Cricket 1912

J uly 13, 1912. CRICKET: A WEEKLY Harpenden, the visitors, lacked W. H. Marsh and C. H. Titclimarsh, playing for their county ; and the other side Wilson, away on tour in Devon with Ilford. E . Howard (7 for 34) bowled very finely for the railw ay side, and F . G. Walthew for the visitors. G .W .R . were at Reading. The wicket was good here, but the bowling and fieldiug were good too, and G .W .Il. had 9 down for 95. Then M. P. Brewt r and the veteran F . K. Honeyball made the best stand of the innings, adding 35. Against fine bowling by Grugeon and (J. E . Honeyball the Biscuit Factory had 7 down for 35. Then Waldy joined Poulton, the Rugger international, and these two made a determined effort, adding 43. The tail could not stay the course, and G .W .R . won by 30. Lessness Park lost to Blackheath—only their secoud defeat of the season—after a good game. The leading features of the match were the hard-hit 49 of E . Hawkes, the P ark’s stumper, aud 50* by II. C. Cutler for the winners. Derrick Wanderers had a capital win over Essex C. & G ., the more notable since three of the home side’s best bals, Rennie, Belton, and Brown, were absent. Ii. T. Childs played fine all-round cricket (63* and 5 for 26). The C. & G. might well have gone for the 197 needed ; they had 105 minutes to bat, but their batting was lifeless, and the last wicket fell three minutes before time. The last match of Forest H ill’s week (in which the only victory was one of 4 runs over Crofton Park on Friday) was against White House. K. P. Neall was again top scorer with 84. This young left-hander, with a good shot past cover and considerable cleverness on the leg side, m ay now be considered definitely promoted to first eleven honours. Scores of 9 1* and 84 on successive Saturdays have fairly earned him his place. That old identity, A. J . Whyte, was the other principal scorer, and for White House P. Burke, another old hand at the game, played an excellent innings of 76*. A summarised account of tbe Week appears in “ The Score-Sheet.” B ain affected its early stages, of course. Albemarle and Friern Barnet played a draw with Boston Park, for whom A. S . L in g and C. Gluyas batted particularly well. W. Walton was top scorer for the home side, and T. Buxton bowled very finely indeed (6 for 43 on a good wicket). The outstanding performance in the second eleven match of the two clubs, at Brentford, was F . Smee’s 89*, right through innings. Last week Smee made 78*. Greville beat Brondesbury II. by 27, a result due largely to T. G. Barnes's 5 6 ; their second string went down to Harpenden II. The Mote, whose match with M .C.C. earlier in the week was spoiled by rain, put in some fine and furious hitting v. Wye College on Saturday. A. H . H aines, of Gloucestershire, scored a good century for the College. The home side were set 245 for victory, with two hours to go. They made the runs in a quarter of an hour short of that time ! W. Phillips and Dr. J . A. Gibb gave the side a good start, and later R . J . B . Leney and R. C. Parkin got runs off nearly every ball. At six o’clock 55 were wanted. These were made in 15 m inutes ! Parkin’s last 5 1 were made up of a 6, ten 4’s, two 2’s, and a sin gle! R. J . B . Leney had 7 for 63, the last 4 in 9 balls for 3 runs. Some hitting, quite as remarkable as this was done at Mayfield, where II. R . K irb y/a Sussex colt, ran up 237 in 2 hrs. v. Tunbridge W ells! This score included two 6’s, and fifty-two 4’s. S Markwick also made a century, he and Kirby putting up 324 for the first wicket. The innings was declared at 389 for 4, and the opposition got out for 1 1 1 . At Hayward’s Heath the home side (K. A. Higgs 49, Maurice Tate 8 for 42) won the last match of their week, v. Worthing, in good style. At the Dripping pan there was a good fight between Lewes Priory (168, H. E . D avey 86, including two 6’s) and East Grinstead (162, C. G. de Rougemont 49). In the second innings of the Martlets against Sir Jerem iah Colman’s team at Gatton li. K. Simm s hit up 54* (eleven 4’s) in 20 minutes. A veteran was to the fore in Steyning’s defeat of Southwick, Percy Breach, who has played for Steyning over 35 years, being top scorer with 5fi. H is side won easily after a declaration, J . Flowers taking 5 for 22, and the lob bowler, R . Breach (nephew of the veteran) 4 for 14. For St. Philip’s, Arundel, v. Amberley C. Campbell scored a century and A. Jupp took 6 for 8—after which one need not say which side o n e! Fram lingham College Masters bpat Ipswich and E . S. by the narrow margin of 16 runs, thanks mainly to a stand of 64 for the fifth wicket by Tomlinson, the College pro., and Dr. J . D. E. W illiams, and Tomlinson’s bowling (6 for 37). P. P. Cornell, who stumped two of the other side’s best bats very snurtly and scored 30 at a critical time, he and Waters putting on 46 in a determined las* RECORD OF THE GAME. 320 wicket stind, was the most prominent figure on the losing side. I. & E . S. second string beat St. Mary Stoke in a match presenting no remarkable features. J . Francis, maintaining his form, made 65 for bury United v. Newmarket, besides taking 6 for 22. Suffolk District; Asylum easily be-it Halesworth, W . J . llougbt scoiing 52 and A. Skilton lowering 6 for 10. St. Matthew's (Ipswich) beat Ha Ueigh by the narrow margin of 3 inns in a game for the Suffolk Challenge Cup. Sudbury and Clare lied w iih 75. Parson’s Green rau up a long score against West Sheen. F . W. England, the veteran of the team, made 80, F . G. Driver, its most stylish bat, canin back to form with 7 1, and six others reached double figures. W<st Sheen could do notLiug with A. C. Higgs and Harrod, the highest score being 1 1, the total 53. P .G ’s second string easily beat West Sheen 2nd, J . Hutchins, the captain scoring 53. A. C. Thornton (his first appearance) 34 ; aud T. Mack taking 7 for 36. Heathfield had a long spell of fielding at Chiswick, wheie V. R . Hoare, the old Harrovian, and P. Ogiivie ran up 166 for Polytechnic’s first wicket in fine style ; but they stuck to their work, and good scores from Aitchison, Frost, and Leleu ^aved them from defeat. Their crack, E . G. Read, was playing at home for the A team v. Sutton II, and top-scored wish 69, E . W. Stanger making 55. Heathfield won easily. Old Whitgiftians (who on Wednesday defeated the powerful Guy’s Hospital team in fine style, seven men making double figures, with Carter Pegg’s 40 hightst, and Hackney and Bowater taking 5 wickets each at 22 and 33 respectively— totals 199 and 58) had another good win on Saturday, over Old Olavians. R. V. Bowater, maintaining his excellent all-round form, took 84 of the best and had 3 wickets for 20 ; W. D. Hackney made 45, and Carter Pegg had 3 for 14. K D. Abbott, Chigwell’s crack bat, played right through his side’s innings of 18 1 v. Walthamstow for 95, the next highest score being 2 1 ; and “ Sonny ” MayeR, of Beckton, had 6 of the home side’s wickets. For Walthamstow H . W. H all bowlel well, and E . Sim s, W. G. Simmons, and S. H . Gillard made a good effort to win the game ; but Walthamstow’s ill luck held, and they went down by 29. Finchley (East) played a draw with Barnet, H . L). Sm ith’s all-round form being the best feature from a Finchley point of view. Capital and Couuties Bank recorded their i-econd win of the season, P. N. Hands and A .E . Lipton doing well for them. Hampstead Nomads won both their games, that against the Magpies (for whom Lazenby batted well and bowled in great style) by 19 runs, C. Browning (30) top scorer, F . C. Boully (6 for 20) most destructive bowler, that against Aske’s (Habardashers) School by 70. II. G. Bloodwonh (35), top scorer here, was palpil-ly run out when he had made 8, but no c<ne appealed ! He and S B. K. Caulfield did the bow ling; and it is worthy of note that las,1, week the school made 89 on a sticky pitch v. M.C.C , Geeson and Needham bowling, and that with three of their best men out of the team owing to exam inations. On Wednesday, Ju ly 17th , the Nomads play Stade Francaise (Paris), on the Park Road, Hornsey, ground, by kind permission of the North Middlesex C.C. P lay starts at 11.3 0 . In making 66 for W indsor Home Park v. Slough on Saturday R . A. Young (of Repton, Cambridge, and Sussex fame) was very lucky —missed four times. Slough’s fieldsmen, with an exception or two, b a lly need a tonic. But their batsmen are all there, and though they had not time to win they never looked like losing, Leat and Kent showing their usual good form. L . McCoy H ill’ s 6 for CO represented really fine bowling. Beulah began their week with a match v. Guards’ Depot on Monday and the finish was exciting. The Depot scored 12 1, Mathieseu taking 7 for 16. When the last over was called Beulah wanted 7 to win, with two wickets still standing. They made 6, and the ninth wicket fell to the last ball of the over ! C. J . Love batted very finely for his 69*. During last week the Old County Cricketer put in appearances at three grounds, and was cordially received at all. On Wednesday he was at Acton, where Acton Town were meeting Twickenham Orleans ; on Friday at Mill Hill P a rk ; on Saturday at Charlton Park. I had hoped to get the Wednesday report for last week’s issue, but it failed, through no fault of its sender, to reach me in time. Play did not begin at Guunersbury Lane until 3.30, owing to the wretched weather. Acton were scarcely at full strength, having their wicket-keeper Shackleford,and one of their best bowlers, Roberts, as well as Philpott away. They put up the respectable total of 12 1, Parncott and Reynolds being chief scorers. F . H awkins, perhaps the side’s best bat, was foolishly run out just when he had got set. C. P.