Cricket 1912

572 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Nov. 16, 1912. Men of the Moment in London Club Cricket. W H A T TH E L E A D IN G P L A Y E R S H A V E DONE. B y “ S u r e C a tch .’ I have pleasure in presenting hereunder a portrait of Mr. G. C. Hast, the Forest H ill m atch-winning bowler, who last season delivered for his club 256 overs, 49 of which were maidens, while in capturing 66 w ickets he gave aw ay 680 runs, so his average per w icket was just over 10. Educated at St. Dunstan’s College, Catford, the future Forest H ill secretary represented the school in 1898-9. In 1899 he took 70 wickets for 7 runs each. A year later he joined the Forest H ill club, but he did not imm ediately get his place in the first eleven. A S t e a d y R ise . In fact it was n ot until 1904 that he was prom oted to a regular position therein. From 1908 to 1910 he was assistant secretary, and since 1910 he has been secretary of the club. “ I have never been m uch of a bat,” he says ; but in view of the fa ct that in 1911 he m ade 123 against Merton I decline to accept his own estimate of his The results of 15 other clubs were given in the O ctober issue. The batting and bowling averages which follow must also be regarded ; as supplem entary to those then presented, as to repeat would only be to waste valuable space. There can be little doubt that C. F. W elch, of Stanmore, was the m ost consistent club batsmen of the season, as G. M. Louden, of Ilford, was the best club bowler. Con­ sidering the wretched weather experienced, the batting figures are rem arkably good, and it is only natural that m any bowlers should |have secured fine averages. Batsman. D. H. Butcher (Upper Tooting) J. Sharman (Buckhurst Hill) F. D. Heath (Parson’s Green) E. Mitchell (S.W. Ham) ................ F. W. England (Parson’s Green) ... F. Huntley (Dulwich) ................ E. Cairns (S.W. Ham) 1J. S. Higgs (Parson’s Green) I M. P. Bajana (Shepherd’s Bush) ... L. Phillips (Dulwich) ................ W. M. Frizell (Dulwich) C. F. Phillips (Forest H ill)................ C. L. Fabel (Upper Tooting) O. Smoothy (Shepherd’s Bush) J. H. Lockton (Honor Oak) I H. G. Cryer (Dulwich) N. Mather (Upper Tooting) W. L. Miecznikowski (Honor Oak) P. H. Slater (Dulwich) ................ A. J. Whyte (Forest H ill)................ L. V. Harper (Upper Tooting) S. Hadden (Beckton) ................ W. R. Morris (G.W.R.) ................ A. C. Higgs (Parson’s Green) W. Cooper (Beckton) W. S. WTalbanck (Twickenham) W. M. Darvill (Shepherd’s Bush) ... W. Carter (S.W. Ham) W. S. lioberts (Walham Green) ... I A. E. Howard (S.W. Ham) R. R. Sandilancls (Upper Tooting) F. L. Johnson (Norbury Pk. Wand.) E. J. Connor (S.W. Ham) ... J. F. Hosken (Upper Tooting) H. Hayter (Beddington) Bowler. A. C. Higgs (Parson’s Green) ... S. H. Anson (Honor Oak) J. H. Lockton (Honor Oak) I T. J. Balkwill (Forest Hill) ... C. E. Harrod (Parson’s Green) L. Dixon (Beddington) ... , J. S. Mills (Upper Tooting) G. C. Hast (Forest Hill) S. J. Goodall (Dulwich) A. Grugeon (G.W .R.) ... E. J. Connor (S.WT. Ham) C. Pascoe (Buckhurst Hill) C. E. Honeyball (G.W.R.) C. H. Dwyer (Walham Green)... D. R. Osborne (Ealing) F. L. Johnson (Norbury Pk. Wand.) . Inns. N.o. R. A. H.S 23 1 1177 53-50 127 5 1 207 51-75 102* 19 3 738 46-12 155 13 3 457 45-70 102 16 8 359 44-87 82 11 4 302 43-14 110* 7 2 212 42-40 81* 26 1 1016 40-64 152* —• •— 598 39-80 144 15 3 468 39-00 153* 14 3 416 37-81 108 11 3 284 35-50 63* 16 3 461 35-46 86* — •— 779 35-40 134* 22 2 708 35-40 106 18 1 583 34-29 94 12 2 341 34-10 61* 28 2 878 33-76 133 15 1 459 32-76 80 21 0 686 32-66 91 14 1 421 32-39 59* 20 5 465 31-00 105* 11 0 341 31-00 105 16 0 484 30-25 89 18 3 455 30-05 105* 19 2 505 29-70 118 — — 972 29-40 118* 16 4 352 29-33 80* 8 1 202 28-86 127* 19 0 548 28-84 75 18 1 488 28-70 93 16 3 370 28-46 94 22 2 559 27-95 90 14 1 363 27-92 85 18 4 347 24-79 50* O. R. W. Aver. . 149 509 65 7-83 . 309 550 66 8-33 . 285 817 90 9-07 . 138 357 39 9-15 . 308 946 100 9-46 . 154 433 45 9-62 . 118 324 33 9-82 . 256 680 66 10-30 . 104 295 29 10-17 . 242 776 76 10-21 . 295 708 67 10-56 . 325 1059 89 11-89 . 263 702 57 12-31 . 196 718 56 12-82 . 434-; 1326 103 12-87 . 241 839 63 13-31 Q. C. HAST (Hon. Sec, Forest Hill C.C.). batting powers. H is best bowling feat was accom plished last season, when playing for K now le and Dorridge on tour v. Sidm outh, he had 9 wickets for 17 runs, and also did the hat trick. H ast belongs to the tricky brigade of bowlers. H e does not rely upon pace to beat the batsman. H e deceives him with skilful variation of pitch and break. If the w icket helps him he is quite unplayable, and having a fine comm and of length and break with an easy action he is always a dangerous bowler. In the next issue o f C r ic k e t I shall present a photo of John Lockton, the fine H onor Oak all-round cricketer. S om e G r e a t R eco rd s . It will be seen from the figures I am able to give below that som e of the clubs built up remarkable records last season. Ilford, Parson’s Green, and South W est Ham only lost one game each. Dulw ich, Hampstead, and Ilford won the most victories, as the inter­ esting table below of clubs’ records shows at a glance. Acton Town Battersea ... Buckhurst Hill Derrick Wanderers Dulwich Ealing Finchley (East) ... Gloucester City ... Hampstead Hampstead Nomads Ilford Ipswich and E. Sfk. Lauderdale... Lessness Park P. W. L. D. P. W. L. D. 22 12 8 2 London Scottish ... 36 15 11 10 22 6 10 6 Old Charlton 23 11 7 5 20 8 7 5 Old Whitgiftians ... 18 8 7 3 18 8 4 6 Oxford City Parson's Green 25 3 7 15 58 31 18 9 27 19 1 7 44 16 9 19 River Plate House 19 11 7 1 27 14 4 9 Shepherd’s Bush ... 38 18 5 15 21 10 9 2 Slough 29 15 5 9 60 29 16 15 South-West Ham’ ... 20 10 1 9 36 17 12 7 Stanley ... ... 16 11 3 2 24 20 1 3 Stanmore ... 24 19 4 1 17 10 4 3 Trojans 32 1 10 7 25 12 10 3 Upper Tooting 39 16 12 11 \7 8 4 5 W. Kent Wanderers 21 7 12 2 J a m e s S t o n e s benefit was the best a H am pshire pro. has ever had— som ething ov e r £600. H e deserves it— an d m ore. N o t one o f the F ifteen o f N ew Y o r k w h o played against the A ustralians is an Am erican ! H oskings hails from Australia, M ahabir and F. F. K elly wrere born in India, L eith -R oss com es from M auritius, C obb and Steinthal are E nglishm en, the tw o Poyers, the tw o Turvilles, R eece and G autier are from B arbados, Marshall is a Jam aican and C om acho an A ntiguan. I t is said that abou t £7,000 was d erived from the A ustralian tour. T h e B oard of C ontrol's d ivid en d on that— 5 p er cent, on the first £6,000, 12J per cent, thereafter— am ounts to a trifle over £400. B ut the B oard, I hear, d o not intend to tak e this, and it will therefore swrell the shares of those players w h o did not accept £400 certain from abou t £190 to £220. A disappointing result, no d ou b t, but n o t so bad as it m ight have been. T hey say that som e o f the players were h oping the B oard w ou ld pay £400 all round. This, how ever, m ust be quite o u t o f the question, and m ost people will agree that in handing over the £400 od d the B oard will be behaving w ith considerable gen erosity. In 1909 the takings were over £13,000. B ut in 1893, one is told , the players g o t nothing at all. This is one o f those things n o fellah ca n understand, for 1893 was not a m iserably wret year, but a fine, d ry one, and I had n ot hitherto suspected that attendances at A ustralian m atches that summ er wrere so small.