Cricket 1911

r4 CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J a n . 2 6 , 1 9 1 1 . OBITUARY. T he E arl of A n caster . th e Earl of Ancaster, who died at Grims- thorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, at midnight on December 24th, aged 80, was, as Lord Willoughby de Eresby, President of the M.C.C. in 1890. D r . H. B arran . Dr. H. Barran, 0 ' the Free Foresters, died at Worcester in December. I rwin G rim shaw . This Yorkshire batsman of the eighties died at Farsley on the 19th instant, in his fifty-fourth year. He was bora at the same place on May 4th, 1857, and always had his home there. Like Preston, Lee, and some others of the same decade, he never quite# rose to the standard expected of him ; but for three years— 1884, ’85, ’86—he was quite one of the Lest batsmen in bis county team, and during that period made four centuries, v iz .: 115 v. Cambridge University, Cambridge, May 27, 1884. 129* v. Cambridge University, Sheffield, June 17, 1885. 114 v. Notts, Nottingham, July 13, 1885. 122* v. Derbyshire, Leeds, August 27, 28, 1886. In the course of these four innings, two of them not out, he gave only two chances, be it noted. Among his other innings of some note may be mentioned 77 for Eleven of England v. the Australians, and 71 v. Gloucestershire in 1881. He made most of his runs by driving and cutting, had a strong defence, but not a very pretty style, fielded well, but was no bowler. In first-class cricket he scored 3,682 runs with an average of 18-50. J.N.P. T he B ev . J . B. J ones -B atem an . The Bev. John Burleton Jones-Bateman, who played in the Cambridge Eleven of 1848 (in which year his brother, Mr. B. L. Jones- Bateman, was a member of the Oxford team), died at Sheldon Bectory on December 29th. He was born in London on June 21st, 1825, and receive 1 his early education at W in­ chester, where he learned his cricket without, however, getting into the Eleven. For the long period of sixty one years he was Rector of Sheldon, in Warwickshire, and from 1859 to 1902 was Bural Dean of Coleshill. J.D.B. M r . B. W . K rause . Mr. Eobert W . Krause, a member of the Geimantown C.C., of Philadelphia, died in the Samaritan Hospital on November 27th, after an operation. His best season was that of 1902, when he scored 106 not out against Merion and 100 not out v. Wanderers. T he B e v . J . M irehouse . The Bev. John Mirehouse, rector of Col- sterworth, near Grantham, for many years a member of the M.C.C., died on the 19th inst., aged 71. He had missed very few Oxford v. Cambridge matches during the past fifty years. W. O v e r . W illiam Over, the news of whose death in South Africa in November last has just reached England via Australia, was one of the crack players of the Bichmond Club, Melbourne, from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties. He played four times for Victoria—against South Australia at Melbourne in 1886-7, when he scored 6 in two innings, and took one wieket at a cost of 11 runs; against Tasmania at East Melbourne two years later, when his one innings realised 38 and he had three wickets for 54 ; an 1 in 1889-90 against Tasmania at Hobart, when he ran up 91. and against New South Wales, scoring 15 and 12. He did not take a wicket in either of these matches. In 1895-6, his last season in Melbourne, he headed the batting averages of the Bichmond Club with 285 runs in 11 innings, 5 not out. Ten years later he was still keeping up his cricket in South Africa, for the season of 1905-6 found him the most successful batsman in the Bandfonteiu League (a minor organisation), with 608 runs in 10 innings, and 138 a3 his highest score. He also took thirty-five wickets for 14 each, figuriug as his c’.ub’s most successful bowler. His illness can have been of no long duration, as he was in the best of health when the South Afiican team left for Australia. J.N.P. M r . G. P ad ley . Mr. George Padley, who died at Scar­ borough on the 2nd inst. at the age of 85, was the first Secretary of the Yorkshire County C.C., an office he resigned, owing to his appointment as Borough Accountant, in favour of Mr. J. B. Wostinholm. H. P e ttie r . Herbert (“ D ick ” ) Pettier, a well-known bat maker and repairer, of Cowley Boad, Oxford, died on the 12th inst. at the age of 58. M r . C. S. P h il l ip s . Mr. Charles Stewart Phillips, a useful all-round cricketer who during the last twenty-three years had been associated in turn with the Albion C.C., the Staten Island A C. and the New York Veterans C.A , died at Brooklyn, N.Y., on December 9th. He was born at Monteagle Bay, Jamaica, and was only 49 years of age at the time of his death. He was a noted tenor singer at Trinity Church, New York. F.F.K M r . A. B . B ow ley . Mr. Alexander Butler Bowley, J.P., D.L., one of the famous cricket brotherhood, died at Dover on the 10th inst. Born at Man­ chester on October 3rd, 1837, he had there­ fore completed his seventy-third year. He was educated at Bossall, and was one of the first cricketers of note turned out by that school. In Scores and Biographies (vi. 213) it is said of h im :— “ Bats right-handed, hitting with great freedom, and has made some excellent scores in capital style, beginning to play when quite young, at Manchester, and being a pupil (at cricket) of the famous Thomas Hunt.Bowls left round-armed, rather slow and twisting, and has been pretty successful in that depart­ ment of the game also. . . . In the field he was generally short-leg. . . . Height, 5 ft. 11 in., and weight 11 st.” In addition to appearing for Lancashire, he took part occasionally in North v. South matches and assisted the Gentlemen against the Players four times between 1859 and 1863. In the last-mentioned matches he proved singularly unsuccessful as a bowler, but he scored 156 runs with an average of 26, making 47 and 6 not out at the Oval in 1859 and 37 and 23 at Lord’s in the following year. Mr. A. B. Bowley took a prominent part in the forma­ tion of the Lancashire County C.C., and from 1874 to 1879 was President of the Club. M r. M. B yan . Mr. M. Byan, for many years a prominent figure in Victorian cricket, died in Melbourne on November 5th, aged 69. In the latter fifties and early sixties he proved very suc­ cessful in good-class club matches both with bat and ball, and as hon. secretary of the Albury C C. was chiefly instrumental in getting the first Australian team to play at Albury. M r . W . S. S eton -K arr . Mr. Walter Scott Seton-Karr, born on January 23rd, 1822, died at Auchinskeoch, Dalbeattie, on November 22nd, aged 88. Entering Bugby School in 1836, he formed one of the Eleven in the first match ever played between the School and the M.C.C.— at Lord’s in June, 1810, when he scored 4 and 10 and took two wickets. Among his companions in the Eleven on that occasion were three subsequent Oxford Blues, Messrs. W. S. Townshend and the brothers G. E. and Thomas Hughes. Mr. Seton-Karr was a god-son of Sir Walter Scott. A.C.D. M r . A. W ash er . Mr. Arthur Washer, who represented Can­ terbury against Otago in the eighties, and was for some time secretary of the Midland C.C., died in Christchurch, N .Z., on Novem­ ber 12th. On the day of his death he had stood umpire in the match between St. Albans and East Christchurch. M r . F. W h it t in g . Mr. Frederick Whitting, M.A ,the President of the Cambridge University C.C. since 1905, when he succeeded the Bev. A. Austen-Leigh, died suddenly on the 1st inst. at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, S.W. He was Senior Fellow of King’s College, Cam- bridge, and had only recently retired from the position of Vice-Provost of King’s. He graduated in 1858, being bracketed ninth Classic. In 1854 he was Browne’s medallist, and in 1860 won the member’s prize. Mr. Whitting served for many years on the financial board and was a member of council of the Senate, and later for some time was a member of the borough council representing the University. L ord W rotteslky . An interesting link with the past has been severed by the death of Arthur Wrottesley, third Baron, who died at his London resi­ dence, 6, Herbert Crescent, Chelsea, on Decem­ ber 28th. He played in the famous Bugby School v. M.C.C. match in June, 1841 (Tom Hughes’ last match), immortalised in Tom Brown's Sehool l)ays, taking six wickets in the first innings and four in the second. From this fact be is supposed to be identical with the character, Johnson, depicted in that book. If is believed that the Bev. A. Orlebar, Vicar of Willington, Bedford, is now the sole survivor of that match. Wrottesley was born in London on June 17th, 1824, and was educated at Bugby and Oxford. J.D.B. R i c h a r d d a f t ' s N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e M A R L .—Particulars apply Radclifle-on-Trent, Notts.