Cricket 1912

A p r i l 27, 1912. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 85 Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. A good many club secretaries have been kind enough lo promise not only scores but also notes as to matches during the coming season. May we suggest here what form we should like these notes to take ? When Mr. B. Atsman, who averages his 30 to 10 runs per innings each season, makes fifty— that isn’t news, from our point of view. It’s the sort of thing one expects of him. But if Mr. B. Atsman scores half-a-dozen fifties in succession, the fact is worth noting. When Mr. T. A. I. L. Ender goes in with nine wickets down for a small total and hits up a decent score— that is news, and good news. All information as to long partnerships, elose finishes, (piickly-mado scores, centuries, hat tricks, and other bowling feats, and that sort of thing is news. The statement that Mr. ('rack, of the opposing eleven, was let off half-a-dozen times in making his century has no special value. It does not say very much for your own men’s fielding, either. But it is worth while to note whether a big innings really was well-played, and it is always a pleasure to chronicle such as chanceless—when it can be done truthfully, of course. Club notes—apart from actual play—will bo welcome. If is the most natural thing in the world that a man should be proud of the fact that his club has held together for a quarter of a century or more, that it bas provided county cricket with good men, that it has veterans of many years’ service, and so on. We shall always be glad to bear of these things. They do things well tip in the north. Tbe neat little handbook of tbe Durham Senior Cricket League (Eastern Division) is a case in point. Here we have, in small compass, a portrait of the League’s worthy Pre­ sident, Mr. Alfred Grundy, list of clubs and secretaries, list of fixtures for first and second teams, list of ollicial umpires, league tables for 1911, a table of the championship winners since the league was founded, and— one likes to see this— the county card for the season. There are twelve clubs in the Eastern Division—- Boldon, Burnmoor, Chester-le-Street, Durham City, Epple- ton, Hendon, Philadelphia, Seaham Harbour. South Shields, Sunderland, Wearmouth Collieries, and Whitburn. Each enters first and second teams. Sunderland won the championship of both divisions in 1911. The same club headed the first division in 1909, 1908, 1905 (level with Wearmouth Collieries), 1904, and 1903, and the second division in 1905 (level with Philadelphia), 1904, and 1903. Durham City (1910 and 1907) and Wearmouth Collieries (1900 and jointly with Sunderland in 1905) have been the other champions in the nine years of the Leagues’ existence. When Lord Willingdon of Hatton told our interviewer last year that one of the needs of Sussex was a club on the lines of the Band of Brothers, he must have forgotten, one fancies, the very existence of that admirably-managed organisation, the S u s s e x M a r t l e t s , whose fixture list for 1912, appended, will show clearly that it is doing in Sussex very much what the B. B. ’s do in Kent. May 25. Lewes, v. Lewes Priory. Aug. 1. Lucas Grange, v. C. G. O. June 1 . Eastbourne, v. The College. Bridgeman’s XI. 6 . Crowborough, v. F. H. Gres- 2 & 3. Hove, v. Harrow Blues. son’s XI. 6 . Cuckfield, v. Cuekfield. 8 . Vincent Sq., v. Westminster 9. Lancing, v. Lancing O.B.’s. School. 10. East Grinstead, v. E. Grin- 12. West Horsham, v. Christ's stead. Hospital. 12 & 13. Littlehampton, v. Little- 17 & 18. Eastbourne, v. Eastbourne. hampton. 22. Lancing, v. The College. 14. Hove, v. F. Gough-Cal- 27. Brighton, v. Tlie College. tliorpe’s XI. 20. Hove, v. South Saxons. 10 & 20. Hove, v. Royal Navy. July 2. Littlehampton, v.F. E. 21 & 22. Hove, v. Blue Mantles. Rowe's XI. 23 & 24. Hove, v. Eton Ramblers. 6 . Gatton Park, v. Sir J. 26 & 27. Hove, v. M.C.C. Colman’s XI. 28. Searle’s Fletching, v. G. II. Brook House, v. H. R. G. Maryon Wilson's XI. Clarke’s XI. 30. Arundel Castle, v. J. F. 13. Steyning, v. Steyning. Hope's XI. Is- Hove, v. Old Eastbournians. " " iti. tambro’s XI. Sussex County Ground. 10 ,V ' 20 . Hove, v. Ineogu The Hove matches arc played on the *0 & 30. Saffrons, v. E. H rnt ......... .......... ~ The B u s h e y C.C., whose card was one of the first to hand, has a capital list of fixtures, including matches with Pinner, Chorley Wood, Stanmore, Brondesbury, South Hampstead, Harrow, West Herts, Shepherds Bush, Herts. C. and 0 ., Westbourne Park Wanderers, Willesden, Walham Green, and The Goblins. The Cricket Week is July 22-27, with Aldenliam School to start, then Herts, v. Suffolk (Golding’s Benefit), two days of course, West Herts., and Mr. E. H. Cuthbertson’s X I. (two days). There is another county match on the ground late in August. The 2nd X I. has a card of 22 matches. Messrs. E. E. Huntley (Clarendon, Chalk Hill, Watford) and W. Fielder Flint (Eastnor, Bushey) are joint Hon. Secs. The U p p e r S y d e n h a m C.C. (Hon. Sec., Mr. Guy P. Wright, 14, Venner Rd., Sydenham), has a card of 2t> matches, on wandering club lines. Among the sides they meet are Dulwich College, East Molesey, Bexley, Bickley Park, Teddington, Sanderstead, Leatherhead, Chislehurst, Caterham, Richmond Town, Hayes, Horley, Battersea, several Hank elevens, and, on the Saturday before the August Bank Holiday and the holiday itself, Littlehampton and Bognor, at those charming seasido resorts. That old-established and well-known organisation, the E atjn u C.C. (Hon. Sec., Mr. H. U . Bowtoll, 10, Madeley Road, Ealing) lias a full card, for two strong elevens, and also runs an “ A ” Team. The Cricket Week is August 5-10, when Mr. !•’. II. Hangar’s X I. (two days), Finchley, Mr. R. W. List’s X I., Richmond, and. Slough are met. Among the club’s other opponents are Hampstead, Ealing Dean, Brondesbury, Chiswick Park, the Wanderers, Walham Green, Maidenhead, Upper Clapton, South Hampstead, Uxbridge, Hanwell Asylum, Pallingswick, London Scottish, H.A.C., Finchley, Mill Hill Park, Shep­ herds Bush, Hornsey, and, Hounslow. b’uBEST H il l C.C.’s twenty-ninth season finds it more flourishing than ever. Four teams are run, two playing at home and two away. The Week is July 1-ti, the matches being with Guy’s Hospital, Granville, M.C.C., Wanderers, Crofton Park, and White House. The first team’s card also includes matches with Cyphers, Dulwich, Ibis, Catford, Sutton, Merton, Old Whitgiftians, Old Citizens, Mr. E. A. Brymer’s X I., L. and W. Bank, National Provincial Bank, and. Private Banks. Mr. G. C. Hast (02, Sunderland Rd., Forest Hill) is Hon. Sec. The first volume of CRICKET (1882) contains scores of the G r a n v il l e (Lee) C.C., and the club was no new one even then, for it started as far back as 1860, being originally Granville (Blackheath). There are several metropolitan clubs which are noteworthy for the loyalt y of their members; few, if any, can approach Granville in this respect. It is a pleasure to see, year by year, the old names still figuring. Efflux of years causes some to drop out from time to time ; but lusty veterans remain, and many of those who cease to play continue as keen as ever on the club’s fortunes. The club’s 1st XL has a card of 31 fixtures, including matches with M.C.C., Lessness Park, Hampstead, Bromley, Bickley Park, Gravesend, Eltham, Midcup, Cyphers, Charlton Park, Blackheath, Forest llill, Woolwich Garrison, Brixton Wanderers, Army Ordnance Corps, Guy’s and Charing Cross Hospitals, the Wanderers, and Mr. W . LI. Robert’s X I. The secretaryship is in the capable hands of Mr. H. W. Gill (14, Brandram Rd., Lee, S.E.). The W a n d e r e r s C.C. held their annual dinner on the 17th inst. at the Trocadero, Shaftesbury Avenue. Mr. Clement Colman, tbe President, presided, and the vice-chairmen were the club captain, Mr. Stanley Colman, Mr. P. P. Lincoln, and Mr. W. E. Hobbs. Some sixty members and friends were present. Mr. A. M. Latham, Hon. Sec., stated that of 30 matches played in 1911 as many as 25 were won, only seven being lost. Long life to the Wanderers ! Every cricketer knows the M o t e C.C. ; very many know its beautiful homo at Maidstone, where in former days Walter Wright was wont to utilise the slope with