Cricket 1912

358 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 27, 1912. Warren Bardsley in First=Class Cricket. T h is is not a chat. Bardsley has already been “ chatted” about in C ricket , and I am afraid that if I began to write about him I should not know where to stop. But some accompaniment to the capital sketch by Mr. A . L . Wade, the Scottish Bugger international, which adorns our front page, m ust be given ; and so I will present W . B .’s averages season by season, and a list of his centuries, figures which have a real eloquence of their own. When he first played for New South W ales in 1903-4 he was a purely defensive bat, with very few scoring strokes ; but—h a lt ! I said I wouldn’t, and here I am running on. B ardsley in F ir st -C lass C ricket S eason by S eason . Season. Inns. N.o. R. A. H.S. 1903-4 Aust. ... 1 .. 0 .. 19 . . 19*00 .. 19 1904-5 Aust. ... 1 ... 0 .. 4 . . 4-00 4 1905-6 Aust. ... 3 . 0 .. 91 . . 30-33 .. 64 1906-7 Aust. ... 5 .. 0 .. 161 . . 32-20 .. 107 1907-8 Aust. ... 8 .. 1 .. 275 . . 39-28 .. 108 1908-9 Aust. ... 9 .. 0 .. 748 . . 83*50 .. 264 1909 Eng. ... 51 .. 4 .. 2180 . . 46*39 .. 219 1909-10 Aust. ... 10 .. 0 .. 460 . . 46*00 .. 149 1909-10 N.Z. ... 11 .. 2 .. 375 . . 41*66 .. 97 1910-1 Aust. ... 19 .. 1 . 1233 . . 68*50 .. 191* 1911-2 Aust. ... 18 .. 2 .. 558 . . 34*87 .. 177 1912 Eng. (to July 24) ... 34 .. 4 .. 1466 . . 48-86 .. 184* Totals ... 170 14 7570 48*52 264 B aresley ’ s C enturies . 10 7, N. S. W ales v. Western A ustralia, Frem antle, 1906-7. 108, N. S . W ales v. England, Sydney, 1907-1908. 119 , N. S. W ales v. S . Australia, Sydney, 1908-9. 19 2 , N. S. W ales v. Victoria. Sydney, 1908-9. 264, Aust. Team v. B est of A ust., Melbourne, 1908-9. 2 19 , Aust. Team v . E ssex, Leyton, 1909. 108, Aust. Team v. Western U . of Scotland, Glasgow, 1909. 118 , Aust. Team v. W arwickshire, Birm ingham , 1909. 2 1 1 , Aust. Team v. Gloucestershire, Bristol, 1909. 136 , A ustralia (1st inns.) v. England, Oval, 1909. 13 0 , A ustralia (2nd inns.) v. England, Oval, 1909. 14 3*, Aust. Team v. M r. S. H . Cochrane’s X I., B ray, 1909. 149, N. S. W ales v. Victoria, Melbourne, 1909-10. 19 1* , N. S. W ales v. S. A ustralia, Sydney, 19 10 -1. 13 2 , A ustralia v. South Africa, Sydney, 19 10 -1. 124 , N . S. Wales v. Victoria, Melbourne, 19 10 -1. 17 7, N. S. W ales v. S . A ustralia, Adelaide, 19 11-2 . 184*, Aust. Team v. E ssex, Leyton, 19 12 . 13 7 , Aust. Team v. M .C.C., Lord’s, 19 12 . 1 2 1 , A ustralia v. South Africa, M anchester, 19 12 . 149, Aust. Team v. Scotland, Edinburgh, 19 12 . 164, A ustralia v. South Africa, Lord’s, 19 12 . In addition to these three-figure scores I find the following of 50 or more but under 100 credited to h im : In Test Matches in A u stralia: 94, 85, 82, 63, 58, 54. In Matches of Tours in E n g lan d : 90, 88, 76, 70*, 66, 66, 63*, 63, 62, 58, 58, 56. F o r N . S. W ales : 78, 78, 73, 70, 64, 59, 58, 56, 55, 5 1. For B est of Anst. v. Aust. Team : 67. F o r Aust. Team in New Zealand : 97, 7 1, 56*. * Signifies not out. J. N. P . C R IC K E T TO U B S OB D A Y M A T C H E S.—Ex-County Cricketer open for engagement as Tour M anager, or for Umpiring or Scoring.— D an iell , 32, B au l Road, Peckham , S .E . G E O R G E L E W I N & C O . , Club Colour Specialists and Athletic Clothing Manufacturers. OU TF ITTE R S B Y A P PO IN TM EN T TO The Royal Navy and Army, Cornwall, Kent, Middlesex, Somerset and Surrey Counties, and London Scottish, Irish and Welsh, Blackheath, Harlequins, Rich­ mond, Catford Rugby Football Clubs, and all the leading Clubs in the British Isles and abroad; M.C.C. S. African Tour, 1909, S. African Cricket Association 1910, and Queen’s Club, Kensington, the MJC.C. Australian Team 1911-12, and the South African Association Cricket Team 1912. Established 1869. W r it e for E stim ates . Telephone: P.O. 607 CITY Works at Camberwell. 8, CROOKED LANE , MONUM EN T , E.C. Cricket in Scotland. B y H a m ish . Our cricketers were favoured with delightful weather all last week, which was all the more gratifying as m any holiday fixtures were on the card. W ith the return of hard wickets scoring has gone up with a bound, and the century-makers are again at work. Most of the leading matches are now over ; but the Scoto-Irish game has yet to be carried through. T his fixture has been postponed a week and w ill now be played at B ray on 29th, 30th, and 3 1st August. Dunferm line, on holiday, played three matches, and lost them all by small m argins. In Edinburgh they went down to Grange after closing their innings—Dunfermline, 203 for 8 ; Grange, 206 for 6 (Hon. R. B . W atson, 98). On the following day in the Counties Championship as Fifeshire Aberdeen beat them scoring 12 5 against 112 ,and then Perthshire won by 179 for 8 to 158. Poloc were touring on the B orders, They lost to Selkirk, but with 88 for 2 had the better of a draw with G ala (140), and finished with a splendid victory over Peebles County— 190 to 12 5. W . Linton and Sandiford did capital work throughout the tour. The most interesting’mid-week match was between G range and Ayr. Ayr have been showing marvellous form in the West all the season, and this was their only match in the E ast. They won handsomely by 102 runs. They began by losing five wickets for 34, but then A. F . M. Morton (125) turned the game in their favour, and they eventually totalled 246, to which Grange could only reply with 144. It is a pity they have not more matches outside the Western district, so that we might properly estimate their strength. On Friday and Saturday Grange played their annual match with Oxford University Authentics, and a high scoring game ended in a draw. Authentics, 309 (B. H. Twining, 60; A . C. W ilkinson, 5 7 ; O. B . Graham , 57, and R . O. Lagden, 52) and 206 for 9 (inns, clsd.); Grange, 302 (Hon. R . B . Watson, 1 3 0 ; P. S. Fraser, 54) and 110 for 1 (M. M . Thorburn, 50* and P. S. Fraser, 43*). The two days before the Authentics had beaten Lord Eglinton’s strong eleven—266 and 148 for 8 to 252 and 56. The two days’ School Championship fixture between Merchiston (307) and Edinburgh Academy (232 and 15 3 for 3) also ended in a draw. R . N. Duke of Merchiston, 118 * , had top score. Merchiston and Fettes, both undefeated, thus tie for the Championship. G. B . Crole, the Academy captain, has been invited to play for the Public Schools against the M .C.C. The great match of the Saturday was the return fixture between Perthshire and Forfarshire on the North Inch. Perthshire were of opinion that the intervention of rain deprived them of victory in the first m eeting; but Saturday made up for a host of past disappoint­ ments. Forfarshire on a perfect wicket only scored 17 7 , R . G . Tait (82) alone having over twenty. He also completed his thousand runs for the season. Perthshire made light of their task and had gathered 308 for 4 when stumps were drawn. R . Gardiner had 63, J . A. Fergusson 63*, and J . Mailer 70* in h alf an hour. The total attendance was some ten thousand, a record for the Inch. £70 was collected for Benskin the Perth prof. whose benefit it was. In the other County match Stirling County (259) gained an easy victory over Aberdeenshire (12 1), thanks to Gooder, the old Surrey man, who had 75 and 7 for 46. In the West, A yr (170) fell to Kilm arnock (176) and are now only equal with Uddingston in the Western Union Championship. A yr’s last wicket added fifty runs, and almost pulled off the m atch. The other Union m atch—the Paisley Derby— resulted in K elburne (161) defeating Ferguslie by a single run am idst great excitement. Clydesdale (125) had to lower their colours to D rum pellier (243 for 8), for whom D. M cBean (118) is coming to the front as a bats­ man. West of Scotland (173 for 7) suffered a moral defeat at the hands of Greenock (287 for 2). J . B . W alker of Greenock (169*) severely trounced their weak bowling. As in other parts of the Country important fixtures were under­ taken on the Borders. The League m atch between H aw ick (109) and Selkirk (220) ended in a win for the latter on time. W ard (56), and W . G. Grieve (55) for Selkirk and J . S . Corrie (51) for Hawick were chief scorers. The Watsonians (243 for 5) overwhelmed a weak representation of Gala (61). For the winners W . G . Stuart scored 108 and A. F . W ilson and Jenner divided the wickets with 6 for 30 and 4 for 24 respectively. Peebles County (245 for 1) made up for their defeat by Poloc by vanquishing D alkeith (159). Clements, their prof., scored 103 before retiring and J . Muirhead had 73 for the visitors. Carlton were far afield at Berwick, and were surprised— beaten by 95 to 50.