Cricket 1911

2 1 8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. J une 3, 1911. Club Cricket. To watch several members of the Indian team at Hampstead on Saturday was a source of delight and pleasure, more especially as every one of them gave proof of their ability. The man who took the eye was Bulsara ; of ample girth, but withal looking a cricketer, he bowls a real good ball with his right arm . W ith a short run up to the crease he can deliver two or three different paced balls, which he m ixes well, and at times gives you a nasty one swinging in and breaking from the leg peg to the off. W ithout doubt B ulsara w ill take a lot of wickets over here this summer. M. B ajan a, a Parsee, was the best batsman on view. He can hit a good length ball with plenty of shoulder power, square cuts with precision, and, like R an jitsinh ji, gets in plenty of foot work. In addition he is a useful change bowler. M any a good score may be expected this tour from the bat of M. B an jana. P. G . Gale, whose portrait has been specially taken for C ric k e t, is one of the oldest and best known playing members of the Wanderers. During the palmy days of the old London Photo by] [ B . St.J. Main. Mr. P. G. GALE. County C.C. at Sydenham he was one of its prominent members, and often played in its first-class engagements. Never a deliberately rash batsman, “ P. G .” generally plays with schooled restraint and scores all round the wicket with religious correctness, meeting the ball plumb in the middle of the bat. One of tbe most genial of men, cheerily gay as a cricketer, overflowing with cricket energy, here is much power to his elbow this summer ! Probably the b fst club batsman in London at the present time is J). H . Butcher. For the second Saturday in succession he took a century, notching 13 2 for Upper Tooting v. W imbledon, or one in excess of his opponents’ to tal! W7hen he settles down, and this takes but an over or two, the number of times he plays the ball in any direction other tban that intended can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. The bat, than which none is straighter, meets the ball plumb, and all he does is stamped with a strong individuality. It is pleasing to note that the Granville (Lee) C.C. have struck a winning vein : on the 24th they beat G uy’s Hospital and on Saturday overcame a moderate Eltham team, at Eltham . In the G uy’s match F . C. Heriot, 67 not out, played good cricket and used his forward cut with telling effect. The Hospital appear weak in bowling and as Karlenberg is not playing regularly they will probably not go far in the Inter-Hospital Cup competition. The Eltham match was interesting from the fact that C. B . Grace hit powerfully for 58. C. E . C. Kendle (50) and J . O. Anderson (44) were the principal contributors to a total of 207 for seven. The latter made some very lusty hits and some big scores are likely to come this summer from his fine-driving bat. As the m ajority of C rick e t readers are aware, he has played in his time for Hertfordshire, and has made some good scores in the Argentine. The current issue of Truth contains an amusing article on the morals of golf and cricket. Cricket, says this entertaining scribe, “ induces exploitation of self and at the expense of one’s fellow- creatures.” We wonder if th s writer has ever played the game. If not, it is not too late to learn - to learn to play for your side, to work for others, to obey your captain and, lastly, to submit to the umpire, however unjust his decision. Here is indeed a training in unselfish­ ness. Mentioning the wrong decisions of umpires, the writer is voicing the opinion of m any in stating that some clubs possess— well, inefficient umpires. Bowlers have been “ warned ” : why not umpires ? A cautionary list of nodding “ humpty-dumpties ” would be in the interests of club cricket. Yet another all-round performance has to be chronicled of E .C . K irk— 138 for the Bank v. Barnes followed by 8 wickets at a cheap cost was one of the features of last Saturday’s cricket. At the Dripping Pan, Lewes, on the 29th, for the Sussex Mart­ lets, F . H . Gresson, the old Oxford Blue, took 1 2 1 in his own inim itable way. Bowling into the wind, this player swerves more than any bowier the writer has played, and the placing of his field on the on-side is sim ilar to that of Geo. H irst when he has a new ball to operate with. A fine bowling performance was that of H. K . W hiting for Norbury P ark v. the Wanderers on the 27th. Six wickets for 50 against a strong batting side will give some idea of his being in top- notch form. Whiting bowls a fast-medium ball, quick from the pitch, and on the fiery, none-too-true Norbury wicket proved a little too good for R . T . Crawford, L . S. W ells, and others. F . Odell, of the Brixton Wanderers and Surrey Club and Ground, scored a capital 1 1 5 for the Occasionals v. Essex C. and G. at Leyton on the 26th. L ast year Odell was out of form , but he is a dangerous bat on plumb wickets. H itting hard in front of the stumps, he gets the ball away nicely past mid-on—a characteristic and prolific “ shot.” He was educated at Camberwell Gramm ar School, of whose eleven he was captain in 1888. It was then said of him “ A steady bat, with great powers of defence ; fair change bowler, but did not meet with the success he deserved ; he has made an excellent captain, and his energy has been untiring.” He has been a member of the Surrey County C.C. since 1895. A run-getting performance of no little note was that credited to Liverpool in their match with Sefton Park, at the South En d Park, on Saturday. They were left with 283 to make in a couple of hours, after tbeir opponents had declared with three wickets in hand, and scored with such briskness that in the time named they ran up 252 for the loss of four men. The chief run-getters were Hannay (70) and Tod (56). k . SOUTHGATE v. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL. — Played at Southgate on May 27. Score :— S t . T homas ’ s H ospital . W. B. Laird, run out ................. T. W. Shelley, b Lew is................. 0 S outhgate . E. J. Mann, c Fry, b Wharton ... 73 46 H. A. Milton, b Morcom ......... 20 J. L. Birley, c Milton, b b Nieder- N. Peterson, b Morcom................. 0 lieitmann ................................ 20 L. Niederheitmann, b Morcnm ... W. G. Walker, st Fry, b Sahib ... 8 D. M. Gibson, not out ................. 30 14 K. L. Mann, lbw, b Lewis .......... 93 R. E. Cranfield, lbw, b Wharton 9 A. F. Morcom, b Hudson .......... 0 F. S. Lewis, not out ................. 3S C. J. "Whorton, b Hudson .......... 4 J. H. Hargroves, b Morcom.......... 5 H. J. B. Fry, lbw, b Lewis .......... 19 C. A. Saville, not out ................. 0 F. J. Humphreys, c Saville, b B 12, lb 4 ........................................ 16 Cranfield ........................................ 19 — H. V. Welch, b Lewis ................. 12 Total (7 wkts) .......... 183 Khan Sahib, b Hudson................. 13 J. R. Hudson and G. W. Cranfield B 9, lb 4, nb 2 ...................... 15 did not bat. Total ......................... 277 TO SECRETAR IES OF CLUBS AND SCHOOLS. Score-sheets and O rd e r of G o in g-in Cards.— A dozeu of either will be sent on receipt of Twopence in stamps, to cover postage. Larger quantities at proportionate rates. A ddress: Manager, Cricket, 168, Upper Tham es Street, E .C . If you desire the scores of your matches to appear regularly in “ C ric k e t,” w ill you kindly communicate with the Editor, 168 , Upper Tham es Street, E .C ., for conditions under which this can be guaranteed ?