Cricket 1912

J unic 1, 1912. CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. 183 Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 33 and 35, MOOR LANE, LONDON, E.C. SATURDAY, J U N E 1, 1912. Communications to the Editor should be addressed to him at 33 & 35 Moor Lane, E.C. Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c., should be sent to the Manager, at the same address. The following are the rates of subscription to C r ic k e t :— Great Britain. Abroad. One Tear ............................. 6s. 3d. ... 7s. 6d. The 24 Summer Numbers ... 5s. Od. ... 6s. Od. The 6 Winter Numbers ... Is. 3d. ... Is. 6d. NOTICE. Messrs. WRIGHT & CO., of 7 , Temple Lane, Tudor Street, E.C., areAdvertisementContractorsforC^/CK ’CT', and will be glad to give their best attention to any Firms desiring to advertise in the paper. Scale of Charges will be sent on application. Pavilion (3ossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the tim e. — Hamlet. T he following details as to the guarantors of the South African cricket team are given in “ The Latest ” (Durban) :— Sir Abe Bailey, K.C.M.G ... ... ... ... £1,500 The Transvaal Cricket Union ... ... ... 1,000 The Natal Cricket Association ... ... ... 500 Sir Lionel Phillips, Bart. ... ... ... ... 250 The Border Cricket Union ... ... ... ... 210 The Consolidated Goldfields of S.A., Ltd. ... 200 Messrs. S. Neumann & Co. ... ... ... ... 150 Sir George Farrar, Bart., D.S.O. ... ... ... 100 Mr. H. J. King ....................................................... 100 Sir George Albu, Bart. ... ... ... ... 100 £ 1,110 It is believed that Mr. S. B. Joel will also contribute to the guarantee fund. •O n e notes that only the cricket centres which have representatives in the team have contributed, the Cape, Eastern Province, Orange Free State, and Griqualand West all holding aloof. But this is scarcely to be wondered at. Neither Eastern Province nor the Free State had a very strong candidate— J. E. Jewell is not yet considered naturalised, and Barold Baumgartner is now a Transvaaler — but there was a good deal of feeling in Cape Town against the exclusion of P. T. Lewis and It. It. Luyt, and Griqua­ land West would have liked Lance Tapscott in the team. In fact, a few enthusiasts wanted to start a fund for the sending of the last-named to England as an unattached member— a free lance, so to say. W h a t a bond a real love of cricket constitutes! During the course of last press-day I had the pleasure of visits from two gentlemen from Ceylon. I had never met either before, though I knew both well by name, and one through the medium of correspondence ; but it was extra­ ordinary how much we found to talk about, for both of my visitors are keen cricket enthusiasts. One was Mr. E. W. Foenander, the Editor of that bright little paper, the “ Ceylon Sportsman,” who told me many interesting things about cricket in the island “ where every prospect pleases,” and man is not nearly as vile as the hymnist unkindly suggested, being, on the contrary, as far as one can judge, particularly decent in the main. The other was a man who throughout a long residence up-country hi Ceylon has kept closely in touch with the game—and says he owes a good, deal to C r ic k e t for helping him to do so. An unsolicited testimonial of this kind will bear repetition. A f e w days before I had been talking to another man who knows Ceylon cricket well, and, he told me that several of the Sinhalese players—notably the three brothers De Saram, C. Horan, a left-hand bowler, and Gunasekera —were really excellent cricketers, quite county form, and the more remarkable since they are practically self-taught. Mr. Foenander corroborated this. Ceylon cricketers have several times toured in India with success ; in a few months’ time they hope to visit the Straits Settlements ; and later on, if they continue to improve, a tour in England is quite on the cards. Should this project come off, the team sent will be a purely Sinhalese, not a mixed, one. A monk other colonial correspondents who have promised to look me up in town during the summer—• the Triangular Tests draw like a magnet !—are two in Toronto, two in Natal, one in Australia (Warren Bardsley’s father, to be explicit), and several others from the far places of the earth. I should like to say here that, busy as I always am, nothing will give me greater pleasure than a call from any colonial cricketer or enthusiast who feels, as so many of them say they d o , that my paper is a bond between them and the old country to which the thoughts of even the colonial-born turn with longing as for home. Scarcely a mail comes in but brings me letters from some of them, and no letters I receive are more welcome than these. S o m etim es , I think, the visitor from the colonies is made to feel a little bit more of a stranger here at first than he had expected. In a crowded country the virtue of hospitality is less practised than in the lands of the wider spaces. But the feeling of strangeness soon wears off in most cases, I should imagine. It is not that we don’t want our colonial visitors to feel at home ; it is rather that we are busy about our own affairs— earning a living chief among them—and perhaps don’t think enough about the matter. B u t it is worth thinking of in this great Triangular Test year. And so, gentlemen all, “ I charge you charge your glasses— I charge you drink with me To the men of the Four New Nations And the Islands of the Sea— To the last least lump of coral That none may stand outside, And our own good pride shall teach us To praise our comrade’s pride ! ” M r . W. F. B a r r a t t , of Derby, kindly supplies an answer to my query as to what Derbyshire batsmen besides Leonard Oliver have played right through an innings. The list is a very short one, as I thought. Levi Wright did so against Notts, for 54 in 1889, and against Essex for 50 in 1899, and in 1910 Arthur Morton played through an innings against Yorkshire for 28. A n o th e r correspondent wants to discuss the question —or rather to have the question discussed—whether a bowler may legally deliver from twenty yards behind the wicket, or from the boundary, indeed, if he chooses. It is said that some years ago there was a bowler in second- class cricket who used to take wickets in this fashion—- bowling a score of yards or so behind the bowling crease and sending the ball very high in the air. And once a curious problem arose in consequence. The batsmen ran while the ball was towering, and the non-striker reached the opposite popping-crease in plenty of time to play it. The record does not state that he did, play it, though this would surely have added to the interest and the puzzle­ ment. F or the scorer was greatly puzzled, and wanted directions. The batsmen had crossed ; therefore, he said, a run must be scored. But if was not a hit.; it was not a no-ball, since it had not been called. Most certainly