Cricket 1912

AUGUST 17, 1912. CEICKET : A WEEKLY BECORD OF THE GAME. took 9 for 15 for Ja rv is Brook v. Groombridge. The one century of the day was H . Churchill’s for Linden Park. Churchill must have made a lot of runs this season. On Tuesday in unpleasant weather—but that goes almost with­ out saying in these days—Colchester and E a st E ssex beat Felixstowe at Felixstowe. The home side could only make 1C4, of which S. H. W rinch, who has batted well for Suffolk in recent matches, scored 47- W. L . Samson and W. A. Sm ith bowled very effectively. R. W. Macfarlane (55) and J . W. Egerton-Green put up 59 for the first wicket of the visitors, and with Macfarlane and W . A. Sm ith, who punched hard for 36, together the runs were made for the loss of only 2 wickets. On Thursday the Colchester side lost to W itham at Witham, a result due largely to the all-round play of G. M. Strutt, who scored 60 and took four good wickets. J . J . Bland (39) and E . Stiff (28) did best for the losers. On Tuesday, September 24, Ernest H ayes will bring a South of England X I., including Tom Hayward, John Hobbs, Razor Sm ith, Walter Lees, Fred Huish, E lias Hendren, Frank Tarrant, and Ernest Bale to play X V I. of Honor Oak and District on the Honor Oak ground, which is (for the information of those who do not already know it) in Colyton Road, only two m inutes from the Peckham Rye tram term inus. There is just a chance that by September 24 summer will have arrived, but don’t bet on i t ! West Kent Wanderers met National Provincial Bank, and made a bad start, losing 4 for 40 ; but then G . F . Howell and J . G. Ward, getting together, scored very fast, and added 126 unseparated. The innings was then declared ; but the Bank had only been batting a few m inutes when rain stopped the game. The West Kent Wan­ derers will be in Belgium this week. They play three matches there, one against a representative Belgian team and the other two against leading clubs. J . H. Longm an w ill captain the side, which will also include A. E . Lugg, H . Waller, W. H . Lawrence, F . W. Courtenay, J . G. Ward, F . Goddard, G. F . Howell, R . S. Tickell, F . Silk, and W . H. Maggs. A number of the club’s supporters, in ­ cluding G . F . Howell, sen., the Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, will accompany the team. Beulah were among the few clubs who managed to get their matches finished, beating Bickley and Widmore in a game played in sections between heavy storms. H . Clegg and J . C. F . Mathiesen put on a useful 49 for the first wicket, and a total of 12 3 was realised ; then W. Tufnell and H. Parker bowled so well that the home side were all out for 29. But in fairness to the Bickley batsmen it should be mentioned that the light was terribly bad, and that if any of them had appealed against it the game must have been drawn. Beulah II. drew with Aptus. Somewhat belated, the full account of the seventeenth Rossallian Cricket Tour reached me the other day. I am sorry that it is impossible to find space for the full scores, but they are summarised on another page. Extending over three weeks, during which time 9 two-day matches were played, the tour, like all its predecessors, saw the Old Boys of the famous Lancashire school perform with great credit against strong opposition. In every case, except the match with the school, they had good professional bowling against them, yet they won four matches and lost only one, and averaged 16*39 per wicket against their opponents’ 14-65. S. F . Peshall, A . S. Edge, and T. A. Higson were the batting m ainstays ; and the latter two did a big share of the bowling with fine success, taking 80 wickets between them. The averages of the tour were as under : Bentley, F.M. Crummack, E. S. Cutter, R. C. ... Edge, A. S. ... Edge, F. G. ... Edge, H. C. ... Higson, T. A. Hill, M. C. ... Ingleson, P. ... James, G. L. B. La Mothe, H. D. Lane, J. K. ... Marriott, Rev. A. E. Matthews, E. D. Peshall, S. F.... Ramsbottom, J. H.... Ridsdill-Smith, T. Smith, Colin ... Also played, but batted in only one innings each, and did not bowl : H. E. Daniel (0), W. Parrington (0), T. Richardson (0). T. H. C. Rubie (1), E, S. Slack (14). Not Inns. out. Runs. Aver Highest . score. O. R. W. A. 7 1 27 4-50 18* — ___ __ — 4 1 52 17-33 18* 3 17 0 __ 5 1 40 1000 27 90 200 17 11*76 15 5 319 3190 52 180-4 465 36 12*91 6 0 45 7-50 17 34 102 8 12*75 15 2 108 8-30 23 1 6 0 — 13 2 274 24-PO 62* 303 702 44 15*95 3 0 69 23-00 43 — ___ — __ 3 1 11 5-50 8* 8 26 2 13-00 12 0 51 4-25 25 115-5 389 24 16-20 4 1 8 2-66 8 — __ __ — 6 1 70 14-00 29 0 4 0 1 __ 3 0 16 5-33 11 67 188 14 13-42 12 0 201 16-75 51 1 2 0 ___ 11 0 416 37-81 144 ___ __ ___ ___ 4 0 44 11-00 17 __ ___ __ __ 8 4 26 6-50 11 — ___ __ __ 9 3 118 19-66 39* 374 108 7 15-42 Weather conditions were bad at the outset, and the first two matches were drawn on this account. A. S. Edge had 5 for 78 at Scarborough, and 5 for 63 at Darlington. A fine struggle at Ripon ended in victory for the Kossullians by 2 wicket*. T. A. Higson played a big part in this game. He had 9 for 8 1 in llipon’ s first, and it was his 62* in the last inning-?, helped by 5 1 from E . D. Matthews and E . S. Crummack’s coolness at a crisis, that gave his side victory. S. F. Peshall (27 and 78) and G. L. B . Jam es (9 for 1 1 1 ) were the leading figures in the match with the strong Durham City side. At Harrogate A. S. Edge, P rshall. and Higson did w ell; but the home side won by 3 wicket*, the tourists’ one defeat. The Rev. A. E . Marriott was in deadly bowling form (13 for 75) against tho sch o o l; Higson (top scorer and 6 for 63), Colin Sm ith. Peshall, aud A. S. Edge also did good work. At Grantham A. S. Edge’s all-round form, the batting of Matthews, and the bowling of Jam es and R . C. Cutter had most to do with the Rossallian victory. F . M. Bentley made four catches behind the wicket in Grantham ’s first. The top score of the tour—349 v. Lincoln Liudum—was no one-man performance, though Peshall’s 144 did bulk largely in it; Higson and A. S. Edge scored over 30, and six others double figures. A. S. Edge had 9 for 82, Cutter 7 for i00 in this game. The skipper overshadowed everyone else in the last match, v. Beverley. His 49 represented just upon half the runs from the bat, and he took 9 wickets for 84. But a R ossallian tour in which Thom as Atkinson Higson did not do the work of at least half a side in one or two matches would be difficult to trace. Colchester and E ast Essex began their Home Week on Monday last with a tie game. Their opponents were the E ssex Club and Ground, for whom seven men made double figures in a total of 174. Thanks to useful scores and sound batting by Miles Townsend, Egertou- Green, W. H. Sm ith, Fenn, Pallett. and B land, the Colchester score was taken to 17 3 with two wickets still to fall. The innings had been a succession of thrills, good stands alternating with apparent collapses from which recoveries were made. Swan, the Colchester skipper, scored a single, and made the game a tie, but had the mortification to see both Pallett (who had batted extremely well) and Samson out in the next over. On Tuesday the Colchester team were all on the ground when a wire was received from Felixstowe crying off—a be­ lated notice which naturally failed to satisfy anyone. Not a match was finished in the Birm ingham League, and only M itchell and Butler’s had a full innings, scoring 77 v. W alsall. Moseley declared at 128 for 4 v. Aston Unity ; West Bromwich Dartmouth lost 6 for 7 1 v. Kidderminster, and Dudley made 80 for 2 v. Smethwick. In the North Staffs League, however, there was a full afternoon’s play, though conditions were not cricket - like. Fenton had a good win over Tunstall, declaring at 229 for 8 , and getting Tunstall out for 124. F . Hawley (73*) and A. Mellor (52) were Fenton’s chief performers with the willow. Porthill defeated Norton in sim ilar decisive fashion, declaring at 178 for 6 (H. F. Wood 33, A. F . Wood 32), and dism issing their opponents for 76. Leek declared at 170 for 8 v. Crewe Alexandra, but could not win, the last pair of Crewe batsmen putting up a plucky resistance, though one of them ought to have been run out (when both were at one wicket) in the last few minutes of the game. When will some batsmen learn that there are times when the value of a run is simply nil ? It was so in this case, for the Alexandra had nothing but a draw to play for. Longton easily beat Knypersley, passing their opponents’ score with only two wickets down. For the winners A. Fielding had 6 for 16, and for the losers Sedgwick took 5 for 30. Percy Briggs made 32 out of a total of 85 scored by Stoke v. Stone. E . J . Johnson took 6 for 38. But Stone could only make 58, Nichols (7 for 19 , including the hat trick) being altogether too much for them on a tricky pitch. At Silverdale, where rain interfered, W. Brown, the old county player, scored 61* of a total of 1 1 3 for L'urslem. A last week omission must be repaired here. Morgan had 9 Burslem wickets for 73 on August 3 ; aud the Tunstall pro., whom Somerset let slip, has done rare good work for his club this season. Among his analyses have been 6 for 5 1, 5 for 12 , 6 for 17 , 7 for 44, 6 for 19, 6 for 28, and 7 for 52. Be it noted, too, that the standard of North Staffs League Cricket is high, and that these feats were not mere rabbit-shooting ! Yorkshire got its share of the rain, and where play was possible it was on sodden wickets. Rotherham v. Castleford was a bowlers’ battle ; Russell (7 for 43) for Castleford, Syddall (6 for 29) for Rotherham reaped harvests. Knutton had 6 for 13 (Bradford v. King Cross). Among the few scores of any note was the 68 made by S. Peck (Leeds v. Harrogate). In the Lancashire League Parkin, the Church C.C. and Durham County pro, whom Church have secured for the next five years, hit hard for 108* v. Bacup. Burnley, for whom W illiam Cook made