Cricket 1912

146 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M ay 18, 1912. the bat—were made by H. G. Bower and E. M. Grace. With what familiarity, with what a pang of regret for a great one gone, that last name strikes the eye ! Bushey had a good win over Pinner. For the losing side H. D. Brierley batted finely, carrying his bat through for 52 ; but no one else could do much with the fine bowling of H. W . Englefield (5 for 33). G. Gemmell, the Norfolk amateur, batted well for 57, and then retired. This was after Golding and C. H. Tait had put the issue almost beyond doubt by sending up 57 for the first wicket. Tonbridge beat Beckenham by 5 wickets, A. W. Carr, the Sherborne crack, overshadowing everyone else in the game with his 129* for the winning side. Spencer and Beddington had a rare good tussle at Wandsworth Common. Scoring ruled small, and only 10 runs divided the sides at the finish. Y. J. Woodward’s 29 was the highest score for the winners, E. C. Page’s 34 for the losers. Wilfred Reay (7 for 45), G. M. Lloyd (5 for 39) and F. M. Barton (four with successive balls) bowled well. It was Barton’s bowling that turned the game. Beddington had 92 up for 5 ; they were all out for 104! Malden Wanderers beat Hampton W ick by 33 runs, but lost 7 for 47 on going in again. 11. J. Sivers—29 for the W ick—was top scorer in the game. Clapton Ramblers were all over Mitcham—Yeerasawmy’s 40* highest score, while T. A. Harris and C. A. Browne bowled in deadly fashion. John Hobbs (172) and young Sandham (175) had a beanfeast at Godstone. Going in first for Surrey C. & G. they sent up 312 before Hobbs was out. He hit eight 6’s. It will be interesting to know if the stand was timed. It cannot have taken long, as the C. & G. declared at 421 for 4, got Godstone out for 54, and then scored 73 for 5, 548 thus being made during the afternoon’s play. Albemarle and Friern Barnet got a nasty shock at East Finchley. Their Hon. Sec. cordially admits that their batting was rank bad. But “ we live to fight again,” he says, which is the right mood for a beaten side. D. Woolven bowled well for the winners, and H. D. Smith batted splendidly for his 100*. A good sporting game between Norbury Park Wanderers and Hornsey resulted in a defeat for the Wanderers, for whom W . E. Hobbs showed his usual fine form for 68, by 14 runs and a wicket (twelve a side playing) after they had declared at 166 for 80. In getting 180 at the rate of two runs a minute Hornsey did nobly, G. W. Hammond (62) being chief scorer; but the Wanderers’ captain may console himself with the reflection that ’tis better to have tried and lost than never to have tried at all. These sporting declarations make for real cricket— bravo, both sides ! Barnes beat Ewell in rather a featureless game. H. J. Fishwick’s 47 for the winners was the highest score. Barnes 2nd went down to L. C. & W . Bank 2nd (for whom W . M. Carter scored 66, B. Trow­ bridge 62) by 103 runs. Trowbridge kept wicket well, and A. E. Gray took 5 for 17. L. G. Kirkpatrick showed splendid all-round form for Hampstead Nomads v. Finchley. A better afternoon’s work than 112* (two 6’s, seventeen 4’s) and 8 for 32 one would not ask for. The Nomads won with great ease. Spencer had five teams out on Saturday, and all but the fifth won. There was not much really big scoring in Sussex cricket on Saturday. Jupp made 62 for the Nursery v. East Sussex County Staff at the Dripping Pan, and A. E. Cosham played extremely well for 64 on the other side. H. Hayley, the old Yorkshire county player, was highest scorer in the county, with 125 for Hellingly Asylum v. Hailsham. H. Churchill made 103* for Linden Park v.- Mayfield (his second century this year), L. Verrall 90 for Hove Western Star v. Worthing Trinity (Worthing and District League), Herbert Flowers 78 for Steyning v. Partridge Green, J. S. Cobold 100* for Heathfield Park v. Eastbourne Trade Branch, G. Turk 83 for Hammerwood v. East Grinstead Y.M.C.A., A. H. Holland 55 for Priory Park v. Portsmouth Banks, J. G. C. Scott, the old Marlburian, 63 for Eastbourne v. Southbourne, and C. Dier 70* for Mayfield v. Linden Park. Horsham and Crawley played an exciting tie m a tch - 89 each. F. C. Shoubridge (7 for 26) was the outstanding performer. For Three Bridges v. Burstow W. Mitchell had 6 wickets for 8 runs. Cambridge cricket has run very much to big scoring thus far this season. Fifties have become too numerous to chronicle ; cen­ turies are many— among them H. W. Thomas’s 124 (King’s v. St. John’s), J. R. Honeyball’s 102* (Selwyn v. Magdalene), A. S. Edge’s 137 (Jesus v. Trinity), D. B. Landale’s 106 (Trinity 2nd v. Emmanuel 2nd), and G. H. Shaw’s 100* (Clare 2nd v. Caius 2nd). Queen’s run up 214 without a wicket down v. Corpus—A. F. Hopewell 103*, C. J. H. Treglown 102*. Christ’s made 201 for no wicket in 100 minutes v. St. John’s—U. H. B. Sullivan 101*, R. Knight 100*. Knight is going very strongly indeed, and should have a trial in the eleven before long; he took 5 for 41 in an earlier match between Christ’s and St. John’s—quite a bowling oasis in a desert of bigh scoring. Among other scores worth noting were B. P. Nevile’s 82 and A. H. Lang’s 79 (Trinity v. Jesus), G. A. Fairbairn’s 74 and 50 (Jesus v. Trinity), H. F. R. Rawson 80* (Trinity v. Queen’s), and L. T. M. Peiris’s 79 (St. John’s v. Christ’s). At Oxford scoring has been much smaller. It was not only in the south that runs came freely. In York­ shire cricket there were several big scores, and some fine hitting— notably by J. Smith of Birstall, who found the boundary 19 times in making 100 out of 147 v. Hopton Mills. Keenan and Armitage— 93 and 70 respectively —added 128 together for Ossett v. Chickenley. Bedford of Featherstone hit 67 v. Keighley. F. Horner scored 60 and Greenwood 65 for Skipton v. Brighouse. Peck, the new Leeds pro., ran up 114* v. King Cross. Spink hit 63 in 50 minutes for Pontefract v. York. F. E. Woodhead, the Loretto, Cambridge, and Yorkshire player, now a veteran, had a 6 and ten 4’s in his 69 for Bowling Old Lane v. Halifax. Stead scored 99* and Heap (Lancs.) 56* for Keighley v. Featherstone. A. Crowther made 43 in 15 minutes for Heckmondwike v. Rastrick. On the other side of the shield, Knutton, who astonished the Australians in 1902 and played for Warwickshire as far back as 1894, took all the seven wickets lost by Wakefield to Bradford ; Hutchinson had 7 wickets for 20 (Morley v. Spen Victoria) ; and Radley took 5 for 4 (Chickenley v. Ossett). In the Birmingham League Walsall (Brammer, the pro., 69) somewhat unexpectedly defeated Moseley, who had Frank Foster with them, by 26 runs. Foster did not bowl at a ll; Jeeves took 6 for 45 for the losers. Handsworth Wood (for whom G. W . Field played capitally for 86) declared with 9 down for 229, and beat Aston Unity by 126. Mitchell and Butler’s (Wilkinson, late of Yorkshire, 54, A. Holloway 63, A. O. Parsons 49) defeated Dudley (B. G. Stevens 49) by 5 wickets and 50 runs. The best fight was at Kidderminster, where the home side got home against Stourbridge by 5 runs only, thanks mainly to the batting of two old Worcestershire represen­ tatives in S. J. Gethin (44) and W. H. Wilkes (39) and the bowling of Baxter (6 for 21). J. E. Raine slammed two 6’s and twelve 4’s in his 88 for Benwell v. St. George’s in the Tyneside League; but W. W. Meldon outdid him with six 6’s and nine 4’s in a magnificent innings of 113* for St. George’s, who won comfortably, thanks to the former Warwick­ shire man and C. M. Skinner, who took 7 wickets for 72. Captain T. C. Spring, of Somerset, hit hard for 105 for Northumberland County Club v. North Durham. Perhaps the best thing done in the Lancashire League was the last wicket stand of 75, more than doubling the score, by Fenton (a new man in the team) and Read for Rawtenstall v. East Lancashire. Norbury took 7 for 65 for the last-named team, and then made 68*, so that his side’s victory by 2 wickets was very largely his work. The veteran Tom Lancaster had 5 for 28 for Enfield v. Lowerhouse. Newstead took 6 for 30 (Rishton v. Church), H. Crabtree 5 for 16 (Colne v. Todmorden). On the whole scoring was lower than usual. In the Huddersfield League Linthwaite Hall, put in first by Honley, ran up 215 for 4, and won easily after declaring. Farrar’s 60* (Lockwood v. Paddock), Dawson’s 61 and Poole’s 51 (Linthwaite Hall v. Honley), Bedford’s 64 (Huddersfield v. Thurstonland), and Lockwood’s 56* (Thurstonland v. Huddersfield) were the chief scores of the day; Wimpenny’s 6 for 58 (Lockwood v. Paddock), Fletcher’s 6 for 25 (Golcar v. Kirkburton), and Pontefract’s 7 for 53 (Thurston­ land v. Huddersfield) were among the best bowling performances. Sam Cadman bowled well for Glossop v. Rochdale in the Central Lancashire League (5 for 24), and Berwick (who is likely to have a trial with Northants as a wicket-keeper) was top scorer with 39. Lionel Cranfield, the west-country pro., had 5 for 22 for Heywood v. Littleborough, Watson (5 for 15) being even more deadly. Little- borough only made 37. Dukinfield beat Milnrow by 3 runs after a great fight, Pointon’s 6 for 48 being the deciding factor. Crompton defeated Moorside by 4 runs—another fine finish. For Royton v. Oldham Seville and Scholes each made over 70, the highest scoring of the day. In Staffordshire circles Porthill, the North Staffs. League champions, beat Burslem in a small-scoring game. Barnes (38 and