Cricket 1911

600 EUGBY FOOTBALL AND CEICKET. December 23 ,1911 . pavilion (Bossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. — Hamlet. jEARLY sixty nominations were made for the trial matches at Johannesburg for the South African Team during the. Christmas and New Year holidays ; and as many as 35 of these were Transvaal players. It is difficult to see how some of them could be considered as having the smallest chance of selection for the English tour, though no doubt they are all good cricketers. They include Messrs. Frank Mitchell, P. W. Sherwell, Sibley J. Snooke, J. H. Sinclair, Louis Tancred, Gordon White, A. E. E. Vogler and H. E. Smith, all of whom have been in England ; Messrs. .T. W. Zulch, Louis Strieker, S. J Pegler, and T. Campbell, who were in the team which visited Australia ; Messrs. P. Le Roux, M. A. Beil (both of these have played for Eastern Province, the former also for the Transvaal), P. J. Heather, J. H. Moulder (formerly of Surrey), T. A. Ward, C. Newberry, B. H. Floquet, O. W. Tomlinson, R. A. Thompson, B. Beaumont, II. V. Baumgartner (of Bedford School, Bedfordshire, and the Orange Free State), A. N. Difford, and .T. P. During (formerly of Western Province), all of whom have played in Currie Cup or other first-class cricket; and some others with only club reputations, though these number several men of real promise, including a brother of Pegler. M b . S h e r w e i x has withdrawn, and it seems rather unlikely that we shall see him in England again. In Johannesburg, Messrs. Sinclair, Mitchell and Tancred seem to be looked upon as out of the running. If Mr. R. O. Schwarz does not join the team, and Llewellyn also stands out— it seems very unlikely that he will be included, as he has fixed up with Accrington for three years to come— there will be room for several new men. Among these Messrs. Gerald Hartigan (Border), H. W. Taylor and S. Y . Samuelson (Natal), and B. G. Melle (Western Province) look likely candidates. N a t a l nominated nine players, and eight of them (the two above-mentioned, with Messrs. A. Nourse, O. Pearse, D. K. Pearse, J. Cox, D. J. Nicol and C. P. Carter) were accepted, only Mr. W. K. Thomson, a good sound bat, but past the age at which he could well expect to start an international career, being turned down. Griqualand West put forward four candidates, but Mr. L. G. Tapscott alone found favour. From the Western Province Messrs. M. Commaille, B. G. Melle, P. T. Lewis, R. R. Luyt and F. Bond will go North, the names of Messrs. S. D. Snooke and P. M. Hands (the Rugby blue) having been deleted from the list. Messrs. Gerald Hartigan and A. E. Cook will represent the Border, but it is queer that Mr. N. O. Norton, who was good enough to play for South Africa less than two years ago, and Mr. C. Johnson, reported an excellent wicket-keeper, should have been denied a chance. Eastern Province’s one nomination, Mr. W. Glisson, was not accepted ; but Mr. J. E. Jewell, late of Sutton, has been specially asked to come up from Bloemfontein and play—though he is not considered eligible for South Africa —because his fine form in the last Currie Cup Tournament has aroused great interest in him. B y the way, writing of Johannesburg, one might men­ tion that a brother of Mr. Percy Briggs, of Staffordshire fame, Mr. 0 . Briggs, plays for the Yeoville Club of the Golden City. T h e Western Cricket Association of Canada will hold its annual tournament in 1912 at Calgary (Alberta). Winni­ peg (Manitoba) was the venue in 1910, Indian Head (Saskat­ chewan) in 1911. Already Calgary enthusiasts have begun to make preparations. Their one great difficulty is the absence of good grounds, and this will be hard to get over in the few months left to them. There are about 75 clubs in affiliation with the Western Association ; and if cricket in the Prairie Provinces is not booming as greatly as some other things, it is at least going ahead steadily and ssati- factorily. Good luck to it, and its worthy supporters ! T h e r e is, we are glad to learn, every prospect of Jayes taking his place in the Leicestershire team again next season and doing himself justice. For a long time he has been at a sanatorium in Sussex, but he returned home last week for Christmas. Early in the new year he will go abroad in order to complete his cure. M r . G. H. S im p s o n - H a y w a r d , of Icomb Place, Glou­ cestershire, was married on the 14th inst. at Bourton-on- the-Water to Miss Stenson, daughter of the late Mr. W. Stenson and of Mrs. Stenson, lady of the manor of Bourton. Congratulations are due also to Mr. C. P. Goodden, of Dorset, upon his rccent wedding. T h e dismissal of Mayne in the second innings of South Australia against Victoria at Adelaide was in the nature of a curiosity. The circumstance was described thus in the Adelaide Observer :—“ In Kyle’s first over Mayne ran himself out. He cut a ball, and started to run. Crawford sent him back, but Mayne stood three steps out of his ground as though petrified, while Carkeek put down the wicket. An older hand than Mayne would not have been out. When he saw the wicket broken he walked away, although Mr. Watson had not given him out. Carkeek had removed the bails before the ball was in his hands. Armstrong called to him to pull up a stump, and he did so, but the ball had left him. Hansford seized the position, collared the ball, and with it in hand pulled up another stump. At last Mayne was really out, but by then he was well on his way to the pavilion. Carkeek’s bungling had given him ample time to get home, if he had been more alert.” M r . G il b e r t J e s s o p has sent in his resignation as secre­ tary to the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. The famous cricketer has promised to captain the county eleven next season; but it is considered probable that he will also resign that post at the end of the summer, although his plans for the future are as yet indefinite. Mr. Jessop followed the late Dr. E. M . Grace as secretary of the Gloucestershire C.C.C. A sh o r t time ago a ladies’ cricket club was formed at Quorn, in South Australia, and a challenge to a match was sent to the men, who were to be handicapped by wearing skirts and by bowling, throwing and batting with the other hand that was customary. The game took place on October 28th, and was won by the ladies, who scored 93 and then dismissed their opponents for 58. M r . A. D. W a t s o n , the Sydney University cricketer, has gone with the Mawson expedition to the South Pole as geologist and mineralogist. J. C o y secured all ten wickets for one run for Ylo v. DrummOyne on the Drummoyne Oval (N.S.W.) on October 28th, eight being bowled, one l.b.w. and one caught. At one stage he had nine wickets without a run. The total was 12, Steel making 10 . C. G. M a c a r t n e y ’ s 122 for New South Wales against Queensland last month was the sixth of a remarkable series of innings played by him on the Sydney ground. The scores alluded to were :— 119 126 j- Australia v. South Africa ... 1910-11 107* Gordon v. Burwood ... ... 1910-11 122 New South Wales v. Queensland 1911-12 * Signifies not out. This form is reminiscent of Mr. A. C. MacLaren at his best. | New South Wales v. SouthAfrica 1910-11 | T h e first test match was a great game for Messrs. Victor Trumper, Boy Minnett and H. V. Hordern, though they were not the only men who did well for the winning side. Mr. Minnett came very near scoring a century on his first