Cricket 1912

J u l y 20, 1912. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 349 G. D a w d r y , H. A. W hite, L. E. Hiscock (Captain) D. H unt , P. K night . T. G. C arter (Hon. Sec .), R. M. H erron F. A rnold , G. H. S w ain , J. C. C h ristie , F. W ar d , W ood (Umpire). Battersea C.C.—First Eleven, 1912. the Hurlingbam Club having secured it. Parson’s Green will not move fa r ; their new ground will be a bigger one, with a first-rate club-house and better provisions for members generally ; but Mr. H. 11. E llis, the secretnry, adm its that the breaking of old ties will cause him and m any others regret. Parson’s Green hope in course of time to arrange a more ambitious programme, including a match with M.C.C. ; but it is likely that these ambitions w ill be deferred till 1914, to give the new ground time to settle. The club were play­ ing Lauderdnle on Saturday. It was terribly h o t; probably in less torrid weather T . Sales, who scored 9 1 for the visitors, would have reached his century, for he slackened perceptibly in vigour after passing 70. B ut the fielding might have been better under different conditions; there were some bad misses and wild returns. Perhaps, however, the continuous flight of balloons from the adjacent ground— seven being in the air at once—had a distracting effect. Lauderdale reached 216 . Harrod bowled well. He gets up a good pace with quite a short run, and has an excellent natural action, but he pitches a trifle short. A foot or two further up, and some of the balls that now go over the stumps might hit them. C. J . Bool and F . C. Driver played the best cricket of the day in putting on 63 for the second wicket of the home side. Driver has a nice crisp style, and is quite young ; his club hopes much of him. Bool played in excellent form. P. G .’s total was 135 for 3. C. Lewis (left) and A. W icks bowled steadily and well. I am sorry to hear from the O.C.C. that Mr. A . R . E . Wren, the Lauderdale Hon. Sec., is unwell—which explains my not getting the Lauderdale score last week, I take it. The club goes on tour this week, and W ren’s illness has thrown some extra work on the capable shoulders of the captain, Mr. G. R . Crofts. He has managed, he says, to get a good side for the week in Essex, during which Shoeburyness Garrison (two days), Westcliff-on-Sea, Wick ford, Mr. T. W icks’s Southend X I., and Upm inster will be met. In Sussex cricket a fine all-round performance (114 and 5 for 51) was accomplished by the old Malvernian, 0 . W . W right, who played once or twice for Somerset a few years ago, for Seaford v. East Grinstead. Other centuries of the day were those of A. R . Upton for Southwick, and T. Wakely for Brighton Gas Co. J. Thomas scored 97 for Crowhurst Park v. Hastings and St. Leonard’s, R . A. W aller 95* for East Grinstead v. Seaford. C. Corfe 79 for F . H. Gresson’s X I. v. Jarv is Brook, L . Luck 77 for Clifton (Brighton) v. U ckfiell. and F . R Johnson 72 for Linden Park v. Brenchley. At Steyning the home team ran up 228 for Sussex Martlets, who replied with 207 for 4. H. E . Oliver (57) and J . Flowers (49) for the home team, T. H. W. Curtis (67) and A. C. Somerset (48) for the Martlets were the chief scorers. Here play was continued in the rain, and over a great part of the county thunderstorms hung about all day, aud sharp showers fell now and then. Mayfield were not playing on Saturday ; but on Wednesday they b e atF . H . Gresson’s X I. at Crowborough (200 for 7 to 58), and they have not lost a match this season, winning 8 and drawing 2 of 10 played. Marlborough Blues visited Rickling Green—where 30 years ago the record E n glish score was made—and ran up a total too big for the local side, though a long way short of record. F . S. Lew is contributed 84 to the 282 of the Blues, who won by 15 3 runs. R iver Plate House had a thumping win at Walton. They put out the home side for 95, Buckeridge bowling finely, and then Lyne Sm ith and Drabble hit off the runs unparted, and carried the score to 126 in 55 minutes before the former was dismissed. Drabble and Boitel-Gill then added 88 more. Drabble’s fine 110 included fifteen 4’s. Old Whitgiftians were also up the river. Teddington declared against them at 204 for 6 ; but W. D. Hackney and Carter Pegg made a capital stand for the second wicket, and with 162 for 3 at the close the old boys of the Croydon School had none the worse of affairs. G .W .R ., another team playing out of town, had a tough tussle with Broxbourne on a wicket affected by rain. G .W .R .’s first wicket realised 65 (E. Gibbs 39, W. R . Morris 27); then they tumbled pretty fast, but A. Grugeon and F . K. Honeyball added 33 for the last, a stand which, as it turned out, decided the issue of the match. C. A. Collis and Captain White put on 44 for the home team ’s second wicket, Collis and A. C. Brewitt added 37 for the third, and the fourth took the score to 110 . After that Morris and Grugeon got the upper hand ; but right up to the finish it was any­ one’s game, and the visitors won by as narrow a margin as 13. Derrick Wanderers met with their first defeat of the season, H. G . Cryer playing good all-round cricket for Dulwich against them. The totals were 93 and 130 . Street bowled finely for the losers. At Catford, Brixton, thanks to consistent scoring rather than to any notable individual innings, five men making between 20 and 40, had a good win over the home side, for whom A. Ingersoll scored 57. Ilford found a very bad wicket at Cheshunt, but won by 34 runs, and are still undefeated. Lyon played an excellent innings for them, and the usually sedate Edgar Porter hit at everything,