Cricket 1910

2 6 6 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 14, 1910. collapsed. A doctor was immediately sent for, but he could only say that life was extinct. The game was, o f course, abandoned. S o m e exceptionally fast scoring was recorded by Durham City in their Durham County Senior League match with Hendon on their opponents’ ground on Saturday. Hendon, going in first, were dismissed for 66, C. Adamson taking five wickets for 30 runs and Hendren (brother of the Middlesex player) the remaining five for 36. Durham City lost their first wicket at 16, and then C. Adamson (102) and A. P. Ashley (99) hit so lustily that the second hundred went up in 70 minutes, and when the innings had been in progress a couple of hours the total was 314. Adamson hit five 6’s and a dozen 4’s. I t has been decided that the three- days’ match between the Navy and Army and the Combined Universities which commenced at Aldershot on Thursday last shall rank as first-class. I t cannot have happened very fre­ quently, I imagine, that a bowler has found himself on the losing side after taking seven wickets in one innings and nine in the other. Yet that was the experience which fell to the lot of Nash, of Glamorgan, in the match at Cardiff last week with Somerset. He took six­ teen wickets for 130 runs in totals o f 173 and 140, performed the hat-trick and, except in one instance, dismissed all his victims without assistance from the fields­ men—yet Somerset won by 172 runs. He bowls fast-medium leg-breaks, with an occasional off-break. In a Paris Championship match at Suresnes on the 3rd inst., between Stade Francais and the Standard Athletic Club, the latter were dismissed in their first innings for two runs, which is the smallest total ever made by a side in France. Going in again, they lost six wickets for 18 runs. Mr. P. H. Tomalin, who was interviewed by Cricket in December, 1907, made the highest score in each innings— 1 and 8. N e w s reaches me from India to the effect that it has been definitely decided to send a cricket team to England next April. The Maharajah of Patiala, who will be a member of the side, has appointed an administrative Committee to attend to State affairs during his absence. Of other players likely to make the journey may be mentioned Prince Hetty o f Cooch Behar, Dr. H . D. Kanga, K. M. Mistri, J. Warden, B. P. Meherhomji, H. Mulla, P. Balu, M. Pai, M. Bulsara or A. H . Mehta, W . Talpade, Noorali of Cashmere, and two or three men from Aligarh. The constitution of the team will not be settled until after the Triangular Tourna­ ment in Bombay next October. Banjit- sinhji has been invited to make the trip, but it is not likely that he will do so. U n le ss I am much mistaken, the following notice, taken from the Madras Times, refers to a cricketer who was at one time well-known on English grounds:— C a p l e n . — On the 18th June, 1910, at “ Daisy Bank,” Coonoor, the wife of Tom Caplen, Manager, Vizianagram Mining Company, of a son. Mr. Caplen was a fast right-handed bowler, an excellent field and a fair bat. He played for Kent on one occasion in 1897, at the age of seventeen, and has since appeared for Cornwall and Madras Presidency. “ I t appears to me that English county cricket could be saved if in every match the majority of the players were amateurs,” writes “ B over” in the Cricket Star. “ I would go farther, and limit the number of professionals to three in each side— say, two bowlers and a wicket­ keeper. This would give eight amateurs, most of whom would be played for their batting. We should then see something like fast, lively cricket. I am a great admirer of the skill of the professional batsman, but, as a rule, he is too prone to fall into a groove, to become mechanical and stereotyped in style, with the result that if you see him play once, you see him always. With an amateur it is different. He is a free agent, and his game has naturally more variety and more charm. He is not concerned about his average, and, there­ fore, he plays a freer and more attractive game. Becently we have seen county teams composed of eleven professionals, and it is quite a common thing to see ten professionals and one amateur.” As understudy to Humphries Derby­ shire have two wicket-keepers available in Boot and Beet. Perhaps one o f these days both will be included in the side for the same match, and then we may see a Beet-Boot parsnip—I mean partnership. N ot on the cricket-field alone is the “ googlie” causing perplexity. No less puzzled than the batsman is the etymo­ logist. A correspondent o f Notes and Queries submits an explanation of the origin of the word. “ It exactly expresses the nature of the bowling,” he says, “ if, as seems most probable, it is the Scan­ dinavian gogle (pronounced almost like “ googly ” ), which means to trick or humbug. Possibly this word was intro­ duced into cricket by some one of the many Englishmen who go to Norway to fish. It would be interesting to know if this is this case.” D u r in g the Sussex and Kent match at Hastings last week the representatives of the press were greatly interested in the work of an enthusiastic local artist, who not only made sketches of them but handed them over into their keeping. One of the journalists, who is as well- known for his good looks as for his intimate acquaintance with Chinese and Hindustani, was so charmed with the sketch o f himself that he folded it up carefully, put it into his pocket, and said that he should have it framed. Where­ upon a kind friend thoughtfully suggested that he had better hang it up in his entrance hall as an insurance against burglars. Whether this base insinuation was intended as a reflection on the artist or the journalist will never be known, for at this opportune moment a telegram arrived from Lord’s to the effect that a Cambridge batsman had made a two and a single in the same over from Le Couteur, and in the general excitement everything else was forgotten. A t three o’clock on Sunday afternoon next Mr. James Catton, the Editor of the A thletic News, will give an address at the Men's Own, Emmanuel Church, Barry Boad, East Dulwich, on “ The Teaching of Cricket.” A c o r r e sp o n d e n t , Mr. T. H . Woods, writes to me : “ Last Wednesday after­ noon, July 6th, Hart House School (Burnham) played Brynmelyn School (Weston-super-Mare) at Burnham, and lost by 2 runs, the totals being 54 to 56. Brynmelyn had scored 55 for five wickets when Mr. W . E. Dunmore Potter took five wickets (four in succession) with the last six balls he sent down.” The same correspondent also draws m y attention to the fact that G. L. Jessop made 101 in 68 minutes for F. Baker’s X I. against Burnham on July 2nd. H e hit two 6’s and twelve 4’s, and scored 16 off one over and 15 off another. M r . B . J. P. B r o u g h t o n , who played for Harrow from 1832 to 1835 and for Cambridge from 1836 to 1839, completed his ninety-fourth year on Monday. He has been a member o f the M.C.C. since 1845, and is, it is believed, the oldest cricketer who has played in matches of note. W . A. B. writes : A friend of mine is seriously thinking of taking a team to play Little Ducktown on September 31st. He does not want to make his team too strong and, if one may judge from public form as shown at Lord’s on Monday, I am inclined to think I have got hold of an ideal eleven for him, if all the players happen to be disengaged on that day. Look at their records ! M r . R o u n d o ’ s T e a m . P. F. Warner, Esq., b Fielder ................... C. V. L. Hooman, Esq., b Hirst ................... R. B. Heygate, Esq., b Smith ................... N. C. Tufnell, Esq., lbw, b S m ith ......... F. R. Foster, Esq., b H irst.......................... N. A. Knox, Esq., lbw, b Sm ith........... Tyldesley (J. T.), b F. R. Foster ........... Hardstaff, b F. R. Foster ................... Board, b F. R. Foster 0 Smith, lbw, b Le Couteur .................. Byes, &c. 0 Total ........... 1 Fielder did not bat. O n the 7th inst. A. G. Marshall, play­ ing for Taunton School against Queen’s College (Taunton) on the former’s ground, took all ten wickets for 31 runs in a total of 69. Taunton School replied with 277 for five wickets, winning easily. P e r h a p s it is because the negro is not yet the complete sportsman that' we read