Cricket 1912

596 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Dec. 14, 1912. T H E A U S T R A L IA N S IN T H E STA T E S , C AN AD A AN D B E RM U D A . Played 7 matches ; wou 6 ; drew 1. B a tt in g A v e r a g e s . Matches played in. Inns. N.O. R. A. H.S. E. R. Mayne ................ 7 12 0 328 27-33 54 S. E. Gregory ................ 7 12 1 285 25-90 118 D. Smith ................ 5 9 2 176 25-14 65* S. H. Emery ................ 7 13 0 313 24-07 142 H. W. Webster ................ 7 13 0 268 20-61 60 J. W. McLaren ................ 7 13 3 193 19-30 89 C. K elleway................ ................ 7 13 0 219 16-84 48 T. J. Matthews ................ 7 13 0 162 12-46 28 W. Carkeek ... ................ 7 12 2 114 11-40 53 W. J. Whitty ................ 7 13 4 102 11-27 31* E. Penfold (who batted six tim es, twice not out, without scoring a run), N. G. Ducker, R . Bingham , H. H. Russell, J. Price, and W . Thom pson played as em ergencies, the latter five in one m atch each. S. C. Thom pson took M ayne’s place after the first day of the m atch a t V ictoria, and was allow ed to bat. and a selection from the rest, including as m any men as possible known on this side the Atlantic. B o w lin g A v e r a g e s . Matches bowled in. O. M. R. W. A. C. Kelleway' 5 64 19 119 21 5-66 S. H. Emery ................ 7 115-3 12 368 54 6-81 W. J. Whitty ... ................ 6 135 35 321 39 8-23 T. J. Matthews ... ................ 7 133-4] 32 421 44 9-56 J. W. McLaren ... ................ 5 50 20 126 6 21-00 Also b o w l e d W. Carkeek (5 overs-0 maiden-29 runs-1 wicket); Gregory (5-4-0-25-2) ; E. R. Mayne (3-1-7-0) ; E. Penfold (3-0-39-0) ; Smith (6-1-33-1). S. E. and D. N EW ZE A L AN D . The Christchurch players are generally the first in the Dom inion to get to work, and play in that city was in full swing on October 12. F or W est Christchurch v. East Christchurch Dan Reese took 5 wickets for 18, and for East Christchurch T om Carlton countered with 8 for 39 ; for Linw ood v. St. Albans A. Thom as scored 128 and the veteran S. A. Orchard 57, the pair adding 149 for the fifth w ick e t; otherwise well-known players did little of note. In the second grade Loudon, who did good work last year, hit up 277 * for Canterbury College v. East Christchurch B in a total of 463 for 6. W ellington and A u ck­ land matches started on O ctober 19 ; and in the W indy City bowlers had the better of the argument, Fenton taking 8 wickets for 52 (South v. East W ellington), and Rodgers 7 for 33 (H utt County v. Central W ellington), while Barber (Petone v. W ellington College) was the only batsman to top 50. From A uckland I have no news yet. AM ER ICA . This is a small budget of belated items. First, the bowling averages of the Philadelphia C.C. in England, hitherto unavailable (from that capital paper, The American Cricketer). B. M. R. W. A. G. C. C onyers................ ................ 1578 72 595 75 7-93 G. V. Campbell ................ 284 16 125 12 10-42 B a n k s ............................. ................ 776 25 371 24 15-46 H. L. Clark ................ ................ 330 12 179 10 17-90 T. F. Dixon, Jun. ................ 182 6 89 4 22-25 A. Hunter, Jun. ................ 60 4 36 1 36-00 H. W. Goodall ................ 276 11 145 4 36-25 J. R. Conyers................ ................ 72 1 45 0 — BATTING . Gerald Conyers, though a m ember of the club, hails from Ber­ muda ; G. V. Campbell is the old E tonian who played once or twice for Surrey ; and Banks is an English pro., who was engaged to strengthen the bowling. This does not leave m uch achievement for the Philadelphia players ; but some of their best could not make the trip. The Germantown C.C. toured in Canada in August, winning three games and losing only one (v. A ll Montreal). Against the Rosedale (T oronto) C.C., H. A. Haines (54) aud P. H. Clark (35) were the top scorers of the two innings ; R . P. Anderson made 34 and 21.* Clark took 6 for 13 in Rosedale's first, H . G. W ookey 6 for 44 in German- tDwn’s second. Against Toronto Zingari S. W . Pearson’s 36 was the larger score. Stuart Saunders led the way with 29 for the home side. Percy Clark had 7 for 23 this time. H . P. Austin (42*) top- scored v. Ottawa, and J. H. Savage, jun., took 5 for 27. The very creditable victory gained by Montreal was largely due to the batting of R . H. Malone (50) and the bow ling of C. B. Godwin (5 for 21). B ut in this m atch (as also at O ttaw a) Germantown were without P. H. Clark, who in the tw o innings in which he bowled had 13 wickets for 36. The H alifax Cup averages ( American Cricketer again) are too lengthy for presentation in fu ll; but I give some of the best figure*, Place. Inns. N.O. R. A. H.S. 1 10 2 395 49-37 90 2 10 0 362 36-20 89 3 8 1 187 26-71 58* 4 8 0 212 26-50 59 5 0 234 26-00 49 6 8 0 205 25-62 75 7 10 1 230 25-55 100* 8 10 0 247 24-70 134 9 7 4 74 24-66 44 10 8 3 122 24-40 44* 11 9 2 163 23-28 37 12 l) 0 197 21-88 67 13 9 1 170 21-25 75 14 10 2 163 20 37 44 . 15 10 0 202 20-20 90 16 9 1 160 20-00 66 17 6 0 117 19-50 41 . 18 7 0 133 19-00 52 , 20 8 1 127 18-14 75* 25 10 0 160 16-00 57 . 29 8 1 108 15-42 54 . 33 8 1 99 14-14 36 . 35 8 1 82 11-71 32 . 40 11 0 102 9-27 36 . 41 10 0 91 9-10 67 . 42 10 0 89 8-90 23 . 47 7 0 54 7-71 19 )W L IN G . Place. B. R. W. A. 1 628 284 38 7-47 ... 2 500 282 29 9-72 ... 3 488 296 30 9-86 ... 5 690 453 42 10-78 ... 6 437 277 24 11-54 ... 9 774 509 36 14-13 ... 10 636 331 29 14-18 ... 11 620 370 26 14-23 ... 16 689 384 20 19-20 Belmont, “ F ’ ’ for Frankford, “ G ” ►lerion, “ M o.” for M oorestown, “ P ” J. B. King (B.) S. W. Mifflin (Me.) ... H. A. Furness (Mo.) H. W. Middleton (P.) R. L. Pearson (G.) ... W. P. Newhall (G.) ... ,T. L. Evans (Me.) R. Lee (Me.) ... A. Hunter, Jun. J. H. Scattergood (Me.) L. Lee (Me.) ... E. L. Phillips (Mo.) ... R. G. Hare (Me.) ... J. R. Yetterlein (Me.) G. F. Bottomley (B.) A. H. Graham (B.) ... N. G. Ducker (B.) ... C. C. Morris (Me.) ... A. J. Henry (P.) R. P. Anderson (G.)... J. P. Dornan (P.) P. H. Clark (G.) T. C. Jordan (G.) W. Graham (B.) W. W. Foulkrod (P.) F. S. White (G.) F. A. Greene (G.) P. H. Clark (G.) Boddington (Mo.) R. L. Melville (B.) J. B. King (B.) E. L. Phillips (Mo.) R. Waad, Jun. (F.) W. P. O’Neill (G.) W. M. Fellowes (F.) H. W. Middleton (P.) N o te .— “ B ” for Germantown, for Philadelphia. E xcept for K ing and Clark, the older players make no great show here. But such younger men as Mifflin, Furness, Evans, Middleton, the tw o Lees, Hare, B ottom ley, Melville, W aad, and others ought to be capable of handing on the torch still burning. W illard Graham, a couple of years ago a fine all-round player, has fallen away sa d ly ; W . W . Foulkrod, with 67 in one innings and 24 for a total in nine more, evidently had no luck ; and F. S. W hite cannot be the batsman he was when he visited England in 1908. A . J. H enry is the E ditor of The American Cricketer , N. G. Ducker the Sydney student who played for the Australians in one game ; and the names of C. C. Morris, W . P. O ’Neill, J. H . Scattergood, and T . C. Jordan should all be familiar to those who have follow ed Philadelphian cricket at all. That old hand, E. M. Cregar, headed the Philadelphia Cup bat­ ting averages, with 86 per innings (7-2-430), highest score 131,* but did little bowling. A. L. Castle (Merion) scored 279 in 7 innings, J. H. Mason (Philadelphia) 236 in 7, F. H . Tripp (Germantown) 268 in 9. Castle also took 35 wickets for 9-22 runs each, Tripp had 30 at 10-50, and E. M. Mann 29 at 8-44. Here is more good material evidently. P. J. Higgins headed both batting and bowling averages of the Los Angeles (Col.) club. H e scored 1,085 in 9 innings, 3 out not— average 180-83. “ Prodeegious! ” as D om inie Sampson was wont to exclaim . O. D. Rasmussen totalled 544, and averaged 6 8 ; W . G. Cochrane totalled 305, and averaged 50-83. W . M egget took 42 wickets at 12-83 each ; Higgins had 14 at 8-50, W . M addock 20 at 9-75. It strikes one that the Los Angeles C.C.’s opponents must have had pretty warm times on the whole ! CEYLON . Only three players have totalled over 1000 runs and taken over 100 wickets inside a year in Ceylon. I don ’t say a season, because I am rather doubtful about the cricket season in the spicy island ; the game seems to be played very nearly, if not quite, all the year round there. These are W . F. O. Faviell, of the Worcestershire Regim ent, who has played for B om bay Presidency and Essex, H. C. Gunasekera, a schoolboy, and R. E. S. Mendis. The last-named has done so four times, in 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1912. The last number of the Ceylon Sportsman to hand gives particulars of his career in an interesting article, from which I gather that from 1904 to 1912 inclusive (the current year incomplete, perhaps), Mendis took as m any as 1,089 wickets, his lowest total 73 in 1904, his highest 215 in 1909. H e is still quite a young man, for in 1904 he was at s ch o o l; his bowling is left-hand, with good length and a big leg break.