Cricket 1912

J uly 6, 1912. CBICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 307 under 100 when V. E . Brom age joined R . M. Bell. B ell hit out well while Bromage stayed, and they knocked off the runs with a good few to spare. The Rev. P . C. Jo y, who w ill not mind being called a veteran, as he was in the Winchester eleven over a quarter of a century ago, and was contemporary with Lord George Scott, the late E . H. Buck- land, and the Rev. Canon W . Rashleigh at Oxford, is still batting well for St. Lawrence. He scored 86 against St. Lawrence College on June 26th. At Belmont, Faversham , on Thursday, W. Dutnall (118 * and 5 for 51) and Murrin (107 and 5 for 30) did great all-round work for St. Lawrence “ A ” against Belmont. That much-travelled cricketer, C. P. Hurditch, had hard luck in missing his century for Wanderers v. H am pstead; but he would not be the man to cavil at his captain’s declaring at 286 for 8, with bis score 94. Hampstead went down by 139 runs ; the club is scarcely doing itself justice this season. R . K . Simm s, who played in the first match of the Horsham Week, is a younger brother of H . L ., and an all-iound cricketer of fine promise. He scored 62 and took 5 wickets for the Martlets v. Brighton College on Thursday. It is seldom the Sutton bowlers get such a flgoging as Forest H ill gave them on Saturday, or that tbe Sutton batsmen go down as they went down before H ast and Hunter, though their total of 1 5 1 would be reckoned a decent score by m any teams. F or Forest H ill K. P . Neall, a third eleven man, batted capitally for 9 1*, and S. J . Owens, A. J . Whyte, G. C. H ast, and Flowers all contributed well to the total of 380. I don’t know whether R . M. Bell ever gets quite enough bowling to do ; but he had a fair whack of it in the course of taking 6 for 124. The batsmen were not exactly offering thf mselves up as sacrifices this time, I should imagine. But that 6 for 124 in a total of 380 meant good work. Hampstead collapsed before Upper Tooting, for whom J . C. Mills (7 for 16) bowled in deadly form . S. Wheater and D . H . Butcher made 129 of the 17 2 from the bat by the visitors. One notes the name of F . C. Mercier, the Jam aican player up at Oxford, in tbe Hampstead team—and in the score of the other side, for he took 7 wickets. Another Hampstead side played Easton Lodge at Dunmow. After J . Kerr and C. H. Chaldeeott had made a good stand for the first wicket, the rest collapsed, though Chaldeeott went on and played right through for 45 out of 134 . The result was a draw. Albemarle and Friern Barnet did well to get as m any as 169 on a difficult wicket v. Neasden, who replied with 133, T. Buxton, slow and tricky, taking 8 for 5 1. A. and F . B .’s 2nd had a narrow escape —or missed a fine win, w h ich ?—in their game with Neasden 2nd. The latter made 175 ; the visitors replied with 156 for 9, and their captain was willing to play out the game. The other skipper was quite within his rights in refusing, but it seems a pity that a decisive result should not have been arrived at after so good a tussle. Smee might have pulled off the game for his side, or he m ight not. We shall never know now. Battersea at home had a very narrow squeak against Ealing Dean, who replied to their 140 with 13 5 for 3. A suggestion to “ play it out ” would have carried no temptation here. The Dean have a rare good sid e; Lewis, who took 9 wickets, a bowler of real judgment, Johnson, who earlier in the week had run up 76 v. Acton Town, a capital batsman, being most prominent in this game. Acton gave them a good game on Wednesday, only losing by 22. Johnson might have reached the century if he had not been a little too venturesome. He ran out to a curly slow from Rowley, missed it, and Shackleford, the wicket-keeper, did the rest. The E alin g whole-day team easily beat Hanwell Asylum . D. C. Osborne, skippering in the absence of Hastings Squire, experimented by putting the Asylum in, and only Branton, who played a bold game for 73, could do much with the bowling, J . H. A. Tolkien (7 for 50) in specially fine form. C. A. Bolter (after R . E . Martin’s 44 had relieved the visitors ol any anxiety as to the result) played in quite his old-time form, and had hard lines in being caught at the wicket when 97. The half-day team met Brondesbury at Ealing. The visitors tumbled out for 4 1 (Craik 5 for 14, Cobb 5 for 21). Faber and Dudley Sm ith hit off the runs before they were parted; but 5 were down for 94. From that point the bowling was flogged all over the field. Gunning and Bradbery added 195 in 90 minutes. Gunning was in faultless fo rm ; his partner had lots of luck, but hit well. At 7 o’clock he was 92*, Dalgleish, the visiting captain, consented to go on for a few m inutes; but at 96 the left-hander was bowled. So two Ealing men narrowly missed the century on Saturday. Our special representative (The Old County Cricketer—this to distinguish him from The Chiel, also a duly accredited envoy, and The Editor, who accredits himself) visited Tidal B asin. An oasis in the desert, after Canning Town, he says. South West Ham were playing Bexley Heath. The former side has a good backbone of veterans; Bexley Heath has at least one in R. Kirk, their silvery- haired captain. Dr. F . W. P . Holton, who skippers S.W . Ham, and he got into a discussion on seniority. It turned out that they had been born not only the same year, but on the same day ! The wicket was slow, but not difficult. T. Mitchell, who has lately been coaching his boys on matting laid over asphalt, found him self bothered by the difference in pace at first. But after A. Law , the old Essex cricketer, had been finely caught and bowled by the left-hander Gosling (who sticks to the Heath, though now liviD g in Leyton), he and W . Carter made a good stand, M itchell reaching 40. E . Conner played confidently for 3 5 ; Carter’s 59 included 10 boundaries. A. Howard quickly reached 39, and Dr. Holton and D. Mackinnon were 27 and 28 respectively when the former applied the closure. H . Noall bothered all the visitors, and, bowling with fine judgment, had 7 for 34, the Heath being all out for 62 five minutes before time. M itchell kept really well. Arlington and Leytonstone got H igham s Park out for 126, after 110 had been posted with only 5 wickets down. Walter Ruffels (5 for 20) did the damage ; earlier Jack Howe (4 for 43) had bowled equally well with smaller success. A thunderstorm closed play when A. and L . had made 30 for 2. Beckton went down at last, Honor Oak beating them by 57 runs. J . H . Lockton, the old Dulwich boy, and R . Knight, of Leatherhead and Cambridge, who might surely have been given a further chance for his blue after that 66 v. the Australians, were the highest scorers for Honor Oak (55 and 30), and E . Sutton and A. T . Keeble, who gave their side a decent start, did best for Beckton (57 and 20). After Keeble had gone no one could stay with Sutton, A. R . Thorpe (8 for 37) bowling grandly. Spencer and White House had a tough tussle. White House made 93, F . M. Barton (6 for 38) adding another to hi3 fine list of bowling achievements. Spencer fought hard, but could only get to 84. P. Jeacocke’s fast bowling had 5 for 28, and the veteran P . Burke kept wicket in great style. Heathfield made a splendid attempt to get home against Townley Park. Set 19 1 to win, they had only two hours left. But they went for the runs, and would have got them but for the intervention of rain. E . G . Read was the outstanding figure. Of the 17 7 for 5 recorded he made 10 3*, and nothing the Townley Park bowler3 could do checked his speed and certainty. A really great innings ! W. J . Baker’s 72 for the home side was well hit, but it paled before Read’s display. F . M. Swancott had 7 for 64 for Heathfield. L . & N. W. R . declared at 138 for 8 (H. J . Paris again to the fore with 47) against Hampstead Garden Suburb. R ain seconded Houghton’s closure, and there was no more play. Lauderdale were at Luton, but here again rain stopped proceedings, after Luton had made 157 for 6 (Holdstock a fine 90). Parson’s Green beat Ealin g Park by 38, thanks m ainly to J . S. Higgs (49) and C. J . Harrod (6 for 37). Buckhurst H ill v. Derrick Wanderers vyas spoiled by rain. The Bushey ground was under water, a fact which kept Shepherd’s Bush as well as the home team inactive. M ill H ill Park v. Boston Park was drawn through rain, as were North M iddlesex v. Brondes­ bury, and South Hampstead v. London Scottish, and Walthamstow v Loughton. Fulham put up one of the biggest totals of the after­ noon (276 for 7) v. Addiscombe, Gold (80*), Goldsm ith, and Fryer all scoring heavily. To Addiscombe s 130 for 5 Holman contributed 57*. An individual innings of over 150 in a total of 221 is no small feat Playing for St. Lawrence v. Shorncliffe Garrison at Shorn- cliffe S. C. Strachan made 15 5, the ten other batsmen aggregating 60 among them. The garrison won easily, M ajor Sir E . R . Bradford scoring 87*. There was some capital hitting at Mote Park, where the home side played the Nondescripts. Throughout the day runs came apace W. R . Gosling hit twelve 4’s in his 93 ; the left-handers, G Bracher and R . C. Parkin, both laid on the wood. The Mote innings was declared at 248 for 6. Then R . S. Everitt and J . L . Tate added 107 for the second wicket of the Nondescripts, and