Cricket 1910

4 2 8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 2 2 , 1 9 1 0 . Newman’s bowling was one of the features of the season. Hampshire altogether, despire the small assistance received from C. B. Fry and W. H. 15. Evans, Lad a really fine team. Llewellyn and Mead were both in exce’lent form ; Captains Greig and White rendered g -od service; Stone was most valuable ; and if E. M. Sprot and Bowell fell below their best, and Kennedy did not come cn ss expected, a recompense was found in the marked improvement of Brown. 'J he county was quite one of the most interesting and sporting sides in the championship. Kent h »s alrealy been so la\ishly praised that one need say little—except that Kent has deserved most of it. Surrey’s prospects are most hopeful. In M. C. Bird, Ducat, Hitch, Harrison, and Platt they have a fine array of jouug players, and these are not all. Sussex has a stalwart brigade of well-season­ ed men, of whom only two or three can fairly be classed as veterans. Killick maintained his record of consecutive appearances, and Harry Butt, in his twenty-first seasou, did fine work, and is still a very valuable man to go in ninth wicket down. Middlesex is in a transition stagp, but appears to thiive on it. Of the South-Eastern group only Essex has fallen badly behind, and it must be admitted that new men are needed at Leyton, though the return of Tremlin strengthened the bowling. In the North and Midlands only Lancashire seems to have very hopeful prospects for the immediate future. But Yorkshire has some good pUyers who have not quite developed into top-notch men, but may do so very shortly. Derbyshire and Warwickshire need new blood, and are trying to find it ; but the latter county has been well served by its veterans —Quaife, Lilley, Kinneir, Santall and Field. Worcestershire needs a match- winning bowler, but has fine batsmen in the Fosters, Burns, Arnold, Pearson, Bowley and others ; with Simpson-Hayward playing regularly the team would have done a great deal better. Notts, bas a side that does not err on the side of youth, but there are men of promise amongst the youngsters. Leicestershire, with Wood, Whitehead, and Coe in their best form, Crawford and Knight doing well at times, and Jayes and Shipman bowling finely, achieved four notable victories, but did not finish with a good record. They sadly missed John King, and Astill was dis­ appointing. But Astill is young and keen, and King is by no means done with yet, as he showed clearly in the two matches in which he played. Gloucestershire is Jessop, with a sturdy quintet of pros in Board, Langdon, Dennett, Parker aud Mills—and trimmings. Huggins might have been played oftener, one thinks, and young Dipper was given little chance of redeeming his promise. The brothers Roberts, W. M. Brownlee, W. S. A. Brown, C. O. H. Sewell, F. H .B. Champain, Douglas Robinson and others are good men, but their assistance is too infrequent to help the side to a good place in the table. Somerset — poor old Somerset ! John Daniell able to play in only four matches, Braund injured and reduced to the level of a third-rate player, Robson below his best, “ Talbot ” Lewis valiantly striving to carry the side on his shoulders, Samson, Johnson and one or two others doing well at times, Hardy backing Lewis for all he was worth— and never a match won ! But Somerset, one learns, does not despair, and next year may see a brighter record. One had almost forgotten Northants, the youngest of the sixteen. But Northants will not take much harm for the next few seasons, one fancies. East is bothered with lumbago, and Sydney Smith seems to have lost his bowling. But the great Thompson is still the side’s tower of strength; Smith’s batting, wiih that of Pool, Yials and o’.hers, should account for good totals in a dry season; John Seymour seems a much more live cricketer than when he was on the ground statf at Hove ; Ellis is a good stumper, and Hnywood ought to do better next year than Le has done this. Of the old hands John T\ldesley, Jack Hearne and George Hirst have covered themselves with glory. Tarrant has main­ tained his wonderfully consistent form ; during the last four English seasons he has scored over 6,000 runs and taken more than 600 wickets. Denton, Rhodes, Tom Hay­ ward, James Iremonger (as a batsman—he has bowled better than ever before), John Hobbs, Percy Perrin, Charles McGahey and F. L. Fane have been below their best; but then their best standard is very high indeed. Some of the well-seasoned amateurs —notably H. K. Foster, A. O. Jones, P. F. Warner, K. L Hutchings, G. L. Jessop— have done nobly; and G. N. Foster, A. H. Hornby, R. H. Spooner and E. W. Dillon must not be passed without mention. Look­ ing over the long array of names, one sees how much there is that has not been touchcd upon. John Douglas, Gilbert .Curgenven, Buckenham, Sharp, Hardstaff, Payton, these and many others remain. But space has its limits. If it were not for this, one could find much to say of certain features of the season, such as the Australian, Le Couteur, di mi- nating the University match; burly Dick Burrows taking his hundredth wicket (bravo, Dick!) with the last ball sent down for Wor­ cestershire; W. B. Burns and Yincett each finishing off a match with a hit for six when only one wicket remained to fall; Hayes, after having his season almost spoiled by an injury that kept him out of his team for weeks, reaching his thousand in his last innings; Haigh. for the first time in nine years, and Rhodes, for the first time since he began to play for Yorkshire, each falling short of his hundred wickets —but enough ! COMPLETE FIRST-CLASS BATTING AVERAGES OF 1910. Times Most Inns. not out in an inns. Total Runs. Aver. Abel (W. J.) ........... 26 1 49* 439 17-56 Abercrombie, Lieut. C. 2 2 40* 53 — Adams, L. H................ G 3 21* 37 12-33 Alletson (E.) ........... 28 1 70 531 19-66 Altham, B. S.............. 8 0 51 155 19-37 Anson, Hon. 11. 7 1 80 102 27*00 Arnold (E.) ........... 41 2 215 1305 33-46 Astill (W. E.) ........... 34 G •31 298 1064 Baclie, H. G................. 14 0 28 96 7*35 Baird, Capt. 11. H. C. 5 0 SI 158 31-60 Baker (C. S.) ........... 34 4 155* 1000 33-33 Baker, C. V.................. 13 1 3G* 243 20-25 I3ale (E.) .................. 37 15 32 203 9*22 Bancroft (W. J.) 2 0 15 17 8-50 Bardsley, K. V. G it 35 107 17-83 Barlow, K..................... 3 0 G 11 366 Barnes (J .).................. 1 0 0 0 Barnett, C. S............... 15 2 59 165 12*69 Barnett, E. A ............ 8 0 37 102 12-75 Barton, H. G. M. ... 3 1 19 41 20-50 Bates ( Wwk.) ........... 2 0 2 2 1-00 Bates (W .E .) ........... 215 4 59* 444 20-18 B a y e s........................... 1 1 0 0 — not in an Total Beet ........................... Inns. 2 out inns. 0 1 runs. 1 Aver. 0-50 Bcresford, Hon. S. lt. 5 0 32 40 s-oo Bird, M. 0 .................... 52 2 77 1060 21*20 Bird, W. S................... 3 3 8* 11 — Bisgood, B. L. ......... 12 1 52 162 14-72 Blomley (B.) ........... 2 1 1* 1 100 Blythe (C.)................... 38 7 37 400 12-90 Board (J. H.) ......... 37 0 77 697 18-S3 Booth (M. W .) ........... 26 6 54 362 18-10 Bowden (J) ......... 9 0 30 63 7-00 Bowell (A.)................... 35 1 74 570 16-76 Bowley (F. L .) ........... 41 1 157 1158 28-95 Bracey (F.)............... 9 6 7* 15 5-00 Braddell, lt. L. L. ... 1& 0 60 208 16-00 Braund (L. C .)........... 40 1 46 587 15-05 Brearley, W.............. 4 1 3 6 2-00 Breeden, C. L............. 8 1 27 80 11-42 Broadbent (A .)........... 2 0 10 24 12-00 Brown (G.) ........... 37 5 106* 859 26*65 Brown ( Leic .) ........... 2 1 1* 1 1-00 Brown, W. S. A. 9 0 19 53 5-88 Brownlee, W. M. 11 1 68 213 21-30 Buchanan, J. N. 2 0 5 5 2-50 Buckenham'C. P.) ... 40 9 38 413 13-32 Burns, W. B................ 42 3 104 1C04 25-74 Burrows (R. D.) 36 8 53* 369 13-17 Bush, Capt. H. S. ... 17 1 88 388 24-25 Busher, S. E................ 4 1 18* 24 8-00 Buswell (W. A.) 3 0 0 0 — Butt (H. R.) ........... 40 16 45* 249 10-37 Byrne, J. F................. 2 0 42 62 3100 Cadman (S.) ........... 40 1 84 753 19-30 Campbell, I. P. F. ... 11 0 C9 3C9 28-09 Carr, A. W.................... 2 0 1 1 0-50 Carr, D. W................... 12 4 21* 91 11-37 Cartwright, G. 11. M. 4 1 38 80 26-66 Cartwright, P............. 37 2 68 651 18-60 Champain, F. II. B. 2 0 30 36 18-00 Chaplin, H. P............. 4S 7 172* 1138 27-75 Chapman, J................. 36 2 165 713 20-97 Charlesworth (C.) ... 36 2 216 1196 35-17 Charteris, Hon. H. F. 1 0 1 1 ICO Chidgey (H.) ........... 18 8 15 75 7-50 Chinnery, H. B. 4 0 21 47 11-75 Clifton (C.)................... 17 6 20 56 5-09 Coe (S.) ................... 34 1 156* 1025 3106 Collier.......................... 12 1 30 123 11-18 Collins, D. C................ 15 4 72* 443 40-27 Collins, Capt. L. P.... 4 1 102* 187 62-33 Cook (L.) ................... 18 6 25 135 11-25 Cooper (H.) ( Dby .) ... 2 0 14 21 10-50 Cooper (W.) (Ex.) ... 2 0 7 7 3-50 Cooper, P. E. ( Yks .) 2 0 0 0 — Corbet, B. O................ 2 0 1 1 0-50 Cornelius, N. S. 7 1 40 92 15-33 Cowan, C. F................ 9 0 34 79 8-77 Cowie, A. G................. 12 4 28 48 6-00 Cox (G. R.)................... 50 9 75 90S 22-14 Coxhead, M. E ........... 3 0 7 9 3-00 Cranfield (L.) ........... 3 0 22 36 12-00 Crawford, R. T ........... 0 0 90 158 26-33 Crawford, V. F. S. ... 33 4 95 842 29-03 Critchley-Salmonson, H ................................. 4 0 11 23 5-75 Crosse, E. M............... 11 1 17* 38 3-80 Crowe, G. L................. 11 1 40 116 11 CO Crutchlcy, G. E. V...,, 10 1 58 193 21*44 Cuffe (J. A.) ..........., 38 1 83 477 12-89 Curgenven, G.............. 11 0 109 371 33-72 Curwen, W. J. H. ... 1 0 19 19 1900 Cuthbertson, E. H.... 2 0 0 0 — Daniell, J..................... 7 0 49 189 27-00 Davis (W. E.) ........... 28 1 106 563 20-85 Day, A. P..................... 12 1 111* 355 32-27 Day, S. H..................... 1 0 15 15 15 00 Dean ( H .) ................... 29 5 25 151 6"29 Deane, C. G................. 8 0 50 127 15-87 Dennett (G. E.) 36 13 48 172 781 Denton (D.) ........... 46 1 182 1298 28-84 Denton, J. S................ 27 4 32 275 11-95 Denton, W. H............. 13 2 28* 94 8-54 Dillon, E. W................ 37 0 138 919 24'83 Dipper, A. G.............. 4 1 14 34 11-33 Dolphin (A.) ........... .29 8 39 148. 7-04