Cricket 1912

286 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J un e 29, 1912. H. Gurnsey, who forced the game, and that steady and reliable bat, W. D. Myers (who has made over 15 0 runs in his last four innings) offered any real resistance to some capital bowling and fielding. A. E . Lugg bowled finely, taking 6 at 8 each, and the best, though not the highest, innings for Wren was played by Mackness. The W. K. Wanderers A team came right back to their best form, and beat Wren A by 119 runs. Two wickets went down very cheaply at the start, but the third did not fall till 6 3 ; and after that F . Silk and H . J . Phillips, the captain, got complete m astery of the bowling, and added 140. When Silk had reached his 10 0—the first for the club this season—Phillips (then 74) declared, obviously putting side before self, as a good skipper should. W . Youngs’s slows had 6 for 49 when Wren batted, and only R . Mackness made any stay at all. Ilford’s eighth consecutive victory was over powerful opponents — the Wanderers. They batted first, and Stafford and Dawdry played excellent cricket for 50 and 34 respectively. In spite of arriving late, Lowden took 6 for 37. The total was 177. Ilford started badly, and lost 2 for 22. The fourth wicket fell at 88—any- body’s game then. But Spelling joined Edgar Porter and hit m ightily, while his partner played his usually sound game. Spelling s 85, out of 1 2 1, put on for the fifth wicket in just under an hour— included two 0’s, fourteen 4’s. Porter went on“to the end—247—aud was not out then, eight 4’s included in his score. The wicket was splendid ; the fieldiug and wicket-keeping in the expert hands of Gathercole and Brooks, were first-rate ; and Bradley in spite of the great heat, bowled fiuelv and secured five wickets. R iver Plate House were altogether too strong for South American Banks. N. D. T . Oliver (57 and [4 for 4) wTas prominent in boih departm ents; and L . J . Hardwick, H . E . B ass, aud the m ighty Buckeridge backed him up well. Cyphers beat Addiscombe by 22 rues in a rather featureless m atch—27 the highest score. Beulah visited Tunbridge Wells to play Linden Park, and the game proved no bowlers’ beanfeast. Linden P ark declared at 249 for 3, H . Churchill a faultless century, Batchelor 84. Beulah had only 80 minutes to bat, and, scorning safety tactics registered 169 for 2 in the time, all four batsmen (Mathiesen, Clegg, Love, aud Tufnell) scoring freely. H. R . Rennie’s fine century for Derrick Wanderers is referred to in “ Men of the Moment.” The Wanderers had a good win over a team which included C. D. M clver, II. J . Davenport, aud other men of name and fame. A gainst Reading Biscuit Factory G.W .R. had 5 wickets down for 36. Then a change came over the scene. F . G. Artlett joined young C. E . Honeyball. Both were cautious, as the situation demanded ; Artlett was also lucky. Gradually they got the measure of the bowling, and then proceeded to hit. They added 127 before Artlett was bowled for 73. W ith Honey ball’s departure for 77 the innings was declared. Grugeon (5 for 52) bowled really well, but the visitors played out time, five of them getting double figures, A. Owen’s 3b and G. H. Panting’s 30 the highest. R . W . Poulton, the Rugger International, played for the Reading side, and scored 17 in good style. Melrose possess a vice-captain (with a three years’ record as captain earlier) who has original ideas. He stiffened his tail end by shifting him self and other good men down, and after the side’s opponents had got eight wickets cheaply they had a surprise, for the last two put on about a hundred. F . E . Orpin hit hard for 42, and F . Clayden and the skipper him self, A. J . Mason, helped him by capital steady cricket for 29 and 28* respectively. T hanks mainly to S. Mason (4 for 23) the other side were dismissed for 60, Melrose winning by 72. B ut really I am not quite sure about A. J . Mason’s tactics. Suppose he had gone in first—might he not have made many more than 28 ? St. Jo h n ’s Wood W anderers (A. Turner 40) played a very level draw with Arcadians (F. Cable 52) at Edgware. Bellevue had a capital victory over W alton, H . Sprigge doing fine all-round work with 72* and 6 for 3 1, aud A. It. Jon es scoring 53. Merton II. ran up 2 16 for 9, dec , v. Bellevue II., who, nowise daunted, replied with 166 for 2 —W. J . Atfield 78, R . H . Pounds 47*. When R . A. Fitzgerald's Team visited Am erica in 1872 among the men who played against them was W. B . Wells, who is about the same age as the old champion him self. Mr. Wells still plays the game, and scored 18 in his last match, so he tells me. B u t Wing- ham, “ the Kent colt,” who the other day took a dozen wickets for Shorncliffe garrison, is ten years the senior of W. G ., and Charles Absolon played on till well beyond W ingliam ’s age. The other day a friend of mine played in the annual game between the Foot Beagles and a farm ers’ team, at Henfield, Sussex. The wicket-keeper for the farmers was a young man of seventy-four, and he did his work well, though nowadays he only turns out in this particular m atch. In the course of the game one of the umpires, appealed to for a l.b.w . decision— I believe against W. L . Knowles, the old Hurstpierpoint, Kent, and Sussex batsmen, who is Master of the Beagles—answered, “ Hold hard ! Let me think a b it ! ” —scratched his head—thought a bit—and finally pronounced judgment— “ O u t! ” Both the Ipswich and E ast Suffolk teams took part in very close games on Saturday. The first team visited B u ry St. Edmunds, and won by 6 runs only, thanks m ainly to a stand of 62 for the third wicket by F . L . Titchmarsh (who has not had the best of luck this season, but was top scorer in this match with an excellent 50) and Cyril Catchpole (32), a hard-hit innings of 35 by V. F . Gaby, and the coolness and pluck of P. S . Driver (28) after the ninth wicket had fallen at 17 3, leaving 26 still required for victory. Of the Bury and West Suffolk total of 198 the last two wickets accounted for 93, R . de Castro hitting hard for 55. The second string of I. & E . S. played Mr. A. K . Watson’s X I. on the Ipswich School ground. The home side’s captain was top scorer with 47 in a total of 15 7 , R . S. Rands making 35. T . G. Sharp (43) and G. T . Smith (35) batted well for the Ipswich team, but they could only m ake 146, thus losing by 1 1 runs. E . S. D. Bury kept wicket particularly well for them, and K . S. Mayhew (6 for 44) bowled finely. Withnm (J. F . Bawtree 49, F . W. Stocks 40, L . J . Cullen 35) beat Felsted School. Colchester, and East Essex could not quite bring off victory against the Gramm ar School Masters, though they had all the best of the draw. J . Meadowcroft (a fine not-out century and 3 wickels) and E . S. Missen (33 and 6 for 38) did excellent all­ round work for them, while E . G. D avis (the old Oxford socker blue) saved his side by his innings of 34. Meadow’croft was formerly well-known as a member of the Croydon Wanderers Club. T his was his first match for Colchester. Stowmarket collapsed for 19 to the Oakley, Brome, and Eye f-ide. The match wTas twelve aside; H. Barradell took 6 wickets for 7, A. Tipple 5 for 5. Sudbury beat Hadleigh by 1 1 runs—1 2 1 to 110 . H averhill (D. H . Unwin 48, W. Mason 47) defeated Saffron Walden by 99—19 1 to 92. Wilson wras again to the fore in the North Staffs. League. He hit hard for 65, and took 4 wickets for 7. H is side, Burslem , beat Stone by 99 runs. Porthill tumbled out Tunstall for 27, H . Eardley 5 for 9, Barnes 4 for 12 , aud then made 96, Eardley 3 1. It was quite H arry Eardley’s day—not his first, though, by any means. For Tunstall Morgan had 7 for 44. Leek scored 128 v. Fenton (H. Mufin’s 29 highest score), and for Fenton Deyes, the Yorkshire­ m an, took 5 for 18. After that he contributed 53 to his side’s total of 154 for 6. For Stoke v. Longton Nichols made 60, Percy Briggs 34. This was the only drawn game, Longton replying with 144 for 5. Sm ith, of Stoke footer fame, made a chanceless 8 1* for them. Knypersley easily beat Crewe Alexandra, Sedgwick taking 6 for 2 1, G . Cooper 4 for 14 —total only 43. B ut the best performance of the day was L . E van s’s 98 for Norton v. Silverdale. The total was only 162, the other ten men making 48 among them. E vans hit twelve 4’s, and was out to a simple catch at point when his century seemed as certain as anything at cricket can be. H is side won by 39 runs, A. Jolley taking 6 for 47 for them. C. L . Butcher made 72 for Kidderm inster v. M itchell and B utler’s in the Birm ingham League, aud Skelding bowled so well that at the finish the brewery team were still over 100 runs behind with only one wicket to fall, after Kiddeim inster had declared at 218 for 6. Stourbridge beat West Bromwich Dartmouth by 62. S. Jackson made 57 of the Dartmouth total of 87. Moseley went down to Smethwick by 3 1 runs, in spite of a good innings of 54* by A. W. Sm ith, li. N. D avis scored 77 an d E . T. Edden 62* for Aston U nity, who totalled 237 for 8 against Dudley, and won by 93. G. W. Rea again bowled well (5 for 45) for the winners. The Kent crack K . L . Hutchings, suffered a nasty strain, and had to retire. L. F . Taylor was once more to the front for W alsall, with 77 v. Handsworth Wood, who, like M itchell and B utler’s, escaped defeat by the skin of their teeth, being 78 behind with only one to go after a declaration. In Leicester cricket there was a capital game between the Town club and Ivanhoe. The latter had in their team seven men who have at one time or another played in first-class cricket—Dr. R. Mac­ donald, Harold W right, H . K ing, the Rev. J . W . Marsh, C. K. Langley, G. E . Rudd, and W. F . Curtis. It was quite a regal m atch ; four Kings were playing. L . K ing (45) and G. Swain (67) put on 92 for Leicester's second wicket. W. H all (82) wras top scorer for Ivanhoe, who won by 2 wickets. Of the four matches in the senior division of tho Town League two were small-scoring affairs. Tyro