Cricket 1912

216 CEICKET : A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. J u n e 8, 1912. H. GRADIDGE & SONS, Manufacturers and Exporters of all requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Squash Racquets, &c. Reblading Cricket bats and Restringing Tennis bats a Special feature. F a c t o r y :— ARTILLERY PLAGE, WOOLWICH, S.E. Pa ten tees and Sole makers o f the “ I M P E R I A L D R I V E R ” C made in Men’s, Small Men’s, College, 6, 5, 4, & 3, sizes. Every other requisite for Cricket, including bails, leg guards, batting gloves, gauntlets, stumps, nets, &c. Price Lists and Special Quotations free . ALL GOODS CARRIAGE PAID TO ANY PART OF THE UNITED KINCDOM. Sole Makers o f the “ Imper ial Dr iver " and “ Improved Gr ad i dge ” Lawn Tennis Racquets. United; but the general tendency was for sides to tumble out for totals that would scarcely have been remarkable as individual scores. In Yorkshire matches some good bowling feats were recorded. Hutchinson of Morley and Knutton of Bradford had 8 for 30 each, against Scarborough and Leeds respectively. For Bowling Old Lane v. Pontefract Theakstone had 6 for 12. For Dewsbury v. Batley Ward took 5 for 11, Oldroyd 5 for 14. But there were also some good scores, in spite of the rain, Holden running up 100* for Bowling Old Lane v. Pontefract, Braithwaite 87 for Hull v. Barnsley. Ernest Needbam 75 for Sheffield United v. Keigbley, and C. Clarkson 70 for King Cross v. Halifax. The Harrogate captain must have been an angry man at Brighouse. He sent the home team in to bat first. They totalled 182. When the last over began Harrogate, with only two wickets down, had 178 on the board. At the end of it they had 180! Surely at such a time, if ever, risk was justified ! A good win clean thrown away. In Lancashire cricket on Saturday there were some pretty good tussles—notably those between Nelson (86) and East Lancashire (68), Burqley (128) and Haslingden (108), and Church (144) and Ramsbottom (121). Llewellyn, who has not been quite in the best of health, came back to form for Accrington v. Colne, scored 48 on a far from perfect wicket, and took 6 for 51. W . Bennett (47*) made a rare fight to save Colne from defeat, but could not get help enough. The one really big-scoring match of the day in the two leading Leagues was Glossop v. Crompton, and in that the big scoring was all on one side. Crompton collapsed for 40 (F. C. Hunter 6 for 25). Then I. Dearnaley (135) and Hunter (70) put up 155 before the first Glossop wicket fe ll; W. Berwick hit up 58, including two 6’s ; and nearly 300 were registered. For Haslingden v. Burnley, Hartington—who has played for Yorkshire— took 7 for 76; Ridgway had 7 for 42 for Rishton v. Todmorden, and G. H. Rhodes 6 for 20 for Oldham v. Milnrow. Difficult wickets were in the main the order of the day in the North Yorkshire and South Durham League. North Ormesby, Guisborough, and West Hartlepool alone made many runs. L. E. Thursfield scored 82* for North Ormesby against Stockton, G. Mi kllemiss 69 and J. Stacey 50 for West Hartlepool against Thornaby, A. Garthwaite 57, F. R. Bulmer 53, and H. Sanderson 44 for Guisborough v. Redcar. Bishop Auckland beat Darlington easily, R. Lawson taking 7 for 40. Guisborough heavily defeated Redcar, though R. Dick (6 for 70) as usual bowled well for the losers. Norton-on-Tees, for whom A. P. Rutherford, captain of Repton last year, is playing, beat Saltburn, H. Heavisides scoring 41* and taking 3 for 7. North Ormesby (S. Forster 5 for 40) defeated Stockton. G. W . Rea’s fine bowling (7 for 28) gave Aston Unity victory over a depleted Moseley team (the Stephens twins, J. F. Byrne, and Jeeves absent) in the Birmingham League. Dudley (Bateman 40, Grimshaw 31) were robbed by rain of a win over Smethwick. Hands- worth Wood made 233 for 7, dec. (A. Fereday 80*) v. Stourbridge— rain stopped this match also. Walsall declared at 237 for 7 (R. E. Hawkins .60*) v. Mitchell and Butlers—rain again. West Bromwich Dartmouth just managed to beat Kidderminster before the watery element meddled. My Durham budget of Whit-Monday news did not turn up till after the paper had gone to press. Interest in the games, I learn, was somewhat lessened by the fact tbat Sunderland, Durham City, and Chester-le-Street were supplying eight men among them to the Durham side v. Northumberland. Boldon were heavily beaten at South Shields (W. McEwan 87, Harry 58 for the winners). Sunder­ land, even with six reserves, were too good for Burnmoor. H. S. Short (of the Haileybury team of 1907 and a Cambridge Socker blue) made 44 in a total of 118 for the winners. Chester-le-Street got 82. Durham City, in reply, had 8 down for 80. Sugden was then missed, and the ninth wicket added 50. Eppleton (N. Barras 80*) at last obtained a point, drawing with Wearmouth (246 for 6—W. F. Parring- ton, the old Rossallian, 83), who delayed the closure too long. Whitburn, on the other hand, closed too soon—211 for 8, T. K. Dobson 98; whereto Seaham replied with 213 for 9—Dickens 63, C. W. Pollock 56. Hendon beat Philadelphia by 27 runs. There was any amount of excitement in Durham League matches on Saturday. Boldon at home could only make 96 v. Wearmouth, Clode taking 5 for 31. But this was enough. Wearmouth succumbed for 70 (W. F. Parrington 25), Kitchener getting 6 for 23. Whitburn earned winning brackets—their first of the season—over Burnmoor, fielding very smartly. The scores were 128 to 92. Summerill (7 for 62) for the losers, W. D. Allison (7 for 33) for the winners, bowled well. Eppleton (104) once more went down—to Philadelphia (154 for 9) this time. South Shields beat Seaham Harbour by 5