Cricket 1910

4 7 0 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. D e c . 2 2 , i g i o . C v t c f c e t : A WEEKL V RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, DEC. 22 n d , 1910. I J a b t U f l n ( B t f s s ip * The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. O f the six first-class games they have played to date in Australia the South Africans have won 2, lost 3 and drawn one. T h e ir match with Queensland saw Llewellyn at last run into form. Prior to that he had scored only seventy runs in six innings, a very disappointing record for a batsman o f his methods, reputa­ tion and ability. In the second innings Schwarz and he put on 138 for the ninth wicket in an hour. But Faulkner, the backbone of the team, was again the central figure of a match. W ith scores of 54 and 73 and ten wickets for 138, he did all that could be expected— even of Faulkner. Queensland has received two notable accessions to her strength in Claude B. Jennings, late of South Aus­ tralia and twelfth man in one or two o f the Test matches in 1903-4, when he was quite a newcomer in big cricket, and Alan Marshal, late o f Surrey, but a “ Banana- lander ” by birth. Marshal played in three matches for his State in 1903-4 and 1904-5, scoring 22, 0, 1, 21 not out, 4 and 5, and taking two wickets for 158 runs. He, with Hutcheon and Fennelly helped Queensland to make a good fight for the runs needed against the South Africans -—440 : but Jennings and Hartigan, by sending up 137 for the first wicket, had even more than they to do with the very creditable show made. T h e little town of Toowoomba, greatly daring, put only eleven men into the field for their match with the tourists. The result was very much as might have been expected. One hardly knows what to say of the hardihood of the Toowoom- bians. Odds matches are uninteresting under modern conditions; but T oo­ woomba v. South Africa reads rather like, say, Horsham v. Australia, and one would not welcome such an addition to an Australian fixture-list. One of the local batsmen greatly distinguished him ­ self, and should be worth looking after by the Q.C.A. This was Jones, hitherto unknown to fame, who made 39 and 82, the latter innings containing a 6 and twelve 4’s. Mr. G. P. Barbour, formerly o f the Board of Control and the father of Eric Pitty Barbour, one of the best young batsmen New South Wales has, made 40 in the town team’s second innings— good work for a veteran 1 T h e Eleven of Australia at Brisbane might almost have been called a Young Australia team. Hartigan and Macartney were the only men in it who have gained Test match honours as yet, but there was hardly one among the others who would be out o f place in a representative side, and most of them have their best years before them. Smith, Hordern, Kortlang and Jennings are all fine players; Mac­ Laren is a tall and good fast bowler who may play for Australia before the rubber en d s; Fennelly has shown no end of promise ; and if W . T. Evans was the weakest batsman on the side it must have been strong indeed. He went in last, and was 0 not o u t; but “ W . T.” was captain, and seems to be a modest man. The match was played, according to Reuter, in “ appalling heat ” ; but that did not prevent a faultless century from Marshal, a splendid 95 from Jennings, and good scores by Faulkner, Zulch, Sherwell, Sinclair, Yogler, Hordern, and Kortlang. To see that the South African captain has got going and that Sinclair has started well on joining the team is pleasing indeed. T h e first Test match on Australian soil between Australia and South Africa —there is no good reason for refusing to consider the three games in South Africa in 1902 as Test matches, as some seem disposed to do— is not a big advertisement for the googley. Sherwell’s doubts appear to have been justified. Neither Faulkner nor Vogler took a w icket; only Schwarz, supposed to be a back number, and Pearse, hitherto unknown to fame as a bowder, though his form at the nets on the Adelaide ground was considered promis­ ing, did any damage. The match proves nothing that one did not know already. It is evident that the stars of the Australian team are good for a lot of runs against any bowling, and that the South Africans have not forgotten how to play an uphill game. All honour to Sherwell, Nourse, Faulkner and Schwarz for what they did under the most discouraging conditions! T h e partnership of 224 by H ill and Bardsley for the second wicket is a record for that particular wicket in Test matches, it should be noted. Hill and Gehrs added 144 for the third wicket. In the first innings of South Africa Faulkner and Schwarz put on just 100 for the eighth, a rare plucky stand, extending into three days, though there was only 13 minutes’ play on one of them. T h e rain was very rough on the South Africans, but they had lost all chance of victory when they allowed their rivals to run up a total of over 500. The experience of Australia in the Test match at Sydney in December, 1894, when Stoddart’s team won by 10 runs after a total of 586 had been made against them, is never likely to be repeated now that the follow-on is no longer compulsory. A t the Lancashire County C.C. dinner in Manchester on the 13th inst., Lord Derby presented Sharp with a cheque for .£1,680, the proceeds o f his benefit match. The chairman was Mr. A. N. Hornby, and supporting him were Lord Derby, Lord Rotherham, Judge Parry and Bishop Welldon. F r o m Messrs. Lawrence and Jellicoe, Limited, of 34, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, comes a copy of the “ Cricket ” picture included in the set of old sporting prints which they are publishing after the work of the late Mr. Tom Browne. The prints, eight in number, illustrate various sports in the year 1820. They are fa c ­ similes of the old type of sporting print, so dearly loved by connoisseurs, and the success of the reproduction in conveying the atmosphere of the period and pre­ serving the charm of the artist’s concep­ tion of the characters is undoubted. The drawings were originally undertaken by the late Tom Browne for Messrs.. John Walker and Sons, and the demand for the black-and-white proofs of these pictures has induced that firm to issue them, through Messrs. Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., in colour, without any advertising matter. The prints can be obtained for 3s. 6d. each unframed and 7s. fram ed: for the set of eight the respective prices are 24s. and 48s. T h e Rev. C. E. M. Wilson, curate of Rugby, the Uppingham, Cambridge and Yorkshire cricketer, has accepted the living of Calverhall, a Shropshire in­ cumbency, in the patronage o f Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale, Master o f the North Shropshire foxhounds. I n opening the annual meeting of the county secretaries at Lord’s on the 0th inst., Mr. F. E. Lacey, in reference to the chief matches at Lord’s and the Test Trial matches, said that those counties which had concurred in the arrangement would share in the net profits of the matches to the following extent—20 per cent, to the clubs on whose grounds the matches are played, instead of 30 per cent., which applied under the Test match arrangement; 5 per cent, instead of 10 per cent, to the minor counties ; and 75 per cent, instead of 60 per cent, divided equally between the first-class counties and the M.C.C. Otherwise the arrange­ ments that have been made for Test matches will be in force. The fixtures which will be played under this arrange­ ment are :— June 1, 2, 3, Sheffield—Probables v. Possibles. June 29, 30, July 1, Lord’s—Probables v. Possibles. July 6, 7, 8, Kennington Oval—Gentlemen v. Players. July 10, 11, 12, Lord’s—Gentlemen v. Players. Aug. 28, 29, 30, Manchester—Probables v. Possibles. Regarding the Indian tour, Mr. Lacey said that he had been authorised by the M.C.C. Committee to arrange the pro­ gramme, and he should very much like to thank those counties and clubs that had enabled him to make the list of fixtures so attractive. It was a significant fact in connection with the tour that this was the first time that Mohammedans, Parsis and Hindus had ever combined to send a team to England. Mr. Lacey added that last season the M.C.C. sent a side to Belgium, and next season they had' been invited to send teams to Denmark, Holland, and Germany.