Cricket 1911

A pril 22, 1911. CR ICKET : A W EEK LY RECORD OF THE GAME. 85 lack of support, the loss would be, worse than a calamity, a disgrace to the game it has so steadfastly served. Think of those thirty volumes! Dip into them, and you may live your life anew in rousing times. Here we are again in 1882 with the upstart Australians invading us. Interest in their visit is somewhat artificially being stimu­ lated with the profession that they have come to dispute our supremacy. Ours, mind you, the only people on the earth who know what cricket is or could ever play i t ! We who have Grace among us, a giant who with ten cripples could but yesterday have beaten any other eleven in the world ! And now turn over the pages and you come to that rude awakening at the Oval, when England was shocked to her foundations and a second cricket nation stood revealed to us. Turn over faster now, for heaven’s sake, for the men who are to wipe out that bitterness are only little boys in petticoats !—and, ah, here we are, Oval 1902, England won after all !—Sydney 1903, R. E. Foster 287—how do you like that my Cocks of the Walk ? Did you ever get 287 in a TEST match, or ever possess a Jessop ? Turn to 1882 again and renew our old impressions. Has a new epoch in cricket really opened or is it only just a beastly fluke ? Are these Australians indeed giants and geniuses ?—apart from Spofforth, who, of course, is a demon. And what is the matter with our Jupiter ? 0, Grace !—why, naturally he is going off ; you couldn’t expect him to go on for ever. He must have made seventy or eighty centuries in his time. What a pity he can never get a hundred. . . . wait a bit, take down 1895. But not the same Grace, surely 1 Yes, and in his prime, his second prime if you will, scoring 288 —his hundredth century—at Bristol and completing a thousand runs ere May is out. And, incidentally, “ bobberies ” are being got up, and cricket is booming like Standard Bread or the British Fleet in the Dardanelles. Turn again to the tail end of Vol. X X IX ., to another great Test match in Australia (for Cricket is a magic aero- pl:ne that transports us over any space or time in a moment). How are England faring now ? England ?—great Scot, it is a third nation, South Africa, contending with Aus­ tralia ! When were they born, and who is this Aubrey Faulkner, who was being fed with a spoon when Cricket first came out ? Vide the intermediate volumes and you may read the whole of their history. Things have indeed moved while those thirty volumes have been passing through the press; generations have crossed the stage, but Cricket has fixed them all like a cine­ matograph. More vitally, in fact. Not only are deeds chronicled but views are expressed. Tendencies, abuses, reforms, all manner of things are discussed, as it were, viva voce. I doubt whether any alteration in cricket will ever be dreamt of that has not already been hammered out in its pages. Open them where you will and you unveil the spirit of the day ; its mouthpiece may be the delightful “ Old Buffer,” or the Bev. R. S. Holmes or the shrewd “ Mr. Chuckerup ’ ’ or the prime actors chatting on the cricket field. Talk about a cinematograph—you can feel their very pulses ! And—with apologies for lapsing into so sordid a theme —;what is the price one would have had to pay for all this pleasure ? I am no great hand at arithmetic, but I have assured myself that the total subscription for the whole thirty years amounts to less than seven pounds. Think of it ! Six pounds odd would have purchased a set that nowadays the fortunate possessor would not part with for many times the amount. Who, for so paltry a consideration spread over so long a term, would have deprived himself of such a sustained delight had he given the matter a thought ? Who, that calls himself a cricketer, or cricket- lover, is going to be content with ‘ 1 buying Cricket some­ times ” in the future ? O, my good men and boys, if you are not guilty yourselves, go round and convert some other rascal who is. Get your Cricket, and get it regularly, and save it. Then you can read the news on the playfield, in the train, on the table—in bed if you like. And in the winter you can renew its acquaintance by the fireside, turning on information or diversion, wit or wisdom, pride or sorrow, smiles or tears, according to your humour, and living in an atmosphere of cricket while ordinary people are—just ordinary people. H. P.-T. The Currie Cup Tournamen t . ORANGE RIVER COLONY v. THE TRANSVAAL. Played on Lord’s No. 3 Ground on March 13 and 14. The Transvaal won by 188 runs. After losing three wickets for 25, the Transvaal had the best of the game and won with considerable ease. Tancred, missed twice, played a useful innings of 24 and with Heather put on 46 at a somewhat critical time. Floquet, who hit a 6 (off Fawcus) and three 4’s, subsequently added 62 in an hour with .Heeley aud the total reached 188. In the first innings of the O.R.C. A. N. Jewell batted half-an-hour and was then dismissed without a run. J. E. Jewell and Fawcus put on 40 for the fifth wicket, after four men were out for 5, and although the latter played fine cricket for 44 his side were 85 behind on the innings. When the Transvaal went in again the honours were carried off by Heather, who carried out his bat for a hard-hit 78. He added 64 with Newberry and 36 with Heeley. Left with 242 to win, the 0 R.C. gave a poor show and were beaten severely. Score and analysis :— T ran svaal . First innings. L. J. Tancred (capt.), c King, b Fawcus ... 24 M. Luckin, b Faw cus......................................... 0 N. V. Lindsay, run out .................................. 3 J. H. Moulder, b J. E. Jew ell........................... 14 P. J. Heather, c King, b Fawcus ................... 29 C. Newberry, run out.......................................... 0 B. H. Floquet, st Sennett, b H ill................... 56 0. P. Carter, c Paske, b H il l ........................... 8 H. N. Heeley, c Hill, b Fawcus .................. 27 T. A. Ward, not o u t ......................................... 8 R. A. Thompson, c Coleman,b Hill ........... 11 B 7, lb 1 .................................. 8 Second innings. c and b Jewell ................. c A. N. Jewell, b Hill c Coleman, b Hill ... ., c Hill, b Stanton ......... not o u t ................................. c Sennett, b King ......... c Paske, b Stanton ... not out . Total First innings. *Innings declared closed. O range R iv e r C olon y . B 2, lb 1 ........... Total (G wkts)* Second innings. 14 0 78 20 1 R. W. Stanton, c Newberry, b Thompson ... 0 b Carter .......................... 0 A. W. King, c Luckin, b Thompson ........... 1 lbw, b Carter .................. 7 A. N. Jewell, c Thomas, b Carter 0 b Carter.................................. 3 C. W. Coleman, c Moulder, b Thompson ... 2 c Newberry, b Thompson 2 Capt. H. B. Fawcus (capt.), run out ........... 44 c and b Carter .................. 0 J. E. Jewell,, b N ewberry.......... 20 c Ward, b Thompson 9 Lieut. E. L. Paske, b Carter ... 0 c Carter, b Newberry 3 F. Nicholson, b Newberry 0 st Ward, b Newberry 0 G. Sennett, lbw, b Heather ... 14 run o u t .................................. 15 V. H. Tooth, st Ward, b Newberry ........... 4 c Thompson, b Carter 0 H. Hill, not out .......................... 2 not o u t .................................. 0 B 7, lb 2, nb 1 ... 10 Byes, &c..................... 8 Total ........... 103 Total ................... 53 T ran svaai First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Fawcus ... ........... 20 1 70 4 ... ................ 11 6 17 0 J. E. Jewell ........... 14 1 41 1 ... ........... 11 0 37 1 Stanton ... ........... 18 5 28 0 ... ................ 0 0 31 2 H ill.......... ........... 11-3 0 41 3 ... ........... 9 0 38 2 King ........... 3 0 10 1 Nicholson ........... 3 0 20 0 O range R iver C olony . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Thompson ........... 14 6 30 3 ... ........... 11 3 14 2 Carter ........... 15 5 18 2 ... ........... 12 1 29 5 Lindsay ... ........... 3 2 2 0 ... Newberry ........... 12-2 3 24 3 ... 2*1 0 2 2 Floquet ... ........... 4 2 5 0 ... Heather ... ........... 2 0 3 1 ... 1 1 0 0 Moulder ... ........... 4 1 12 0 ... Newberry and Carter bowled one no-ball each. EASTERN PROVINCE v. WESTERN PROVINCE. Played at Lord’s No. 4 Ground on March 13 and 14. THE HOLDERS BEATEN. Eastern Province won by five wickets. After having the best of the game on the first day, and leading by 39 on the innings, Western Province were beaten by five wickets. There was much excitement on the second afternoon, it 3eeming that rain would cause a draw and W .P. thereby be entitled to three points for leading on the first innings. The holders commenced well, their first wicket realising 70 in 65 minutes, but their subsequent cricket, apart from the fifth wicket stand of 64 by Conrv and Carlsson in the second innings, was unmarked by any outstanding feature. Eastern Province were left with 144 to win, and the foundatirn of their success was laid by Delbridge and Glisson, who put on 44 for the second wicket after Hippert’s dismissal at 7. Le