Cricket 1912

188 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 1, 1912. Bajana 56) couM not get Cobham ont in time, but had all tbe best of the draw. P. Capps’s 6 for 52 was the best feature of the drawn game between Walham Green and Ealing Park. At Rainham there was a great fight between the home side—Arlington and Leytonstone— scores 115 and 116, Walter Ruffels taking 5 for 19 and J. Hoare scoring 50 for the London team, who won. Three were wanted when No. 11 marched in ; he hit a two, and an over­ throw settled matters ! On May 18th A. Halsall took 9 wickets for 46 (St. Pancras v. St. John’s Wood Wanderers). News of this arrived too late for inclusion last week; but it was a performance more than usually worthy of note, for the Wanderers made 175 (Parslow 57), and such an analysis in an innings of that amount is out of the common. For the winners Moore (7 for 23) bowled finely. Ealing had a fine game with M.C.C. on Monday. Craik, a heavy scorer in India, made a brilliant 120 for the home side with only one chance—an innings much appreciated by a good crowd. His late cutting was particularly great. M.C.C. scored 294 for 9, Ealing (their captain, Hastings Squire, especially) having fielded splendidly, and the home side ran up 214 for 4. The M.C.C. captain said he had never played on a better pitch—whereat the heart of Ealing’s worthy groundman, Goodyear, is rejoiced ! Hampstead Nomads, owing to increase of membership, are now putting two teams into the field every Saturday. For the first time in their history they had two matches on Whit Monday. The team sent to Welwyn was a great deal too strong for the home side. F. C. Boully scored 82, G. H. N. Inman 81; L. G. Kirkpatrick, the Old Westminster—on his day perhaps the best slow bowler in London club cricket—took 12 wickets for 54. The team that went to Coln- brook lost a keen game by 9 runs only. S. B. K. Caulfield, slow left hand, bowled right through the home side’s innings, and, always difficult to play, took 8 for 44. Lancing Old Boys (H. Goatly 74) very easily beat Surbiton. Uxbridge, nearly everybody scoring well, had a substantial win over Chiswick Park. Heathfield won their match v. Honor Oak in the last over, thanks mainly to Weaver’s fine hitting. Cyphers were all out for 90 v. Forest Hill, G. C. Hast taking 6 for 42. A. J. Whyte’s splendid 91 was the biggest contribution to F. H .’s total of 232. Southgate beat Hornsey by 23; but the best cricket of the match was played for the beaten side, Hammond scoring 51 and taking 5 wickets. Fulham for the most part failed before A. C. Higgs’s very fast bowling (8 for 48) on M onday; but A. E. S. Bramwell (55) and A. J. Thompson (34) batted well. A tense struggle followed. Parson’s Green had 8 down for 92 ; but then C. W . Thompson and T. M. Pettitt added 51, and H. R. Ellis helped Thompson to a'!d 41 for the last wicket, so that in the end the visiting side had a good margin. Fulham batted again, and were all out for 91 (E. L Jones 34), Harrod taking 6 for 23, A. C. Higgs 3 for 24. River Plate House had a rare good tussle with Clapton Wanderers, winning in the end by 9 runs only. In Suffolk and Essex cricket there was some good scoring, both on Saturday and Monday. H. Bassett ran up 70 for Easton Bamblers v. Ipswich and East Suffolk, Lord Francis Scott making 56, and Suffolk’s premier club went under. For their second team v. St. Mary Stoke T. G. Sharp ran up 67, A. W. Paterson 56, and W . Sprawson had 7 for 39. Dr. Harper made 60 and H. Gant 58* for Stowmarket v. Felixstowe. Colchester and East Essex (D. Mustard 47) lost by one wicket to Halstead. For Melton Asylum T. N. Scaife scored 81 and E. S. Lock 63 v. Mr. A. K. Watson’s X I., who in face of a score of 202 won by 5 wickets, C. M. Phillips playing a fine and chanceless innings of 88. On Monday Ipswich and E. Suffolk (W. Catchpole 56, V. F. Gaby 7 for 81) beat Shotley Barracks (W . Pagett 46) by 8 runs only, after a fine finish. At Bury, Ely (W. F. S. Cobb 69*, Rev. W. W. H . Nash 63, C. A. H. Keenlyside 44) easily beat Bury & W. Suffolk (J. Francis 50). C. Hutley run up 114 for Witham v. Terling. Derrick Wanderers had a good Whitsuntide, with excellent wins over Pinner by 51 runs and Dulwich Hamlet by 91. W. G. Hankin (5 for 36 and 5 for 52) was well to the fore in both games ; Street had 5 for 10 at Pinner; R. T. Childs, W. H. Golds and L. T. Bawcutt all earned distinction as batsmen. The difficulty of getting a quart into a pint pot is proverbial. It has been mine this week. Last week several columns of ,scores were held over for want of space ; now, even though four extra pages have been added, it is a sheer impossibility to do justice to all the good cricket played on Saturday and Monday—a double measure— and for any omissions I ask forgiveness. It would be a lightening of my difficulties if any secretary who has no objection to the appear- ance of his club’s scores in synopsis—as with some in the score- book—would say so. I had it suggested to me that, in the interests of economy of space, scores might be “ run on,” as is commonly done in local newspapers, instead of being “ set out.” But this has an unsightly appearance, and I am reluctant to adopt it. From farther away comes the card of the H u d d e r s f ie l d C. & A.C. fCricket Hon. Sec. Mr. H. Johnson, 13, Syringa St., Marsh). The club plays in the Huddersfield League, in which competition it was eighth (out of fourteen) in 1911, and fourth in 1901. Its pro. is Walter Bedford, who has played for the county. The northern half of England has been favoured— yes I do mean favoured!—with the rain denied us in the south, and in conse­ quence bowling feats were more frequent than big soores in Saturday’s cricket. The great achievement of the day was that of George Wilson, the ex-Worcestershire bowler, who took all 10 wickets (9 bowled) for Burslem v. Stoke. He bowled 9 overs, 2 balls, and had only 17 runs scored off him, thus: first over, 2 runs— 1 wicket; second, 1—1; third, 7—0 ; fourth, 4—0 ; fifth, 1—0 ; sixth, 0—1; seventh, 2—0; eighth, 0—4 ; ninth, 0—2 ; tenth (incomplete), 0—1. With the last fourteen balls he bowled he secured 7 wickets without a run, four of them with successive deliveries! My Stoke corre­ spondent says that Wilson (who last year had 124 wickets for Norton at 8'66 each) is a better bowler than ever, and would not be out of place in the England team. Stoke went down, of course. Their total was 58 (Nichols 26). Burslem had previously made 124 (W. D. Robinson 26, Wilson 25). There was nothing else in the North Staffs. League that quite equalled this for sensation. But Tunstall went down in 42 minutes (no time cut to waste) for 46 v. Crewe Alexandra. Morgan made 35; his ten comrades averaged a run each; Dwyer, formerly of Sussex, had 7 for 32, and the Alexandra (F. Moorhouse 36, C. S. Gresty 32) won easily. A lovely innings of 82 by E. H. Bourne, who is unluckily so seldom available, and H. Skellern’s 6 for 23 gave Fenton an easy victory over Longton. Stone accomplished a big performance in beating Porthill, though Barnes was away. Next to Bourne, F. Ellams, with 58 for Silverdale v. Leek was the highest scorer of the day. Leek (G. Fenton 45, H. Thompson 42) won by 3 wickets, the winning hit being made off what would have been in any case the last ball of the day. Knypersley (Sedgwick 41, H. E. Bourne 31) and Norton (E . Tatton 41) played a draw. In the Birmingham League the sensation was Moseley’s defeat by West Bromwich Dartmouth—a result utterly unexpected. Dart­ mouth, put in first, made 117, Jeeves taking 6 for 37. Moseley could only reply with 104, Baddeley securing 6 wickets for 23 and being carried in triumph to the pavilion. Mitchell and Butlers’ beat Handsworth Wood by 10—85 to 75—A. Blown for the winners and J. H. Cooper for the losers each taking 6 for 28. Walsall (Brammer 39) easily beat Aston Unity (A. Devey 36), Hawley for Walsall having 5 for 26. Kidderminster (163 for 9, M. Tomkinson 60) as easily accounted for Smethwick. Dudley (Grimshaw, the Yorkshireman, 61, W . Eve 49) and Stourbridge drew, the former having the best of affairs. Newstead (83) and Dawson (77) added 151 runs together for Rishton v. East Lancashire, the Yorkshireman also taking 4 for 51. Rishton are having a great season thus far. In spite of Llewellyn’s dismissal first ball, Accrington beat Todmorden by 29 runs. Bacup (J. E. Maden 53, R. Roberts 51, F. W. Duerr 7 wickets) smashed up Ramsbottom— a surprise result. Hallam, the Notts bowler, had 7 wickets for 9 for Nelson v. Enfield, and the whole side succumbed for 23. Lowerhouse slumped for 30 v. Church, C. H. Parkin (who last year had 107 wickets at 10 each) doing the hat trick. Colne beat Rawtenstall, aud Haslingden beat Bumley. In the Central Lancashire League there were only two really big scores—George Iladcliife’s 99 (Stalybridge v. Walsden) and T. Mellodew’s 97 (Moor- side v. Littleborough). For Middleton v. Rochdale Higson had 9 wickets for 22, and for Heywood v. Royton Lionel Cranfield took 8 for 25, though he could not prevent Royton’s pulling off victory by 17runs, the best finish of the day. There were very few big scores in Yorkshire games. Ernest Needham’s 68* (Sheffield United v. Bowling Old Lane) was a really fine innings on a soft wicket. H. Mackwood hit grandly for 56 (Scarborough v. Rotherham). T. Birtles, the county colt, made 74