Cricket 1911

588 RUGBY FOOTBALL AND CEICKET. December 2 1911. Warner is very unlikely to play before the fourth test. Without going so far as a Sporting Life critic does, we are by no means sure that Mr. Frank Foster would not be a better leader in the meantime than Mr. Douglas, if only because the latter seems rather overweighted by the cares of the position, whereas the former is not of the temperament to be overweighted by any responsibility. The theory that plodding tactics pay best in Australia may be carried too far. M r . W a r w ic k A r m st r o n g has justified our faith in him. Last week we suggested that he would probably take speedy revenge for being twice cheaply dismissed in the M.C.C.- Victorian match. Since then he has run up 250—his third score of 200 or over for Victoria—against South Australia at Melbourne. M r . B e r n a r d M e a k in , the Staffordshire captain, who has travelled in many lands, told our representative at Stoke the other night that he had played in two “ great ” matches of which no record appears to exist. These were “ The World v. Chili ” and “ England v. Peru,” or possibly “ England v. Chili ” and “ The World v. Peru.” In his brief response on behalf of “ The Visitors ”—a toast proposed by Mr. W. C. Hancock, the Staffordshire Hon. Sec., who paid a genial tribute to this paper, which he has read from the first number—Mr. J. N. Pentelow referred, in the course of an allusion to the wide-spread influence of cricket, to the fact that an annual match is played between Belgium and Holland. When he sat down, Mr. Harry Eagland, of Yorkshire B.F.U., and Staffordshire cricket fame, seated next but one to him on the left, leaned forward and remarked, “ Why didn’t you say that Billy Maxwell, who used to play for the Stoke football team, was top scorer for Belgium ? You could have made a hit with that.” And the only reply possible was: “ Sorry! but I didn’t know !” “ Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance,” said Dr. Johnson, when questioned as to the origin of a blunder in his great dictionary. S t a f f o r d s h ir e have fixed up with Kent Second Eleven, whom they will probably play at Town Mailing and Stoke, but the matches with Surrey Second Eleven are still doubtful, dates being the difficulty. Glamorgan, Durham and Northumber­ land will be played; and it is possible that matches may be arranged with Wiltshire—the general opinion at Stoke, with which we are heartily in agreement, seeming to be that Wilt­ shire is a very much stronger side than its record of last season would suggest. There are more powerful sides, of course ; but some of them do not appear to care about meeting the Minor County Champions. T h e following are some of the latest hundreds obtained in minor cricket:— Oct. 20.—Tarrant, Patiala v. King’s Dragoon Guards :.............. 110 ,, 28.—D. E. A. Gehrs, North Adelaide v Sturt ... .. I l l „ 28.—J. N. Crawford, East Torrens v. AdelaideUniversity 110 „ 28.—H. P. Kirkwood, Adelaide v. G lenelg........................... 101 „ 28.—F. T. Hack, Glenelg v. Adelaide ..........................*112 Nov. 4.—L. J. Tancred, East Band Proprietary Mines v. Crown Mines (at Joh an n esbu rg)............................. 240 „ 4______V. S. de Kretser, Colts v. Malays (Colombo).......*107 THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB. The Committee of the Hampshire County Club in their annual report regret that the county fell from the sixth to the eleventh place in the championship competition. The financial position is, however, more satisfactory, the balance in hand having been increased from £42 12s. lid . to £193 3s. 5d. As a result of the President’s appeal 150 new members were enrolled. A tribute is paid to the fine batting of C. B. Fry and Mead, and with regard to the latter it is pointed out he is the first Hampshire batsman to score over 2,000 runs in a season. Of the other batsmen, Bowell, Brown and Stone each made over a thousand runs, and in all nineteen individual innings of three-figures were scored by Hampshire batsmen. The bowling showed a marked falling off, and this to some extent was due to faulty fielding. The annual general meeting was held at the Boyal Hotel, Southampton, on the 28th ult. The M.C.C’s. Team in Australia. 3 kd M atch .—v. NEW SOUTH WALES. Played at Sydney on November 24, 25, 27 and 28, and left drawn owing to rain, no play being possible on the 25th and 28th. The visitors lost the toss and were sent in first. Gunn and Mead added 73 together after the fall of the second wicket at 43, but in making 50 the former (when 22) had a small bone in his hand broken by a delivery from Minnett. Douglas was in for 21 minutes and was then out without a run, but Woolley played bright cricket, his 43 con­ taining a G and five 4’s. The feature of the N.S.W . innings was the batting of Gregory, who scored 6G out of 104 by splendid cricket. His late cutting was brilliant and among his hits were eight 4’s. Barbour played a sound defensive innings of 37 and helped to put on 81 for the fourth wicket. Subsequently Minnett’s batting dominated the cricket, and when the end came he had made 52 and was still not out. S core:— Hobbs, c Bardsley, b Folkard ... 15 Rhodes, c Cotter, b Hordern ... 15 Gunn (G.), run o u t .......................... 50 Mead (C. P.), c Carter, b Cotter ... 46 Hearne (J. W.), c Carter, b Cotter 2 F. R. Foster, c Gregory, b Cotter 22 J.W .H .T . Douglas, lbw, b Hordern 0 Woolley, not out Barnes, b Folkard ... Strudwick, b Cotter Hitch, b Hordern ... Byes, &c. Total ... 43 12 5 Cotter took four wickets for 45, Hordern three for 62, and Folkard two for 45. N ew S outh W ales . V.T.Trumper,c Strudwick,b Foster 1 W. Bardsley, c Strudwick, b Foster 24 C. G. Marcartney, lbw, b Douglas 1 S. E. Gregory, c Foster, b Douglas 66 E. P. Barbour, b Hitch .............. 37 E. F. McElhone, lbw, b Douglas... 0 R. B. Minnett, not out ............... 52 H. V. Hordern, c sub. (Gregory for Douglas), b Hitch .............. B. J. Folkard, b Foster .............. H. Carter, not o u t .......................... Byes, &c............................... Totsl(Swkts) Foster and Douglas took 3 wickets for 35 and Hitch two for £ CRICKET IN SHANGHAI. S hanghai , October 24th. Last Saturday the annual match between the Chinese Grounds­ men of the Shanghai Recreation Club and the Shanghai C.C. took place on the latter’s ground and brought to a close a season that promised everything of the best at the commencement but which was utterly ruined by rain. Just to give you an idea of how much the elements interfered with the season’s programme of matches, it may be said that the S.C.C. who were to have played 22 got through 12 only, whilst the “ Rees.” suffered to an even greater extent for of the 16 to be played but 6 were actually finished : the other 10 cried off. The rainfall here was really most exceptional, and the records for the past 37 years went by the board. The match referred to above ended in a win for the S.R.C. Groundsmen for the fifth year running and the eighth time out of the nine matches played. The “ Rees.’ ’ were outplayed in every depart­ ment of the game~except fielding, and that pulled them through. Not a single catch was missed and their ground work was splendid, but the fielding of their opponents was very slovenly and several palpable chances went abegging. The finish of the game was really exciting. It was arranged to draw stumps at 5.15 p.m ., and when the time limit was reached the S.C.C. had one wicket to fall and 10 runs to get. The umpires removed the bails, therefore, and were walking to the pavilion whenJacko, theS.C.C. captain, came running out and requested to have the match continued, as they wanted a definite result one way or the other. As it happened, one ball sufficed, but on his return to the pavilion Jacko was greatly com­ plimented on his sportsmanlike action by the S.R.C. players and all the foreigners present. Score and analysis :— S h an g h ai R ecreation C lub . Sliardee, c and b E. T z i e ................ 16 Fou Ling, c Lee Mun, b Mon Ling 0 Mai Mai, run out ........................... 20 Mee Loons1, c Sai Zai. b Kwei Sue 2 Chingtao, run out Lee Sun, b E. T z ie .......................... Lab Zan, c Ching Foo, b King Foo Kwai Sue, c Mee Loong, b King Foo Mon Ling, b E. Tzie.......................... Lee Mun, b E. Tzie ... ............... Shar Sin, not out .......................... Sai Zai, b E. Tzie .......................... Moo Loong, b King Foo .............. Byes, &c..................... Total 82 O. M. R. W. E. Tzie ... ... 16 4 40 5 Moo Doo ... ... 10 5 12 0 Foo Ling .. ... 7 1 13 0 Kiug Foo... ... 5 3 10 3 S h a n g h a i C r ic k e t C lu b. Fou Ling, c L e Mun, b Mon Ling M e L ong, c Sai Zai, b Kwei Sue King Loong, cLee Sun,b Kwei Sue E. Tzie, st Shardee, b Kwei Sue... Kun Foo, b Mon Ling .............. Mow Doo, c Sai Zei, b Mon Ling.. Ching Foo, b Mon Ling .............. Jacko, c Sai Zai, b Mon Ling ... Mow Han, not o u t .......................... Tea Hea, c Sai Zai, b Mon Ling ... Loa Kee, c Sai Zai, b Mon L ing... Byes, &c....................... Total 5 7 10 18 0 16 4 1 72 Mon Ling Kwei Sue Ching Foo O. M. R. W. . 10-1 1 32 7 . 9 0 32 3 2 0 7 0 Printed and published for the Proprietors by M e r r it t & H a tc h e r , L td ., 167,168 and 169 Upper Thames Street, London, B.C.