Cricket 1912

388 CEICKET : A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. AUGUST 3, 1912. which two or three weeks back played m e a sim ilar trick. “ Portrait Downer received is it for use this week ? ” —-came a wire from Moor Lane. “ D ow ner” — who was D ow ner? I knew him not. I wired back : “ N o ” — being pressed for tim e and lacking Mr. Knight’s talent for the elucidation of mysteries. But the portrait was one of Bonnor, which I should certainly have had reproduced if I had known. B ut I must not dwell longer upon Thursday afternoon, which was after all only a fraction of the w eek ; and the week must be dealt with, though at less length than it deserves. On Monday the hom e team suffered defeat from a strong Surrey C. & G. team, Narraway taking a century for the visitors, and A. N . Jewell top- scoring for Sutton with a m odest 30. Another defeat was experienced on the second day, when B . D. Clark’s 25 was the highest score against the W anderers. This is the old Bluecoat boy who later in the week made his first appearance for Essex. F . W . Bobarts, who had 5 for 12, was the ch ief agent in disposing of Sutton for 129. The W anderers replied with 213, B . Kenward 51. B . M. Bell took 6 for 82. On W ednesday a big win was recorded. A. N . Jewell played a m agnificent innings of 1 5 4 ; A. K. H ickm an (of last year’s Clifton team ), A . Sim s, J. G. M. B ell, and Maurice Jewell all helped with scores of between 30 and 4 0; the innings was declared at 363 for 6, and Banstead were tumbled out for 77, only H . J. W ood, with a gallant 44, doing anything. On the Thursday, D . J. C. Glass (45) was top scorer for the Butterflies in a modest total of 163, B . M. Bell bowling finely, and Sutton replied with 193, Jackson’s well-made 43 highest. The M .C.C. cam e along on Friday, and won a well contested match by only 18 runs. A. N. Jewell, P. B . W aterer, and D. D . Napper each made about 40 for the hom e side ; S. A. M iller-H allett’s 50 was top score for the great club. A big score was run up against Forest H ill on Saturday, the innings being declared at 334 for 6, of which the brothers Jewell put up well over a hundred in a first wicket partner­ ship. B . M. Bell and M aurice Jewell equally divided the visitors’ wickets, getting a good side out for 95, V. B. Brom age, presumably an em ergency man, A. J. W hyte, and A. Sellar contributing among them 72 of this modest total. Though others did well, A. N . Jewell’s batting and B . M. Bell’s bowling were the chief features of the week. Jewell was always m aking runs in fine style, and Bell took 30 wickets in the six games. M. F. S. Jewell also showed good all-round form , and was the captain’s m ost efficient aide in the attack. H ampstead’s H om e W eek was also from July 22 to 27. W ith three wins, two draws, and a single defeat the great North London club had a capital record. T he defeat was sustained in the first m atch of the week, at the hands of a powerful side of Harrow Blues, who m ade 235 for 7 in response to the club’s 229. T he second matoh was spoiled by rain. In the third no big scores were made (B. G. D. H ow ell’s 44 was the highest), and the hom e side won com fortably against the M iddlesex club, which included in its team such good men as M offat, Tolkien, and Osborne, of Ealing, Peschier, of South­ gate, Jeacocke, of W hite H ouse, and others. There was nothing very big in the run-getting line in the fourth gam e, v. Cryptics, for whom a Hampstead m an, G. H . Farm iloe, was top scorer; but the match was pretty closely contested, the club w inning by only 23 runs. The best game of the week was the fifth, with Uppingham Bovers. The Bovers made the biggish score of 319, C. S. Hurst, the old Oxford captain, C. H. E iloart (Hampstead v. Hampstead again), and J. Carr each putting up 50 or m ore ; but thanks to A. B . Tanner, who scored a fine not out century, G Crosdale, and G . A. S. H ickson, the club replied with 328 for 7. T he sixth m atch was against M .C.C., who included in their team P. B. Johnson, W . P. Harrison, B. L . Bisgood, B . S. Foster, and Beeves and Young of Essex. Hampstead made 237 (B. S. Everitt 74), and had 8 M.C.C. wickets down for 108. But D . J. Crump (58*) and W . P. Harrison, who batted an hour for his 22, stayed together and saved their side from defeat. T he Old County Cricketer visited St. Quintin’s Park on Thurs­ day, to see Kensington (North and South) play Camberwell. The hom e side had not its strongest team out— it never has on Thursday — and Camberwell made a bold start (un-bowled, some m ight say, but the O.C.C. writes “ bold ” ), the first three batsmen all scoring over 50. A . Jeacocke (who seems to have been putting in a busy and variegated week) m ade 52 of the first 73, and one of his slashing hits went into a neighbouring garden, where a big retriever gave some trouble before his consent to have the ball rem oved could be won. W . W atts was joined on Jeacocke’s departure by the Camber­ well skipper, S. Sampson, and again runs cam e fast till Watts (55) was run out, and Sam pson (57) left alm ost imm ediately, bowled by A. J. Perrin. T he total was then 173 for 3 ; but all were out for 232. Camberwell had com e three m en short, but substitutes were found for them. At the outset Kensington did pretty well. T . S. Bud gen played forcing cricket for 35, and G. T. Fairbrother, who nearly always makes runs and does not waste time about it, made 27. But the last 6 wickets went down for 2 runs, Jeacocke claim ing 3 of them for a single. Watts, who bowled well all through, had 5 for 27. T he O.C.C. writes : I have discovered that the great characteristic of the cricketer is—Modesty (capital M, please) ! W e know the golfer who tells of his record round, the angler who boasts of his record ca tch ; but not for personal glory is cricket p layed ! The Kensington H on. Sec., Mr. W . A . Tunks, on being asked by m e to let C e ic k e t have some account of the.club’s doings regularly, replied: “ W ell, you see, it looks a bit like self-advertisement.” F rom a Kensington supporter I got an interpretation of this speech. The Tunks fam ily are the backbone of the club. In recent matches they have done a lot of big scoring ; in one the three brothers m ade about 200 among them. B ut, honestly, I don’t see why the fam ily’s light should be hidden under a bushel. This age does not count self- advertisement a crim e. (Editorial N ote.— This is not a solitary instance, and I have no doubt that Mr. Tunks was in earnest. I asked a good friend of mine why he did not send along reports of his club’s doings. H is reply was : “ Couldn’t. Happened to make top score or thereabouts myself in the first three or four m atches.” Fortunately— shall I say ?— he has not done that sort of thing m ore recently, and I have had reports. But I hope the Tunks brothers will go on doing it, and let m e hear of it, too !) On Saturday the O.C.C. visited the ground of the Bellevue Club at Upper Tooting. “ The trail of the builder is over us all,” he writes. Next season Bellevue will be hom eless. Already a big slice has been taken off one side of their ground. W hen they go out into the desert Bellevue hope to arrange a list of fixtures as a wandering club till, by lucky hap, they find another g rou n d ; but Mr. Alec McCabe, their secretary, and other members are a bit downcast. Their opponents of Saturday, Stanley, are in scarcely better case, for their ground at Denmark H ill m ay soon go. G. Skinner’s 51 was the best score for S tan ley; he got quite a number of boundaries by a powerful on-stroke between m id-on and square-leg. A. C. Knight, G. Gardner, and C. Jarratt all helped in the com pilation of a total of 122. H . C. Stanley bowled finely for the hom e team. Buns were expected from him too ; but he was out unluckily, bowled for a duck in playing back to a fastish ball. H. H . Sprigge and H . Kitson then did good w ork; but after the fall of the fourth wicket the side went all to pieces, and the end came with the total 103. G. Gardner, a steady left-hand bowler, had 4 for 29, and G . Sheaf, when put on a second time, skittled the rabbits with his expresses. It is a pity B . T. Crawford should play so little first-class cricket, for he is a better bowler to-day than ever. Not content with summer practice, he improves him self in the trundling art during the winter, with French chalk laid for a yard or two upon the floor, so that he may study the impressions made by the ball and note the angle of the seam’s impact— I know what I m ean, but I am not at all sure that I can make it clear to those who read. Anyw ay, B. T. studies the art. On Thursday, the day on which I heard o f this, he took 9 of the 10 Purley wickets for the W anderers at a cost of only 37 runs, his side (A. L . Kemp 76, P . G. Gale 51, B. V. Bowater 47*) winning easily. Bowater was at the other end at Purley, for part of the innings, anyway, and Bowater is a pretty useful bowler. But it was as a bats­ m an that he shone on Saturday, when the Old Whitgiftians signally vanquished Spencer. “ W e were properly thrashed. Bowater’s innings was splendid— driving and cutting equally good. Bannerman lured us to destruction.” So reports m y Spencer correspondent, and I don’t think the O .W . secretary (not heard from at time of writing) could be m ore sim ply eloquent. Bowater made 103. Featherston­ haugh was a bsen t; but Barton and Lloyd were there, and centuries against the Spencer attack take some getting. W . B . Bannerman took 8 for 26, and did the hat trick. At one stage he had 8 for 13. Kensington (N. & S.) beat L . & N .W .B ., the three Tunks brothers contributing 72 of the 170 from the bat. (Inform ation received from A lec H oughton, not from the Kensington secretary). A. J. Perrin bowled well for the winners. Heathfield had a good win over Boston Park (for whom C. E . Saunders made nearly half the runs), H . W . W eaver’s 128*, a finely hit innings, being m ainly responsible, though F. M. Swancott’s 5 for 37 had also a share in the victory. H onor Oak beat South W oodford by only 18 runs, and two men (George Abel, one of the fam ous Bobby’s numerous sons, who scored 87*, and J. H. Lockton, who took 8 for 69) did nearly all the work