Cricket 1912

Nov. 16, 1912. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 581 B atting . B owling . Inns. N.O. R. A. H.S. O. R. W. A. 5 1 10 2-50 6 — — — — . 15 0 291 19-40 94* .. . 227-3 665 43 15-46 . 16 1 166 11-06 24 ... 101 387 16 24-18 . 12 0 107 8-91 37 — 34 2 17-00 7 0 102 14-57 65 — — — — . 15 3 375 31-25 105* .. — 79 1 79-00 . 16 3 370 28-46 94* ..,. 241-2 839 63 13-31 . 11 3 83 10-37 21* .. 80-1 351 13 27-00 9 1 131 16-37 50 — — — • — 6 1 23 4-60 8 — — — — . 15 5 63 6-30 16 — — — — 7 2 7 1-40 4 — — — — 3 0 2 0-66 1 — — — — . 14 3 108 9-81 24 . — — — — . 10 0 194 19-40 40 — 19 2 9-50 . 11 0 155 14-09 45 — — — — . 13 2 147 13-36 49 — 71 2 35-50 . 13 1 193 16-08 33 ., 76-4 313 11 28-45 . 3 0 45 15-00 30 .. — 107 1 107-00 N O R B U R Y P A R K W A N D E R E R S C.C. : 1912. Matches played, 20 ; won, 4 ; lost, 11; drew, 5. Runs for : 3,138 for 201 wickets—average, 15-6. Huns against; 3,383 for 175 wickets—average, 19-3. Crawford, N. S. Goddard, C. W. Gray, A. L. ... Groves, C. E. Hobbs, F. D. Hobbs, W. E. Johnson, F. L. Jones, W. S. Lavington, H. H. Macaldin, J. J. Macaldin, T. G. Moore, H. S. Parish, E. ... Plummer, H. C. Russell, F. S. Shuter, P. J. Southcombe, H. Taylor, A. E. Wyatt, C. P. Also batted ( figures given are actual scores): — Adamson, J. H., 23; Arnold, G. P., 1 ; Baird, L. B., 28 and 5 ; Brennan, A. E., 15 ; Brooker, H., 34 ; Butcher, P. W., 14 ; Golding, P., 20 and 1 ; Harwood, G. C., 5 ; Hazell, H., 11 ; Hughes, 0 ; 20 ; Lancaster, D., 6 ; Nelsrn, E. J., 12 ; Ralph, T., 2 ; Simmonds, W. S., 72 ; Tate, E. W., 0 ; Taylor, O., 0 ; Troup, F. C., 22 ; Voy, S. M., 8 and 4 ; Waltham, D. J., 3 ; Wilson, P. F., 15 and 8 ; Wood, C. B., 6 ; Worster, C. C., 4. Also bowled: — Golding, P., 40 runs-1-wicket; Simmonds, W. S., 13-3; Taylor, O., 19-7 ; Wilson, P. F., 26-2. B atting . B owling . Ins.N.O. R. A. H.S. O. R. W. A. 8 0 121 15-12 31 i ... 113-2 471 24 19-62 4 0 9 2-35 8 .. — — — — 4 1 19 6-33 12* .. — — — — 3 0 60 20-00 35 — — — — 22 1 572 27-25 120 ... 154-4 433 45 9-62 18 0 161 8-94 42 — — — — 23 0 354 15-39 64 — — — — 18 4 347 24-78 50* .. — — — — 4 1 14 4-66 12 .. — — — — 15 1 254 18-14 60 43 123 11 11-18 12 0 114 9-50 31 — — — —. 22 2 211 10-55 31 — — — — ■ 15 0 281 18-73 58 — — — — 15 1 217 15-50 71 .. . 146-5 405 39 10-38 15 3 81 6-75 20 .. . 228-2 643 92 6-98 5 0 21 4-20 6 — — — — 14 8 77 12-83 25* .. — — — — 22 0 406 18-45 60 65 255 9 28-33 7 1 139 23-16 80 — — — — W., 0 ; i, R. S. Kent, A. C., 10 ; each taking one For the third year in succession St. George’s (Newcastle) won the championship of the Tyneside League. The deadly bowling of C. M. Skinner and W inghara had much to do with th is; but the club was also very strong indeed in batting. W ingham performed splen didly, and the captain, C. F. Stanger-Leathes, W . W . Meldon, and J. S. N esbit all did well. A dinner to celebrate the winning of the championship was held at Tilley’s Restaurant on October 11, Mr. John Graham, one of the club’s vice-presidents, presiding. To Mr. S. P. Bell, the county captain, fell the pleasant task of proposing the toast of the St. George’s C.C. and its team, and he coupled with it the names of Messrs. C. F. Stanger-Leathes, captain, J. Straker Nesbit, vice-captain, and Frank H . Hunter, hon. sec. and treasurer. Mr. Bell referred to the great assistance rendered the county team by St. George’s, who often supplied five or six amateurs, besides W ing ham. A ll three gentlemen mentioned responded, Mr. Nesbit saying that he hoped next season each team in the league would meet all the others. The failure to arrange a com plete programme is cer tainly a thing to be regretted, and against real league principles. ST. G EO RG E ’S C.C., N EW C A S T L E : 1912. First X I. : played 18 matches ; won, 12 ; lost, 2 ; drew, 4. Second X I. : played 19 matches ; won, 13 ; lost, 5 ; drew, 1. Reserve Team : played 11 matches ; won, 4 ; lost, 4 ; drew, 3. First X I. scored 1,309 runs for 127 wickets—average 24-48. Their opponents scored 2,447 runs for 162 wickets—average 15-10 Second XI. scored 2,605 runs for 163 wickets— average, 15-98. Tlvir opponents scored 2,428 runs for 181 wickets—average, 13-41. Reserve team scored 1,059 runs for 107 wickets— average, 9-89. Their opponents scored 1,009 runs for 110 wickets—average 9-17. F irst X I. A v er ag es . B eddington did even better than in the seasons of 1910 and 1911 though then they did well. During the last three years they have won 49 matches, lost 21, and drawn 8, which is a capital record. Perhaps the double defeat of both Sutton and Streatham were their best performances this year. The feature of their batting was its levelness ; they had no giant overtopping all his com rades, but nearly everyone was good for a useful score, and eight men passed the half- century mark during the season. L. D ixon, who heads the batting and is second in bowling, was the side’s best all-rounder, and Wilfred R eay by long odds its m ost deadly bowler. B ED D IN G TON C.C. ; 1912. Matches played, 24; won, 16 ; lost, 5 ; drew, 3. Four games were abandoned* Ashbery, G. H. Bennett, H. A. Body, C. S. ... Buck, J. Dixon, L. French, F. ... Harrison, F. O. P. Hayter, H. ... Lacey, H. Laroche, R. V. Maggs, W. ... Nightingale, R. S. Page, E. C. ... Reay, G. Reay, W. Whiter, J. B. S. Windsor, G. ... Windsor, W. A. Wright, A. J. Also batted :— Bartlett, H., 8* and 4* ; Graham, C. Laroche, T., 23 and 0 ; Nightingale, J., 2* and 0. Also bowled :— Harrison, F. O. P., and Nightingale, wicket. B atting . B owling . Inns.N.O. R. A. H.S. (). R. W. A. 6 1 82 16-40 37 __ __ __ Coopper, S. F. 5 0 73 14-60 41 — — — __ Cottam, R. R. 7 1 46 7-66 17 — __ __ __ Hill, M. C. 9 0 144 16-00 37 — __ __ __ Meldon, W\ W. .. 14 0 408 29-14 113 96-2 404 13 3107 Nesbit, J. S.... .. 14 1 319 24-53 92 __ __ __ __ Newton, H. A. L. . 6 4 45 22-50 19* ... __ __ __ __ Nicholson, R. W. . 8 1 178 15-42 95 __ __ __ __ Pruen, F. H. 9 2 48 6-85 15 __ __ __ __ Robinson, H. S. .. 8 2 106 17-66 47* ... __ __ __ __ Skinner, C. M. .. 14 1 217 16-69 73 267-2 824 71 11-60 Stanger-Leathes, 0. F. 14 1 404 31-07 71 35 137 4 34-25 Wilkinson, N. R. E. 11 3 144 18-00 29* ... __ __ Wingham (G.) .. 16 2 610 43-57 114* ... 248-1 828 64 12-93 S econd X I. A v er ag es . Inns.N.O . R. A. H.S. O. R. W. A. Barlow, A. S. 9 0 178 19-77 78 — — __ Cook-Watson, S. 6 1 17 3-40 8* ... — __ __ __ Costelloe, J. M. 7 3 19 4-75 9 62-1 183 16 11-43 Davis, R. N. 9 1 87 10-87 19 — — — __ Dunn, H. G. .. 16 o 197 12-31 41 152-4 446 41 10-87 Hume, T. M. ... 14 1 231 17-75 89* ... 59-4 213 21 10-14 Hunter, F. H. ... 14 1 120 9-23 24 62-3 190 14 13-57 Lear, C. F. ... ... 11 3 50 6-25 14 __ __ __ __ McEwan, H. H. ... 11 3 239 26-55 71 __ __ __ __ Newton, H. A. L. ... 8 2 49 8-16 16 __ __ __ __ Pathello, G. S. ... 10 2 264 33-00 59 __. __ __ __ Payne, H. O. ... 16 3 280 21-53 57 228-5 551 51 10-80 Ponder, R. R. B. ... 12 0 180 15-00 32 __ __ __ __ Robinson, H. S. ... 8 2 210 35-00 61* ... __ __ __ __ Simpson, A. O. 5 0 41 8-20 21 27 98 3 32-66 P. W. L. D. 19 8 1 10 19 10 4 5 19 8 6 5 2 2 0 0 19 5 11 3 10 3 7 0 For the Reserve Team A. D. Gibbon, S. Cook-W atson, H. H. I McEwan, A . G. E very, and C. F. Learhad double-figure.batting averages ; and the principal bowlers wer< A . O. Simpson (28 wickets at 3 ’96 each), R . W . M. Close (17 at 6’47), S. B. Sim pson (11 at 6-81), ancj J. M. Costelloe (15 at 9-20). Shepherd’s Bush played in all as m any as 88 matches, winning ! 30, losing 29, and drawing 23. The figures for the various teams ; run by the club are as follow s :— I First Team in Saturday matches ... First Team in Mid-week matches ... A Team in Saturday matches A Team in Mid-week matches B Team (Saturday matches only played) C Team (Saturday matches only played) The First Team totalled 6,74(5 runs for 283 wickets, average : 23-8, while their opponents made 4,597 for 327 wickets, average 14 0. Tw ice the side totalled over 300 and fourteen times over 200, while its opponents only three times reached the 200 mark. C. T. Burgess and the captain, O. Sm oothy, as all-round men did great work, and H. C. Pearse, besides being the team ’s chief bowler, was more than useful as a batsman. Burgess stands out far ahead of all his com rades, second place being taken by M. P. Bajana, the clever Parsi batsman who played with success for Somerset. Five cen turies were made by Burgess (1(>4, 110*, 102*, 101 and 100), tw o by W . M. D arvill (118* and 102), and one each by M. P.Bajana(144*) and O. Sm oothy (134*). The leading batting averages,which 1 am only able to give in summarised form , were those of :— C. T. Burgess, 963 runs, aver. 64-2. |M. P. Bajana, 598 runs, aver. 39-8. ! O. Smoothy, 779 runs aver. 35-4. W. M. Darvill, 972 runs, aver. 29-4 H. C. Pearse, £ The chief bowlers were :— H. C Pearse, 84 w. for 1,191'r.— 14-1. I O. Smoothy, 48 w. for 614 r.— 12-7. D. E. Lewis, 58 w. for 682 r.— 11-7. | S. Jarvis, 26 w. for 373 r.— 14-3. |C. T. Burgess, 52 w. for 645 r.— 12-4. | W. B. Dickson. 16 w. for 198 r.— 12-3 M. P. Bajana, 11 w. for 119 r.— 10-8. A fter rather an unpromising start the A team had quite a good season, winning 10 matches as against 6 lost. Their m ost successful batsmen were YV. H. H eald (493 runs, average 27-3) and E. A. Toley (316, average 22-5); and the bowlinghonours fell to W . S. Apps ! (51 wickets at 10-5 each), A. D.N icoll (35 at 14-8), W . H.Heald (22 at 13-5), and P. Newton (17 at 16-2). The B team, lacking three j of their best players for the greater part of the cam paign, had a J. H. Darrah, 402 runs, aver. 26*8. C. E. Ebbetts, 294 runs, aver. 24*5. A. T. Scott, 311 runs, aver. 20-7. A. H. Wilmot, 430 runs, aver. 19-5. 30 runs, aver. 16-6.