Cricket 1912

322 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 13, 1912. Big Matches of the Week. SniiBEY v. K en t .—I t was lucky for Sm ith that, doubtless owing to the unsettled state of the weather, he had arranged for the receipt of a lump sum in lieu of gate, for Surrey cracked up very badly, aud the m atch was all over soon after four o’clock on the second day. The wicket no doubt favoured the bowlers, but the home side should have made more than 89. Everyone but Bird seemed completely tied up by Blythe and Woolley. Humphreys and Hardinge, the former with some luck, sent up 12 2 in 110 m inutes for Kent’s first wicket. Four wickets then fell q u ick ly; but Hubble stayed with Hardinge till call of time, and these two were not parted till they had added 77 runs. Hardingc then left for a chanceless 102, made in about 160 m inutes, and including thirteen 4’s. The last 5 wickets tumbled for 20 runs. Rushby bowled with great success. When Surrey went in again they had 5 down for 55; but Struiw iek, who played particularly well, Spring, and Myers improved the outlook, and the innings defeat was saved, though barely. In Kent’s last three m atches (to Ju ly 6) Blythe has taken 24 wickets for 262, Woolley 22 for 2 17. L ancashire v . A ustralians . —Hornby put the colonials in on a queer pitch at Aigburth. U p to lunch his policy appeared mistaken, for Gregory (who was very lucky), Bardsley, and Jennings did well enough to take the score to 132 for 3. B ut after the resumption wickets tumbled rapidly, the last six batsmen only aggregating 22. Spooner batted very finely for his 44. Later Ernest Tyldesley gave Sharp, whose 60 was a rare good innings, capital help. The other eight batsmen made 5 among them, and the county’s collapse on Friday morning was even more marked than the A ustralians’ on Thursday afternoon. When the colonials batted again they could do nothing at all with Dean, only Matthews’s hard-hit 35* redeeming the innings from total failure- Lancashire wanted 1 15 for victory; and on a much improved wicket Spooner, again in excellent form, and Makepeace put up 1 10 for the first wicket. This is the Australians’ fourth defeat, and Lancashire’s second victory over them. Had Gregory won the toss, the result m ight well have been reversed. D ean’s 1 1 for 102 followed on analyses of 13 for 49 v. Worcestershire and 9 for 12 7 v. Notts—33 for 278 in 3 matches. W arw ickshire v. S outh A fricans . —No doubt in view of the test match, Foster took a rest; and F . G. Stephens was unavailable. Throughout the game the wicket helped the bowlers, and there were only four individual scores of over 40. Kinneir batted 100 minutes for 38 in the county’s first, but no one else did anything. Faulkner and Nourse added 40 for the Afrikanders’ fourth wicket, Nourse and Strieker 59 for the fifth, and White played freely and well. Quaife and Baker made the only stand in the county’s second, adding 85 for the fifth wicket after 4 had fallen for 4 1. The 83 needed for victory were got in 70 minutes, though at one stage, when Tanered, Snooke, and Faulkner fell within a few balls, a sensation looked possible. Perhaps if Foster had been there—but it is no use putting hypo­ thetical cases. Two bowling analyses furnish food for th ou ght: Charlesworth, 6 for 56 ; Strieker, 3 for 13 . Thi3 was the first chance Strieker had had in a m atch here, and prior to this match Charlesworth had only bowled 28 overs this season. H ampshire v . O xford U n iversity .— The first meeting of these sides. The Dark Blues lacked Vidler, whose bowling was needed. On a soft wicket only Twining did much against Newman and Kennedy. He batted 80 minutes for 30. The Oxford bowling was made to look very cheap by F ry and Mead, who, after Bowell had gone without a run, put up 188 in 2 hrs. Mead hit eleven 4’s, and played very finely. Captain Barrett joined F ry, and continued with him till call of time. They went on next morning till F ry had passed 200; then the innings was declared. En glan d’s captain had batted 5 h rs .; he was quite at his best, gave no chance till 164, and hit a 6 and nineteen 4’s. Barrett, who helped him to add 264 unseparated, had some luck, but hit finely, making a 6 and sixteen 4’s. Twining battled hard for his side, staying 135 minutes for 8 1, but though nearly everyone else made some runs no one made many, and the Dark Blues went down by an innings and 68 runs. Y orkshire v . W orcestershire . —At Dewsbury the wicket was soft and heavy, and on the first day runs were very difficult to get. Yorkshire, thanks to their first three batsmen, did very well before lunch ; but afterwards Arnold recaptured some of his apparently lost bowling form , took three wickets without a run, and had an analysis of 6 for 24 at tbe end. Bowley, whose 43 was the best innings of the day, and Arnold alone made any stay for the visitors. When York­ shire batted again B ale was disabled, another blow to unlucky Worcestershire. Rhodes and W ilson put up 83 for the first w icket; Denton and H irst added 144 for the fourth. Denton was soundness itself ; but H irst’s century (made in 3 hrs., with a six and nine 4’s included) was a very lucky innings. He was missed at least three times. The Yorkshire innings, incomplete overnight, was declared first thing next morning, the visitors being set nearly 400 to win. There was never any prospect of their making the runs, though at one time 100 was on the board with only Pearson out. The tail collapsed before Bhodes and H aigh, and Yorkshire won by 2 14 runs. N ottinghamshire v . D erbyshire . —A game in which first use of the wicket gave the stronger side an overwhelming advantage. A . W. Carr, the old Shirburnian, made 43 out of 57 for the first wicket in great form. John Gunn and Payton, each scoring over 70, added 134 for the fourth in about 2 hrs. On Friday morning the innings was declared at 264 for 9. The wicket was a glue-pot, and Derbyshire had 8 down for 32. Then Bowden, batting really well, was joined by Boot, who had any amount of lu ck ; they added 39 for the ninth wicket. In the follow-on no one scored double figures. Wass had 10 wickets for 70 in the match ; but Iremonger was even more difficult to hit than Wass. M .C.C. v. C ambridge U n iversity . —The premier club’s team, batting first, had the worst of the wicket. B ut the Jam could have put the Light Blues in if he had seen fit, of course. K ing stayed nearly an hour and a half for 39, and A. I. Steel an hour for 2 1. E . C. Baker, the Brighton freshman, bowled capitally, and was given his blue on Friday. Lang batted well for 5 3 ; but half the wickets were down for 82. Then Calthorpe, who twice hit Thompson for 6, and Saville added 49, and the latter and H ylton-Stewart, lasting into Friday, put on 68 for the eighth w icket; and thus the Light Blues obtained a lead of 118 . Thompson bowled finely. The feature of the M .C .C .’s second was the Jam ’s century. He batted 2 J hrs. with much of his old mastery and witching grace, though a strained wrist still troubles him . H . H. Marriott (who is expected to help Leicestershire again this week, after a long absence) helped him to add 92 for the fourth wicket, and Thompson, very steady, aided in a stand of 82 for the fifth. The Light Blues needed 14 3 for victory. Morrison and Lagden added 57 for the second wicket, and at call of time only 60 were required with 8 to go. King and Thompson bowled so well on Saturday morning that but for Lagden, who batted finely 100 minutes for 72 and hit ten 4’s, giving an easy chance at 35, however, the Cantabs would hardly have got home. As it was, they won by the narrow margin of two wickets. S ussex v . E ssex . —When Joe Vine stays in nearly all day, one does not expact fast scoring. Missed at 6, Vine batted 280 minutes for his 118 , and was last out, having hit eleven 4’s. Philip Cartwright made 68 (nine 4’s) of the 1 1 1 added for the second wicket. Then several men went cheaply. But Jupp and Cox gave Vine good support, and the last three wickets added 88. M cGahey had one of his occasional bowling successes, rare now-a-days, and it was he who caused th ° collapse in the middle of the innings. On Friday the wicket had greatly improved. Freem an, in overnight for half-an-hour, batted 3 hours for his level century, drove finely, gave no chance, and hit fourteen 4’s. Bussell helped him to add 68 for the third wicket, but should have been out earlier. Fan e and Freem an added 88 for the fourth, and Fan e and Douglas 95 for the fifth. Later MeGahey hit well, and at the close of the day Mead flogged the tired bowling. Except Street, all the Sussex men had a turn at the crease. E arly on Saturday morning the innings closed for 431, and Sussex went in again, 136 in arrears. Vine and B . B elf first, and then Vine and Cartwright, carried the score to 89 for 2 ; Simms and A. E . B elf added 64 for the fourth. Simms hit finely for his 98, but should have been stumped at 6. There was little interest in the closing stage of the game, a result being out of the question ; but Carpenter ran up 50 against some mixed bowling. G lamorgan v . M onmouth . — Monmouth seldom extend their neighbours seriously, and the match at Cardiff was no exception to the general rule. The home side lacked Whittington, Norman Biches captaining in his stead. Monmouth batted first; and G. W illiam s was the only man who could make any stand against Creber’s slows. Biches and Gibbs put up 54 for the first wicket of Glamorgan. Bancroft and Biches added 67 for the second. The scoring was small on T h u rsday; only 67 were added for the eight out­ standing wickets, and then Creber (15 for 73 in the match) had another field day, Silverlock’s 37 being more than half Monmouth’s total. K ent 2 nd X I v. S taffordshire .— W ilson and Barnes in the first innings. Barnes and Deyes (assisted by three runs-out) in the second, dismissed the Kent second string for a grand total of 206, and the visitors won quite easily a match in which the England bowler ( 11 for 85) and the county vice-captain, Percy Briggs (52 for once out), were the most conspicious figures. Nichols also batted well, and Jennings for tbe losers bowled finely. H ertfordshire v. B edfordshire . —The match at St. Albans took a very sim ilar course to that between the same sides at Bedford a week earlier, though the scoring ruled smaller. Golding’s 69 was the only innings over 50. Again Beds, had to follow on, and again did better in their second than in their first innings. Coleman, the Herts fast bowler, who was not playing in the first game, had 12 for 127 in this.