Cricket 1912

M a y 18, 1912. CEICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. 149 were leaving the ground one of the many urchins who hang about stopped Giffen and said “ I sye, Guv’nor, if it hadn’t been for you blanked Orsetralians, we should ha’ won the game, ’ands dow n!” I am not a supporter of “ pot hunting.” More especially, it is objectionable in cricket, for it does away with the true spirit of the game. Some years ago, however, I played and captained a team playing in a league created by a well-known London paper. The match was anything but enjoyable, and it ended in a very unpleasant manner. The captains were called before “ the powers that be,” and it was decided to replay the match ; still the ill feeling continued, and at length my team left the league, coming to the conclusion it was not cricket.* The Schools. R. K . Nunes, the Dulwich crack, made an excellent start with 103* v. University College Hospital, and one or more of the three Gilligans had a hand in the downfall of 8 of the 10 wickets. The school won with great ease. Leys began with a heavy defeat from Sidney Sussex College. G. A. Lupton, a new man in the school team, was highest contributor to the poor total of 137 with 33. The reply was 227 for 2 (G. L. Waller 84, J. W. Kernick 62). Blundell’s also began with a defeat, the Rev. O. F. Granlund’s X I. beating the Tiverton school (the name of which always calls to mind R. D. Blackmore and that masterpiece, “ Lorna Doone ” ) by 38 runs. J. Yale, like Lupton at Leys a new hand, was top scorer with 41. The Wellingborough Masters side usually includes two or three of the boys, and W . E. Hazelton bowled well for them against Peterborough on Thursday. Hazelton was one of the school’s crack all-rounders in 1911. Cheltenham’s A team played a draw with St. Stephen’s last week. Three new men, Green (63), Aikenhead (30), and MacFadyen (6 for 70) showed form that was more than pro­ mising. G. E. C. W ood should have little difficulty in getting together a side well up to the high Cheltenham, standard. Westminster went down before the Household Brigade, only Kann doing anything notable with the bat. G. F. Rudd took 7 wickets, and should prove no end useful. Cranleigh did not start auspiciously. They were playing the village, who ran up 228 for 8 (R. Lintott 65) and then declared and got out the school for 81, only Back, Armfelt, and Short making any show. It is pleasant to hear that the school fielding was good. In this, anyway, there is hope for the future. By very level scoring (W. A. Crebbin’s 74 much the high­ est, but 8 double figures) St. Paul’s ran up 298 v. Old Wyke­ hamists, who could only manage 160 in reply. A good start ! Cheltenham (MacFadyen highest scorer in the first innings and most effective bowler) beat the Cryptics by 51 runs on Saturday. A. K. Macleod’s 48* when the school batted again was the highest innings of the match. Charterhouse (E. A. Pritchard 89, H. L. Payne 57) declared, and beat the Incogniti by 95 runs. Haileybury ran up 250 for 4 against the Masters (H. D. Hake 82*, B. E. Baker 53, N. M. Carstairs 49), and then McKenzie (5 for 22) bowled so well that the opposition tumbled for 78. Wellington beat Brasenose College by 12 runs in a match of small scores, R. C. M. Crofton taking 5 wickets cheaply. Blundell’s (E. S. Cameron 71, J. H. O. Lindesay 59) declared and beat Exeter. Oundle also declared, but their coach Fred Holland’s 65* saved their opponents from defeat. J. E. Image slammed up 63* for the school in venturesome style. St. John’s, Leatherhead, went down, though their total of 190 was good value. A side cannot lose two such men as Knight and James without feeling the loss heavily. L. T. Driffield, the old Johnian and present master, was a great factor in their defeat. E. C. Turner’s all-round form was more than promising. * The Chiel had an unpleasant experienre, aud evidently remembers it keenly. But in the north, and more especially in the North Midlands, league cricket has done much for the game. Conditions differ ; what suits Newcastle, Sunderland, Blackburn, Leeds, Stoke, Birmingham, may not suit London.—The E ditor . For City of London, who were playing Old Citizens, H. A. Kramer (49) and Lewis (8 for 39) did particularly well, and the last-named should be a great aid to the side. The result was a draw. Framlingham easily beat Melton and District. Elstow went down to St. Catharine’s (Cam­ bridge), after beating another Cambridge side two days earlier. W . A. G. Southwell, H. B. Hoare, and W. S. Boss ought all to make a lot of runs for the Bedford school, judging by their start. Shaftesbury G.S. beat Sexey’s School, Bruton, by 4 wickets and 17 runs, F. G. Minch in (8 for 35) bowling splendidly, and L. G. Prideaux, the youngest member of the team, displaying excellent form for his 56*. Up north St. Bees were rained out pretty early in the afternoon, and the rest do not seen to have started yet— anyway, no news is to hand. O.B. Scottish Cricket in 1911. For these notes indebtedness is acknowledged to Joe Anderson’s “ Annual,” briefly reviewed on another page. The Annual chronicles 60 centuries made in Scotland during 1911—which is little more than half the number registered in 1910, a surprising fact. C. Ferrier (Brechin) ran up four of the number, and Benham, the former Essex pro., now of Drumpellier, three. In matches of good class well over a hundred batsmen played 10 or more innings and averaged 20 or more. Ferrier was the only man who reached four figures— 1,037, with average 51 '85. Benham scored 813 (average 35) ; A. P. Gordon-Gumming (Fettes), Mark Cox (Dunfermline, formerly of Northants.), and J. Grieve (Poloc) aggregated over 700. J. A. Ferguson (Perthshire) topped the averages, with 65, assisted by 5 not outs in 14 innings. B. L. Peel, the old Bedfordian, had over 48 per innings, R. G. Tait (Forfarshire) and M. R. Dickson (Arbroath), who dead-heated for highest score with 178, though Tait’s was a not-out innings, averaged over 46 each. One misses G. L. Hunting (Loretto) both from the century list and the averages ; indeed, no Loretto names appear, though Fettes, Glenalmond, Royal High School, and Edinburgh Institution are represented. Six bowlers are given with a hundred wickets or more to their credit. All are pro’s, from England—Keene (Surrey and Worcestershire), Nixon, Gooder (Surrey), Broadbent (Yorkshire), Smith, and Turner. The bibran}.* (All Publications intended for review in “ Cricket ” must be addressed to the Editor.) Mr. Thick’s book scarcely falls well under this heading, perhaps. It is a book for use, not for reading, and it should be very welcome to all those whose business or pleasure it is to note in detail a batsman’s innings. There is a line for each variety of stroke : “ slips, late cuts, square cuts, forward cuts,” &c. On the left is a space for noting strokes unscored from, on the right a space for those scored from. Beneath we find spaces for “ tele­ graph at start ” and “ at finish,” space for bowling analysis, for observations, &c. Altogether about the last word in this kind of thing, and likely to be very useful indeed. • “ Individual Batting Analysis for Cricket .” (Thick’s Copyright Form). Western Gazette &c., Co., Ltd., Yeovil. Price 6d. net, post free 8d. G E O R G E L E W I N & C O . , Club Colour Specialists and Athletic Clothing Manufacturers. 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