Cricket 1911

420 C E IC K E T : A W EEK LY EECOED OP THE GAME. A u g u s t 1 2 , 19 1 1. in England, was born at Stonebroom, near Alfreton, on May 18, 1876, and played his first match tor Derbyshire in May, 1899. At Photoby] JOSEPH HUMPHRIES. [Dereske. that time he was reserve to Storer ; but the international player was feeling the effects of much-hard work behind the stumps, and the ARTHUR MORTON. colt got fairly frequent chances. The year 1901, however, was void of cricket for him, owing to a severe attack of rheumatic fever. Some people thought he would never play cricket again; but 1902 found him a regular player in the county team, and there he has stayed ever since. During his first-class career he has helped in taking well over 500 wickets to date, in the proportion of about six caught to one stumped ; and he has by no means finished yet. As a batsman he is of the stonewall order, playing a straight bat, seldom attempting to take liberties, scoring slowly, but very valuable indeed at times. Up to date he has never reached 70 in a first class match ; but he has four times scored over 60, six times between 50 and 60, and has over seventy useful innings of between 20 and 50 to his credit. His highest total (705) and best average (just over 20) were achieved in 1906. In 1907-8 he toured Australia as first wicket-keeper to the M.C.C. team under Mr. A. O. Jones, and quite justified his selection. Arthur Morton, born at Mellor on May 7, 1884, had his career briefly dealt with in “ Pavilion Gossip” some few weeks ago, when he made his first century, and it is hardly necessary to repeat all that was said then. He first played for the county in 1903, and has been a regular and valuable member of the team since 1904; but it was only last season that he stepped right to the front. He made 773 runs with an average of over 20 then, and took 116 wickets at under 23 each, was at the least as good a batsman as ever he had been before, and undoubtedly a far better bowler. His highest previous bag of wickets was 53 in 1909, and only once before (in 1908, when he agregated 827) had he made as many runs. He is not a fast scorer, but he is very sound, and can drive as well as most men. As a bowler, his pace is slow medium, he swerves at times, and gets a good many wickets with the going-away ball. Good men a ll! May they help their county to bigger deeds in the near future ! J. N. Pentelow . GLAMORGAN v. STAFFORDSHIRE.—Played at Cardiff on July 31 August 1 and left drawn. Score and analysis:— and First innings. N. V. H. Riches, b Deyes L. Robotham, b Deyes............ Bancroft, b Deyes ............ H. G. Symonds, not out T. A. L. Whittington, b Nichols Maxwell, c Briggs, b Vost J. R. Tait, b Vost...................... Hacker, c Hollowood, b Nichols Nash, c Bourne, b Barnes F. W. Dunn, b Barnes............ Creber, lbw, b Nichols............ Byes, &c .............. Total............ G l a m o r g a n . Second innings. 14 not out ....................... 74 25 c Griffiths, b Vost........... . 15 0 c Vost, b Smith 5 73 run out ..................... .. 0 4 c Griffiths, b Deyes .. 10 0 b Nichols .....................,. 20 6 c Hollowood, b Nichols .,.. .17 13 c Hollowood, b Deyes .. 1 1 b N icholls.................... .. 0 5 11 Byes, &c............... .. 16 156 Total (8 wkts) ... 158 E. H. Bourne, b Creber Hollowood, b Hacker L. F. Taylor, b Hackcr P. Briggs, b Hacker Barnes, c Bancroft, b Hacker Nichols, c Riches, b Nash ... H. Ratcliffe, b Maxwell First innings. S t a f f o r d s h ir e . ... 24 ... 1 ... 20 ... 18 ... 150 ... 18 ... 2 G l a m o r g a n . Vost, b Creber ..................... A. Smith, c Tait, b Creber J. Griffiths, c Bancroft, b Creber.. Deyes, not out ..................... B 5, lb 5 ..................... 16 71 6 0 10 Total Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Deyes ... 18 1 68 3 ....................... 10*1 1 42 2 Barnes ... 18 5 43 2 Nichols ... 43 1 12 3 .................... .. 9 1 28 3 Vost............ 4 0 22 2 .................... .. 13 5 27 1 Smith ... 7 1 17 1 Bourne ... 5 0 28 0 Deyes bowled one no-ball. S t a f f o r d s h ir e . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W- Creber ... ... 35 8 109 4 1 Maxwell .. 15 6 85 1 Hacker ... ... 39 6 131 4 Symonds ,.. 1 0 4 0 Nash ... 18 5 47 1 | SOUTHGATE v. FINCHLEY.—Played F in c h l e y . H. M. James, c and b Turner A. E. Crang, b Cranfield ............ T. Drewell, b Cranfield ............ W. P. Harrison, jnr., b Peterson... E. H. Riches, c Walker, b Cran­ field .......................................... N. Pearson, c Walker, b Cranfield A. G. Parsons, b Peterson............ C. C. P. Turner, c Peterson, b Cranfied W. P. Harrison, not out ............ E. H. Griffith, c Mann, b Cran­ field ........................................ B. Ives, c Niederheitman, b Pet­ erson............. B 15, w 1, nb 1 ............ 52 8 5 30 4 7 17 11 23 20 1 17 at Finchley on August 7. Scorc:— S o u t h g a t e . E. J. Mann, b Harrison, jnr. L. Niederheitman, b Harrison,jnr. H. A. Milton, c Griffith, b Pearson A. G. Turner, c andbHarrisoDJnr. W. G. Walker, b Pearson............ F. S. Lewis, run out ............ G. W. Cranfield, b Pearson N. Peterson, c sub, b Pearson ... R. T. Vivian, c Griffith, b Riches J. H. Hargroves, b Pearson F. B. Dent, not out...................... Lb 4, w 1, nb 5 ............ Total... ... 195 Total ... 246