Cricket 1912

408 CEICKET : A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. AUGUST 10, 1912. with 214 to make in 150 m inutes, the M ote lost 7 for 131. Groves was sent in to force the pace, and with Bracher (72*, including eleven 4’s) helped to add 71 in 20 minutes. The hom e side was thus enabled to win by 3 wickets with a quarter-of-an-hour to spare. If m y notes this week are disjointed, scrappy, and incom plete, I trust m y readers will excuse these im perfections. Keeping back their scores and reports in order to include the Bank H oliday matches, secretaries have left m e with an aching head and one pen-hand— about four hours in which to do three days’ work. On Wednesday only odds and ends should rem ain ; instead of that I have practically a full double whack to deal with. But I suppose it cannot be helped, and I must sim ply do m y best, and leave the result for m erciful judgm ent. L ondon Scottish looked like going down on Saturday to Townley Park, their first four wickets going very cheaply, but Lam ont, H . G. V. H om er, and the Bennetts saved them , and they effected an honourable draw. On M onday they cam e near to pulling off a fine victory against Barnet, m aking 215 for 5 in response to a total of 227. H . C. H odgson’s 91 was an innings of outstanding merit. For Barnet C. H . Barfield made 70, H . G. Dale 56. Lessness Park on M onday brought off one of their best performances. By level batting (C. I. S. W allace’s 44 top score) they totalled 238, and then dis­ m issed the strong Granville side for 55, Jenner and J. U. H all equally dividing the wickets. Jenner, head professional to the Grange club, is evidently taking a busm an’s holiday. Barnes had a great win over R ichm ond on M onday, atoning for their Saturday’s defeat at the hands of Streatham . H . A. Busher, helping his old Club again, played a great innings of 156, and took 5 for 29, showing clearly what a heavy loss Barnes experienced when he went to Ipsw ich. T he Rev. E . J. Duval also scored a capital century. Hampstead Nomads on Saturday came near to beating Pallingswick, not an easy thing to do at any tim e. They totalled 152, C. Browning and F. C. B oully each over 40 on a tricky wicket, and got 8 of the hom e team ’s wickets down for 110. W . Ram , an Indian, did splendid work in the field for Pallingswick. On Monday the N om ads’ stronger team went down badly to Napsbury Asylum ; but the A team beat Credit Lyonnais in very easy fashion. They had lost 7 wickets for 56 in their first innings ; but then W . A. Hirst (33), and A. C. Stewart (24*) doubled the score; and S. B . K. Caulfield in the first, and G . C. Ives in the second innings of their opponents, bowled in deadly style. Spencer drew with Bank of E ngland on Saturday, J. C. Larkin playing a particularly good innings of 46 for them , while the partner­ ship of S. H odson and G. M. G . Gillett saved the Bank from any danger of defeat after four wickets had gone cheaply. On Monday there was big scoring— over 500 for 19 wickets—in the Spencer v. Norbury Park W anderers match. F . F . Boles made a grand 144 for Spencer, J. T. G ordon (63) assisting him to make 172 for the first wicket in 80 m inutes— and that after Spencer had been put in, too ! F or the N .P .W . F. L . Johnson played a great game for his 94*. Old Charlton on M onday presented a particularly solid front to the attack of W est Kent W anderers. In an innings of 308 for 4, dec., the lowest score was 29. W . W eller and A. A . Martin (70 and 57) were again in great form . Thereafter A. H. M anning bowled in such style that none of the visitors, with the solitary exception of G . F. H ow ell (32*), could do anything at all with him , and W . IC. W . were all out for 83. Upper Sydenham were in Sussex. They were heavily defeated by Littleham pton, for whom F. Harris scored 108 on Satur­ day ; but on M onday they beat B ognor in quite as decisive fashion, A.. D . Morton and J. A. D. Skinner each topping 50. Old W hit­ giftians won both their games quite easily. On Saturday Purley went down to them by 100 runs runs, after the old boys had closured at 247 for 4—W . D. H ackney 101 (twelve 4’s), R . V . Bowater 74, neither giving a chance. G. A. Barber played a good innings of 50 for Purley, and made one huge hit right out of the ground. On M onday the O. W .’s were at Am pthill, where they dismissed the hom e team for 90, and then ran up 234—A . G. N ewcom b (69) and Carter Pegg (50) chief scorers this tim e. A fine innings of 121 by F . R . D ’O. M onro was the feature of H am pstead’s m atch with R ichm ond on Saturday ; and, thanks to him , to J. Arm itage, who slammed up 56 in half-an-hour, and to E. L. Marsden’s bowling, H ampstead w on by 97 runs. Playing on their old ground at Norbury Park against its new occupants, London and South W estern Bank, the Norbury Park W anderers brought off a big win. W . E . Hobbs, who has so long been one of the mainstays of the side, played a splendid innings of 105*, and the W anderers de­ clared at 190 fior 5— a score rendered the m ore creditable by the fact that they had Tate, the old Sussex pro., in opposition. H e took 4 of the 5 wickets. The Bank were all out for 85, F. L. Johnson and C. W . Goddard trundling m ost effectively. Albemarle and Friern Barnet, who were playing Crofton Park, also won with great ease. They declared at 232 for 6, H . T . Clarke a level century, H . A. 44, L. Forbes 41. Then B uxton and H. A. Clarke put out the hom e side for 55. B uxton is right at the top of his form just now—his last five analyses have been 8 for 51, 6 for 43,4 for 17, 9 for 29, and 6 for 20, total 35 for 160— and he wants a lot of playing. H e is quite slow, and has both breaks. Of course be depends a good deal upon his field ; but the A. & F . B. out work has been tip-top lately, and has never let him down. Lessness Park were at Eltham , where W . G. made top score against them , to the delight of m y L. P. correspondent, who would w illingly have fielded out while the G. O. M. scored a century. W . G. was never once at fault, did not give the semblance of a chance, and looked like stay­ ing in all the afternoon. H e places with all the old skill and certitude, but cannot summon up the old force. E ltham ’s score was only 136. Three of the visitors’ wickets fell ch eaply; but then Hawkes slogged greatly while H all defended like a Vine, and these two added 78 for the fourth wicket, practically assuring their side of victory. Jenner, the Grange (Edinburgh) pro., hit up 22 quickly, and W allace was 20* at the finish. There is no match the L. & N. W . R. players enjoy m ore than the annual game with Ascott, and this time they beat the Bucks. team for the first time in 5 years, which, of course, added to their enjoy­ ment. They ran up the good score of 231, A. E . W ilson, H . J. Paris, and Alec H oughton m aking 167 among them . Ascott lost 3 wickets quickly, but Baker, the old Lancashire pro., and E . Rogers put on 47 for the fourth. After Baker had run him self out, the end soon came. Paris had 4 for 19 with his leg breaks. As ever, the hospitality of Ascott was g rea t; and Mr. Anthony de R othschild, the host, arriving during the game from Bletchley, where he had been helping Bucks. to beat W ilts., congratulated the winners, but prom ised them a licking next y»ar. W e shall see! Beckton, 269 for 2 in 160 minutes, declared; Blackheath 270 for 2 in 105 minutes ! W ho would wish to see a better or a m ore sport­ ing m atch ? A nd who blames Keeble for declaring? T his is real cricket, the true spirit of the game of games, and one knows not to which side to award highest praise. S. Hadden (90*) and A. T. Keeble (88) for Beckton, L . O. H oney (107) and G. M. G ill (97*) for Blackheath were the big scorers. In the m atch 545 runs were registered in 265 m inutes’ actual play, or at more than two per minute throughout. L a u d e b d a l e , beaten by one run on the previous Saturday by the Spartans, had another tough tussle with North Middlesex, who got hom e by two wickets in the end. G. Burt bowled very finely for the winners— 9 for 4 6 ; and H . O. Jones for Lauderdale and A. E. Jarvis for N . M. batted creditably on a pitch that was never easy. Cyphers just saved their bacon against Forest H ill, who declared at 244 for 5 (A. J. W hyte 64, W . R. W illiam s 54*), and had 8 Cyphers’ wickets down for 138, G. C. Hast taking 6 of them. Harbert, W yes, and Simm ons were chief scorers for the visitors. On M onday Forest H ill smashed up Merton. J. L . Owens made 44, and W . W illiam s 39, in the hom e side’s first, A. J. W hyte 68* in their secon d ; but it was the bowlers who did the trick. Many fewer runs would have served, for Hast and C. J. Balkwill, bowling unchanged, had Merton out for 41 and 29, Balkw ill taking 6 for 22 and 7 for 8, Hast 3 for 14 and 3 for 17. W altham stow had two good wins during the holidays. A capital innings of 66 by J. Johns and good bowling by H . W . Hall (5 for 27) were the main factors of their defeat of E pping on S aturday; on M onday Edward Sims was to the fore against Stam ford H ill, with 68 and 5 for 61, and was well backed up by Blackhall and Coppard in the batting line, and T. D . Robinson (5 for 30) in the attack. This is m ore like W altham stow ’s true form . Brom ley Town had a good win over Battersea, who were very m uch below par. Ilford easily defeated B roxbourne, R eynolds (50), and W eaver (6 for 36) being the chief factors in the victory. The Wanderers easily defeated Pinner, L . S. W ells making a capital century. Given a little more time, Southgate would have beaten H ornsey, for after declaring at 316 for 7 they had 7 of their opponents’ wickets down for 186. S. H . Saville scored a fine 119*, the other principal contributors being J. A. E . Peschier and R . B. Heygate, who seems lost to county cricket now. J. L . Tate’s capital 62 had much to do with saving H ornsey from defeat. Streatham were all over Barnes, F. W . Robarts, who last week bowled