Cricket 1912

518 CRICKET r A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 21, 1912. The Beckton C.C. Back R ow (Left to R igh t): A. M oule , T. H. R obinson (Um pire), P. T ye , C. S wann , S. H. C. D awk (Um pire), J. T albot . P hillips , S. H adden , W. C oopeb , Front R o w : R. G. G ray , H. J. M ayes , A. W ells , H. N uttall . A. T. K eeble (Captain), G. S utton , R. E aston , A. S tanton , B. S tevens . retiring when the umpire called him back and told him it was a bump-ball. As the pitch was very dead, and long-off at least 30 yards away, m ost of those who saw thought the decision peouliar. T h e Mason brotherhood was conspicuous in all departments of the gam e, for S. Mason took 4 for 16, W . Mason 3 for 22, and A, Mason, besides his invaluable innings, made a remarkable catch. A skier was hit to fine-leg; he ran 30 or 40 yards from his place in the slips, actually got in front of the ball, and took it cleverly as it came over his head from the back. A correspondent kindly sends me particulars of an innings played on Saturday by Arthur Mathews, oaptain of the B loom sbury (J.C., who in m aking his 32 in a bad light em ployed only nine scoring strokes, his runs com ing thus: 4-1-4-4-1-4-6-4-4. I don’t think this is a record, as m y correspondent suggests, but it is capital work. The L . & N .W .B . captain made a sporting declaration at 87 for 2 v. Hampstead Garden Suburb, and must have had some anxious moments before the opposition was disposed of by Paris and Skilton for 85, A, E . W ilson contributed a good 47* to L. & N .W .B .’s total. Clapham Bamblers, thanks m ainly to W . M. Longhurst’s half century and Cyril Browne’s all-round play, easily beat Heath- field. ST. L U K E ’S (W OOD SIDE ) C.C. : 1912. Matches played, 14 ; won, 6 ; lost, 7 ; drawn, 1. A v e r a g e s . * BATTING. BOWLING. Inns. N.o. R. A. H.S. O. R. W . A. Ball, E. R. ... ... 7 3 9 2-25 6* — — — — Bowm an, Rev. P. M. 9 0 73 8-11 19 6'5 51 7 7-28 Bray, J. ... 7 0 51 7-28 17 123 22 6 3-66 Carter, W. ... 11 0 80 7-27 22 85-5 222 41 5-41 Edwards, Rev. N. ... 3 0 19 633 14 — — — — Evans, P. ... 4 1 26 8 66 22 — — — — Green, L. ... 5 0 24 4-80 10 12 23 9 2-55 H ider, W . ... ... 10 0 58 5-80 41 25-1 68 10 6‘80 Lucas, P. Payne, C. ... 13 1 38 2-75 14 16 63 7 9-00 ... 10 1 64 7*11 20 — — — — Phillips, E. ... 12 0 175 14 58 51 45 105 15 7-00 Thornton, A. E. ... 13 0 49 3 76 19 77-2 204 29 7-03 The games between Stanm ore and H ighgate and G .W .R . and Saturday brought the Durham League’s programm e to a con* { elusion. The games played were those re-arranged in consequence of the Australian match at Ashbrooke on August 10, three in all being left for decision. The cham pions, Sunderland, received their second defeat o f the season. This was in a very sm all-scoring game with Chester-le-Street. Only three m en reached double figures. |Chester bad 9 out for 37, then G. H em ingw ay and D . G. Crichton { added 15 for the last w ic k e t-a small number, but, as the sequel |proved, invaluable. Morris took 6 for 22, E . Cogden 4 for 22. Hubert Brooks played a great game for Sunderland— first in, last |out, for 28 of 4 6; the rest were helpless before James Bewick (6 for [ 19) and Thackeray (4 for 24). Eppleton, the holders of thewooden spoon, made 161 for 6 v. Philadelphia, who had replied with 76 for 2 when bad light stopped play. B oldon (Kitchener 53, his highest of the season, J. Lowings 8 for 33) beat W earm outh at W earmouth. Dennis Hendren (Durham City) heads the League batting averages, with 657 runs in 19 innings (34 57), and has also taken 86 wickets at under 10 each. James (ex-Notts) follows him in batting (19-1-619-34-38), and next to the W hitburn m an comes another Durham City representative, the skipper, C. Y . Adam son 12-0-389-3241). Morris is, as m ight be expected, at the top of the bowling—111 wickets at 712, average 6 "41; but Harry has the biggest bag of wickets. W estbourne Park Wanderers took a curiously sim ilar course. Stan­ m ore declared at 155 for 4 v. H ighgate, H . Body having three 6’s and eleven 4’s in his splendidly hit 80. G .W .B . declared at 155 for 5 v. W .P .W ., E Gibbs scoring an excellent 63. Highgate were all out for 40, W elch and Barnes bowling in deadly form . W .P .W . lost 7 for 32, and A. Grugeon took the whole seven. In the Tyneside League, J. S. P . M orrison, the Cantab, ran up 87* for the County Club v. Backworth Percy, A. W innard scored 84 for North Durham v. W allsend, and Hardisty 61 for W allsend v. North Durham. Elsey and the B ev. H . W hite (Denstone and Oxford) put out the Baekworth team for 61, each taking 5 wickets. The following is the final table of the North Staffordshire and