Cricket 1912

J une 22, 1912. CRICKET: A WEEKLY form, and got the last four in a few overs, Hampshire thus winning by 54 runs. D urham v. C hesh ire .— R ain prevented the northern cou n ty’s w inning this m atch outright, as m ust have been the case had it been finished. H arrison had hard lu ck in being obliged to retire hurt, w hen w ithin sight of h is ce n tu ry ; h is innings stood out con ­ spicuously in the general sm all scoring, though several other D urham m en did u sefully. M orris (10 for 65) bow led in fine style, and no C heshire batsm en could do m u ch w ith him . There was n o play till 5.30 on the second day. S u r r e y 2 n d X I. v. G lam o r g a n . —H alf the Welsh county’s wickets were down for under a hundred; but then T. A. L . Whittington and Maxwell made a capital stand, and nearly doubled the score, their partnership realising 89. Whittington carried his bat for 71 after 2^ hours at wickets. Alwin and Blacklidge put on 88 for the fourth Surrey wicket. On the Friday A. W . F . Rutty and G . W. Palm er added 112 for the eighth, and the home side had a lead of 186, which proved too much for Morganwg. The failure of Riches, Whittington, Morris, and Maxwell left them struggling to avoid a single innings’ defeat, only Bancroft doing anything till Hacker and Creber pluckily added 51 for the tenth wicket. Surrey had no difficulty in getting the runs required. O xford U n iversity v . F ree F oresters .— The Dark Blues were not at full strength, and never looked like winning. Bardsley and Altham played for the first time this season ; but Twining, Evans, Lagden, and, of course, the Gaekwad of B aroda—though it is good to hear that he is far less badly injured than was supposed, and m ay turn out again before long—were away. W. G. Druce hit up 100 in two hours in the F . F .’s first, he and C. D. M clver addin" 10 1 together; iu their second the Rev. J . Burrough, another old Cantab, and M clver, the old Oxonian, added 186 in partnership, Burrough’s 12 7 including a 6 and fourteen 4’s. Campbell, Bardsley, and Shaw in Oxford’s firs t; Altham , Shaw, and Lister-Kaye in their second, were the only men to offer much resistance to Greswell (both innings), and (in the second innings) A. H. Fyffe, the hammer- thrower. N orthamptonshire v . E ssex . —The visiting side had three new men, C. H . Douglas, the captain’s brother, R . H. Robinson, a wicket­ keeper, and Valiant, a ground staff bowler. On a slow wicket on Monday the m idlanders played slow cricket. W. H. Denton batted stolidly, Haywood with nearer approach to brightness, J . S. Denton (100 m inutes for 52) really well ; but run getting only reached even a moderate pace when Wells and Woolley put on 60 in 55 m in­ utes for the ninth wicket. Buswell helped Wells to make another stand for the tenth. Wells batted 100 minutes, not at all in No. 10 form ; he deserves promotion. Essex really had no chance. Bright sunshine caked the soaked pitch ; only Perrin, McGahey, and John Douglas could do anything at all. Sydney Sm ith and Thompson accomplished the feat—unusual nowadays—of bowling unchanged through both innings, and each had an analysis of 6 for 20 in one of them. What are the odds against Northants for the Championship ? S taffordshire v . M onmouthshire .— Wilson, late of Worcester­ shire, more recently of Bucks, turned out for the second-class champions for the first time. The Monmouth side included four of the Phillips brotherhood and three of the W illiams clan. Before Barnes and Wilson they collapsed for 39 on a difficult wicket, E . S. Phillips the only double figure scorer. W. A . W illiam s had an even more sensational analysis than B arn es—7 for 1 1 —but Staffs led by 16, an advantage not to be despised on such a wicket. The second innings of the visitors realised 87, Barnes and Wilson again bowling unchanged. Silverlock batted 90 minutes for his 30. Then came a surprise. The wicket was still very slow, though no longer quite so difficult; but Percy Briggs and Hollowood hit off the runs required for victory in an hour. Y orkshire II. v. S urrey I I . — Kilner, Oldroyd, and J . P. Wilson laid the foundations of a big score ; but the edifice failed of erection, the rest collapsing before Platt and Blacklidge. The total of 322 was big enough however. The visitors had the worst of the wicket, and only Goatly did much for them. Kilner (136 and 12 for 75) showed fine all-round form, and looks like forcing his way into the first eleven. Y orkshire v . G loucestershire . —B ut for Denton, who showed rare good defence for 110 minutes, Yorkshire would have fared very poorly indeed, for the rest could do little with Parker and Dennett on a difficult pitch. H aigh was almost unplayable when the westerners went in ; he took 9 for 25, and only Dipper and Douglas Robinson made a stay of any length at wickets. They scored between them 44 of 65 from the bat. Yorkshire went in again on Monday evening, and the first pair played out time. On Tuesday no play was possible. On Wednesday Denton again did fine work for the White Rose, hitting 60 in an hour and 35 minutes ; this time RECORD OF THE GAME. 257 W ilson and Drake helped. The Gloucestershire batsmen could do little against Haigh, Drake and Rhode?, and Yorkshire won by a good margin. S urrey v . A ustralians . —Ilobbs and Hayward 43 for the first wicket, Hayes and Ducat 54 for the third, Sm ith and Strudwick 50 for the ninth, good bowling by Hazlitt and Matthews : so runs the tale of the Surrey first innings, quite devoid of sensation. The Australians did badly against Sm ith, Hitch, and Rushby. Only Jennings could stay. David Sm ith ran his captain out by forgetting Hobbs’s brilliance at cover. Bardsley took 45 minutes to make 9. Then Surrey made the colonial bowling look quite easy. Gregory and Matthews had to go off the field, and the latter was much missed. Hobbs and Hayes added 80 for the second wicket in an hour, Abel and Myers, with some luck, put on 76 in 40 minutes. Then came a wonderful change. Five wickets down for 246 - all out 247 ! Abel, Hitch, Myers, Sm ith, and Rushby went one after another before Kelleway and Macartney. The Australians were left with 329 to get for victory. The task proved too big, though for a time a colonial victory seemed assured. This was while Jennings and Smith were together. The Queenslander had been hurt overnight, but came in again at the fall of the fifth wicket, and he and the big Victorian added 176 in partnership. Prior to this Macartney had completed his thousand runs for the season, the first to do s o ; but when he had just passed 50 was clean bowled by Razor Sm ith. Once Jennings and his hard-driving partner had been dismissed there was little further resistance, and Surrey won a fine game by the narrow margin of 2 1 runs. Jennings hit a 6 and eleven 4’s, Sm ith a 5 and sixteen 4’s. M iddlesex v . N ottinghamshire . —Always a fight for runs on a funny pitch. Alletson, having made a pair, was left out for Lee, who did better—he made a sin gle! Only A. O. Jon es—and even he was tied up—and Iremonger did anything in the visitors’ first, Tarrant again bowling finely. Middlesex had 74 up without a wicket down at drawing of stumps — only 32 behind — but with only 20 added on Tuesday both Tarrant and Edward Litteljohn left, and after that no one but B asil Foster could do anything with Iremonger, whose figures for the rest of the innings showed 6 for 9 ! One wicket, 94; all out 132. A. B . Crawford, let off before scoring, was top scorer in Notts’ second ; he made 36 in less than as many minutes. Iremonger took 80 minutes to score 2 1. The crowd jeered him—but why should a man playing the game for his side be jeered ? Cricket is not a circus. Ja c k Hearne—old Ja c k—was the most successful bowler this time. Middlesex wanted 120 to win, and lost two of their first innings’ successful batsmen for 2 1 before time. But a stand of 65 by J . W. Hearne and Hendren put the home side well on the way to victory, and Notts suffered their first defeat of the season by a margin of 5 wickets. L eicestershire v . H ampshire . —C. J . B . Wood and Mo’inteney put up 60 for the first w icket; Coe and Whitehead forced the game and added 92 for the fifth in quick time. Kennedy, who looks like training on into a really fine bowler, did excellent work. Except for Johnston, Mead, and Bignell, the Hants batsmen were at sea against King and Astill. Mounteney and Whitehead both hit again, and their stand of 59 in half-an-hour was the great feature of Leicester­ shire’s second innings. Kennedy again did splendidly— 12 for 135 in the match. H ants needed nearly 300 for victory, but never looked in the least like getting them. Only Captain Barrett did anything, Curtis, the Sefton Park pro., playing his first match this season for Leicestershire, bowled well, as did King and A still again. Leicester­ shire have done splendidly in beating both Warwickshire and Hants in the absence of Shipman, generally reckoned their one match- winning bowler. W arwickshire v . L ancashire . —W hat’s am iss with the champions ? Their batting on a pitch that could not have been very difficult was tame and spiritless. Only George Stephens showed any real enterprise, hitting six 4’s, and only Kinneir (110 minutes for 30) of the rest any ability to stay. The County Palatine showed very different form on Tuesday. Spooner and Makepeace 88 for the first wicket—John Tyldesley and Spooner 110 for the second — Ernest Tyldesley and Sharp 140 for the fourth—total 427. Spooner batted in perfect style for 190 minutes, and hit a 6 (to square-leg) and twelve 4’s. Sharp was in 150 minutes, and he also played very finely. John Tyldesley hit hard. Charlesworth and Baker, hitherto uncalled upon this season, took seven wickets between them. W anting 280 to save an innings defeat, Warwickshire had no option but to play for the draw. Frank Stephens and Kinneir sent up 65 for the first w icket; then Charlesworth completed a pair. Stephens went on to make his first century for the county, undismayed by the failure of his comrades ; and it was almost entirely due to him that the champions saved the game. Sm ith helped him to add 109 for the sixth wicket in an hour. Stephens batted 270 minutes, and hit two 6’s and thirteen 4’s.