Cricket 1912

A u g u s t 31, 1912. CEIOKBT: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 471 Overseas Cricket. At the end of June the University of Pennsylvania’s team visited Bermuda. Though there were in its ranks a number of promising young players, the visiting side did not include—as former teams to Bermuda have invariably done—any of the Philadelphian cracks, and perhaps it was not surprising that it lost all three matches. The results were : v. A RM Y X I.—University, 14 5 ; H . S. Harned 68 , W. E . Jones 19—and 103 ; H . S. Harned 24. Army X I., 18 2 ; Captain Alleyne 40, Major Cochrane 36, Corporal Gordon 19 *, Lieut. Kemp-Welch 18— and 106 for 8 (playing on after the game was w on ); Corporal Clarke 46 (ret.), Lieut. Kemp-Welch 33. v. HAM ILTON C. C.— Hamilton, 2 32 ; G. C. Conyers 70, A. W. West 43, 0 . D arrell 18. University, 95 ; C. H. W inter 25, A. Lee 24*, H. S. Harned 2 1—and 96; W . E . Jones 41. v. SO M E R SE T U N IT ED C. C .—University, 93 ; W. E . Jones 16. Somerset United, 99 ; G . Parker 23. For the Arm y X I. Lieut. Lang-Browne took 8 wickets for 80; for Hamilton Gerald Conyers (now in England with the Philadelphia C.C.) 10 for 7 8 ; and for Somerset United T . St. G. Gilbert 7 for 26. W. E . Jones and A. Lee were the University’s stock bowlers. In the three matches the former had 12 wickets for 143. the latter 12 for 164. In the second match G. C. Conyers and A. W . West put on 99 in partnership for the fifth wicket. Among the centuries made across the Atlantic during the last few weeks have been the following :— I n M a y and J u n e . F . E . H uish, 112 * , Falls of Schuylkill v. Tennyson. K . M. Cregar, 13 1* . Philadelphia v. Merion B . R . Lee, 134 , Merion v. Frankford. B . Cullen, 12 5, Burrard v. Albion (Victoria, B .C .). . J. G. Tatlow, 138 *, Univ. School v. Oak B ay (Victoria B.C.). J . M. Arm itage, 118 , Vancouver v. Cowichan (B.C.). M. Grant, 100*, Albion v. Oak B ay (Victoria, B.C.). I n J u ly . P. J . H iggins, 100, Los Angeles v. Fresno (Cal.) P. J . H iggins, 12 1, Los Angeles v. Mountain Ash Glee Club of Wales. F . A . Sparkes, 107, Saanich v. Albion (Victoria, B.C.) F . A. Sparkes, 116 , Bachelors v. Albion (Victoria, B.C .) H. A. Spencer, 100*, Victoria v Garrison (B.C.) W. G . Cochrane, 10 1* Fresno v. Los Angeles. O. D. Rasmussen, 106*, Fresno v. Los Angeles. R . Lee, 10 1, A ll Philadelphia v. Rosedale (of Toronto). F . C. E van s, 153, London Asylum v. Chatham (Ont.) Corporal Clark, 126, Staff & Depts. v. 2nd Batt. Queen’s Regt. G. Gonsalvez, 103, Civics v. Winnipeg A. [(Bermuda). C. E . Reynolds, 138, Civics v. W innipeg A. A. Hoskings, 12 3*, N. Y. Veterans v. A ll Philadelphia Colts. L . V. H. Thom as, 115 , Merion C. v. Philadelphia. J . L . E vans, 100*, Merion v. Philadelphia. P. J . Higgins, of Los Angeles, made four consecutive centuries — 1.59*, 100, 100*, and 1 2 1 ; but I am unable to give details of the other two here. They will probably come along later. Those who fancy that American cricket is practically confined to Philadephia and New York ought to get a copy of Spalding’s <f Official Cricket Guide ” (the new name for the old “ American Cricket Annual ” ), of which a brief review appears elsewhere. That valuable little hand­ book gives particulars of clubs in California, Illinois, Ohio, Wiscon­ sin, M ichigan, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, New Jersey, Massa­ chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, as well as of Philadelphian, New York, and Canadian organisations. From a correspondent in San Francisco I hear that wickets in and around that city are in a terrible state—really unfit to play upon. Cricket there has never been quite the same since the earth­ quake, one gathers. Many of the players are merely birds of passage, and it is the rule, rather than the exception, for teams to go into the field short of full number. B u t in Southern California, if one may judge by the scores made, better wickets must obtain. P. J . H iggins, referred to above, averaged 57.71 and E . H. Wilkes 7 1 ‘50 for the Los Angeles Club last year. H. F . Elliot, the old Shirburnian and Durham Couuty player, was then the crack bowler of Los Angeles. There have been some capital matches in the H alifax Cup Competition in Philadelphia. Early in June Frankford (R. Waad 77, W. M. Fellows 54) beat Philadelphia (T. F . Dixon, jun., 78, H. W. Middleton 59) by the narrow’ margin of 6 runs, 257 to 2 51. In each innings the later batsmen scored well after the earlier men had failed. Germantown ran up a total of 3 17 (W. P . O’Neill 80, R. L. Pearson 49) v. Merion. On Ju n e 22 Frankford collapsed for 32 v. Germantown, P. H. Clark taking 7 for 9. Belmont made 349 (J. B . King 90, C. C. Callaghan 8 1*, C. F . Townsend 61) v. Philadelphia. Merion ran up 327 for 4, dec. (R. Lee 134 , S . W. Mifflin 89) v. Frankford. Philadelphia (220, A. J . Henry, Editor of the American Cricketer , 75*) and Merion (244 for 8 , J. L . Evans 100*) had a good match on Ju ly 4, F . C. Sharpless took 5 for 39 for the winners. In a small-scoring game between Belmont aud Merion on tho same day P. H. Clark had 5 for 30 in Belmont’s first, and W. P. O’Neill 8 for 65 in the match. There were two innings standing out con­ spicuously, J . B . King’s 83* for Belmont, W. P. Newhall’s 75 for Germantown. R . L . Pearson (26 and 22) and R . L . Melville (9 and 31) were the only other men who made more than a couple of dozen runs in the game. For Belmont v. Morrestown a couple of days later J . B . King had 7 for 63. Merion made 323 (R. G . H are 75) v. Germantown. 11. Waad took 8 for 66 for Frankford v. Philadelphia, his side winning by 29 runs. In the Philadelphia Cup games E . M. Cregar registered 13 1 * , 115 * , 75, and 6 1 for Philadelphia, and seems going stronger than ever. Cregar visited England with the teams of 1897, 1903, and 1908. J . H. Mason, a member of the touring side now in this country, put scores of 85 and 79 to his credit during June. S. B. Thayer ran up 80* for Merion B . v. Philadelphia, and L . V . H . Thomas 1 15 (in a total of 221) for Merion C v. Philadelphia, and 62 v. Germantown C. Among the best bowling performances were H. W . Goodall’s 5 for 53 (Philadelphia v. Merion C), A. L ee’s 6 for 50 (Merion C v, Germantown C), E . M. Mann’s 8 for 61 (Germantown B v. Germantown C), Dr. D. M acfarlane’s 6 for 62 (Merion C v. Philadelphia), and M. Duncan’s 6 for 80 (Philadelphia v. Merion C). The Rosedale Club of Toronto was in Philadelphia during Ju ly , and in a two-day match against All Philadelphia had the big score of 492 for 9, dec., registered against it. R . Lee made 10 1, H . A . Fur- nfss 94, H. W . Middleton 84, G. F . Bottomley 53, S. W. Mifflin 42, and there were as many as 60 extras. Furness and Bottom ley sent up 136 before a wicket fell, and Lee and Middleton added 150 for the seventh wicket. J . B. King had 9 for 83 in the match, and Rosedale went down by an innings and 278 runs. From Ju ly 1 1 to Ju ly 20 Arthur Hoskings, an Australian, playing for the New York Veterans, scored 12 3*, 50*, 73*, and 92*—338 in all without losing his wicket On Ju ly 4 Sydney Deane, who very nearly got into the Australian Team of 1890 as second wicket-keeper, ran up 96 for New York Veterans v. Manor Field. A big stand for the first wicket was macle on June 22 for Staten Island v. Crescent Athletic by M. R . Cobb, an old Sutton Valence boy (123*) and E . H. Ii. Steinthal, an old Cliftonian (76*), these two putting up 204 unparted. In my last article Cobb’s century was wrongly given as made on Ju n e 8 , by the way. Rosedale, before going on tour in the States, put Hamilton out of the running for tho John Ross Robertson Dominion Cup, making 283 to Ham ilton’s 53. Toronto and Rosedale were to meet early in August in a cup match—an encounter eagerly looked forward to in Ontario. These are the two crack clubs of the province, though in days past Hamilton was probably at least as strong as either of them. Not much Canadian news has come to hand la tely ; but 1 note that Gilbert Curgenven, of Derbyshire, playing for Cowichan (B.C.), a new club which has been winning nearly all its matches, scored 55 in each of three successive innings. P. P. Barnett (Gloucestershire), C. A. L . Payne (Oxford and Middlesex), T . A. D. Bevington (Middlesex), and F . A. A. B arrs (Derbyshire), are among the well-known English cricketers playing in Western Canada. Quebec, a province in which the game has never had quite the same hold as in Ontario, has bucked up of late. The Montreal Cricket Association did pood work in 1 9 11 , running a competition in two divisions. The Quebec C.C. has a good all-round player and a keen enthusiast in W . Morton Massey (son of W. M. Massey, who years ago played for Somerset). He is a Dollar Academy boy, and while in Scotland played for Clackmannan and Stirling counties, but is Canadian born. In 1902 he took 10 1 wickets at 4 ‘20 each. Nowadays he does less bowling, but makes a good many runs. For Quebec v. Three Rivers on Ju ly 6 he was top scorer with 40; on Ju ly 1 1 he retired after making 30 (top score again) v. the “ Em press of Irelan d ” team. M cGill (Montreal), formerly McGill University, but now I believe an open club, seems to be one of the strongest teams in the province. On Ju ly 1 McGill decisively defeated Ottwawa (117 , D. C. Campbell 38, W. Johnston 29) by 67 runs, T. II. Malone, a West Indian, and R . Simpson each making 45 for the winners, and A. L . Hainsworth taking 7 for 30. A few days later M cGill only just failed to beat Montreal, who in a small- scoring match needed 17 to win with only one wicket to fall. A remarkable bowling performance (or rather brace of per­ formances) in Ceylon cricket was credited to C. E . de Silva in May. For Trinity v. Gampola at Kandy de Silva took 5 for 6 and 8 for 4— 13 wickets for 10 runs !