Cricket 1910

O c t . 27, 1910. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 447 J. W e ll s . Joseph Wells, who played for Kent in 1862 and 1863, died at Liss, in Hampshire, on the 20th inst. He was born —at liedleaf, Penshurst, in Kent—on July 11th, 1823, and was therefore in his eighty-third year at the time of his death. He ires ani Biographies (VII-243) says of him :—“ Height 5 ft. 8J in., and weight about 10 st. 7 lbs. (or 11 st.). Bowls very fast round-armed, with a low delivery; but did not appear for his county till he was about 34 years of age . . . . As a bat he does not excel, and fields generally at short-slip.” He will always be remembered chiefly for his great feat in the match between Kent and Su=sex on Box’s ground at Brighton in June, 1802, when, in the latter’s first innings, he bowled down the wickets of Dean, Mr. S. Austiu Leigh, Ellis and Fillery with consecutive balls. In 1856 he was responsible for the revival of the Bromley C.C., whilst from 1837 to 1869 he was engaged at Chislehurst by the West Kent Club, from 1870 to 1872 by Bickley Park and afterwards by Norwich Grammar School. He was the faihtr of H. G. Wells, the famous novelist, and a nephew of Timothy Duke, the noted bat and ball maker of Penshurst. SOME CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW . C h apter IF. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. (Continued from page 127.) INSTANCES OF A BATSMAN BEING TOP S CO RER FO R HIS SID E IN EACH INN INGS. atch. Season. Batsman. Score. 3 1857-8 T. W . W ills 12-49* 8 1862-3 T. W . W ills , 25 *-17 * 11 1867-8 R. W . W ardill ... 110-45* 11 1867-8 N. Thompson , 35-60 12 1868-9 E. S. Carter . 16-63 20 1875-6 D. W . Gregory . 36-74 29 1882-3 A. C. Bannerman 78-101* 29 1882-3 T. Horan, sen. 33-129 40 1SS7-S T. Horan, sen. . 63-68 42 1888-9 G. H. S. T rott . ,. 44-36 48 1S9 1 C. T. B. Turner ... 66-45 52 1893-4 S. T. Callaway , 38-50 56 1895-0 E. M cLeod . 100-50 58 1896-7 M. A. N olle . 71-153* 69 1902-3 R. A. Duff . 102-66 71 1903-4 V. T. Trumper . 43-68 73 1904-5 M. A. Noble . 85-70 73 1904-5 J. H . Stuckey . 73-75 75 1905-6 T. S. Warne 115-56 76 1905-6 P. A. McAlister ., 53-128 82 1908-9 M. A. N oble . 213-69* 83 1909-10 W . Bardsley , 78-149 P A IR S OF SPECTACLES. (N o notice taken of any case in which either innings was not out.) For N.S.W . Batsman. Match. Callaway, S. T. 51 Clarke, J. .. 5 Cotter, A. . . 68 Dickson, D. .. 5 Geary, J. 24 Gregory, C. . . 15 Gregory, C. W . 67 Howell, G. . . 2 Howell, W . P. . . 53 Lewis, T. . . 3 Lewis, T. .. 5 Marsh, J. J. . . 65 Massie, H . H. . . 27 Mather, J. .. 36 Morris, J. .. 4 Pye, L. W . . . 64 Richardson, G. 6 Sheridan, E. .. 18 Spofforth, F. R . 20 Stack, G. B. .. 12 Thompson, N. . . 4 For Victoria. Batsman. Match. Allan, F. E. Butterworth, B. Butterworth, B. Carlton, J. Carlton, W . Carlton, W . Carr, C. Goldsmith, L. Harry, J. Hastings, E. P. Hastings, T. Hazlitt, G. II. Hot.liam, Capt. Huddlestone, J. Jacom b, N. Laver, F. McLeod, P. W . Midwinter, W . E. Trott, G. IT. S. Vaughan, F. .. Twenty-one for N .S.W ., twenty for V ic­ toria. More than half of the instances occurred in the first twenty-two matches. There have been ten instances in the course of the' last decade ; there were only five in the decade immediately preceding. A glance at the bowling averages which follow will reveal much of interest to the mail who already knows something of the subject. In the forefront are naturally fouud the trimdlers of the early years, when wickets were cheap. No doubt Captain W ard, G. Elliott, James Mark Bryant and others were good bowlers ; but it is not to bo supposed for a moment that they were superior to Spofforth and Turner, Palmer and Trumble. I had thought of giving their figures in a separate table ; but this would com plicate matters, and, after all, the batting averages serve to some extent to right the balance. Then, too, what view would one take of the classification of such as Allan, Evans, Cosstick, Wills, and Coates— men who would have been in the front rank of any generation, but who belong, in tho accident of time, mainly to the earlier period ? A comparison with the South Australia v. Victoria figures in Chapter I shows one discrepancy that is alm ost startling. The late R obert M cLeod had 62 wickets at 15.48 each v. New South Wales. Against South Australia his 14 wickets cost 50.78 each ! B ut this player, a far better man than his form in England in 1893 made him out to be, did some of his very best work in the New South Wales matches, and, taking into account the fact that he belonged to a time when scoring had becom e high, if not quite as high as to-day, his place as fourth among the Victorian brigade, with over 5 runs per wicket less than Palmer, and over 6 less than Hugh Trumble, does his m em ory great credit. Here are a few of the other principal V ic­ torian figures in both sets of matches :— v. S.A. v. N.S.W . H . Trumble J. V. Saunders G. H. S. Trott C. E. M cLeod F. Laver 17.29 per w. 22.09 per w. 31.32 24.01 27.80 40.63 20.65 31.27 22.31 40.45 The S.A. figures of Laver and Saunders are corrected to date. There is one reflection that occurs to the student of cricket history in looking through this array of figures, and that is the differ­ ence between the form of some of the bowlers in England and in Australia. Take the case of Laver. The stalwart player-manager may fairly bo styled a deadly bowler on our wickets. A t the other end of the world he is merely a useful change, terribly expensive in the best matches. A rm ­ strong is far more deadly here than there, too. To Boyle, Spofforth, Palmer, H owell, and some others in their day the same criticism applies to varying extents. But Evans, who deferred his visit to England till past his prime, Allan, “ the bowler of a century,” and R obert M cLeod show something here to justify their fame. In the lists of those who took 40 wickets or more— the apparently somewhat arbitrary standard was chosen because 50 would have put Ferris, Spofforth, Cotter, Hopkins, Armstrong, Laver, and one or tw o others in the ruck, where they do not rightly belong— there are only five names (those of Coates, McBeth, Cosstick, W ills, and Collins) of men who never played in a Test m atch or visited England with an Australian team, and there of the five belong chiefly to a period when Test matches and Australian tours were not yet. M cBeth, b y the way, also figures in score- sheets as McBeath. Probably he knows why ; I do not, and have stuck to the earlier rendering of the name. N EW SOUTH W ALE S BOW LING A V E R ­ AGES IN THE MATCHES v. V IC TO R IA . Matches bowled in. Balls. 40 wickets or more :— Runs. W kts. Avr. 11 17 J. Coates E. Evans J. J. Ferris C. T. B. Turner 21 T. R . M cKibbin 9 F. R. Spofforth 10 A. McBeth . . 9 T. W . Garrett 28 M. A. Noble W . P. Howell A. Cotter A. J. Hopkins 24 17 11 17 1,965 5.206 2,638 7,119 3,067 2,252 2,607 5,735 4,653 4,466 2,440 2,340 694 59 1,433 107 792 49 2,283 123 1,454 69 1,046 911 1,861 1,790 1,615 1,167 1,164 11.76 13.39 16.16 18.56 21.07 21.34 21.69 21.89 22.37 24.10 24.31 27.06 10 wickets or more., but under 40 : — G. Richardson 2 450 105 15 7.00 Capt, E. W . W ard 2 612 206 27 7.62 J. M cKone 3 204 93 12 7.75 J. Scott 1 183 89 10 8.90 G. Gilbert 4 262 160 16 10.00 C. Lawrence 5 474 261 25 10.44 O. Lewis 3 249 119 11 10.81 J. Kinlocli 3 479 139 12 11.58 G. Moore 3 507 183 15 12.20 A. L. Newell .. 5 852 299 20 14.95 D. W . Gregory 10 1,251 486 29 16.75 E. Tindall 5 760 321 18 17.83 P. C. Charlton 9 1,961 647 33 19.60 N. Thompson . . 14 1,264 466 22 21.18 A. Coningliam 6 1,321 537 24 22.37 S. H . Em ery .. 4 920 501 22 22.77 G. L. Garnsey . . (5 894 559 23 24.30 S. T. Callaway 7 1,420 536 20 26.80 F. B. Johnson . . 4 952 429 16 26.81 C. G. Macartney 8 1,082 435 16 27.18 A. P. Marr 7 876 282 10 28.20 W . A. Richardson 7 596 312 11 28.36 L. W . Pye 8 1,434 541 19 28.47 J. C. Barnes .. 2 473 377 13 29.00 M. Pierce 3 599 292 10 29.20 S. P. Jones 14 1,106 492 11 44.72 Under 10 wickets : R. Murray 2 224 54 9 6.00 W . J. Pocock 1 100 24 9 6.00 C. M. Kellick 1 28 10 1 10.00 A. R . Docker 1 72 24 1 12.00 J. Moore 1 69 24 2 12.00 H . Hilliard 1 56 27 2 13.50 S. Cosstick 1 200 109 8 13.62 H. M. Faithful 2 240 59 4 14.75 J. L. Beeston 1 20 16 1 16.00 R. C. H ewitt 5 332 130 8 16.25 L. A. Minnett 1 126 51 3 17.00 C. E. Simpson 1 36 17 1 17.00 E. Sheridan 4 182 79 4 19.75 E. J. Gregory 5 284 99 5 39.80 A. Kerm odo 1 240 99 5 19.80 A. J. Bowden 1 285 121 6 20.16 J. Geary 4 112 41 2 20.50 S. Jones 1 112 48 2 24.00 J. R . W ood 1 304 97 4 24.25 H . W hiddon 2 332 207 8 25.87 H . Moses 3 68 28 1 28.00 J. J. Marsh 2 408 263 9 29.22 J. A. O’Connor . 2 432 206 7 29.42 G. R . C. Clarke . 2 383 210 7 30.00 J. Gould 1 66 31 1 31.00 A. C. Bannerman 6 217 127 4 31.75 W . J. Stack 2 258 167 5 33.40 J. Cleeve 3 524 238 7 34.00 W . Caffyn 2 136 77 2 38.50 B. W . Farquhar . 1 60 40 1 40.00 F. Downes 4 819 327 8 40.87 W . S. Wearne 1 88 42 1 42.00 S. J. Redgrave . 1 72 45 1 45.00 R. B. Minnett 1 84 47 1 47.00 V. T. Trumper . 11 558 289 6 48.16 H. Donnan 17 1,134 439 8 54.87 F. A. Irodale 1 210 83 1 83.00 C. Kelleway 3 726 338 3 112.66 Tho following bowled but took no w ick e t:—• In three matches : C. Banncrman, S. E. Gregory. In two matches : G. J. Bonnor, H . W . fliddleston, T. Nunn. In one match : R . C. Allen, E. Docker, B. Grounds, It. N. Hickson, T. n . H oward, T. H. Iceton, J. Mather, W . W . McGlinchy, D. Ogilvy, T. Powell, Twopenny (Aboriginal), and G. Youll. (To be continued.) “ O Y A L B A . ” R E I D ’ S O V A L . W H I T E . 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