Cricket 1912

586 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. D ec . 14, 1912. unchanged in the m atch, and N orthum berland were all out for | 7 4 and 37.” “ A fter that ? ” “ B ut you don’t want it in detail, do you ? M y best score of the season was 54, y. W orcestershire at Stourbridge. Burrows, Cuffe, Arnold, and Pearson were am ong the bowlers. I was caught a t the w icket both innings— for a duck in the first. My average that season was just over l(i— 163 in ten com pleted innings.” “ N ow we com e to 1911.” “ The county did n ot play so m any m atches then, and I could .not get away for the earlier ones. I got some runs in every match I played in, but no big scores— 31 was m y highest.” B ut with 31 as his highest, and only one not out in seven innings, T aylor averaged 23‘66, which shows remarkable consistency. “ Y ou did not play regularly this year, I believe ? ” “ I missed several matches. M y first of the season was in m y native town, against Durham , and I went in first with Percy Briggs. I had only gone in first for the cou nty once before ; Mr. Briggs and H ollow ood are our usual opening pair. I made 32 at W alsall, and 39, going in late, v. Cheshire at Stoke. B ut, of course, the best thing I did for the cou nty was m y 103 v. M onm outh at Newport., I also made 80 v. Cheshire at Stockport. On both occasions, in the absence of H ollow ood and the Stoke skipper, N ichols and I started, and I think I m ay say we started well.” “ Mr. H ancock told me that you would be looked upon now as a regular ‘ first man in.’ ” “ T hat’s kind of him . B ut I ’m afraid I shan’t be able to play much in the early part of the season in future. Y ou see, I have started in at work now, and I can’t expect our E ducation Comm ittee t o let me off to play cricket. Others m ight ask for similar treatment. B ut I hope to play as soon as the holidays begin.” “ W hat of your bowling ? ” “ Oh, I’m not a cou nty bowler, you know— far from it. And Barnes and W ilson, and the rest of them don ’t leave m uch chance for the aspiring amateur. But 1 always have bowled, and I’ve taken a good m any wickets. 1 don’t bow l regularly for W alsa ll; but 1 took 3 for 5 v. M oseley in a Birm ingham League m atch in May, and for W alsall Teachers v. Birm ingham Teachers on M ay 30 I had 7 for 16.” Mr. W . C. H ancock (who knows T aylor well, of course) speaks in high terms of him . H e is not only a fine cricketer, but a level­ headed, unspoiled fellow , who should do well in his profession, says the Staffordshire H on. Sec. A few m ore figures m ay not be out of place. L. F. T aylor’s ; name had pride of place in the Birmingham League batting averages for 1911— 352 runs in 9 innings (4 n ot out)— average 70*40. That season, after a bad spell, he totalled 274 runs in five innings, of which o n ly the last was com pleted— in other words, made 274 for once out. His aggregate in all matches for 1912 was 1,405, average 36. - - —■crg'j--------------------------■— First=Class Cricket in i q i 2. (Continued from page 553.) SOM E IN D IV ID U A L PERFO RM AN C E S B Y W IC K E T -K E E P E R S A N D FIE LD SM EN . B ale (E .), W orcestershire v. Leicestershire, Leicester, caught 3, stumped 3 in tw o innings. ,, W orcestershire v. South Africans, at W orcester, caught 1,stumped 4 in a single innings. W . S. Bird, Gentlemen v. Players, L ord’s, caught 4, stumped 1 in tw o innings. B oard (J. H .), Gloucestershire v. Hants, Bristol, caught 2, stumped 4 in tw o innings. F . R . R . Brooke, Lancashire v. Surrey, Manchester, caught 6 in two innings. ,, Lancashire v. Middlesex, L ord’s, caught 5 in two innings. Buswell (W . A.), Northants v. Essex, N ortham pton, caught 2, stumped 4 in tw o innings. ,, Northants v. Somerset, Bath, caught 3, stumped 2 in two innings. ,,Northants v. Surrey, N ortham pton, caught 2, stumped 3 in tw o innings. D olphin (A .), Yorkshire v. Leicestershire, Leicester, caught 3, stumped 2 in two innings. A . J. Evans, O xford U. v. Mr. H . D . G. Leveson-G ow er’s X I., E ast­ bourne, caught 5 in tw o innings. H endren (E .), M iddlesex v. K ent, Maidstone, caught 5 in two innings. Huish (F. H .), K ent v. Gloucestershire, D over, caught 4, stumped S in two innings. ,, K ent v. Leicestershire, D over, caught 1, stumped 6 in tw o innings. ,, K ent v. N orthants, Tonbridge, caught 6, stumped 1 in tw o innings. ,, K ent v. Somerset, Taunton, caught 3, stumped 4 in two innings. Humphries (J.), Derbyshire v. Lancashire, Manchester, caught 4, stumped 3 of 15 that fell. K ing (J. H .), M.C.C. v. O xford U., L ord’s, caught 5 of 17 that fell. Langdon (T.), Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire, Bristol, caught 5 in tw o innings. Mead (C. P.), Hants, v. Middlesex, Portsm outh, caught 5 in two innings. Murrell (H. R .), Middlesex v. W arwickshire, Birmingham, caught 3, stumped 3 in two innings. Oates (T.), N otts v. Australians, N ottingham , caught 4, stumped 1 in two innings. R . H. Robinson, Essex v. K ent, Gravesend, caught 6 o f 13 that fell. J. Shields, Leicestershire v. W orcestershire, Leicester, caught 4, stumped 1 in two innings. Smith (E. J.), W arwickshire v. Northants, Birm ingham , caught 6, stumped 1 in two innings. ,, W arwickshire v. Australians, Birmingham, caught 6 of 13 that fell. ,, W arwickshire v. Derbyshire, Birmingham, caught 6 in two innings. Stone (J.), Hants, v. Cambridge U., Southam pton, caught 4, stumped 1 of 13 that fell. L. A. Strieker, South Africans v. A ll Ireland, at Bray, caught 5 in two innings. Strudwick (H .), Surrey v. Northants., Oval, caught 6, stumped 1 of 16 that fell. ,, Surrey v. Warwickshire, Oval, caught 4, stumped 2 in tw o innings. T. A. W ard, South Africans v. Sussex, H ove, caught 4, stumped 1 in two innings. W hitehead (H .), Leicestershire v. Sussex, Leicester, caught 6 in tw o innings. --------------- RUN OUT. “ R ugby ” (a Portsm outh correspondent) has worked out for me the figures relating to cases of run out in first-class cricket during 1912. The total is 228, and the figures m ay be summarised thus :— Cases of Opposing Cases of Opposing Side. run out batsmen Side. run out batsmen for run out. for run out. Australians .. 30 12 Notts .............. 9 10 Cambridge U. . 7 11 Oxford U. .. 6 7 Derbyshire .. 11 5 Somerset..............,. 8 3 Essex 9 4 South Africans .. . 12 20 Gloucestershire ... 3 8 Surrey .............. . 12 16 Hants .. 10 22 Sussex ................ 13 11 Kent 8 12 Warwickshire .. . 11 2 Lancashire .. 10 14 Worcestershire .. 5 5 Leicestershire 8 9 Yorkshire . 17 15 Middlesex .. 12 8 Various— i.e., all 1 00 27 Northants 5 7 other sides i In m ost of these cases the figures are normal. Take N otts, for instance, who lost 9 wickets in this way, and got rid of 10 of their opponents. But three sets of figures stand out conspicuously. The Australians lost as m any as 30 wickets by runs out, and their fields­ men accounted for only 12 in this way. The South Africans lost only 12, and accounted for 20. Still better is Hampshire’s record. The batsmen m ost frequently dismissed run out were : C. B. Jennings (8 times), Baker (C. S.), W . Bardsley, R . Beaum ont, P. Cartwright, Drake, S. E. Gregory, J. W . McLaren, M orton, L. A . Strieker, Tarrant, and W ilson (B. B .) (each 3 times). LEG B E FO R E W ICK E T . Bringing up to date Mr. D. C. H enrik-Jones’s figures (see page 497), I find that in all there were 641 l.b.w . dismissals during the season. J. W . H. T. Douglas was thus out on a dozen occasions ; B owell, R elf, (A. E.), and Vine each 10 times ; Hayward, Hirst, and W oolley (F. E.) each 9 times ; Hardstaff and G. R . H azlitt each 8 times ; Ducat, Hayes, Humphreys, C. Kelleway, E. L. K idd, A. D. Nourse, and W ilson each 7 tim es; W . Bardsley, Booth, Bowley, Cadman, Hardinge, R . H. Spooner, and H. W . T aylor each 6 times. Am ong those who played frequently Bale, W . Carkeek, H. P. Chaplin, Dean, Hitch, the Jam Sahib, G. L. Jessop, Frank Mitchell, Mounteney, Murrell, Oates, Seymour (Jas.), David Sm ith, E. M. Sprot, and Sir Archibald W hite were never thus out. There are four wicket-keepers am ong the fifteen mentioned, and there is not a single stumper am ong those most frequently out l.b.w . Can any one account for this ?