Cricket 1911

506 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. S ept . 9,1911. B egim ent), with the first battalion o f which he is serving in India. H e has been connected w ith the regim ent for nineteen years, and was for five years adjutant o f the famous B obin H o o d R ifle Volunteers. I t looked at one time as though the record number of thousand-runs scorers— 61, in 1901— w ould be easily left behind this season ; but after all that num ber w ill scarcely be equalled, for few o f the m en w h o require on ly a few runs to qualify for the list w ill be playing in the tw o outstanding matches. W illiam T yldesley m issed his thousand by nine runs only, because he could not make up his m ind whether he should desert county for league cricket, and in consequence was relegated for a short tim e to the second eleven of Lancashire. Mr. A . 0 . Jones m ight have qualified if he had gone in first instead o f unusually low dow n in his last match, and had batted in the second innings. P ayton, G eorge Cox, Mr. A lfred H artley and H a yw ood all fall short by less than 100 runs. It seems w orth while to repeat this week the list up to date. 1.—Vine (J.), June 23. 2.— Seymour (Jas.), June 27. 3.—Hayward (T. W .) June 27. 4.—Makepeace (H .), June 29. 5.—Denton (D.), June 29. 6.— 0. J. B. Wood, June 30. 7.—E. H. Spooner, July 3. 8.—Khodes (W.), July 3 9.— Sharp (J.), July 3. 10.— P. P. Warner, July 6. 11.—Whitehead (H.), July 7. 12.—Hobbs (J. B.), July 8. 13.—Kinneir (S. P.), July 8. 14.—Mead (C. P.), July 10. 15.—Tarrant (P. A .). July 11. 16.—Keif (A. E.), July 13. 17.—Humphreys (E ), July 13. 18.— Hayes (E. G.), July 13. 19.—J. W. H. T. Douglas, July 15. 20.—Gunn (G.), July 15. 21.—Hearne (J. W .), July 17. 22 —Woolley (F. E .), July 18. 23.—Wilson (B. B .), July 19. 24.—Belf (R. R .l, July 20. 25.—C. B. Fry, July 20. 26.— Hirst (G. H .), July 22. 27.—Knight (A. E .), July 24. 28.—F. K. Foster, July 25. 29.—Hardstaff (J.), July 27. 30.—Gunn (J.), July 27. 31.-D ra k e (A.), July 28. 32.—Killiok (E. H .). July 29. 33.—Havdinge (H. T. W .), July 29. 34.—Bowell (A.), Aug. 4. 35.—Brown (G.), Aug. 7. 36.—P. A. Perrin, Aug. 8. 37.—Charlesworth (C.), Aug. 8. 38.—G. L. Jessop, Aug. 9. 39.—K. G. MacLeod, Aug. 9. 40.—W . B. Burns, Aug. 9. 41.— Booth (M. W .), Aug. 10. 42.—F. L. Fane. Aug. 10. 43.—Arnold (E. G.), Aug. 10. 44.— Tyldesley (J. T.), Aug. 11. 45.—M. C. Bird, Aug. 11. 46.— Quaife (W. G.), Aug. 11. 47.—Bowley (F. L .), Aug. 12. 48.—Cadman (S.), Aug. 15. 49.— Pearson (F.), Aug. 15. 50.—Board (J. H .), Aug. 17. 51.—Dipper (A. E .), Aug. 18. 52.—King (J. H .), Aug. 21. 5 3 .-D u ca t (A ). Aug. 23. 54.—Hendren (E.), Aug. 25. 55.—Cuffe (J. A .), Aug. 29 56.—H. P. Chaplin, Aug. 29. 57.—Stone (J.), Aug. 29. 58.—K. L. Hutchings, Sept. 5. T he new names in this list are those o f Messrs. K . G. M acL eod and F . B . Foster, M akepeace, J. W . H earne, Drake, B row n, B ooth, D ipper, H endren and Stone. It includes 14 amateurs and as m any as 44 professionals. In 1901 as m any as 31 of the 61 in the list were amateurs— a significant change. N ineteen batsm en figure in both the 1901 and 1911 lists— Messrs. G. L . Jessop, C. J. B . W ood , C. B . F ry, P. A. Perrin, P. F. W arner and F . L . Fane, H ayw ard, Tyldesley, Quaife, H irst, K inneir, K ing, John Gunn, H ayes, D enton, Knight, V ine, K illick and B ow ley. O f these K ing, Gunn, V ine and Mr. F ane were then included for the first time. M r. C. J. B . W ood , K inneir, A rnold, B ow ley, B oard and Albert B e lf first reached a four-figure total in 1900, Knight and H ayes in 1899, Messrs. F ry and Perrin in 1898, Mr. Jessop, Tyldesley and Mr. W arner in 1897, H irst, Quaife and K illick in 1896, and H ayw ard and D en ton in 1895. T his accounts for 32 of the 58 listed above. O f the rest M r. Spooner and B hodes are first found in the list in 1903, H um phreys, Seym our and W hitehead in 1904, H obbs, George Gunn, Sharp and Pearson in 1905, M r. Burns, Tarrant, M r. Hutchings, M ead, Hardstaff, Cuffe and M r. Douglas in 1906, W oolley and B ow ell in 1907, H ardinge and B obert B e lf in 1908, Ducat, Cadman and W ilson in 1909, and Charles­ w orth, Mr. Chaplin and M r. B ird last year. T here was a likelihood at one tim e, too, that the number o f bow lers credited w ith a hundred wickets w ould be in excess o f the figure for any previous year. There were 22 in the list in 1904, 1905 and 1907, all seasons in which we had visits from colonial teams. A fortnight ago it looked odds on that number being exceeded. But Mr. Brearley could not bow l against Essex at M anch ester; Law rence Cook, who has had to stand down for him several times, was not included in the Hampshire match at B ournem outh, and thus lost his last chance of taking the ten wickets he still required, a big, but by no means impossible, fe a t; D ick Burrow s, w ho has been kept out of his county’s team in several matches through an operation, did little in his last two or three games, and stopped short at 92 ; and George B row n w as behind the stumps in both m atches o f the B ournem outh week, and did not increase his total o f 88. T he list to date is : — 1.—Dean (H.), July 14. 2.—Hirst (G. H.), July 14. 3 .-S m ith (W. C.), July 17. 4.—Belf (A. E .), July 21. 5.—BuekeDham (C. P.), July 21. 6.—Rushby (T.), July 29. 7.—F. B. Foster, July 31. 8.—Fielder (A.), Aug. 4. 9.—Blythe (C.), Aug. 7. 10.—Hearne (J. T.), Aug. 11. 11.— Field (P. E.), Aug. 12. 12.—Hitch (J. W .), Ang. 14. 13.—Bhodes (W .), Aug. 14. 14.— Tarrant (F. A.), Aug. 15. 15.— Shipman (W .), Aug. 15. 16. —Thompson (G. J.), Aug. 21. 17.—Dennett (G. E .), Aug. 21. 18.— Iremonger (J.), Aug. 26. 19.—Wass (T.), Aug. 28. 20.—Cuffe (J. A.), Aug. 30. The new names here are those o f H itch, Shipman and Irem onger. Six o f the players appear in the 1,000 runs list also — H irst, B e lf (A. E .), M r. Foster, Bhodes, Tarrant and Cuffe. M iddlesex , through Mr. P. F . W arner, have expressed a desire to play W arw ickshire next season and fixtures w ill be arranged in due course. I t is very doubtful whether H irst and H aigh w ill, after all, visit India during our winter m onths. A few weeks ago the secretary o f the Maharaja o f C ooch Behar saw the two players and stated that H is H ighness is dangerously ill, and until it is know n what course his illness takes arrangements for the engagement must remain in abeyance. The players had booked their passage and will naturally be m ost disappointed if the illness o f a great patron o f the game should cause them to m iss an enjoyable and new experience o f cricket life. J. T. N ewstead , o f Yorkshire, w ill next year be found playing in Lancashire League m atches w ith B ishton, and H artington with Haslingden. O wing to difficulties experienced in arranging dates, D erbyshire w ill meet neither Surrey nor Yorkshire next season. Instead, matches have been arranged w ith Sussex and Somerset. Three matches w ill, as usual, be given to Chesterfield — L ancashire, Leicestershire and N orthants— whilst tw o w ill again take place at B lackwell, one o f them being the Notts game. B oth the Australians and South Africans will be met at D erby, and, in the case o f the latter, a Saturday start has been provisionally arranged for the early part o f M ay— the opening match o f the tour, in fact. T arrant and M urrell have sailed this week for India, where they are engaged to coach the M aharaja o f Patiala’s team during the winter. T he B and o f Brothers were in scoring m ood when they played the B oyal Marines at W alm er on August 30th and 31st. A fter the form er had m ade 441 (Surg. Jacob 115), B . B . ran up 575 for eight wickets and declared. Capt. W . G. M . Sarel, who has played on a few occasions for Surrey, scored 222, J. Snowden 112 not out, N . H aig 72, H . S. H atfeild 54 and “ M r. E xtras ” 50. The B oyal Marines m ade 113 for three wickets at their second attempt and the match was drawn. L ieut. Johnson made 94 in his first innings and 99 in his second. F or Streatham against The V illage, on the Streatham ground on Saturday last, N. M iller scored 63 not out and took ten wickets for 44 runs in a total o f 125. It was a twelve a-side match, and Streatham w on by 158 runs.