Cricket 1911

Feb. 23 , 1 9 1 1 . CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 25 the first innings and nine for 56 in the second. A t the annual m eeting o f the L anca­ shire League on the 11th inst., six of the Clubs reported that they had made a profit on the season varying from ,£1 5s. to .£75, and eight proved deficits from ,£29 to £107. Burnley received the most gate-m oney, .£537, whereas Bacup took only .£68. East Lancashire’s subscrip­ tion list o f .£381 was the highest, and R ishton’s— £'111— the lowest. C a p t . H . S. B u s h , who has played occasionally for Surrey, has been ap­ pointed for permanent service in the Arm y Ordnance Department, and has been rem oved from the Queen’s Own B oyal W est R egim ent and granted the rank of M ajor. H e was connected with the W est Kents for nearly eighteen years. M e. H . P. C h a p l in , the Sussex captain, I am glad to be able to announce, is making a good recovery from the accident with which he met in the last week of January, when, playing foootball at Hurstpierpoint, he broke his leg. C ano n A . H . F a b e b , w ho played in his time for W inchester, Gentlemen v. Players, the Free Foresters and other sides and died in N ovem ber last, aged 78, left estate o f the value o f ,£57,356 D u e in g the com ing season W iltshire will lack the services o f R . W . Awdry, who w ill accom pany Sir Joh n Fuller, Governor o f Victoria, to Australia as his private secretary. In addition to being a member o f the W iltshire E leven, he was also the H onorary Secretary o f the County Club. H is brother, Mr. C. S. Awdry, is also a w ell-known cricketer, and their father, M r. Charles Awdry, o f Lavington M anor, is a keen supporter o f the game. C o n g b a t u l a t io n s are due to Mr. C. H . B. Marsham upon his marriage to Miss A lgitha Parker, at St. Oswald’s Church, Malpas, Cheshire, on the 14th inst. Mr. F . W . B . M arsham acted as best man to his brother. In Adelaide on D ecem ber 17th, North Adelaide ran up 565 for seven wickets against Sturt. N . Claxton (184) and R. B. R ees (111) passed the century, and Demazures, Pellew and R obinson all topped 50. N orth Adelaide w on by 387 runs. Cricketers and the law cam e into con ­ tact at Korum burra (V ictoria), on D ecem ­ ber 16th, when tw o young m en named Bert Cranswell and A lfred H arrison were charged by Constable Opie w ith having behaved in a riotous manner at Jum - bunna. A ccording to the evidence, Harrison was a m ember o f the Jum - bunna cricket team, and, when playing in a match on December 10th, Cranswell kept up a running fire o f comm ent re­ garding his play, and H arrison threatened to pull his nose. The dispute was re­ sumed on the next afternoon, and the two m en engaged in a fight in a yard, in the presence o f a considerable number of people. The fight was stopped. The B ench— Messrs. L loyd, Murray, and Dr. Taylor, J .P .’s— considered that both de­ fendants were to blame, though H arri­ son had evidently received some provo­ cation. Cranswell was fined J61, and Harrison 10/-, with 5/- costs each. P l a y in g in a V ictorian Juniors’ match on January 7th, for Yarraville v. Clifton H ill, A .N .A ., J. Comben secured the whole o f the wickets in the first innings for only 22 runs in 59 balls. On the same day a sim ilar class match between F lem ington and Kensington- Dunlop Bubber Company came to an abrupt conclusion in circumstances described by the Melbourne A rgus in the follow ing words :— “ ;After being two runs behind, F lem ington were all out for 93, leaving the D unlop team 92 to win, and 2^ hours to play. W hen the 10 minutes interval had elapsed between the innings the Flem ington players were in position, but no batsmen. The umpire called play, and, under law 45, the match went to the F lem ington and Kensington. The delay was caused through one o f the Dunlop batsmen forgetting a batting glove, and going back for it. I f the whole o f the umpires were to enforce this rule strictly it would have a tendency to sharpen up lazy batsmen in senior as well as ju n ior cricket.” N ot many cap­ tains, I am glad to believe, would wish to claim a match through the forgetful­ ness o f an opponent to bring his batting glove in with him. T h e retirement o f M ajor W ardill, “ whose Christian name is B en,” from the Secretaryship o f the M elbourne C.C., is a notew orthy event in the history of Australian cricket, and it is not surprising that the m embers of the Club are anxious to mark the event by a substantial testi­ monial. W hen he assumed office— in April, 1879 —the m embership was 572 and the revenue £!1,913 ; last season there were 5,353 members and the revenue had increased to £ 13,000. M r. S. M. Tindall, the ex-Lancashire and L ondon County cricketer, has succeeded to the appoint­ ment, which is worth £700 per annum. O w in g to the playful conduct o f a small pet dog, the property o f an onlooker, a team in the Church o f England Cricket Association was defeated in Melbourne in the m iddle o f December. St. Andrew ’s had made 69, and nine wickets o f St. Peter’s were down for 51 when the ball, which went a few yards away from the wicket-keeper, was snapped up by a frisky terrier. The batsman took advan­ tage o f the extraordinary incident to run byes. The fieldsmen left their places and tried to catch the dog. The terrier, however, set the pursuers a severe task. It whizzed round in circles, and was not caught until it fell panting to the ground. Ten byes were run, which, if deducted from the total o f 71 made by the winners, w ould have left St. A ndrew ’s with a lead o f 8. S ome exceptionally fast scoring was chronicled in the m atch at M ount Pleasant, N .S.W ., on December 17th, between M ount Pleasant A and Orange District. In an hour and a-quarter the hom e side ran up 326 for the loss o f only two wickets, C. M itchell, who scored 211 not out in just over an hour and hit a dozen 6’s and tw enty 4 ’s, being chiefly responsible for the rate o f run-getting. Doubtless the ground is a small one. M . A . N o b l e has expressed his w ill­ ingness to visit M elbourne to play in the benefit m atch for T. S. W arne. A S y d n e y daily newspaper says that a feature (comm on to all big engagements lately) of the late N ew South W ales v. Queensland match was the smashing o f bats. It has been quite remarkable in recent matches the num ber of times that the batsmen have split their bats, and have had to signal for new ones. This was not the case 10 years ago, when a couple o f bats would last a player the entire season. The reason is probably found in the fact that 10 years ago old mature willows w ere cut down by the bat manufacturers, and these were strong as steel. Nowadays, how ever, on account o f the popularity of the sport, and the in ­ creased output o f cricketing material, the best o f the old w illow s have been cut out, The young, immature trees have been used for the blades, and these w ill not stand the knocking about that mature w ood does. W ith a new ball Cotter, Scott, and M cL aren play havoc with a soft bat. A t Sydney on January 7th, L. W alsh, playing for Burw ood Veterans against G ordon Veterans, scored 76 in a quarter o f an hour. H epunshed one over for 34 runs— five 6’s and a 4— and his side totalled 301 in an hour and three-quarters. On the same date, R obertson (140 not out) and Cubitt (109) scored 257 for the first wicket o f John Sands, Ltd., in a Printers’ Competition match in M oore Park, Sydney. “ N ot Out,” o f the Sydney R eferee, has published an amusing letter written by “ A n Australian ” in Johannesburg, w ho has been trying to prove tthat the Austra­ lian left-hand batsm en would not be able to play the googlies. The follow ing is an e x tra ct:— “ W hat on earth are you fellows up to over there ? Y ou all appear to be very down on your luck, while the people over here are singing ‘ Adelaide ’ in solos, duets and quartets. Y ou m ay not have got your ‘ W aterloo,’ but you ’ve got your ‘ Adelaide ’ in right royal style, and they are talking o f repeating the dose in M elbourne and Sydney, and during the Tests o f nicking a good lump off the K angaroo’s tail. It has been impossible to understand the Y abba Y abba o f any Australian here since the Adelaide match. Clem H ill lost his eyesight when he was googlied into hitting em pty air instead o f