Cricket 1911

AUGUST 26, 1911. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 463 —Essex (1892), Bedfordshire (1903) and Berkshire (1907 and since). Though he often makes a useful score— he averaged 22 in 1907, and as recently as last year played an innings of 57 not out v. Bucks—his greatest value to the side is as wicket-keeper, in which post he is very good and reliable. Another Berkshire man who has had much experience of Indian cricket is Captain Lionel P. Collins, who unfortu­ nately is not likely to be available for the county either this season or next. Born on November 27, 1878, he was educated at Marlborough—where he was in the eleven in 1896 and 1897, aggregating 670, with an average of just on 56, and a highest score of 203 (v. Reigate) in the later year—and Keble College, Oxford. Mr. F. H. B. Champain gave him his blue in his second year up, but he did little against Cambridge, and his best score, 99, was made against Dr. W . G. Grace’s Eleven at the Crystal Palace, in a match for some inscrutable reason denied first-class rank. In his first season for Berks (1897) he ran up 121 v. Herts at St. Albans, and both in 1898 and 1899 he showed good form and made plenty of runs, though playing no very long innings. After 1899, through his entering the Army and going to India—where in 1904 he three times within ten days scored two centuries in a match, 122 and 126, 119 not out and 116, and 206 not out and 110 not out, for the Gurkha Brigade on tour—he was absent from the Berkshire ranks until 1907. He showed brilliant form that season, scoring 490 in 13 innings for his county, playing well for the M.C.C. in all sorts of matches, and running up 102 (stumped by Kortlang, now of Victoria) for the M.C.C.’s team v. New York in September. Last season saw him once more in the Old Country. He totalled 300 in eight innings for Berkshire, including 122 v. Cornwall at Cam­ borne, and hit a dashing 102 not out for the M.C.C. against his Alma Mater at Oxford. A batsman with an infinite variety of strokes, Captain Collins at the top of his form is good enough for any team. Captain Charles Glencairn Hill, a new man in the team last season, was born at Winchester on September 22, 1872, and was in the Haileybury Eleven of 1889. He has played the game in Bermuda (whither he went in join his regiment, the Royal Berkshires, in 1893), at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in the West Indies, and later, when in the South African Constabulary (1902-1906), at Johannesburg. His value to the team was apparent from the first match he played, when in a lost game at St. Albans he was highest scorer for his side with 62 and 21 ; later he made 30 and 60 v. Devon at Reading, and 118 v. Bucks at Aylesbury. With a total of 421 in 14 innings (twice not out) he averaged 35, scoring well all round the wicket, and doing good work in the field, either in the slips or the deep. Probably few better batsmen than Mr. George Guy Marsland Bennett (whose portrait we give) have failed to get their blues at Oxford, though one recalls that Messrs. G. F. Vernon, T. S. Pearson-Gregory, W. O. Moberly and others in the past were in the same boat. None of them was as good a bat in his Oxford days as he afterwards be­ came ; and to some extent the same statement holds good of Mr. Bennett. He was born at Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, on April 23, 1883, and got his flannels at Har­ row nineteen years later, in his last summer at the school on the hill. His average was a modest one, but he showed really good form in scoring 52 not out v. Eton at Lord’s. Going up to Magdalen College, he played in one match for the Dark Blues in 1903, but did nothing. In 1904 two good innings in the Seniors’ match earned him another trial, and he scored 7 and 26 v. the South Africans. He did not play again until the Lord’s match was over ; then, against Worcestershire at Worcester, he hit splendidly for 131. The next season saw him come very near his blue, but though he played in five matches, and batted well v. Worcestershire and Kent, he was left out in the long run. Meanwhile he had been playing for Berkshire, beginning modestly in his last year at Harrow, improving in 1903 (208 in 12 innings), batting very well indeed in 1904, when he aggregated 485 (more than any other two men on the side made) and averaged nearly 35, still better in 1905, when his total was 673, including two centuries, and his average 42, and magnificently in 1906, when he scored 853 (average nearly 45), and again made two centuries, including 154 v. Oxfordshire at Reading, his highest to date for the county. In 1907 he did much less, and in the next two seasons played no county crick et; but last year he reappeared and batted with wonderful consistency, scarcely ever failing. Without once reaching the century he aggregated 600 and averaged 40. Mr. Bennett has a capital outfit of strokes, and also a strong defence. Bar Captain Collins, he is probably the most brilliant batsman Berkshire has ever had. His usual place in the field is mid-off. Up to the end of 1910 he had scored over 3,000 runs for the county, average about 33. (To be continued.) CRICKET IN SHANGHA I. SHANGHAI RECREATION CLUB v. SHANGHAI 0.0.— Played on July 22nd and won by S.R.O. by 68 runs. T. W. R. Wilson made his 26 runs off two overs, his strokes being 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, I, 1. Score S.R.C. H. B. Ollerdessen, b McEuen ... 4 T. Wallace, b Brand... .......... 4 W. Milner, c Crockwell, bMcEuen 11 T. Wigton, b McEuen .......... 0 E. A. Singer, st Wheen, b Brand 6 W. T. Manley, e sub., b Brand ... 0 T. W . II. Wilson, e Crockwell, b Lanning ... ... .............. 20 T. Main, e Crockwell, b Lanning 18 R. J. S. Brandt, b Billings ... 11 P. Milner, c Wingrove, b Billings 25 J. Bollard, not o u t ........................ 2 Byes ......................... 11 Total ....118 L. H. W. Crockwell, b Wilson ... 18 F. P. West, run out............ . ... 15 D. R. McEuen, b F. Milner ... 24 L. Walker, c Wigton, b Wilson ... 21 Capt. E. I. M. Barrett, b Manley 64 V. H. Lanning, run out ............. 0 Dr. H. H. Morris, c and b Manley 5 R. A. Brand, c Manley, b Wilson 2 G. M. Billings, not out .............. 6 E. C. Wingrove, b Wilson............. 0 A. F. Wheen, absent ill ............. 0 B 18, lb 3 ....................... 21 Total.........................176 SUSSEX M ARTLETS v. LITTLE H A M P TO N .- August 14 and 15. Score and analysis:— First innings. S ussex M art lets . W. Butt, run out............................................... D. G. Sundius Smith, lbw, b Gresson J. W. S. Malden, c A. F. Somerset, b Hiscocks H . G. P. Wyatt, b H iscocks......................... A. P. Snell, c A. F. Somerset, b Hiscocks ... R. K. Simms, c Harris, b Hiscocks.............. P. H. Latham, c Rowe, b Gresson .............. L. H. Trist, b Rowe .................................... W. F. Sundius Smith, b Harris .............. W. L. Donaldson, c and b Gresson.............. J. S. Welch, not out .................................... B 4, lb 8 ............................................... Total 32 9 10 20 0 6 78 88 25 17 0 12 297 -Played at Littlehampton on Second innings, c Rowe, b Hiseocks ... 0 lbw, b Gresson ... ... 0 c Hollingbery, b Gresson 0 c Hollingbery, b Hiscocks 1 c Mitchell, b Hiscocks ... 44 c Rowe, b Gresson............... 2 c Rowe, b Gresson............... 24 not out .......................... 22 b Gresson .......................... 1 b Hiscocks......................... 5 c sub, b His*ocks............... 4 B 6, nb 2 ............... 8 Total ... Ill First innings. L ittleham i 'I'ON. Second innings. W. G. Heasman, b W. F. Sundius Smith ... 20 not out ............ . ... 51 E. Harris, b Simms .............. .............. 9 b Simms............................... 41 F. W. Parkins, st Maldon, b W. F. Sundius Smith ......................... ........................ 2 F. E. Rowe, b W. F. Sundius Smith ... 57 c Welch, b Simms............. 30 F. H. Gresson, b Welch....................................24 c Welch, b Simms............... 49 A. F. Somerset, not out .........................28 not out .......................... 34 R. F. Mitchell, b Welch ....................... 0 H. Hiscocks, c Donaldson, b W. F. Sundius Smith .......................................................... 4 R. Hollingbery, lbw, b Welch.........................16 b W. F. SundiusSmith ... 2 F. Somerset, b W e lc h .................................... 0 D. W. Abbey, c Butt, b Welch .............. 3 B 4, lb 4, nb 3 .................................. 11 B 24, lb 3, w 1, nb 3 31 Total ... 174 Total (4 wkts ... 238 THE BOARD OF CONTROL. Lord Dalmeny presided at Lord’s on Frid ay last at a meeting of the Board of Control, held to decide various matters in connection with the triangular tournament next year. W ith regard to applica­ tions from Cardiff and Edgbaston for a Test m atch, it was decided that W arwickshire should be dealt with at a meeting of the Cricket Conference at the Oval on Sept. 11th . As to hours of play and the sharing of gate and stand receipts in matches between the counties and the Australian and South African teams, it was decided that the counties should make their own arrangements. The recommendation that, prior to the first Test match, the selected England eleven should play trial matches at Lord’s and the Oval was confirmed. W ith regard to the duration of the Test matches, it was decided to recommend that if, after the sccond m atch between any two counties, neither side had secured any advantage, the third match should be played to a finish. This will have to go before the Cricket Conference. R i c h a r d d a f t 's N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e m a r l . — Particulars apply Radcllffe-on-Trent, Nutts.— (Advt.)