Cricket 1910

S feP T . 2 2 , 1910. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 425 force. Both the strokes mentioned were off-drives. T h e b e was a notable run-getting feat in an Ulster League match between North Down and Lisburn at Comber, County Down, on Saturday. After the latter had been dismissed for 113, W . Andrews (146) and Lowings (102) ran up 261 together and were still undefeated when play ceased. In a match at Darlington on Friday and Saturday C. L. Townsend gave con­ clusive evidence that he retains the skill which some years ago placed him in quite the forefront of cricketers. Against the bowling of Hirst, Rhodes, Jayes, Haigh and others he scored 26 and 56 not out. In the two innings of his opponents he sent down only a couple of balls, but took a wicket— Haigh’s—without being scored off. In the same match Rhodes made 27 and 77, Denton 46 and 24, Haigh 6 and 90, Tyldesley (J. T.) 89 and Sharp 28 and 48. The full score of the game will be found on page 432. O n the same days Mr. A. Priestley’s X III. beat X V I. of Grantham and District by an innings and 139 runs, scoring 315 for ten wickets (innings declared closed) against 106 and 70. C, E . Hatfeild took fourteen wickets in the match for 79 runs -—four for 54 and ten for 25— J. R. Mason nine for 45 in the first innings and A. C. MacLaren five for 40 in the second. The chief run-getters for the X III. were C. Y . L . Hooman 94, J. R . Mason 67 and L. A. F. Weigall 53. J. W . H e a r n e scored 75 and took eight wickets for 40 runs in a total of 133 lor Cross Arrows against Kilburn at Lord’s on Thursday last. “ In m y young days we used to com ­ mence the cricket season proper in the first week of May and play right through to the end of September,” says C.W . F. in an article on “ Sport in Ireland ” in the Sporting Chronicle. “ But that sort of old-fashioned keenness is looked upon by the present generation as something in the nature of a relic of the stone age, and now the campaign is scarcely in full swing until we are practically into June, while by the end of August it’s as dead as the late lamented Julius Caesar. In this connection to some extent, and apropos of the death the other day of the last of the participators in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. T. H. Burke in 1882, I can recall how on that fateful 6th of May all the grounds in the Park were alive with matches, and Carey, who stage-managed the tragedy, is said to have whiled away portion of the afternoon in watching the game on the Phcenix ground; but cricket custom has changed since then, and by the first Saturday in May the majority of its votaries have scarcely got so far as the initial practice stage.” T h e M.C.C., I am informed, are making arrangements for the visit of a team to the West Indies in the early part of next year. It is probable that the side will be captained by A. F. Somerset, the M.C.C. and Sussex player, and that two or three professionals will be included in the team. In the two days’ sale of the Foley estates, concluded at Malvern on Friday, nine cricket grounds were included in the 100 lots offered. The property was inherited by Sir Henry Foley Grey, whose reason for selling it was that he under­ stood many of the inhabitants of Malvern and Worcestershire generally wished to become their own landlords, and he thought that the multiplication of small properties would be conducive to the future stability and prosperity of the district. The last mail from Bombay brought news to the effect that the Indian team which will visit us next season will sail on May 1st, and that there is a possibility of the side being captained in some of its more important matches by the Jam Sahib, who will probably visit England for the Coronation. A t the Bath Guildhall on the 14th inst., with the Mayor (Major Simpson) in the chair, Mr. Gerald Fowler, the hon. treasurer of the Somerset County C.C., met the Bath Cricket Week Committee, and intimated that at a future Committee meeting of the County Club a suggestion would be made to transfer all the home matches of Somerset to Taunton owing to the fact that it costs .£'43 more to play a match in Bath than it does in Taunton. It was pointed out on behalf of the Bath members, whose subscriptions for the year amounted to .£228, that whereas the matches alloted to them this year pro­ duced only .£48 each on the average, last season, when better weather was experi­ enced, the corresponding figure was £118, exclusive of the game with the Austra­ lians. The meeting arrived at no definite decision, but regret was expressed that such a proposal as mentioned by Mr. Fowler should be considered probable. The suggestion, before it can be acted upon, will have to pass the Annual General Meeting o f the Somerset County C.C. at Bath in November. An announcement has been made to the effect that Mr. Lewis Waller is about to produce a play from the pen o f Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., M.P., a member of the Winchester Eleven of 1890. S. E. B u s h e r , who has played for Surrey by residence and for Worcester­ shire by birth, has taken 102 wickets for Barnes this season at a cost of 7‘18 runs each. It is unfortunate that so useful a bowler is not seen more frequently in first-class cricket. In matches for the same club this year he had a batting average of 28‘09 for fourteen innings commenced. A t Spring Hill, Upper Clapton, on the 10th inst., Pelham made 168 for seven wickets and declared, leaving Upper Clap: ton 2nd X I. an hour and a-half in which to bat. In 20 minutes L. Williams (125) and J. L . Myers (28) scored 70 for the first wicket and, with G. L . Pugh (37 not out) in, the game was won when the innings had lasted 55 minutes. A lto­ gether, Upper Clapton 2nd X I. made 219 for two wickets in the time available. E. C. K ir k , the Surrey amateur, has had a most successful season with the Birkbeck Bank, for the published averages show that he has made more runs and taken more wickets than all the other members of the club combined. He scored 1,028 runs with an average of 68-80 and obtained eighty-five wickets for 5-16 runs each. It is to be regretted that so skilful a cricketer cannot take part more regularly in his county’s matches. N ix o n , the Cupar professional, who was well-known in connection with East­ bourne cricket a few seasons ago, has accepted an engagement for next year with Kilmarnock. He will succeed Frank Harry, the ex-Lancashire cricketer, who will go to South Shields. Nixon’s batting average for Cupar this season is 26-94, and he has taken 102 wickets for 7’69 runs each. In a match between Cupar and Edinburgh Institution on the latter’s ground on August 15th, 1908, he con­ tributed 132 not out to a total of 209 for two wickets (innings declared closed) and afterwards took all ten wickets for 48 runs in a total of 149— a very useful day’s cricket. D u r in g the past season G. A. Morrow scored most runs and obtained most wickets for the Phcenix C.C., of Dublin. He headed the batting averages with 43-95, making 1055 runs in twenty-four completed innings, and took sixty-four wickets for 16-06 runs each. His highest innings was 232. W a l l a c e W a t t s took four wickets in five balls for Hammersmith against Fulham on the latter’s ground on the 10th inst. All the wickets were bowled down and the feat included the hat-trick. On Saturday last W . Wreford, when playing for Neasden against War Office on the former’s ground, obtained four wickets in five balls. F o r the Beckton C.C. this season, F. W . Tate, for many years a member o f the Sussex Eleven, has scored 414 runs with an average of 29-57 and taken fifty-seven wickets for 11-28 runs each. He was second in both batting and bowling averages. In the Report o f the Queensland Cricket Association which was presented at the Annual Meeting held in Brisbane on August 16th last, the announcement was made that the Victorian Cricket Association had invited Queensland to send a team to Melbourne during the approaching season, provided the arrangements of the Board of Control in respect to the visit of the South