Cricket 1913

2G4 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u n e 7, 1913. Bristol in August, 1905. B y another coincidence it was scored on the same ground as his second, in June, 1908. Is there something in the air o f Northamptonshire which causes bowlers to bowl no-balls ? Everyone knows that this is a weakness o f George Thompston, and if my observation is not at fau lt W ells and E ast are similarly addicted. Now J .’ White, w ho. hails from W elling­ borough, is found doing the same sort o f thing at Fenner’s. N o r th am pto n sh ir e v . K e n t . — W oolley and Seymour (C . N . and John) played for the home side, Woolley and Seymour (F . E . and James) for the visitors ! This did not happen last year, for F ran k W oolley was absent from the match at Northampton, and James Seymour from that at T o n b rid g e ; and I am tolerably sure that no parallel instance can be found in the annals o f first-class cricket. F o r, o f course, the two Seymours are brothers, and so are the two W oolleys, and to strengthen the coincidence they all come from the same neighbourhood, the home o f the Seymours at I’ embury being only a few miles from that o f the Woolleys at Tonbridge. F A T H E R W A L T E R . " Walter Mead and his son Harold played for Essex against Derbyshire. Between the fall of a wicket, one noticed Walter talking to his son ; doubtless giving him some useful hint." — D a i l y P a p e r . “ You are old, Father Walter,” the young Mead cried, “ And your hair, what there is of it, ’s white; Y et you still hold your own w ith the best on the side— Do you think, at your age, that it’s r ig h t? ” “ Some few years ago ,” Father Walter replied, “ I ’d a sort of a wish' to retire ; But as 1 grow younger each year, I have tried To subdue that untimely desire.” “ You are old,” said the youth, “ yet you still keep a length; You can spin ’em and twist ’em at pleasure. Your back-breaks are snorters, quite over my strength, And they call you still ‘ Our Essex T reasu re! ’ ” “ You are young,” replied Walter, “ and a little bit green ; My art is' not learnt in a season ; I bowl with my head : it remains to be seen, If you can combine pace with reason.” “ You are old,” said the youth, “ one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as e v e r; Yet you still hold a catch at the tip of your toes— Whab makes you so awfully clever?” “ In my youth,” said the veteran, “ I kept all my limbs— Not to mention my principles— supple ; And that’s why old age neither stiffens nor dims, And the years w ith alertness I couple.” A. C. D. I t is said that Lancashire might possibly have won at Leyton on the 21st but for a pecuiarity of the pavilion clo ck on that ground. The minute hand of the clock, so they say, is loose on its pin, and in consequence drags on the ascent and travels at accelerated pace on the descent. T h e Exchange Telegraph Company’s close o f play report | was timed 6.27. But if p'ay started up to time— at 11.30 — by the clo ck there .is really nothing in it, as it must then have been three minutes f a s t ! O n e of the penalties of the popular hero has fallen upon John Denton. H e was “ Jack ” in at least two of the morning papers I saw on the 26th. But why wasn’t William “ W illie ” ? This discrimination is invidious, especially after such a mark of the crowd’s favour as W. H . D . received when they carried him to the pavilion. I n the list o f acceptances for the Australian tour in America given by the West Australian on the Monday before the team sailed the name o f J. A . O ’Connor appeared; but O ’Connor would appear to have withdrawn at the eleventh hour. Trumper was still reckoned a likely starter at that date, and a place was being kept open for him. L . O l iv e r ’ s batting for the last five years for Glossop in the Central Lancashire League competition (from the Athletic News Cricket Annuals ):— Year. Inns. N.O. R. A. H.S. Place. 1908 •• 13 0 258 19-84 86 36 1909 •• 13 2 287 26-09 75 11 1910 10 1 34 8 39-66 87 3 1911 12 0 462 38-5° IO4 I 1912 12 0 439 36-58 80 I Totals 60 3 1794 31-47 IO4 --- T he Australian Team for America (a list o f whose fixtures as fa r as yet completed w ill be found on another page) made their voyage in a ship on her maiden trip, the new Canadian-Australian liner Niagara. They won their first match, at Victoria, by an innings and 95 runs, and their second, v. British Columbia, in the same city by an innings and 103. T he Week, o f Victoria, says that it is likely H ollow ay, the noted international player, may join the team. I f he does, I trust Mayne or Mr. R . B . Benjamin will make careful enquiry into his international career, and let the world know the result o f such enquiry. Personally, 1 can ’t even guess who he is ! T he Edmonton Cricket League has asked the Edmon­ ton Citv Council for a grant o f twelve hundred dollars for the purpose o f entertaining the visitors. Nothing like doing the thing well, is there? No danger if the grant is made that the Australians should suffer as they did at Winnipeg last year, when, according to a local paper, “ in addition to the disadvantage which they experienced from the weather the visitors were entertained to luncheon at the park by the Cricket Association ! ” C a ptain J. F . F o u l k e s , who is a member o f the British Columbian lawn tennis team to play for the Davis Cup at Wimbledon in June, is also one o f the province’s most prominent cricketers. In a match between Oak B a y and the Garrison at Victoria on M ay 3 Coppinger had a remarkable analysis for Oak B ay, according to the Week. H e bowled thus : R. W . O. M. 8 8 i 33 7 It really was remarkable; but I think the placing o f a “ damned dot ” (not my phrase, but that o f the late Lord Randolph Churchill, who understood completely a statistical table teeming with decimals, except what “ those damned dots meant ” !) between the two threes would make it less so in appearance.