...................................... 160 Byes, &c..........................................................2 Total (no wkt) .................... *284 * Innings declared closed J. T. G. Earl, J. G. B. Ginn, A. J. Houghton, A. Turner, P . G. Skilton, H. J. Fountain, J. C. Battison, E. Howard, and P . C . King did not bat. C r e w e P e r m a n e n t W a y . G. R. Jackson, run out 3 J. Rhodes, not out ... 19 I. R. Court, b Skilton 0 J. M. Williams, b Skil­ ton .......................... S. Timmis, b Howard W. Meakin, b Howard 3 C. Marsden, b Howard W. E. Thornhill, c A. Shires, c Paris, b Fountain, b Skilton 0 Howard ................... 4 W. J. Pool, lbw, b Byes, &c............... 9 Howard ................... 1 — L. B. Phillips, b Bow- Total ...........49 ard, .......................... 2 Paris and Wilson took an hour to make the first 60 runs, but added the remaining 224 in 75 minutes. Wilson hit twenty- four 4’s, and Paris sixteen. A n anonymous post-card has reached me worded thus :— “ Cambridge intro­ duced a remarkable novelty into inter- University cricket at Lord’s last week by opposing one Mann and a Kidd to the Oxford Eleven. Had this occurred to you ? ” I must confess that it had not. T he occasions on which Jessop has proved of greater value to his side than on Thursday or Friday last can surely be numbered on one h an d: in other words, what he did must rank as one of the most extraordinary things ever chronicled in first-class cricket. Going in when Glou­ cestershire’s position was most critical, and runs had been made only with the greatest difficulty since the match started, he scored 165 runs out of 205'made during the two hours he was in. H is display changed the whole aspect of the game, and Worcestershire were beaten by 91 runs. He made 28 runs (4, 6, 6, 2, 4, 6) off an over from Burrows, and obtained his large score by means of six 6’s, twenty 4’s, ten 2’s, and 29 singles, there not being a hit for 3 in the course of the innings. F or the following summary of Jessop’s fifteen innings of over 150 in matches of note I am indebted to the A thletic News. ^86 out of 355 in 175 min., Gloucestershire v. Sussex, at Brighton ......... 1903 240 „ 337 „ 200 min., Gloucestershire ,r. Sussex, at Bristol.................. 1907 234 „ 346 „ 155 min., Gloucestcrbliire v. Somerset, at Bristol ........... 1905 233 „ 318 „ 150 min., An England XI. v. Yorkshire, at Lords’ ........... 1901 206 „ 317 „ 150 min., Gloucestershire v. Notts, at Nottingham........... 1904 191 „ 234 ,, 90 min., Gents of South v. Players of South, at Hastings 1907 179 „ 257 „ 105 min., Gloucestershire v. Sussex, at Brighton ........... 1900 171* „ 202 „ 105 min., Cambridge Univ. v. Yorkshire, at Cambridge ... 1S99 169 „ 244 „ 105min., M.C.C. and Ground v. Leicestershire, at Lord’s 1901 168 „ 272 „ 175 min., Gloucestershire v. Lancashire, at Bristol........... 1903 165 „ 205 „ 120 min., Gloucestershire v. Worcestershire, at Stour­ bridge .................................. 1910 164 „i 204 „ 120 min., Gloucestershire v. Sussex, at Gloucester........... 1908 161 „, 199 „ 95 min., Gloucestershire v. Hampshire, at Bristol.......... 1909 159* „ 219 „ 123 m in ., South of England v. S. Africans, at Hastings ... 1904 157 „ 200 „ 60 min.-, Gloucestershire v. West Indians, at Bristol ... * Signifies not out. 1900 28 Among the many instances of heavy punishment meted out by him to individual bowlers may be mentioned the follow ing:— 28 runs off 1 over; Gloucestershire v. Somerset, at Bristol, 1904 (the bowler was Braund, and the hits 4, 4, 0, 4, 4, 0). „ 1 over; Gloucestershirev.Worcestershire, at Stourbridge, 1910 (the bow lja*^ was Burrows, and the hits XJo, r 4, c p ^ ( p „ 1 over; Gents of the South v. Players of the South, at Hastings, 1907 (the bowler was Relf (A. E.), and the hits were 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4). ,, 2 overs; Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire, at Harrogate, 1897 (the late Mr. F. W. Miligan was hit for 15, and Hirst for 18). ,, 3 overs; Gloucestershire v. Warwickshire, at Cheltenham, 1908 (Charles­ worth was hit for l(i, T. A. Hilditch for 15, and Field for 18). ,, 4 overs; Gloucestershire v. Hampshire, at Bristol, 1909 (off Llewellyn, whose four consecutive overs were hit for 12, 14, 18, aud 17). W h ilst playing in a match at Woore, near Hanley, on Saturday last, Mr. T. Cartlick, of the Manor House, Woore, died with tragic suddenness. He was batting at the time, and was waiting for the next player to come in, when he