Cricket 1910

4 3 2 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 2 2 , 1 9 1 0 . MR. J. BUCKNELL’S XI. v. SIB E. D. WALKER AND MR. K. WOOD'S XI.—Played at Darlington on September 10 and 17 and left drawn. Tyldesley and Hirst were absent on the second day, the former owing to a family bereavement and the latter as he wished to assist his club. Score and analysis :— Mr. J. B u ck nell ’ s XI. First innings. Second innings Rhodes, c Adamson, b c Whitehead, b M orris................................. 27 Smith ........... 77 Hardy, b M orris................ .. 0 b Smith ... ... 12 Coe, lbw, b Smith ... ... 15 c Adamson, b Smith ........... 6 Norbury, b Morris ... ... 6 c Gore, b Morris 14 Denton, b D e a n ................ .. 46 b Brydon ........... 24 Hirst, c Smith, b Dean ... 10 Haigh, b Dean ................ .. 6 c Sharp, b Towns­ end ................. 90 Jayes, b M o r ris ................ .. 36 b Dean................... 0 A. E. Walker, b Smith .... 19 Chidgey, not out... ... .... 3 J. Bucknell, b Morris .. 1 Tolson ................................ .. - not out................... 12 Byes, & c....................... .. 17 Byes, &c. ... 11 Total ... ... .. 186 Total (7 wkts)*246 * Innings declared closed. S ir E. D. W a lk e r an d M r . R. W ood ’ s XI. Second innings. lbw, b C oe...........23 notout...................56 28 c Jayes, b Tolson 48 First innings. Hobbs, b Hirst ...................10 C. L. Townsend, b H irst... 26 Tyldesley (J. T.),st Chidgey, b Rhodes .................. Sharp, c Coe, b Rhodes Whitehead (H.), c Chidgey, b Jaycs ................... C. Adamson, b Hirst... H. J. Salmon, c Denton Coe ................................... G. P. Gore, not out ........... Dean, b Jayes Smith (W. C.), c Walker, b Coe ........... ................... 0 Morris, lbw, b Coe ........... 1 Byes, &c.......................18 Byes, &c. 38 17 0 20 4 st Chidgey, b Rhodes ........... 0 b Haigh ... ... 1 b Haigh ... ... 1 1 Total ...................251 ^ Total (5 wkts)130 M r. J. B u c k n e ll’s XI. First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Smith ... ... 18 4 47 2 ... ... 23 3 112 3 Morris ........... 22*4 6 66 5 ............. 16 6 29 1 Dean ......... 10 1 40 3 ....... 7 0 45 1 Hobbs ......... 2 0 10 0 ....... 5 0 14 0 B rydon................... 6 0 24 1 Townsend ........... 0*2 0 0 ] Dean bowled one wide. S ir E. D. W a lk e r and M r. R. W ood’s XI. First innings. O. M. R. W. Hirst ... ... 15 3 48 3 ....... R h od es......... 14 1 43 2 ....... 6 0 45 1 Jayes ......... 20 5 66 2 ....... 7 2 26 0 Haigh ........ 8 0 38 0 ... ... 4 0 12 2 Norbury ... 5 0 33 0 ....... C oe................. 4 2 2 5 3 ... ... 7 2 34 1 T olson ........... 3 0 12 1 Haigh bowled five no-balls and Norbury one wide. Second innings. O. M. R. W. OBITUARY. M r . F. G. B ull . Mr. Frederick George Bull, for a few seasons one of the best slow right-handed bowlers in the country, was found drowned at St. Anne’s- on Sea, Lancashire, on Friday. Round his neck was a handkerchief in which was tied a stone weighing 7 lbs., and his coat and trousers pockets were lined with stones. He was last seen at home two days before and on the day that his body was discovered he had sent a messenger with the key of his room to bis landlady. At the inquest at St. Ann’s- on-Sea on Monday a verdict of Suicide was returned, there being no evidence as to the state of his mind. Mr. Bull, who was born in Essex on April 2, 1876, played his first match for Essex in 1895 and came to the front in the following year, when in all first-class matches he obtained eighty-five wickets for 16 runs each. It was in 1896, when twenty years of age, that he was chosen, strictly on his merits, for the Gentlemen v. Players match at the Oval in which he took eight wickets for 94 runs in the first innings and two for 59 in the second. The same season he had an analysis of eight for 44 for Essex against Yorkshire at Bradford. In 1897 he took 120 wickets for something over twenty-one runs each, his best performances («11 for Essex) being nine for 93 v. Surrey at the Oval, thirteen for 156 v. Derbyshire at Leyton aud fourteen for 176 v. Lancashire on the same ground. It was in the last-mentioned match that he en­ deavoured to prevent Lancashire from following-on by bowling wide-balls to the boundary. Mold, however, grasping the situation, knocked his wicket down, and so enabled his side to go iu again; but Essex won by six wickets. He was chosen for the Gentlemen at Lord’s that year, but was expensive, and although he secured eight of the Players’ wickets at Scarborough later in the season they were i ken at rather a heavy price —a fraction under twenty-five runs each. In the autumn of 1897 he visited America with Mr. P. F. Warner’s team and obtained forty-three wickets — the largest number taken by any member of the side —at a cost of 13-86 runs apiece. In 1898 he was again successful in crediting himself with over a hundred wickets, but in the following year was less effective and in 1900 was so expensive that he was dropped from the side. During his four best seasons in first-class cricket he performed as follows:— Overs. Mdns. Runs.Wkts. Aver. 1896 .......................... 503-2 145 1360 85 1600 1897 ............................1007 243 2634 120 21-95 1898 ........................... 952 293 2162 101 21*40 1899 .......................... 798-4 249 1767 65 27*18 During most of the time that hewas a member of the Essex team he filled the poaiiion of Assistant-Secretary to the County Club. Upon leaving the South of England to take up a commercial appointment in Blackburn he commenced—in 1904—to play for East Lancashire, for whom he took ninety-one wickets that season for 12-54 runs each. Subsequently he embraced professionalism and was engaged for two seasons by Perth­ shire, and afterwards for the same period by East Lancashire and Rishton. His bowling figures for the six years commencing 1904 were as under :— Club. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. 1904 E. Lancs.t ... 401*1 60 1142 91 12*54 1905 Perthshire ... 371*4 89 835 87 9*59 1906 Perthshire ... 337 88 708 80 8*85 1907 E. Lancs. ... 444 1 8*2 978 111 8*81 1908 E. Lancs. ... 404*3 65 107278 , 13*74 1909 Rishton................................................................ 256*2407456112*21 t Playing as an amateur. Bull could make the ball break both ways and he always kept a good length and used his head well. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Encyclopedia of Sport. Vol. I., part VII. London: Mr. William Heinemann, 21, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. Price, Is. net. Queensland Cricket Association. Report and Balance Sheet, Season 1909-10. Issued to Members only. J. W. Hitch made 119 for W. C. Smith’s XVII. v. 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