Cricket 1912

364 CEICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. J uly 27, 1912. to 370, tlianks to some brisk play by R alph Whitehead. Only 54 runs were scored from the 222 balls Albert B elf delivered. Holloway also bowled well. Tuesday’s was a dreary day’s play. Chaplin’s 6 off Whitehead was a veritable oasis in a desert of negative tactics. It was evident throughout that the home side were struggling for first innings’ points. Vine and Robert R elf put on 73 for the first wicket in 85 m inutes, R elf displaying some vigour ; the Jam Sahib and Albert R elf added 70 for the fifth in 90 m inutes, and the Jam and Chaplin 4 1 in 33 for the sixth. V ine batted 3 hours for 45, and twice went nearly half an hour without scoring; the Star of the E ast was actually batting 30 m inutes after making a few runs before he added another, and took 130 m inutes to reach 50. B u t after tea runs came faster, though the scoring was never really rapid. At time Sussex were 92 behind with 4 wickets to fall. Fender was out at once next m orning; but Cox stayed 105 m inutes, and helped his illustrious partner to add 93 in that time. The scoring was still slow ; when 400 went up the innings had lasted over 8 hours. Street aided the Jam to add 8b in 70 m inutes for the ninth wicket. The great man’s long innings lasted 5 hrs. 50 m in. ; there was no chance in it, and it included twenty-three 4’s. H is weak wrist slowed him down, but, all things considered, it was a really wonderful display. In all the Sussex innings lasted 9 hrs. The rest of the proceedings mattered nothing, and Lancashire had justification for refusing to be hurried. S taffordshire v . D urham .— R ain spoiled the first day of W alsall’s one county m atch of the season, no play being possible after lunch. Before that Durham had tumbled out for 05 to Barnes and Bueknell, only C. Y . Adamson, the Durham skipper, showing any ability to cope with the pair. On Tuesday Staffordshire forced the game finely, P. Briggs and L . F . T aylor sending up 72 for the first wicket in 45 m inutes before Briggs left. B arnes and W. H. Twigg also scored fast, but with 15 2 for 5 (scored in 1 10 minutes) up, rain again descended, and no more play was possible. A collection made for Barnes realised between £ 5 and £6. B uckinghamshire v . B edfordshire . —As in the match at Bed­ ford the visitors were unfortunate in having to take the field without W harmby, who has a damaged hand, and C. B . Atkinson, who is spending part of his leave after a long spell in the backwoods of Siam in a bout of fever, which is distinctly rough luck. Beds could only make 77 (Southwell nearly half) against Sewell, Stacey, and W right. Bucks replied with 224, B . H . G. Shaw and Sewell for the second, and W. F . Lowndes and P . L . Frith for the ninth wicket putting up good stands. The visitors made a much better resistance on Tuesday, Southwell, Potter, Holdstock, and Orr all m aking useful scores ; but during lunch a thunderstorm broke, and there was no chance of further play. C ornwall v . K ent I I .— R ain here also I P lay was impossible at Truro till past 4 o’clock. Then the Kent men could do nothing at all with Whiting, and were all out for 74. Cornwall batted half-an- hour, and lost one wicket for 6. On Tuesday the Cornish batsmen were helpless before Preston, and tumbled out for 3 3 —seven blobs. When the men of Kent batted again Jennings played finely for 55, and Dutnall (F.) and Collins also made useful scores. Set 1 7 1 to win, the home side again found Preston too good for them, only Vibart reaching double figuies, and Kent II. won by 1 14 runs. In the m atch Preston had 12 wickcts for 35, takiD g five with successive balls in the first innings. Whiting took 10 for 68, and G. Escott 8 for 63. M iddlesex v. W arw ickshire . — The first match ever played between these two counties. R ain lim ited play to 100 minutes on the first day. F . G . Stephens, hitting well, and Kinneir, playing sound cricket, took the score to 92 before the first wicket fell. Then, however, several went down quickly, and at call of time 105 for 4 was the record. On Friday the remaining batsmen were helpless before the veteran Jack Hearne and Tarrant on a funny wicket, and all were out for 126— 34 for the last nine wickets. For the fourth time in his wonderful career J . T. Hearne did the hat trick, getting Baker caught in the slips, and clean bowling Langley and Hands. M iddlesex, in a bad light and with frequent stoppages, made 36 for 1 before a grey day’s play ended. Tarrant proved the m ainstay of M iddlesex, as he has so often done before; the only other man whp did much was H aig, who hit well for 3 1. The Anglo-Australian’s 63 was a fine innings—eight 4’s. Quaife was far and away the most successful bowler. Going in again, Warwickshire made no stand at all until the ninth wicket had fallen at 58. Then Hands joined Baker, and kept up his wicket while the pro played a great game. These two men than doubled the score, and ran M iddlesex so closely that only 50 minutes were left to make the 65 required. F or some inscru­ table reason Kidd sent in Weston, a left-hander, with Tarrant, and the anxiety was intense as time was wasted by changing over and runs failed to come. Hendren hit out finely, however, and the winning stroke was made off the first ball of the last over—thanks to the good sportmanship of the W arwickshire men, who made all haste throughout. D evonshire v . M onmouthshire .— At Exeter the rain did not interfere, and there was quite a lively first day’s play. W. F . Sturt’s 72 was the feature of the home side’s innings. Silverlock and N. C. Phillips batted finely for the visitors, making a long stand for the second w icket; later Gordon Phillips and W. P . Geen, the Rugger crack, put up another stand, and at call of time Mon­ mouth led by 1 1 5 with 3 to go. On the second morning Light disposed of these three at a cost of only one run. In Devon’s second Oruwys, Hargrave Carroll, Shelley, and Knight all helped Sturt, who was again a long way the highest scorer, making 147 of 372 from the bat by his side in the match ; and the decent total of 236 was registered. Monmouth had to fight for victory ; but another good innings by N. C. Phillips, who made 186 for once out in the game, gave them a verdict by 3 wickets. Gordon Phillips had 9 wickets for 92, and to him and his brother and Silverlock belonged the chief credit for the win. H a m p sh ire v. A u s t r a lia n s . —Philip Mead’s innings over­ shadowed everything else on the first day. He came in second wicket down at 40, batted 4 hours, never made a bad stroke, and hit as many as twenty-five 4’s. F ry helped to add 62 for the third wicket in 35 m inutes, aud Jephson and he put on 95 in about an hour, the old H aileyburian hitting eleven 4’s. Sprot lashed out, making a 6 and four 4,s during his ten minutes’ stay. At call of time the Australians had lost 3 men for 47, When play was resumed Bardsley went on till he had made 60, which took him 13 5 m inutes. He gave only one chance, and hit six 4’s. Minnett hit in brilliant style, getting 58 in an hour, including a 5 and eight 4’s. Kennedy bowled particularly well. In a m inority of 174, the Australians were sent in again. The first wicket realised 37 before Jennings le ft; but 4 were down for 62. Then Kelleway and Gregory became partners, and added 85 in an hour before time, when they were still unparted. W ith the partnership for the fifth wicket increased to 102, Kelleway was run out, and from that point all hope of the A ustralians’ averting defeat vanished, though Gregory and Matthews added 58, and the St. Kilda man carried his bat for 45. Gregory batted 1 1 5 minutes for his 85, including eleven 4's. The County easily knocked off the runs required for victory. Mead, who made 19 3 without losing his wicket in the match, and Kennedy, who took 1 1 wickets for 18 1, did great things for the winners. W oodbrook v. S outh A fricans . —Vogler, Peter Clarke, Baker and Stedman, whilom of Surrey, R. H . Lambert, probably the best all-rounder Ireland has, and H. W ilkinson, who used to play for Yorkshire, were included in the Woodbrook side. The bowling was not too strong, for of course the colonials know Yogler. Tancred hit eighteen 4’s, and made his 1 3 1 (with two chances) in 150 minutes. Beaumont helped him to add 55 for the third w ioket; Faulkner got 56 in quick time ; Cox and Ward hit up 43 in 20 minutes for the last wtcket. The Irish team made a fine start. At call of time P. F . Quinlan (Dublin University) and Baker had sent up 1 1 1 unseparated. On Tuesday they took their first wicket partnership to 186, easily a record against this Afrikander team, before Baker was run out for 90 (eleven 4’s). Quinlan played a very steady game. None of the others did much, though four reached double figures, Herbert Taylor unexpectedly coming out strongly in the role of bowler. At call of time the South Africans had 25 up for the loss of Tancred. Rain lim ited Wednesday’s play to less than 2 hrs., and T aylor’ s well hit 7 1 in 80 minutes was its only feature of note. Cricket in the Scottish Highlands. B y “ C e l t . ” In lovely weather the only match of the North of Scotland League programme was played on Saturday last between the Elgin City C.C. and the Inverness Saint Andrews in the Victoria Park, Inverness, where on their last visit the champions “ came a cropper.” Owing to the military at Port George being away on a route march their game with Nairn County had to be postponed, and the fact of the Amateur Sports being held at Forres was the reason of another game being off. But to the game that was played. The home team took first use of the wicket, and made a very fair appearance, scoring 64 before being got rid of, O. Danielson being top scorer with 24. On Elgin City taking to the wicket at the outset it looked as if they were again to “ come a cropper ” on this ill-fated ground for visiting clubs, but by steadiness on the part of A. Macdonald, E. Milne and J. H. Taylor, they succeeded in passing their opponents score at the close of play, having 6 wickets down for 79, the three batsmen named getting 15, 21 not out and 17 respectively. The bowling and fielding on neither side were worthy of any comment, the ground being responsible.