Cricket 1912

A u g u s t 17, 1912. CEICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. 423 were 87 for 6 a little later, five wickets going down for 4 runs. Morfee hit out well for 44, and the total reached 150. Cornwall never looked like making the runs required, Tresawna again being the only man to do m uch. In the m atch W hiting had 13 for 139, Freeman (a brother of E . J. Freeman of Essex, one believes) 10 for 42. M o n iio o t h s h ir e v . G l a m o r g a n . — Thanks chiefly to Norman Kiches’ capital innings of 73, and the effective bowling of Creber, Glamorgan had a lead of 45 runs at the end of an innings each. On Saturday, when rain interfered with play, Glamorgan declared at 126 for 1 (Riches 69*), and M onm outh made 73 without the loss of a wicket, Silverlock and G . C. Phillips refusing to be separated. B e d f o r d s h ir e v . C a m b r id g e s h ir e . — Coulson again bowled well for Cambs, and H oldstock, W harm by, and the Elstow school boy, W . A. Southwell, were the only men to do m uch for the hom e side. Cambs easily obtained a lead, the Bedfordshire fielding being below par, and at call of time had 7 down for 218. The innings ended for 254, S. V . Graham taking 5 for 33. Watts was top scorer with 75, but should have been out at 32. A thunderstorm stopped play almost directly Beds, had started their second innings. W o r c e s t e r s h ir e v . A u s t r a l ia n s . — For the first time this season W orcestershire had the help of the Fosters, H . K., B . E ., and G. N. all turning out. The side would have fared badly with­ out them , for though H . K. failed to score, the other two contributed 88 of the 142 from the bat in the first innings. B . E . showed his old m asterly form , and G. N. batted 90 minutes, with eight 4’s and only one chance for his 62*. Pearson, who was in 100 m inutes for his 26, was the only other batsman to do anything. In Bale’s absence, Geoffrey Foster kept wicket. The pitch was improving when the Australians batted, and Kelleway and Macartney added 57 for the second wicket, after which the form er and Bardsley put on 43 more unseparated before the day’s play ended. Besum ing on Tues­ day, Bardsley and Kelleway carried their partnership to 128 before one of Sim pson-H ayward’s lobs bowled the tall man, who had batted hrs. for his 85. Bardsley went right on to the close, and carried his bat for 176, made in 290 m inutes. He was early missed at the wicket, but scarcely made another bad stroke, and hit in all eighteen 4’s. Gregory, Minnett, and W ebster all played useful inn in gs; but Bardsley stood out head and shoulders above all his comrades. The total of 407 left W orcestershire in a m inority of 264. As it turned out, this was of small consequence, for there was no play on W ednesday. M .C.C. v. D o r s e t s h ir e . — A long stand by the Bev. B . Swann- Mason and Captain G. A. M. Docker, who added 113 for the third wicket for M .C.C., and Fielder’s bowling were the features of the first day’s play. The Dorset batsmen were helpless against the Kent express, and he had the extraordinary analysis of 17 overs, 14 m aidens, 11 runs, 7 wickets. The county fared m uch better in the follow -on, the B ev. W . H . Arundell batting finely for 66; but the M .C.C. won quite easily. Y o r k s h ir e v . M id d l e s e x . — The result of this m atch seemed not unlikely to decide cham pionship honours for the season, since York­ shire have to meet no other side so likely to defeat them as Middlesex. Batting first, the W hite Bose wearers could do little with Tarrant and Jack H earne, only Hirst, who stayed 80 minutes for 24, making any prolonged resistance. H e reached his 1,000 runs, and Tarrant took his hundredth wicket, having previously registered four figures. The Anglo-Australian was top scorer for his side and of the day, E. L. Kidd being the only other batsman to do m uch. Drake bowled with great effect. There were 6 l.b.w . decisions on M onday, five of them against Yorkshiremen. At call of time Yorkshire were 11 in arrears, with all their wickets to fall. On Tuesday Yorkshire batted in dogged fashion, and obtained a good lead. Oldroyd was in 3 brs. for his 47 ; Denton made 42 of the 69 for the second wicket with him as partner; and at lunch 150 was up for 4 wickets, though mistakes in the field had contributed to this. Later, though Drake hit out, little could be done with Tarrant, and the innings closed for 215. Middlesex started in deplorable fashion. Tarrant and Douglas left at once, and 5 were out for 22, B ooth taking 4 of them. Kidd, Haig, and Murrell improved matters a bit, but at call of time M iddlesex, with 2 to go, needed 108 runs— a hopeless position. The two wickets fell without a run added in the morning. B ooth had 8 for 47. C a m b r id g e s h ir e v. B e d f o r d s h ir e . — Cambs. fielded badly, nulli­ fying Coulson’s capital bowling, and the later batsmen of the visiting side made m erry. Then, in a bad light, and with M orcom bowling fast, the wind at his back, the hom e side lost 5 for 41. On Tuesday m orning Coulson and L. J. Beid made the best stand of the innings (44) for the last w icket; and in the follow -on very good form was shown by four batsmen— K . G. Beid, C. H . Pigg, W . C. Hunt, and B . H . V . W hybro— but the rest only made 18 am ong them ; and the visitors easily knocked off the runs required. Dr. M orcom had 8 for 90 in the match, S. V . Graham 6 for 49. G l o u c e s t e r s h ir e v . K e n t .— The first day of the Cheltenham Festival drew a good crowd. Gloucestershire lost 4 wickets for 27 ; but then A. W . Boberts played a defensive game while Jessop hit up 50 in 28 m inutes, giving a couple of chances, but nevertheless showing brilliant form . Boberts stayed 90 m inutes for his 30. No one else did anything. A stand of 42 for the first wicket by Hardinge and Humphreys, and another of 31 for the 6th, by Seymour and W . A. Powell (playing his first match for the county’s first team) were the leading features of the Kent batting. Powell hit a couple of 6’s. Jessop, going on later, took the last 5 wickets for only 14 runs in 37 balls. Before tim e Gloucestershire had lost 6 wickets for 52 (of which C. O. H . Sewell and Dipper made 31 for the first) in their second innings. Play on Tuesday was limited to 50 minutes, during which the hom e side lost 3 for 34. On W ednesday the last wicket fell with only a single added, Blythe and D. W . Carr having taken 5 each. Then rain came on, and there was no more play for some hours. At 4 30 Kent went in to get 95 in about as many m inutes, on a pitch easier than at any form er period of the m atch. T he first 58 were scored by Humphreys and Hardinge in 40 minutes, and the remaining 37 by the latter and Seym our in 20 minutes more. S u s s e x v . E s s e x . No play was possible at the Saffrons on M onday ; indeed, the pitch was under w ater; but the game started at noon on Tuesday. Bobert B elf in 70 minutes scored 43 of the 57 put on for the first wicket. Vine refused to be tempted, and batted 190 minutes for his 44. Simms hit out finely, had some luck, and scored 80 in 130 m inutes— rare good going on a sodden pitch. H e and Yine had a partnership of 89 for the third wicket. Chaplin and Fender hit up 57 in half-an-hour, and then the innings was declared. John Douglas left early, and at close of play Essex had lost one wicket for 25. On W ednesday m orning they were all out for 144, Perrin, as in the first innings v. Yorkshire last week, being the only m an to make m uch resistance, though Buckenham stayed an hour for 13. Simms bowled with deadly effect after lunch, taking six of the seven wickets that fell for seven runs, bowling his man in every case. Going in again, Sussex made 46 for 3, and declared. W ith 177 needed, and only 115 minutes left, E ssex had nothing to play for but a draw. Perrin and Buckenham made this certain by taking an hour to score 42 for the first wicket. W il t s h ir e v. G la m o r g a n . — W hittington, Maxwell, and Gwyn Thom as made useful scores on a tricky wicket, and W ilts, failed be­ fore Hacker (7 for 20) and Creber. A stand for the first wicket by Biches and Sym onds (ended by the latter’s having to retire, hurt) in ­ creased the visitors’ advantage, and at the end of Monday’s play W ilts, were in hopeless plight. The expected happened on Tuesday. The visitors’ innings closed for 225, W hittington being absent and Symonds not resum ing; and W ilts were dism issed for 103, E . New­ man and A. M. Miller alone reaching 20. N o r f o l k v . S u f f o l k . — The first match of the Norwich Week was all over in one day. Between Suffolk’s two innings of 39 and 40 (Falcon won the toss and put the visitors in) N orfolk made 244, the B ev. G. B . Baikes, Fulcher, Thurgar, Stevens, and Falcon all contributing useful scores. Falconer had 11 wickets for 34 in the match ; in the second innings he and his captain each took 5 for 19. The Triangular Tests. E ig h t h M a t c h : E n g l a n d v . S o u t h A f r ic a , a t t h e O v a l . D a il y I m p r e s s io n s . B y H a m is h S t u a r t . The weather was the only dull thing at the Oval on Monday, and not even the most blase of critics sated with the daily show since the first of the May mornings dare say or hold otherwise. We had a difficult wicket and a day of sustained interest, of many happenings, many incidents and some performances that may rank with the historic deeds in tests. The only drawback was the cheerless weather ; autumn invaded August and the eager nip of the air sug­ gested rather “ November’s surly blast ” than the opening day on the moors. England had distinctly and decidedly the better of tho day’s play, and their performance of secur­ ing a lead of 81 was unquestionably a performance due to their all-round superiority as a side. After dismissing South Africa in 2J hours for 95, England made 176 in 2 Jhours. The English innings was over at twenty minutes to six, but the light, which had never been good while England were batting, was so bad that stumps were drawn for the day at ton minutes to six. For the big advantage