Cricket 1911

O c tob e r 14, 1911. EUGBY FOOTBALL AND CRICKET. 559 D E A T H . SPALDING.—On the 4th inst., at Dalarran Lodge, New Gal­ loway, N.B., Augustus Frederick Montagu Spalding, ol Holm and Sbirmers, in his 73rd year. pavilion Gossip. The abstract and brief chroniele of the tims. — Hamlet. VALUED correspondent calls us sharply to account for thrice stating that Hitch secured a hundred wickets for the first time this season. He is right, and we are wrong, and we hasten to make what amends may be possible. But the wonder is that we should have been allowed to repeat the error. Are our regular critics asleep ? Wake up, gentlemen, please! As a rule, such a slip brings instant correction; and, making no claim to infallibility, we honestly prefer to have our mistakes set right. M r . C . I. S. W a l l a c e points out another error—this time one of omission. He asks what Dennett has done that we failed to give his name, with those of Wass and Albert Belf, as having taken over 1,200 wickets ? The answer, of course, is that Dennett has done nothing, and that we have done wrong. It was a purely accidental slip, which we are glad to repair. C r ic k e t yields to none in admiration of the hard-working West Country left­ hander. T h e batsmen whose names follow set up new individual records for themselves (in English first-class cricket only, be it understood) by making bigger aggregates and having higher averages than ever before : M. C. Bird. Bowell (A.) Brown (G.) Cadman (S.) Charlesworth (C.) J.W. H. T. Douglas. M. Falcon. F. R. Foster. Freeman (J. R.) Gunn (G.) Hardinge (H. T.W.) Hardstaff (J.) Hearne (J. W.) Hobbs (J. B.) Humphreys (E.) K. G. MacLeod. F. T. Mann. Mead (C. P.) Oates (T.) Belf (A. E.) Seymour (Jas.) Sharp (J.) R. H. Spooner. Strudwick (H.) Tarrant (F. A.) Tyldesley (W.) P. F. Warner. Whitehead (H.) Woolley (F. E.) A m o n g those who had bigger aggregates than before, but not higher averages, were : W. B. Burns. Kinneir (S. P.) Rhodes (W.) Goatly (E.G.) Pearson (F.) Stone (J.) Heap (J. S.) E. S. M. Poyntz. Wilson (B. B.) A n d the following, without reaching their previous highest aggregates, improved on their best previous average : Major H. S. Bush. G. L. .Tessop Thompson (G. J.) Gunn (J.) Morton (A.) C. J. B. Wood. T h e r e were many long innings season, and among those who ran up had ever been credited to them before M. C. Bird. Brown (G.) Major H. S. Bush. J. Daniell. J.W. H. T. Douglas. M. Falcon. F. L. Fane. F. R. Foster. Freeman (J. R.) C. B. Fry. W. P. Harrison. Hardstaff (.T.) Hardinge (H. T.W.) Hearne (J. W.) Kinneir (S. P.) K. G. MacLeod. Mead (C. P.) played during the bigger scores than were : Seymour (.Tas.) Sharp (J.) R. H. Spooner. Tarrant (F. A.) Tyldesley (W.) Vine (J.) P. F. Warner. Wilson (B. B.) F or bowlers the season of 1911 was not altogether a beanfeast, but the following credited themselves with more wickets than in any earlier campaign : M. C. Bird. Field (F. E.) J. F. Ireland. Brown (G.) F. R. Foster. Kennedy (A.) Cuffe (J. A.) Hearne (J. W.) Relf (R. R.) A. J. Evans. Hitch (J. W.) Rushby (T.) M. Falcon. Hobbs (J. B.) Shipman (W.) T h e s e lists are not exhaustive, of course ; but it is worth noting that several names—those of Messrs. M. C. Bird, M. Falcon and F. B. Foster, George Brown and John William Hearne—appear in all the three principal ones, a fact which affords strong testimony to the all-round development of some of our younger players. It is also a pleasing feature that the names of members of the M.C.C. Team to Australia are prominent. F or the Folkestone C.C. during the past season Mr. A. C. Edwards commenced 42 innings, was not out 11 times, and, with 169 not out as his highest score, made 2,048 runs with an average of 66’06. He also took 127 wickets at a cost of 17'92 runs each. For the Leinster C.C., of Dublin, Mr. R. H. Lam­ bert’s batting figures were 25—3—1380—62-72—203*, whilst with the ball he obtained 103 wickets for 14‘25 runs apiece. I t was announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Melbourne C.C. on September Sth that the Committee had decided to grant a pension of .£400 per annum to their late Secretary, Major WardiH, who had been compelled to retire through ill-health. T h e programme arranged for the M.C.C.'s team in Australia, and confirmed by the Australian Board of Control, is as follows:— Nov. 10, 11, 13, 14.—At Adelaide, v. South Australia. Nov. 17, 18, 20, 21__At Melbourne, v. Victoria. Nov. 24, 25, 27, 28.—At Sydney, v. New South Wales. Dec. 1, 2, 4.—At Brisbane, v. Queensland. Dec. 6, 7.—At Toowoomba, v. Toowoomba. Dec. 8 , 9, 11.—At Brisbane, v. XI. of Australia. Dec. 15, 16, 18, 19.—At Sydney, v. A ustralia (1st Test). . Dec. 22, 23.—At Maitland, v. Maitland. Dec. 20, 27.—At Bendigo, v. Bendigo. Dec. 30, Jan. 1, 2, 3.—At Melbourne, v. A ustralia (2nd Test). Jan. 5, 6.—At Geelong, v. Geelong. Jan. 12, 13, 15, 16.—At Adelaide, v. A ustralia (3rd Test). Jan. 19, 20.—At Ballarat, v. Ballarat. Jan. 23, 24, 25.—At Launceston, v. Tasmania. Jan. 26, 27, 29.—At Hobart, v. Tasmania. Feb. 2, 3, 5, 6 .—At Melbourne, v. Victoria. Feb. 9, 10, 12, 13.—At Melbourne, v. A ustralia (4th Test). Feb. 16, 17, 19, 20.—At Sydney, v. New South Wales. Feb 23, 24, 26, 27.—At Sydney, v. A ustralia (5th Test). March 1, 2, 4, 5.—At Adelaide, v. South Australia. The above list has to be approved by the English authorities. It is probable that an extra match—with "Western Australia in the second week of March—will be arranged later. © M t u a ^ t r * M r. AUGUSTUS SPALDING. It is with regret we announce that Mr. Augustus Frederick Montagu Spalding, one of the best-known of the Old Stagers, die 1at New Galloway, N.B., on the 4th inst., at the age of 72. M r. W. H. TAYLOR. Mr. William Henry Taylor, who had been associated for many years with the management of Lord’s Hotel, died at 2, Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, on September 30, aged 55. He was the author of “ History of Kilburn Cricket ” (57 pp., published 1886), and was a great lover and keen student of the game. At Lord’s on December 11th, 1900, he delivered a very interesting lecture on “ Cricket,” in which he reviewed the great deeds of the famous players of the century, punctuating his remarks with many iiumorous anecdotes.