Cricket 1912

Nov. 16, 1912. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 569 A t least one century was made for and one against each side. There were tw o each for Calgary and Manitoba, and three v. Sas­ katchewan. Here are a few flowers of style from the reports: “ Jup. Pluv. decided to have a say in the game . . . Showed scant cerem ony as each change bowler tried to get him out. . . . K ing Cricket again proved what a fickle monarch he is by getting tw enty-tw o men out for a score which . . . The Saskatchewan captain brought about a double change in the bowling (N ote— this was the skipper of the fielding side). . . . Barnett brought out the hundred and another change in the bowling. . . . Just as Barnett brought out the hundred for his side with a 6 he repeated the dose shortly afterwards in reaching his own 50. . . . On what should have been a batter wicket (Query— batter pudding ?) . . . Anderson letting his wicket down to a good ball from Charlesworth. . . . Only when H ardisty came in was the riot stopped. . . . Barnett’s fielding was a treat to witness, his kicking up and returns keeping the batsmen continually on the alert. . . . M oney got his wicket with one of his lures.” T H E A U S T R A L IA N S ’ T R AN S A T L A N T IC TOU R . The Australian Team (lacking, of course, Bardsley, Macartney, Hazlitt, M innett, and Jennings) began its first m atch across the Atlantic on September 27. P. H. Clark captained a representative Philadelphian side, and won the toss. The ground was so wet that play could not be started till 2.30. Before time the home side had scored 184 for 8. Matthews did the hat trick— catching Mifflin off his own bowling, and having Anderson and C. C. Morris caught by W hitty. W . P. Newhall and O ’Neill made the best stand, adding 46 for the eighth w ick et; Mifflin had helped Newhall to add 45 for the fourth. The innings closed for 185 on the second day, Matthews having taken 5 for 65. J. B. K ing and F. A. Greene bowled finely when the Australians went in, and only Gregory and Carkeek topped 20. Thereafter W hitty and Em ery proved even more deadly than the transatlantic pair, and Mifflin alone made double figures for Philadelphia. The Australians re s ie d 138 for victory, and lost Em ery and Matthews (both to Clark) for 11 before call of time. On the M onday 5 were out for 30. W ebster and Gregory added 46. W hitty stayed with W ebster for a while ; but the South Australian wicket-keeper was out at 109, having played unexpectedly fine cricket for his 54. Penfold, the em ergency man, whipped in with a dozen or so wanted for victory. W hitty hit a four and a single ; a ball from K ing went for four byes. Only three were needed when K ing beat W hitty all ends up, and Philadelphia had won by two runs ! It was rather a mistake for New Y ork to put fifteen in the field for the second game, I think, for it made the match an exhibition rather than a contest. The hom e side included the veteran, F. F. K elly, who has only missed one or two of these games with teams from overseas since he first cam e to live in New Y ork a couple of decades or so ago, another veteran in M. R . Cobb, E. H. L. Steinthal, an old Cliftonian, A. Hoskings, a fine all-round player from Austra­ lia, F. Mahabir (who averaged 41 for his club in the Van Cortlandt Park League in 1911), the brothers J. L. and H. Poyer, of Brooklyn, and other good men. They got the Australians out for 157 (Carkeek top scorer), Hoskings and L. Comacho bowling very effectively, and then slumped for 53 before Matthews and W hitty. D avid Smith did some big hitting, getting several 6’s ; Kelleway, Mayne, and W ebster also batted well. The innings was declared at 255 for 8, Comacho and H oskings again having the best analyses. J. L. Poyer and C. E. Marshall sent up 59 for the first wicket of New York, and Comacho helped Poyer to add 51 for the fourth ; but the rest did little, and Australia won easily. Matthews had 15 for 70 in the game. For the return with Philadelphia the Australians substituted N. G. Ducker, a Sydney player, for Penfold ; on the other side Chris­ topher Morris, T. C. Jordan, and F. A. Greene gave way to J. L. Evans, C. H. W inter, and R. W aad, junior. On a perfect wicket the Australians again failed before K ing and Clark, and were all out for 101. Mayne alone made double figures, playing beautiful cricket. The home side did much better. Before time they had up 218 for 8. Sharpies and Evans added 67 for the second wicket ; King batted well for his 45, and R. P. Anderson, the colt of the team, showed really good form. On the second day McLaren and W hitty finished off the innings for an addition of 19, the latter having a fine analysis. A t their second attem pt the Australians were seen to much greater advantage. Mayne and Smith, the form er scoring fastest and again in great form , added 62 for the second wicket. Gregory and Matthews put on 37 for the fifth, and Emery helped his captain to add 81 for the eighth. The little man looked like making a century, so restrained and safe was he ; but at 7 he comm itted an error of judgm ent, reaching out to one from Clark th,at he m ight have left alone, and was caught at the wicket. W inter, by the way, kept in great style, the only extras in an innings of 262 being four leg byes, while he made three catches and stumped one man. The fielding was fine all round. Philadelphia, needing only 127 to win, lost 2 for 7 before call of time. On M onday they were helpless before W hitty and McLaren on a good pitch, and were all out for 81. H ow they came to fail so wretchedly after holding the upper hand through the greater part of the match it would be hard to say ; but fail they did. W inter and W aad put on 26 for the last wicket, but the flicker of hope went out when W aad succumbed to W hitty. After lunch a match with 22 Colts was started. The youngsters included E. M. Mann, F. H. Tripp and J. H. Savage, jun., who were all with the Germantown C.C. team in England in 1911, T. F. D ixon, jun., who (as well as Savage and Tripp) accompanied the last Philadelphian team to Bermuda, and several who have played pretty regularly in H alifax Cup matches, so that they were not raw hands. J. H. Scattergood captained. Several of the early batsmen did well, notably D ixon, Bailey, and Lee ; but later Emery proved almost irresistible. He took 15 wickets for 69, he and Matthews bowling unchanged. The Australians lost 3 for 19 in a bad light at the end of the day ; but on Tuesday K elleway played a good innings, and Emery and McLaren added 83 for the eighth wicket. The second innings of the Colts was n ot taken seriously, as a glance at the analysis will show. Tripp hit out in very lusty fashion, recognis­ ing that the bowling was mere tosh ; but probably he would have been prouder of a score of 20 or so against W hitty, Matthews, and Emery than of his 57 against Penfold, Carkeek, Smith and Gregory. The first visit of an Australian team to Bermuda was a great event in the island’s cricket history, of course. H alf-a-dozen or more Philadelphian teams have played at H am ilton ; but no English team has yet looked in there. The home side was at full strength ; and its captain, H. J. Tucker, winning the toss, sent the Australians in— which may have been the best thing to do, though there is room for doubt on the subject. Bowlers were on top all through the match, neither side scoring largely. Kelleway, with 55 as his aggregate, was considerably the highest run-getter in the game. Mayne, Matthews, and D avid Smith (who collided with a Bermudian fields­ man while running during his second innings, fell, twisted his knee, re-opened an old football wound, and had to be carried to the pavi­ lion) were the only other men who did anything in the batting line. Gerald Conyers, A. W . W est, and S. C. Spurling were the chief scorers for the island team ; H . J. Tucker and J. R . Conyers, of whom much was hoped, did little. In bowling Emery bore away the palm, taking 15 wickets for 68 in the m atch ; he had 9 for 23— the tenth man run out— in the first innings. B ut, considering the difference in strength between the two sides, Gerald Conyers’s analysis of 11 for 92 was at least as good. T. St. G. Gilbert (who once took all ten wickets of a team for Philadelphia) also did well. A ltogether the Bermudians cam e out of the game with very considerable credit. Their scorers are either behind the times or in advance of them, however. W est appears as “ run out, b Em ery ” in the second in­ nings score as printed in the Royal Gazette, and G. C. Conyers as “ st, b W h itty ” without the wicket-keeper’s name, though the report makes it clear that Carkeek did the trick. Em ery was actually credited in the analysis with the wicket of W e s t! The Australians were entertained to dinner at the Ham ilton H otel on the evening of the last day, and there was a big muster of Bermudian notabilities. The Governor, Sir G. M. Bullock, m ade a speech ; and Mr. R . B. Benjam in, the Australian manager, spoke with the greatest certainty of the visit of an Australian team to Am erica in 1913, and held out hopes of its com ing to Bermuda. The Australians left by the “ O rotova ” on the morning of O ctober 15. W innipeg put fifteen in the field against them on October 21 and 22— the proposed Chicago match fell through, it seems— and lost by 7 wickets. Details in next issue. IN D IA . Since our last issue went to press I have received from a prom i­ nent Parsi cricketer some interesting notes on the matches in Poona and B om bay dealt with therein ; and I make no excuse for returning to the subject. The match at P oona between M ajor Greig’s X I. and the H indus is, I understand, to be regarded on the same footing as Presidency v. Parsis ; in future the Presidency will meet the H indus each year at Poona as well as at B om bay. The earliest m atch of the five im portant ones recorded last m onth (B om bay Gymkhana v. Poona Gymkhana is scarcely to be ranked with the others) had a m ost exciting finish. N o one thought the Parsis could possibly get the runs in the tim e ; but they went all out for a win, and a splendid stand by W arden (who was unluckily stumped when going strongly for his century) and D river was follow ed up by resolute hitting by Kapadia and Chothia in the last few minutes of the game.