Cricket 1911

30G CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. J u ly 1 ,1 9 1 1 . Club Cricket. Some fast run-getting was recorded on the Hampstead ground on Monday, when the home side met the Trojans of Southampton. In the last 100 minutes of the day Hampstead ran up 2413 for five wickets, making the first 62 runs in 25 minutes and 121 in an hour. G. F. Farmiloe carried out bis bat for 100 and M. J. Susskind was next highest scorer with 42. The full score will be found on another page. This rate of run-getting, good though it was, has often been surpassed on the Hampstead ground. Ten years ago, for instance, in the match with Eltham, the club were left with 95 minutes in which to obtain 217 to win. [n the time stated Hampstead scored 273 for two wickets. H. B. Hayman, who carried out his bat for 164, made eight 4’s and a 6 in successive scoring strokes : he and B. Everitt (54) took the total from 100 to 178 in 20 minutes. It was on the same ground, too, that Hampstead ran up 813 for nine wickets in the course of a day’s—six hours and a-quarter’s—play against Stoics. A. E. Stoddart made 485 on that occasion, J. G . Q. Besch 98 and E. Swift 92. What contrasts there are in cricket! Against Spencer, Hamish Stuart went in to hit and got 53 in about 30 minutes, hitting about Photo by] [A. S. Witcombe, Buenos Aires. M tt. J . O. AND ERSO N . A CONTEMPORARY AT BEDFORD OF MR. A. O. JONES AND FOR SEVERAL YEARS ONE OF THE LEADING CRICKETERS IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. THIS YEAR HE IS PLAYING FOR THE GRANVILLE (LEE) C.C. eleven 4’s. On Saturday last he went in (again first wicket down) simply to keep up his end on a difficult wicket v. Banstead at Banstead. He batted 45 minutes for seven, and then happened to get the last ball of the match which he hit out of the ground as a solace to his feelings for having to play the goose game. It was a curious finish to such a purely defensive innings. The Club Cricketers' Charity Fund match at the Oval on Saturday was sadly interfered with by rain and the attendance was meagre. Thanks to a splendid " k n o c k ” of 61 from H. Weston (Walham Green) and I). E. Osborne’s slows, West London won comfortably. Osborne’s analysis of seven for 38 was a splendid piece of trundling. On a slow wicket he turned the ball very quickly at times and hit the sticks on five occasions. This is the first of the three district matches in aid of charity and the South v. East London game is to be played at Leyton at the end of July. The writer thinks that no more popular skipper for the South team could be found than “ W. G.,” and a side including such men as Norman Miller, D. H. Butcher, P. H. Slater, E. N. E. Blaker, H . Bridger (Wanderers), Gilbert and Wilfred Eeay (Beddington), E. C. Kirk, with a good stumper—E. B. Brooks for choice—would take a lot of beating. The presence of the G. O.M. would be an immense draw, more particularly as people seem very keen on cricket down Leyton way at the present moment. SOT One of the best innings lately in club cricket was that of J. H. Hughill for Upper Clapton v. M.C.C.— a side including such class bowlers as J. W. H. T. Douglas, Beeves and Young. For Blackheath on Wednesday, June 21st, R. G. Cowley played his fourth century of the present season ; his on play was very strong and he used the pull shot with certainty and power rarely excelled in the highest class of cricket. On completing his 100 he made three powerful hits for 6 and altogether his display was a versatile one. The writer has had on occasion to complain of the gross in­ efficiency of some club umpires, nor can he see how this undoubtedly bad condition of affairs is going to improve until old and well-tried offenders are weeded out. A more satisfactory state of things might be brought about by clubs appointing a twelfth man to do the duties of Humpty-Dumpty, for to give impartial decisions appears to be beyond the powers of many groundmen. The other day the writer actually overheard an umpire censure the stumper of his side for not whipping off the bails, for on appeal he (the umpire) would have given the batsman out, and, moreover, would have been pleased to do it. The match in College Park, Dublin, on June 19 and 20, between Dublin University and County Kilkenny saw a new record for the first wicket in Irish cricket established. The University’s second innings was something of a curiosity : — D u blin U n iv e r sity . H . M. Read, run out .................................................................... 148 R. A. L loyd, not out ................................................................... 160 Byes, &c. ..................................................................... 15 Total (1 w k t .)* ........................................... 328 *Innings declared closed. The runs were made in two hours and a-quarter, and only one chance—by Lloyd, when 77—was offered during the performance. Bead hit a 6 and twenty-one 4’s and Lloyd twenty-seven 4’s. The University won by 246 runs, scoring 150 and 323 for one wicket against 105 and 122. Lloyd, who has gained fame as a Bugby foot­ baller, followed up his big innings against Co. Kilkenny with 142 not out against Phoenix. He batted two hours and a-half and hit twenty-nine 4’s, while he also completed his thousand runs for the season, being the first Irish batsman to do so. Another noteworthy, and even more prolific, first-wicket stand was recorded in the course of the match played by Dulwich College againBt Mr. B. B. Firth’s XI. at Dulwich, on June 21st. The score of the College innings was as nnder: — D u lw ich C ollege . C. V. Arnold, c Bridge, b R . B. Firth ............................ 171 R. K. Nunes, not-out ................................................................. 167 E. G. yhand, c Keddie, b Greenwood... ... ................. 5 L-b 1, w 8 , n-b 1 .......................................... 5 Total (2 w kts.)* ................ 348 *Innings declared closed. The opening partnership realised 340 runs—a record for the College, as was also Arnold’s 171, which beat J. Douglas’ 168 against Brighton College in 1889. (In the sporting papers the above score was given incorrectly, inasmuch as Shand was stated to have gone in first with Arnold). Previous to last week the highest score ever made for the first wicket of Dulwich College was 268. Occasionally it happens that, for private reasons, a cricketer is obliged to adopt a nom de guerre when taking part in a match, and the doings of Messrs. A. N. Other and O.N.E. More have long since become familiar to followers of the game. In a recent match at Southgate a member of tbe Cheshunt side, wishing to hide his identity, took the name of “ N.O. Cricketer ”—most inappropriately, as it happened, for he not only played the highest innings (89) of tbe match but took five of his opponents’ wickets. In the early days of the game, when betting in connection with cricket was not unusual, clergymen generally adopted fictitious names, but those times, fortunately, are past and can never return. About ten years ago Capt. H. S. Johnstone, of Hastings, found it advisable to play under an assumed name, and, as it happened, it was in those circumstances that he performed the feat of his life, making two separate hundreds in the mat h. A somewhat similar experience befell Hobbs a season or two later at Lnton. For personal reasons he did not wish it known that he was taking part in the game. In his case the secret was well kept for about a couple of years, when