Cricket 1911

304 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 1, 1911. pitches as that at Malvern. On it some of the best Worces­ tershire county bowlers have become quite plain stuff* It can hardly be wondered at that a schoolboy, moderate to start with, does not develop into greatness. It is im­ possible at ordinary times to get the ball to take much spin off the wicket. The bowler tries to do this, but fails to see any effect for his efforts, and is apt to become dis­ couraged. W. H. B. Evans was the one notable exception. But he had a wonderful way of varying his pace. W. W. Lowe for a brief space was quite an effective fast bowler and F. N. Tuff is doing well at Oxford. C. H. Osborn^ As long as the present organisation exists, Malvern will surely continue to uphold its cricket reputation. Bats­ men will always be more numerous than bowlers, however ; and the school must be content if trundlers can be found capable of outing the opposing school sides—Repton; Clifton, and (at one time) Uppingham. So far, this has generally been managed ; and that is something. CRICKET IN CEYLON. [F b om a C orrespondent .] Colombo, May 14th. V. F. S. Crawford has now quite settled down to his real game. To date he has made 757 runs in nineteen completed innings, averaging 39’84, with 140 as his highest score and half-a-dozen half-centuries to his credit. W. T. Greswell in the meantime has taken 184 wickets for 951 runs, average 7*09. At Kandy on Tuesday the 2nd of May, a new Ceylon record was established, 679 runs being scored in a day’s cricket between the Kandy Sports Club and the Sinhalese Sports Club. The previous best was 647 made in the D.M.C.C.— St. Anthony match in March, 1910. The time taken in making these 679 runs was a little over 6£ hours. At Darawella on the 21st of April, the Colts scored 244 runs in 2£ hours. The first century was posted up after exactly one hour’s play. The second hundred took only 45 minutes to com pile! Holsinger, in getting 73 runs in 40 minutes hit six 6’s and five 4’s. It was a magnificent display of hitting. H. Sloane-Stanley, who played in the Haileybury XI. last season and made 385 ruus with »n average of 25'36, highest scores 112 not out v. Free Foresters and 71 v. Wellington, made his debut in Ceylon cricket against the Colts at Darawella on the 22nd of April, for Dikoya, and scored 13 and 27. Two weeks later, while playing for Dikoya against bogawan- talawa, Stanley scored an unfinished century. W. L. Chamberlin, who was in St Paul’s School XI. in 1908, made 37 for Dimbula against the Colts and 27 against the Sinhalese Sports Club last month. He is a tip-top bat and an acquisition to Ceylon cricket. D. F. Fitzgibbon, of Repton, and W . (ir. Beauchamp, of Cheltenham, are two other good men we have. D. L. de Saram is the standout Ceylonese all-round man of the season. He has never been in finer form with bat and ball. His younger brothers, E. R. and Fred, are also batting very well. SAN DH URST v. W OOLW ICH .—Played at Cam berley on June 16 and 17 and w on b y Sandhurst b y an innings and 146 runs. Fow ler’s all-round cricket was the feature of the m atch. In the second innings he bow led 67 balls for 9 runs and 7 wickets. Score and analysis :— S an dh urst . H. A. W ellesley, b Wells-Cole............ 2 J.C.M acBryan,cD anby,bW ells-Cole 34 H. J. Moran, b W ells-Cole .#. ... 4 R. S. Lindsell, c Perkins, b Fluke 16 R. St. L. Fowler, not out ............137 H on. H. R. L. Alexander, b Wells- Cole ........................................................ 28 C. C. Haynes, ht w kt, b W ells-Cole 60 W oolw ich . F irst innings. C. O. Oliver, b M eade............................................... A. C. Fluke, b Earle .............................................. G. W. T. Lindsay, lbw , b Meade ............ E. S. B. W illiam s, b Meade .................... A. F. Q. Perkins, b Meade .................... W . A. D anby, c Fowler, b Fairbairn ... E. E. Calthrop, c Earle, b F o w le r ........... J. L. B. Bentley, c and b Meade ........... P. H. Murray, b Earle.................................... P. J. Skipworth, c Lindsell, b Earle N. W. W ells-Cole, n o t o u t ............................ Byes, & c............................... G. F. Earle, c Oliver, b Wells-Cole 1 J. H . R yan, b Wells-Cole ............ 5 S.G. Fairbairn, c Lindsay,b Fluke 12 R. J. Meade, c Calthrop, bPerkins 7 Byes, &c................................... 27 Total Second innings; 39 c Lindsell, b Earle ........... 10 1 c M acBryan, b Fow ler ... 0 4 c Lindsell, b Fow ler........... 8 17 b M eade..................................... 24 0 c Earle, b Fowler ........... 1 13 b E a rle ..................................... 6 18 c Earle, b Fowler ........... 1 0 c and b F o w le r .................... 4 8 b Fowler ............................. 0 6 b Fowler ............................. 0 7 not o u t ...................................... 0 11 Byes, &c........................ 9 Total ......................................124 Total ............ 63 S an d h u rst . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Calthrop .. ... 20 1 92 0 1 Fluke ............ 26 7 70 2 Wells-Cole... ... 38 5 95 7 | Perkins ............ 8 0 49 1 Fluke bow led one no-ball and one wide, and Calthrop three no-balls. W oolw ich . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R . W. O. M. R. W. Fowler ............ 10 4 26 0 ............ ............ I l l 5 9 7 Earle ............ 11-3 3 36 4 ............ ............ 8 2 38 2 Meade ............ 17 5 35 5 ............ ............ 3 1 7 1 Fairbairn ............ 8 2 16 1 ............ Photo by] [Hawkins and Co., Brighton. Mr. W . S. BIRD. would probably have made a name but for lack of oppor­ tunity. R . C. Burton may very likely do so. G. H. Simpson-Hayward developed his lob theory not only after his schooldays, but after he went down from Cambridge. F. S. Heath, C. H. Rathbone, G. H. Nevill and O. W. Wright were above the average as school bowlers, but none of them played cricket very seriously after leaving. Malvern has not lacked capable wicket-keepers. A good man goes, and there is another good man ready to step into his place. The best-known have been F. Fielding, B. A. Collins (who has played for Suffolk) and W. S. Bird. Collins was up at Oxford with Findlay, and thus failed to get his blue ; Bird filled the vacancy caused by Findlay’s going down. A. C. P. Arnold, last year’s stumper (who headed the batting averages), is spoken of as particularly good. If one had to choose a side fully representative of the Old Boys, the two great difficulties would be what batsmen to leave out, what bowlers to put in. One rather fancies the following eleven : H. K. Foster, R. E. Foster, G. N. Foster, W. H. B. Evans, F. T. Mann, S. H. Day, A. P. Day, G. H. Simpson-Hayward, W. S. Bird, B. C. Burton, and F. N. Tuff. * * Our contributor obviously confines his list to those playing first-class cricket fairly often at the present tim e. Otherwise, Messrs. Burnup, W . L. Foster, and Page w ould all, one im agines, have as good a claim as one or tw o m en tioned .—Bditor.