Cricket 1910

M a r c h 3i, 1910. CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 43 bowling with both feet behind the line, he was informed. His second delivery met the same fate, with the intimation that if he bowled a man out the umpire would not give it, but would no-ball him every time he bowled the same way. Being something of a wag, and also knowing that he was right, the bowler wheeled down four more, each one of which was penalized. The Mirandas, seeing that they had no chance of winning in the circumstances, left the ground, and no wonder! The question is, how long could the bowler have continued to bowl without being stopped, seeing every one was 1 balled ? ’ It is understood that the Association will deal with the matter.” I f an umpire persisted in such an error, it is probable that in ninety-nine oases out of a hundred the captains would agree to another being substituted for him, as they would be empowered to do by Law 52. In last month’s fiossip I announced that Vernon Ransford, playing for Mel­ bourne against South Melbourne on January ISth and 22nd, played a not out innings of 206. It will interest all those who saw some of his delightful displays in this country last season to hear that he was again prominent in Melbourne’s match against East Melbourne on Feb­ ruary 5th and 12th— this time to the tune o f 153 not out. In a Melbourne C.O. inter-club match— Strahan’s X I. v. Roberson’s X I .—on February 5th, the former scored 419 for six wickets. For their large total they were indebted chiefly to W . S. Anderson (139) and C. S. Taylor (113 not out), who put on 256 for the fifth wicket. Anderson hit a 6 and twenty-four 4’s, and Taylor two 6 ’s and eleven 4’s. E a s t M e lb o u r n e had a most successful afternoon’s cricket on their own ground against Fitzroy on February 19th, the score at the end o f the day being as follows P. A. McAlister, c Delves, b Kiernan ...........104 J. H. Seitz, not out ..........................................166 W. J. Scott, c Shea, b Cole ........................... 44 Byes, &c . ... ................. 13 Total (2 wkts)... 327 The stand for the first wicket lasted two hours and 50 minutes, and realised 237 runs. Whilst McAlister was taking his score from 47 to 76 Seitz did not make a run. On the first day of the match at Sydney between New South Wales and Victoria, Sir Joseph Carruthers, President of the New South Wales Cricket Asso­ ciation, presented Warren Bardsley with a silver tea and coffee service in recog­ nition of the fine cricket he showed in England last year. In returning thanks, Bardsley remarked that all the players pulled together, and that they were very fortunate in having such a captain as Noble. “ O n e is not sure,” says “ Not Out ” in the Sydney R eferee, “ that the benefit as we know it just now is the most satis­ factory means of helping cricketers that could be devised. Its benefits are to one man only. Would it not be better to establish an ‘ Old Cricketers’ Fund,’ vested in trustees, and to play a match annually for the purpose of augmenting it ? There are many old players to whom a benefit on the large scale is im ­ possible, but to whom timely and merited assistance could be given from a special fund.” F o r North Sydney Wednesday Half- Holiday Association v. Petersham, on February 2nd, A. Terry took all ten wickets for 83 runs. In his next match — on the following Wednesday against Sunday Times—he took nine for 51. J. C. L a m r o c k (197) and E. P. Barbour (129) made 333 for the first wicket of Sydney Grammar School v. St. Joseph’s College on February 12th in 135 minutes, notwithstanding that the opposing captain sent them in on a slow wicket. They were caught in the long-field in successive overs. Lamrock hit ten 6 ’s and twenty- two 4’s, and Barbour six 6 ’s and seven­ teen 4’s. T h e following interesting note is taken from “ Not Out’s ” cricket article in the Sydney R eferee of February 16th :— To a reliable correspondent, who is a cricketer, and an old friend, I am indebted for the following account of a very rare incident : “ The Picton cricketers were practising at Picton last Wednesday (9/2/1910). Whilst the ball was in flight from the howler to the batsman it came into contact with a swallow, flying across the pitch, which, needless to say, immediately dropped dead on the matting. Though I believe this is not a world’s record, it is certainly one for Picton. I hope you may think the incident worth noting.” .Several well-know cricketers, including the Rev. J. C. Crawford, Hugh Trumble and A. E . Trott, have had a similar experience whilst bowling. During part of the first innings of Gloucestershire against Notts, at Trent Bridge in 1875, so many swallows flitted across the wicket that the game had to be stopped for a short time. P l a y i n g for Tamworth Royal Standard v. Attunga, at Manilla (N .S.W .), on January 8 th, a bowler named Rixon took all ten wickets in an innings of 40 for only 10 runs. Eight of his victims were clean bowled. On the following Saturday C. B. Barstow, a South Bris­ bane fast bowler, performed the same feat in an A grade match against Oxley, at a cost o f 34 runs in a total of 87. E n g l i s h cricketers are now and then subject to a little barracking, but they have not yet had such an unpleasant experience as that which overtook a Sydney team. At the cricket competition in the Windsor district much feeling was displayed owing to the defeat of the Wilberforce club by the Richmond team. When the Richmond team were returning from Sackville they received a shower of rotten eggs just after passing through Wilberforce, the eggs being thrown under cover of darkness and the security of a cornfield. One of the cricketers fired a revolver by way of frightening the egg-thowers whose aim was so good that the members of the team made the remainder of the journey of seven miles under much discomfort. The Sydney Sportsman gives par­ ticulars of some heavy run-getting by C. and B. Walmsley, of the Nararu Club, of Gosford. To the middle of January their scores were :— B. Walmsley, 22, 106 not out, 67, 73, 130, 69, 129, 216 not o u t - average 135-3 3 ; C. Walmsley, 25, 46, 36, 43, 105 not out, 118,107 not out—average 96. B. Walmsley’s 216 not out was made against the Sydney Standard C.C. A t Yass (N.S.W .) on January 19th Eleven of the Horton Family (251) beat Yass (193) by 56 runs, this being the third occasion on which the sides have met during the last four years. In the first match Yass made 74, the Hortons 150; the second game was drawn—Yass scoring 205 and the Family 184 for seven wickets. The Hortons who composed the eleven are the sons of three brothers and are residents of Wargiela. The family also supply a manager, an umpire, and a scorer 1 or their matches. “ A y o u t h named Arthur Chambers, aged about 17, playing for Websdale, Shoosmith and Co., in the Sydney Printers’ Cup contests, has done some remarkable performances,” says the Sydney R eferee, of February 9th. “ In eight matches he has carried his bat through the innings six times, scoring 29 v. “ W ork er” , 23 v. W. E . Smith, 65 v. John Sands, 38 v. Sydney Morning H erald , 146 v. S. T. Leigh and Co., 106 v. White Simmons, the three last being successive innings. In addition, he has taken 65 wickets at an average cost of 3-78 runs. His batting average must be very large, as he has scored over 500 runs.” W . J. W h i t t y took four wickets with consecutive balls for Albion Park v. Shell- liarbor on January 15th. To the middle of January, Joe Mahoney, of Maryborough, Queensland, had scored 141 not out, 59 not out, 103, 9, 7, 54, 77 not out, 98, 1, and 138 not out in successive innings. This gives an aggre­ gate of 687 and an average of 114'50. To February 5th, E. L. Waddy had made 1,761 runs in eighteen completed innings : his scores were 78 not out, 34, 161 not out, 52, 261, 85, 52, 161, 118, 125, 116 not out, 118, 31, 25, 0, 30, 9, 43, 133, 3, 2 not out, and 124. It will be seen that five consecutive hundreds were in­ cluded in the feat. W a d d y ’ s 124 were made against time for Central Cumberland v. Middle Harbor, on the Manly ground, on February 5 th. The former were set 206 to win, and made the runs in 80 minutes. O n January 13th, on the College ground at Christchurch (N .Z.), Miss Bassett scored 100 for Riccarton Ladies