Cricket 1911

J u l y 1, 19 1 1. CR ICKET : A W EEK LY RECOBD OP THE GAME. 289 he does so, it will probably mean the extinction of Glouces­ tershire as a first-class county. And besides we really can’t bear to lose him. There is none like unto him— no, not even Alletson ! The Welbeck man is a mighty hitter, and so is Mr. Kenneth McLeod ; runs come fast from the bats of Messrs. K. L. Hutchings, E. M. Sprot, the Fosters, and others one might name ; but there is only one Croucher, and if he goes he will leave all cricketing England mourning. I n the match at Bath between Somerset and Hamp­ shire, twenty-eight wickets fell for 188 runs on Friday and Saturday last. ‘ ‘ O h , the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! ” wrote Browning ; and the lines occur to one’s mind as one thinks of the many promising cricketers who during the last ten seasons or so have failed to win for themselves regular places in the White Bose team. .Run over their names—Bothery, Myers, Wilkinson, Grimshaw, Hardisty’ Rudston, Walker Wainwright, Bingrose, Deyes, Oystori. Sedgwick, Bairstow, Brown, junior—why, one might pick a serviceable eleven from these thirteen ! But only the best is good enough for Yorkshire, and no doubt Yorkshire is right. Let us hope that Wilson, Booth, Drake, Bates and Dolphin may all continue to justify themselves ; and that among the men recently tried, Turner, Hartington, Bayes, Kilnar, Oldroyd, some real top-notches may be found. Photo by] [Haickin8 t b Co., Brighton. Mr. S. H. SAVILLE (Cambridge). Mk. S tan ley H. S a v il le .— B orn N ovem ber 21,1889, at T ottenham . M arlborouoh . B o ld advertisement in Gossip must be accorded the performance of Sidney Barnes for Staffordshire against Durham at South Shields last week. Not content with playing an innings of 136, he must needs take seventeen wickets for 82 runs—nine for 37 and eight for 45. In resply to a whole host of correspondents we may mention that the annals of first-class cricket fail to supply an exact parallel to this feat—that is, of a player scoring 100 or more in an innings in addition to obtaining seventeen wickets in the match. But at Adelaide in November, 1891, George Giffen scored 271 and took sixteen wickets for 166 runs, a performance which was surely as remarkable Photo by] . [Hills & Saunders, Oxjord. Mr. I. P. F. CAMPBELL (Oxford). M r . I an P ercy F itzgerald C am pbell .— B orn N ovem ber 25, 1890, in I n dia . R epton . as that of Barnes. “ W. G.’s ” best all-round feat was achieved in Gloucestershire’s match with Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1872, when he played an innings of 150 and obtained fifteen wickets for 79. T h e Lancashire League match at Haslingden on June 22nd between Ramsbottom and Haslingden was marked by an occurrence which is probably unique in the annals of the game. Owing to a high wind, there was great difficulty in keeping the bails on the stumps. When three wickets had fallen it was agreed by the umpires and captains that the game should proceed without bails, and the remainder of the Haslingden team, including Nash (the ex-Glamorgan player), batted under these conditions* At the conclusion of the Haslingden innings, Nash brought out a fresh set of stumps, which had deep-set grooves for the bails, but the captains agreed that to use them would be unfair to Ramsbottom. Nash thereupon took back the fresh stumps and declared that he would not bowl without bails, and, when Ramsbottom came in, refusep when asked to do so by his captain. The match proceeded, and Haslingden were badly beaten. The amateurs of the side stated that they would not play in further matches unless the Committee dealt with Nash. A special meeting of the Committee was convened with the result that the Haslingden C.C. has dispensed with Nash’s services, which had been retained for this season and next. It is said that the bowler is taking legal steps to enforce his two year’s engagement. It is difficult to know whether to regard the matter as a tragedy or a comedy. ‘ ‘ The Comedy of Errors ” is, in any case, “ Much Ado About Nothing,”