Cricket 1912

S e p t . 7, 1912. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 485 COLCHESTER AND EAST ESSEX , 1912. Back E o v (Standiug): E. C. F r e e m a n (Umpire), A. S. Cox, E. O a k l a n d . J. J. B l a n d , W . A. S m it h , R . W. M a c f a r l a n e , E. N o r t h (Member of Committee) A. J. B r ic k n e l l (Groundxman), and P. R o o n e y ( Umpire ). Front Row (Sitting): J. W a r n e r , E. R. P a l l e t t , J. VV. E cjerton -G r e e n , Rev. A. J. F en n , H. D. S w a n (Captain), W. L. S am son M il e s T o w n se n d , a n d E . 0 . G r e e n (Joint Hon. Sec.). This group was taken'on August 12th, the first day of the Club's Cricket Week, when the team played a tie game with Essex C. and G. Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. Let us be thankful I Let the sound of shawms and dulcimers and trumpets be heard in the land—I ’m not very certain what shawms and dulcimers are, but you m ay substitute concertinas and gramophones If you like. Let us be very th an k fu l! ! Let us rejoice exceedingly, and laud the Clerk of the Weather, or the Metropolitan Board of Works, or the Government, or Mr. George Bernard Shaw, or—in short whatever or whoever was responsible for the fact that we had — A F IN E D A Y ON SA TU RD A Y I i 1 There was little to brag about during the week, though on Wed­ nesday the weather held up a bit. Stanmore and Hampstead had a good tussle on that day, the former winning in the end by 13 runs, thanks chiefly to E . W ells’s batting, and tbe deadly bowling of E . Marriott (7 for 75). G . G. Dumbelton bowli d finely for Hampstead, and J . L . Carr, G. F . Farm iloe and F . li. Eiloart played a big part in the attempt made to knock off the runs. On the same day Acton Town had their first draw of the season. It coul I not be helped, I suppose. 0 . M. Richardson would go on playing through a thunder­ storm or a hurricane; but everyone does not feel the same way. S. Carter's 63* for Hounslow was the biggest innings of the match. At Searle’s, Fletching, 28 wickets fell for 260 runs in the match between Mr. G . M. Maryon-W ilson’s X I. and the Sussex Martlets, and Colonel Jenkins’s 66 shows up very finely in the score of such a low-scoring game. Come we now to Saturday. Pitches were dead, of course, and the sides which possessed both forcing batsmen and bowsers able to take advantage of the slow wickets were on velvet. In general matches ran an uneven course, one side—not always that battiDg first—being very decidedly on top. London Scottish at Pinner did well to make 175 for 9 on a wicket that, though not really difficult, was very wet and dead. The ball came off it at varying paces, and boundaries were very infrequent on account of the slowness of the outfield. Tne earlier Scottish batsmen did very little indeed. Six wickets were down for 52. The seventh (R. A. Bennett and C. Artaud) added 59 ; the eighth and ninth each put on 27. Nos. 7, 8 , 9, and 10 on the list aggregated 109 of the 17 5 among them! R . A . Bennett top scorer with 37, A. F . Angus Thomas 28, C. Artaud 26, and J . H . Adamson 18 *. If the declaration had been made a few minutes earlier they would probably have won, for Pinner were 9 for 77 at the finish, A. H . Read bothering all the batsmen. Stanmore put out Palm er’s Green for 47, H . Body and W. A . Barnes doing the destruction, and then ran up 214 for 8 W. F . H ill scoring 75, T . Cook 54, and C. F . Welch 36. Arlington and Leytonstone put thirteen men in the field against Beckton, for whom Sutton made another fine century, the next highest score in the match being only 19 I Batting up to a quarter to seven-—part of the time in a very bad ligh t—A. & L . had 10 down for 57 in response to Beckton’s 204 for 4, dec. Personally, I don’t much like the odds system, and should be sorry to see it become at all general. Both Battersea teams lost to H eathfield; the “ Chiel ” deals with the First Eleven match in his notes. Albemarle and Friern Barnet went down heavily to Neasden. As W illiam Lyon sa y s : “ When A. & F . B . do fail they go the whole hog.” They only made 5 5 ; but five of their best men were away. Most of their plaj ers are in Government offices, and get longer holidays than tbe average man. L jo n , Coldwell, and Walton contributed 42 among them, and there were ten extras. A little arithm etic, which need not make anyone’s head ache, shows that the other eight batsmen scored three runs in all. The Neasden captain declared at 155 for 6 . and sent the visitors in again for half-an-hour’s batting in a bad light. Several members of both sides can’t make out why he declared, I hear 1 On a bowlers’ wicket at Hampstead G. J . S. Pitts’s fast stuff had 7 for 43 for the home side, and R . M. B ell took 6 for 41 for Sutton. L . J . Reid, the old Aldenhamian, played a rare good innings for Hampstead ; and J . M. WilliamFon did by far the best for Sutton, who lost by 19 runs. In the home team’s second innings G . G.' Dnmhelton hit up 57. ______________