Cricket 1911

554 RUGBY FOOTBALL AND CRICKET. O ctober 7 ,1911. game between the Encinals and Wanderers. It was during the first over of the innings and Dick Stuart was the bats­ man. The latter tipped a fast ball behind the wicket, and Winding, the wicket-keeper, sustained a broken finger in trying to check its progress. Not content with this damage, the leather continued its mad career by caroming off to the forehead of Wildy, who was fielding at short slip, and laying him out cold. Then the spiteful sphere was caught by Theobald before it could make connections with mother earth and the batsman was also out, but this time only in a cricket sense. Thus one deadly delivery put three men out, though two were injured. To the writer’s knowledge there is no parallel in the history of the time- lionoured English summer sport.” I n our last issue we referred to the remarkable run- getting during the past season on the part of Mr. T. G. (Jrinter, of Essex, and now present a list of his scores in the order in which they were obtained :— South Woodford v. Buckhurst Hill 17 „ v. Edmonton ... 7 Mr. Thomas’ XI. v. Mr. Clarke’ XI. 134* Essex C. &G. v. Derrick Wanderers ‘25 South Woodford v. Mr. Thomp­ son’s X I................................................124* South Woodford v. Loughton ... 15 ,, v. Stamford Hill 0 „ v. Guildhall ... 82 v. Chigwell ... 37 ,, v. Edmonton ... 114 „ v. Amherst ... 109 ,, v. Pembroke ... 89 v. Stamford Hill 1 ,, v. Honor Oak ... 37 ,, v. Forest School 75 Essex C. & G. v. Leytonstone and District ... ........................47 Essex C. & Q. v* Beckton ... 0 ,, v. Wanstead ... 12 Gents of Essex v. Southend Essex C. & G. v. D. Tosetti’s XI. Gents of Essex v. Wanstead South Woodford v. South Essex... ,, v. Woodford Wells ,, v.Mr. Liddell’s XI. J. Cornell’s XI. v. Mr. Shaw’s XI. South Woodford v. Newportonians ,, v. Buckhurst Hill ,, v.S. Woodford 2nd X I..................... ,, v. City Police ... ,, v. Honor Oak ... ,, v.Walthamstow... Newportonians v. Essex C. & G. j South Woodford v. Woodford Wells ,, v Walthamstow... ,, v. Mr. Gisborne’s X I..................... 125* 119* 115* 151* 15 205* 91 144 9 23 31 78 1 117* 59 5 These innings may be summarised as follows F or J. Cornell’s XI. Essex, Gents of Essex C. & G. ... Newportonians South Woodford Thomas’ XI., Mr. Total nns. Not out. Total. Average. Highest Score. 1 0 91 91-00 91 2 2 240 240-00* 125* 5 1 203 50-75 119* 2 1 118 118-00 117* 25 3 1634 74-27 205* 1 1 134 134-00* 134* 36 8 2420 86-42 205* * Signifies not out. We have heard of several other big run-getting feats in club cricket during 1911, but none to equal the above. Russell, for Essex Club and Ground, made 1,085 runs with an average of 83, and N. Miller, in addition to obtaining 113 wickets for Streatham at a cost of 13-81 runs each, scored 1,388 runs and averaged 60-35. For Addlestone J. C. Adams’ figures were 1,153 runs with an average of 57, for Dulwich S. J. Goodall aggregated 1,049 and headed the club’s batting list with 55-21 runs per innings, whilst for East Molesey W. M. Limb’s figures were 1,101 and 37-96 respectively. A m e e t in g of the Committee appointed by the Board of Control to prepare the programme of matches for the English team met in Melbourne on September 2nd. The programme was drawn up, but it was arranged that the list of fixtures should not be announced until it had been submitted to the other members of the Board for their approval. There has been rather a pronounced delay in drawing-up the fixtures, despite cabled requests by the M.C.C. for details of the arrangements for consideration. A d d r e s s in g the boys of Wakefield Grammar School this week, the Rev. J. Mitchinson, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, said “ I never was at home on the playground, and as I look back the more I repent it.” T he late Lord James of Hereford, captain of the first Eleven Cheltenham ever had and President of the M.C.C. in 1889, left estate valued at .£177,001 gi;oss and £129,296 net. A t Campbell Park, Colombo, on August 29 and 30, Post and Telegraph C. and A.C. scored 531 for seven wickets, innings declared closed, against the Registrar General’s Department C.C., and won by an innings and 420 runs. As the total is a, record for Ceylon, the full score of the innings is worthy of publication in Gossip :— P o s t a n d T e l e g r a p h C. & A. C. D. A. Wijewardena, c do Silva, b L y e ..................................................15 P. H. de Hoedt, b Jayasuriya ... 53 C. B. Fernando, c Mendis, b Perera 179 11. M. C. Misso, b Jayasuriya ... 0 Aloy. M. de Silva, b Perera ... 99 E. F. Kellar, not out ............... 61 C. Thamotheram, b Jayasuriya ... E. V. Rodrigo, c de Silva, b Jaya­ suriya K. M. H. dc Silva, not out Byes, &e....................................... Total (7 wkts)* ... 531 Innings declared closed. G. H. Ekanayake and J. A. D. Moldrecht did not bat. The Registrar General’s Department made but 91 and 20 and were beaten as stated. A t the annual meeting of the Transvaal Cricket Union at Johannesburg, on August 24th, the chairman, Mr. G. Allsop, on the question being raised as to the matter of expenses of the South African team to Australia, said the figures were : expenditure, £7,150 ; receipts (approximate) £5,900 ; leaving a loss of £1,250, which was borne one-half by Sir Abe Bailey, one-tenth by the South African Cricket Association and two-fifths by the Union. In the last week of August a match was played at Hosur, in India, between the 14th Hussars, Bangalore, and Hosur Remount Depot. It was a low-scoring game, the former making 102 and 141 and the latter but 36 and 25, and it was presumably on this account that the Madras Times' “ Own Correspondent” decided to give no details of the play. His report, which is quite a curiosity in its way, was as follows :— ‘ ‘ One brief epitaph most fitly describes the following match :— “ Born at Hosur Remount Depot at 11.15 A.M. on August 29th. Died the same day at 4.30 p.m., of a broken heart .— Itequiescat in Silentio.” “ Z emin , dab of Tela prole, c. Kolandavelu, b Veera- gavulu ” is an entry to be found in the score-sheet of a match played in India last month between Newington and Komaleeswaranpet. Messrs. Veeragavulu, Kolandavelu and Parthasarathy were the Komaleeswaranpet bowlers, and among the other members of the side were players named Balasundaram, Cunniah, Rajagopal, Sivaparakasan, Rajasigamoni and Doraiswami. I t will interest many of our readers to know that the Southport and Birkdale C.C. has not been beaten this year, although they played nearly all the best clubs in the Liver­ pool district including Northern, Formby, Bootle, New Brighton, Huyton, Neston and East Lancashire. Walter Sugg, the old Derbyshire cricketer, heads the batting averages and is still fielding cover-point and setting the side a good example with his smartness in that position. The mainstay of the club are the brothers Beckett, two tall youths who stand well over six feet in height and bat and bowl equally well and are excellent slip fielders. The Southport and Birkdale C.C. have lost only two matches in two years and these by the narrow margin of five runs in the first instance and fourteen in the second. The following are some of the latest hundreds obtained in minor cricket ;- t- Aug. 29.—C. B. Fernando, Post and Telegraph C. & A. C. v. Registrar General’s Dept. C.C. (Colombo) ... 179 ,, 31.— Capt. Mitford, Cameron Highlanders v. Bangalore Gymkhana ... ... ... ... ... ... I l l Sept. 9.—Ragavan, Medical College v. Wesley College ... *100 ,, 16.—D. Roberts, Purley v. Sutton ... ... ... ... 124 ,, 18.—F. Gillespie, Count V. Hollander’s X II. v. Cross Arrows................................................................................*105 „ 18.— T. Long, CrosB Arrows 2nd XI. v. West Central Post Office ...................................................................*136 ,, 22.— G. W . Clegg, Xonians v. Wickford ... ... ... 124 „ 23.—A. C. Higgs, Parson’s Green v. Lauderdale..........*141 „ 23.—H . R. Jordan, Commercial Travellers v. Wembley... *119 „ 25.— J. Freeman, Xonians v. East Hanningfield................. 126