Cricket 1911

860 CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECOED OF THE GAME. J uly 22, 1911. on keeping on ,” and in two o f the three m atches his side w on in the end, as they could scarcely have done but for his pluck and coolness. H e has m ade three centuries on the Severnside enclosure, and in all matches there to date since W orcester’s prom otion has (in 23 innings, w ith 6 not out*) totalled 1,173 runs, giving h im an average o f close on 70. H is com panion in the photograph which w e reproduce to-day is too w ell k n ow n to all ericketers as a genuine w orker and good fellow to need m uch said about him . One is apt to think o f him as a veteran, because it is hard to rem em ber the tim e when he was not doing yeom an service to W arw ickshire, but after all Sydney Santall is only 38, m ore than a year younger than Quaife, over five years L illey ’ s ju nior, and about the same age as K inneir. Photon by] S . S A N T A L L . [Hawkins & Co., Brighton. W . Q . Q U A IF E . C h a r l e s w o r t h ’ s career was dealt w ith briefly in our colum ns a couple o f m onths or so a g o ; he has not lately been doing very m uch, but a batsman w h o takes as m any risks as he does m ay be excused for a bad spell now and then. Ernest Jam es Sm ith, w h o stands side by side w ith him in the photograph, has com e to the front in no uncertain fashion just lately. K now n for tw o or three years past as a capital w icket­ keeper, he has lately received the hall-mark o f a place in the Players’ team at L ord ’s, and his batting seems to have improved fully cent, per cent, since last season. In fact, his large score against Surrey recently, at Edgbaston, m ay be held largely responsible for his invitation to go to Australia. T h e councillors o f the H enley and Maidenhead Corporations played their annual m atch on the Maidenhead G round on the 11th inst., when the hom e team w en. H en ley scored 50 and 224 for six wickets (C. E . F ox , 117 not out) and M aidenhead 148. A B oY named P hilip Pinkey died at Queenstown on Saturday as the result o f a blow from a cricket bat w ith which he was struck during a dispute at F ort W estm oreland, Spike Island. E dm und E obinson, who is alleged to have hit him , has been arrested. D o e s Mr. Simpson-H ayward do enough bow ling now that he is captain o f W orcestershire ? One o f the dangers o f m aking a bow ler captain is that he is likely to err either through m odesty or through excessive self-confidence. The old M alvernian’s error certainly does not seem to be in the latter direction. And the fast wickets ought to suit him , too. W e shall never forget how he got out Eanjitsinhji at H ove in 1908. H e had tried the magician with all sorts, and at last he sent him a high full toss, and sprinting up the pitch, brought off a m arvellous “ c. and b .” quite close to the bat. F r e d e r i c k P e a r s o n showed really fine form against his native county at the Oval, getting nearer than he had ever done before to a century in these matches on that ground. It was hard lines to be out at 99. Up to the season o f 1905, Pearson had never done very m uch v. S u rrey ; but at W orcester in that season he scored 95 ; on the same ground in 1906 he made 83 ; at the Oval in 1907 he ran up 8 4 ; at Stourbridge last season he was responsible for a good double— 72 and 5 4 ; and at B ournville in M ay last he scored 8 and 107. On the other hand, in 1909 he had four innings v. Surrey, and aggregated tw o runs ! But that sort o f thing is all in the game. M r . P e r c y P e r r i n has earned a new distinction. H e is the only batsman who has tw ice perform ed the feat o f making two centuries in a match against the sam e county. It was at Trent B ridge in 1903 that he scored 170 and 102 not out v. N o tts.; tw o years later he ran up 140 and 102* v. M iddlesex at L ord ’s ; n ow he has given the T rent B ridge crow d another taste o f his quality. In all he has scored to date 48 centuries in first-class cricket, eight o f them v. N otts., six v. Kent, five each v. D erbyshire and M iddlesex, and four v. W arw ickshire. T h e E ssex v. Notts, m atches date from 1901. Tw enty-one have been played, and M r. Perrin has shared in 20 o f them , scoring exactly 1,600 runs in 33 com pleted innings. Besides the eight three-figure scores he has contributed such item s as 98, 91, 88, 74, and 72 ; but he has also had his days o f failure, for in four innings last year he totalled only 22 against Mr. Jon es’s m en, and at Nottingham nine years ago he made but one run in tw o innings. “ M a n y H appy E eturns ” to his sixty-fourth year on Tuesday. 69 for E lth am against B rom ley. ‘ W . G .,” who entered upon On Saturday last he scored O n e left-hander has already been chosen for the team to Australia. Tw o m ore o f the sinistrous brigade have m aterially strengthened their claims to inclusion by recent performances, and it w ill n ot be surprising if both Philip Mead and Frank W oolley gain places in the band. Since our last issue Mr. J. W . H . T. Douglas, Sm ith (E . J.) and Irem on ger have been asked to make the trip. The last-nam ed has accepted the invitation, subject to perm ission being granted by the Notts, authorities. On the other hand, M r. E . H . S pooner has declined, ow ing to the claim s o f business. T he latter’s decision, how ever, w ill leave him free to take part in next year’s Tournament. I n our last issue we gave a list o f those batsmen, numbering fifteen in all, who had totalled four figures up to that date. W e now continue the list. The fifteen, in the order in which they qualified, were : V in e— Seym our (Jas.)— H ayw ard— M ake­ peace— D enton (D .)— C. J. B . W ood— E . H . Spooner— Ehodes— Sharp— P. F . W arner— W hitehead (H .)— H obbs— Kinneir— Mead (C. P .)— and Tarrant. There follow :— 16.— Relf (A. E .)—July 13. 20.— Gunn (G.)—July 15. 17. —Humphreys (E .)—July 13. 21.— Hearne (J. W .)—July 17. 18.— Hayes (E. G.)—July 13. 22.— W oolley(F.E .)—July 18. 19. —J.W .H.T.Douglas—July 15. 23. —Wilson (B. B.)— July 19. D e a n was the winner o f the hundred w ickets’ race, though