Cricket 1913

May 24, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 227 Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. A whole pile of reports came along last week on Wednesday or Thursday, which was altogether too late to give me a chance of dealing with them in the current issue. Will Hon. Secs, please note that I should much like to have news by Tuesday morning at latest ? We want to get the paper out earlier in the week, and delay in this direction is largely responsible for our inability to do so at present. And the reports were not all of Monday’s matches. Some of them were of Saturday’s. Surely these might be sent along a little earlier ? My budget of Staffordshire notes was among the late arrivals ; and I have only room for a few extracts therefrom this week. Barnes’s bowling was referred to in the last issue. A further detail is that his first four overs were all maidens, and that he took a wicket in each of them. The North Staffs League folks had had two awful Saturdays— in which they were not alone, by the way— and it was a relief to get a full afternoon's play on the ioth. Lack of practice rather than really difficult wickets made scoring slow and small; Porthill Park’s 131 was the highest total of the afternoon. Burslem and Crewe Alexandra, who were meeting, each had a new pro. on their sides—Mills (Gloucester­ shire) for the former, Fielder (Hants) for the latter. Neither man did anything notable. A. G. Taylor, for Crewe, bowled 25 balls for 4 wickets and 3 runs. Tunstall's 31 v. Porthill was only a very little worse than Stone's 33 v. Fenton. H. Skellern, the Fenton Hon. Sec., who was the agent of destruction, clean bowled 5 of the 8 (for 14) wickets he took. On Monday Tunstall had a vicarious revenge, and Stone endured greater tribulation, for Tunstall put out Stone for 19— Morgan, who came from Somerset, getting 9 wickets for 7—nearly as great a feat as Barnes’s on Saturday. Leek took the wooden spoon last'season. This time they began very well with a victory over Knypersley; on Monday they drew their game; but on Tuesday they went under to Stoke, for whom Nichols had 8 for 29. A. C. Bailey made a very gallant effort on the Saturday to pull off victory for Stoke against Longton ; his 36 were better value than many a century ; but in the end his side lost by a single run. He was stumped in going for the winning hit, dying as he had lived, so to say ! Stoke beat Crewe Alexandra on Monday. K. H. Bailey, an amateur fast bowler, seems a real addition to their strength. Ten for 48 in his first two matches is distinctly good. J. L. Bagguley, son of the county club’s Assistant-Treasurer, has got well off the mark, too, with 33 and 30* in two low-scoring matches. The only club in the first division of the League which is doing without professional aid is Silverdale, and it was an en­ couraging start for them that they should beat Norton and give Porthill a rare good fight. Barnes (43') carried his side to vic­ tory. He also had 6 for 50 in an innings of 121. During this match— on the Monday— rain only ceased for about 15 minutes ; all the rest of the time it fell persistently, if not heavily; but the men played on. We should hear less about the squeamishnes:> of modern cricketers if this example were emulated elsewhere. In the Durham League only one match was played on the Saturday ; on Monday four were possible out of six set for decision. South Shields beat Durham City on the Saturday, but on Monday fell to Philadelphia, whose new pro., Harling, took 6 for 19. Sunderland, without Morris, the brothers Brooks, and Pickersgill, defeated Seaham Harbour by the narrow margin of 9 runs. For the losers Warner, another recent introduction (from Nottingham), had 6 for 24. E. L. Squance took 7 for 41 for the winners. Durham City went under to Whitburn in a match of small scores. Wearmouth made 178 for 4, dec., v. Eppleton (Rothery £>o», J. Prince 33, H. Clode 33, W . F. Parrington 26), and then disposed of the visitors for 64, Clode taking 9 wickets. At Abbey Wood Lessness Park and Granville (Lee) played through a drizzling rain, like Porthill Park and Silverdale ; and my L. P. correspondent says he doesn’t believe any other side but Granville would have stuck to it as they did after their rivals had the game well in hand. Granville made 136, H. A. Dickens, one of the lusty, fear-nought brigade, hitting up 45. J. A. ' (“ Jumbo ” ) Rutter took their last three wickets for a single run. Lessness Park had 4 down for 62. It was anybody’s game then ; but the ball had become so greasy that sawdust was of no avail, and C. I. S. Wallace (54) and E. Upton (33) hit off nearly all the runs needed before they were separated. The total was 180. I am told that on one ground R. T. Thornton’s egg-throwing dodge was tried during the luncheon interval. Result— game abandoned ; ground rendered unfit! But the truth of this is not vouched for. L. and N .W .R ., after three abandoned matches, were able to play Leavesden Asylum on Monday, and won by 10 runs— 79 to 69. The bowling of H. J. Paris (5 for 27) and E. Howard (4 for 21) for the winners was the game’s chief feature. H. A. Milton’s 52 and G. W . Cranfield’s 40* went a long way towards giving Southgate yictory (by 177 to 98) over Old Mer­ chant Taylors. I note that S. M. Chothia, who must be the well-known Parsi player, turned out for Southgate. For O. M. T .’s W . J. Marshman (33) and J. F. Hosken (24) made the bulk of the runs. F. W . Milling took half-a-dozen wickets for the winners, and J. P. Jamieson five for the losers. West Kent Wanderers A had two close games at Whitsuntide. On Saturday Blackheath Wanderers A beat them by 13 runs— 104 to 91. Morrell (36 and 4 for 50) did good all-round work for the losing side. On Monday they played a tie game (96) with African Banks at Catford. Wilson was a big contributor to the Banks’ total, making 49. Morrell took 4 for 29. W .K .W . had 92 up with only five men out (Bronsdon 34, Brooker 22) ; but their last 5 wickets fell for 4 more. Strictly speaking this was not an A match, however, for the Wanderers on Monday fielded two teams of equal strength, J. Longman captaining one, and H. J. Phillips the other. A t Easton on the ioth strong sides represented Easton Ram­ blers and Ipswich and East Suffolk, among the county cricketers included being R. H. Spooner, M. Falcon, A. D. Whatman, and E. Godley on the home side, W . Catchpole, V. F. Gaby, F. L. Titchmarsh, P. P. Cornell, H. A. Busher, and P. W . Cobbold on that of the visitors. Scoring ruled small: I. & E.S., 93 and 43 ; Easton Ramblers, 62. V. F. Gaby (7 for 35) and the Norfolk captain (7 for 37) bowled finely. On Monday at Shotley the Ipswich men won another game of low scoring against the R. N. Barracks. W . Catchpole’s 36 was the highest innings of the match. Gaby again bowled finely ; in the first innings he had 8 for 13, and in the whole match 10 for 19. Colchester and East Essex narrowly defeated Sudbury on the Monday— 77 to 65. H. D. Swan was away, and E. M. Hingston captained the visitors. He made 39 ; extras were 19 ; the other ten men divided 19 among them. In the second innings D. Mustard made 42* and J. Oldham 30, and the total was 121 for 7. For Sudbury H. G. Udell took 6 for 18 ; for the winners A. S. Cox had 5 for 34. Old Whitgiftians beat Purley on Monday, W . D. Hackney (30 and 4 for 24) and R. V. Bowater (6 for 25) being the principal factors in the result. Scores, Purley 50 ; Old W .’s 82. Brixton, 80 ; Heathfield, 68 for 6 ; rain prevented a finish. Such is in brief the story of Heathfield’s Whit-Monday match. Plenty of parallels ! A bit rough on the home side, with 13 to get for victory and 5 wickets to fall (twelve a side playing). E. G. Read’s 24 was the highest innings. Robbed by holiday-making of some of their best men, Greville had not a very satisfactory time of it at Whitsun. The first team's match at Harlesden on Saturday was abandoned— ground unfit. The A team went under to Radlett— totals, 160 for 9, dec. (A. G. Saunders 48, H. M. Dawes 48) and 75 (A. M. Dunn 27). The B team beat Harlesden II., a result mainly due to J. H. Thornton’s bowling (7 for 14). At Walton on Monday the home team made 98, and won by 20 runs, F. B. Osborne’s 51 being a big item in their score. Greville bucked up better in a second innings, and scored 135 for 7 (A. L. Ward and W . D. Baylis 39 each). The A team and Uld Bancroftians had a full day's play at Cricklewood, with the result that 40 wickets fell for less than 250 runs, and Old Bancroftians won by 51. A. H. Self’s 31 for the winners was highest indivi