Cricket 1911

10 C R ICK ET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an . 26, 19 11. P a r t ic u l a r s o f a fast individu alscoring feat liave reached m e from W est A us­ tralia, where W . Stewart, playing for N ortham East W ard Juniors against the Saturday A ssociation on the N ortham ground on D ecem ber 12th, m ade 103 in 35 m inutes and then retired. O n N ovem ber 26th E rnest Parker,' the brilliant batsman o f W est Australia, scored 46 in 22 m inutes for W anderers against W est Perth. Three w eeks later he was again to the fore w ith a not out innings o f 72, w hich lasted less than half- an-hour, for the same club at the expense o f F rem antle. A t Gum ercha, South Australia, on N ovem ber 26th, the local club played against an eleven from Charleston and dism issed them for 2 runs. One of these was a bye, and therefore only one man broke his duck. M . M oore, bow ling unchanged throughout, took seven wickets w ithout a run. Y . C ooke obtained tw o for a single, and one m an was run out. P l a y in g for M iddlesex in a M etro­ politan Association m atch in Adelaide on N ovem ber 19th against B ow den M ethodists, G eorge B eam es took all ten wickets in an innings for 28 runs. A t Adelaide, on N ovem ber 12th, N orth A delaide scored 451 for five wickets against P ort Adelaide in three hours and ten m inutes. D . R . A . G ehrs made 191 and J. H . P ellew 112, and together they put on 268 for the second w icket. T he form er, w ho hit tw enty-seven 4’s and three 6’s, m ade his last 160 runs in about an hour and a-half, and at one period o f his innings was responsible for successive scoring hits o f 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4. “ M id - o n ,” the V ictorian writer, says the ideal gam e o f cricket is beyond ques­ tion a m atch all over in one day, each side to bat for half the time, and the issue to be decided, not on the greatest aggregate, but on the best average of runs per wicket. That is cricket as it should be played to suit the times, and as it probably w ill be played perhaps tw enty or thirty years hence. A t present it is barred—-at any rate, in big m atches— by the all-pervading gate-m oney considera­ tion, though there is no reason w h y it should not be adopted in club m atches. I t w as announced in the V ictorian papers last m onth that G. R . H azlitt, the fine all-round player o f the M elbourne C.C., w ould leave for New South W ales very soon. H e recently passed his B.A. exam ination, and had received an appoint­ m ent in The K in g ’ s School, Parramatta, o f w hich the B ev. P . S. W addy is head­ m aster. F o r several years past N .S .W . have exported so m an y prom ising players that the acquisition by them o f a cricketer o f the stamp as H azlitt is no m ore than their due. The player m entioned was entertained at dinner at the Paris Cafe by m em bers o f the M .C .C . on D ecem ber 13th, and left for Sydney three days later. A b o w l e r nam ed Spink, playing in a V ictorian Junior Association gam e on D ecem ber 3rd, for Flem ington and K en­ sington against Star o f H otham , took four wickets in five balls. E xactly a fort­ night later A. W . G. B row n obtained four w ith successive deliveries for M elbourne 2nd X I. v. St. K ilda 2nd X I. A n incident to which there cannot be m any parallels occurred in a E uroa (Vic.) district cricket association m atch in N ovem ber betw een the Capulet and Tarn- leugh teams. Tam leugh batted first, and had lost five wickets for 103 runs when they declared their innings closed. The Capulet score in the first innings was nine (seven o f w hich were byes), and in the second three (one being a bye). Each innings was com pleted w ithin fifteen m inutes. The bow ling averages were G ourlay, ten wickets for 1 r u n ; Ham ilton, nine wickets for 3. The bow ling was un­ doubtedly remarkable, but it hardly approaches that o f a player nam ed Cyril B asliford, who, in a m atch played at C oburg, in V ictoria, in January, 1904, betw een St. Augustine's Church and R eynard’s Iioad Methodists, took all ten w ickets in each innings o f St. Augustine. In the first he took ten for 4, and in the second ten for 20. I n the m atch betw een R ichm ond City and F ootscray in M elbourne on D ecember 12th, the form er, after leading on the first innings, w ere left w ith 87 to win and 105 m inutes to bat. F rom the start the players went in with a determ ination to keep up their wickets, and not to score. W hen stumps were drawn they had lost six for 30. W iles batted an hour and a-half for 6 runs and L . Blake an hour for 8. “ J olly game, c r ic k e t!” A t B roken H ill on D ecem ber 7th, Miss M . R eidy, playing for V iolets v. Mayfair, scored 105 not out and took seven w ickets for 20 runs. T he result of the m atch South M el­ bourne v. F ootscray, in the Catholic Y ou n g M en’s League in M elbourne on D ecem ber 3rd, was deferred until the delegates’ m eeting, ow ing to the res­ pective team s’ scores differing. A ccord ­ in g to the South M elbourne scorer’s total South M elbourne w ould w in the m atch by one run, and according to the F ootscray scorer’s total the m atch would be a tie. D u r in g the fifty years of its existence the East M elbourne C.C. has played a thousand m atches, o f which 539 have been won, 142 lost, 316 drawn, 2 tied and 1 abandoned. The club has a m em ber­ ship o f nearly 600, and a credit balance o f £1,500. F ifty years ago it was Is. 6d. “ F e l ix ,” writing in the A u stra la sian of D ecem ber 10th, records that “ A great bow ling perform ance was done recently on the A lbert-ground by Jam es B ell for the Opera-house against the Gaiety. The gam e was 12 a-side, and the Gaiety repre­ sentatives w ere anything but gay when B ell had finished with them . The whole side succum bed for a total o f 1, and that was a leg-bye. B ell took nine wickets for no runs, and so pleased were his com ­ rades with his remarkable achievement that they had the ball m ounted in silver, w ith suitable inscription, and presented it to him . The Opera-house team m ade 90, o f w hich the old W arw ick and Balm ain player T. E lliott m ade 43.” T he feat o f taking nine w ickets in an innings w ithout a run had also been per­ form ed in Sydney on N ovem ber 10th— by M . Gillies in a form m atch at the Church o f E ngland G ramm ar School. The total o f the side was 13. V ic t o r T r u m p e r a n d D o d g e , L im it e d , has been registered, w ith a capital o f £5,000 in £ 1 shares, in Sydney, to acquire the business o f outfitters, sports depot, etc , carried on by V ictor Trumper and C o. The directors are V . Trumper and L . W . D odge. On the W averley Oval, Sydney, on N ovem ber 8th, in the T ramw ay Depot com petition m atch betw een Waverley and R ozelle, W averley were set just on 200 to win, and had 73 m inutes in w hich to bat. The runs required w ere obtained in 65 m inutes. A rthur Gaffney, batting for W averley, scored 38 in one over, his hits being 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, 2. H e scored 127 in 55 m inutes, but it should be m entioned that in this com petition eight balls are allow ed to an over and eight runs are awarded for a hit over the fence. T. W . I r e d a l e (Turramurra College), son o f F. A . Iredale, has w on the open scholarship, for entrance to the Sydney Church o f E ngland G ramm ar School, N orth Sydney, tenable for three years, for boys from preparatory schools. H e is 13^ years of age. ■M o r e than once it has been m y duty and pleasure to allude to the prom ise shown in Sydney m atches o f T . V . Garrett, a son o f “ T. W .,” w ho made m ore than one trip to E nglan d and played a prom inent part in international cricket for a number o f years. On N ovem ber 26th the young player scored 86 in 80 m inutes for Central Cum ber­ land v. W averley, but was overshadow ed by Cranney, w h o made 154 in 130 m inutes. The latter hit tw enty-one 4 ’s and two 6’s. I n the T hird Grade m atch, Redfern I I I . v. M iddle H arbor I I I . at Redfern (Sydney) on N ovem ber 26th, W . E veritt made 102 in 35 m inutes, hitting 40 runs off tw o overs and obtaining seven 6’s and ten 4’s. F r o m the H obart M e r c u r y :— Emery fhs Bosie bowler’s initials are “ S. H. E .” and he has a distinct aversion to writing them. He is probably the keenest cricketer tbat has ever appeared in Australian first-class cricket, and this keenness affects his usefulness at times. His busy run up to the wicket, and his quick action whilst bowling, do not convey to the spectator that