Cricket 1913

206 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u n e 7, 1913. I f he had kept his bow ling, he m ight have won his blue at Cambridge. As it was, few chances fell to him, though the team in his first year up— 1898— was not over strong. H e scored 46 in the second innings o f the Fresh­ men’s Match, and p layed in the first “ foreign ” match o f the season, v. C . I. Thornton’ s X I . , but did nothing. H e did not appear a g a in ; but just after going down— in 1902 and 1903— he made 88, 61, 62, and 116 in two matches for Liverpool and D istrict against Cambridge. H e turned out fo r Lancashire v. Leicestershire at Leicester in 1904, failed to score, and p layed no more. In 1905 he accompanied Lord B rack ley ’s T eam to the West Indies, but did little there, averaging under 15. Six years or so ago he played for Denbighshire, and ran up 150 v. Carnarvonshire in one match. It w ill not be at all sur­ prising if, provided he can play regularly, he proves of great assistance to Derbyshire. In any case he has now qualified for the list o f three-county men. T h is list includes, among others, F ran k Sugg (Y ork­ shire, Derbyshire, Lancashire), Thomas Bow ley (Northants, Surrey, Dorset), G. N . W yatt (Gloucester­ shire, Surrey, Sussex), G. Strachan (Surrey, Middlesex, Gloucestershire), James Southerton (Surrey, Sussex, Hants), J. Cranston (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire), C . C . Mott (Northants, Staffordshire, and Denbighshire), N ichols (Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon), Colonel W . C . H edley (K en t, Somerset, Hants, and Devon), W alter Q uaife (Sussex, Warw ickshire, and Suffolk), the Rev. F . N . Bird (Gloucestershire, Northants, and Suffolk), A . K . Watson (M iddlesex, N orfolk, and Suffolk), T . S. Pearson-Gregor^ (M iddlesex, Leicester­ shire, Beds, and I believe two or three other counties), and several, others whose names I cannot recall at the moment. I write from memory, but I don’t think I am wrong about any o f these. Some day I w ill try to give a complete lis t ; but this is too busy a time fo r the necessary research. T o head the score in each innings and to make over 50 in each when nearly everyone else failed is no mean per­ formance. A glance at the score of the one match played by Dom inica in the Leeward Islands’ tournament, given in the last issue, w ill show that W . M. W igley did this. Moreover, he is stated to have shown the best batting in the three matches o f the competition. M r . D . R . S e x t o n writes from Providence, Rhode Island, to say that he has just been reading the interview with Mr. H . D . Swan in the issue o f M ay to , and notes that Mr. Swan says “ the Portuguese do not play cricket, and take no interest in the gam e.” T h is is so in Portugal, no doubt. But, says Mr. Sexton, there are a great many Portuguese settlers in southern New En gland, more especially in F a ll River and New Bedford, both large manufacturing centres, and among them are many really good cricketers. Mr. Sexton has often played against them, but it had never occurred to him to ask w'here they learned the game. A number o f them came from the Cape de Verde Islands and the Azores. N ew B ed fo r d has a purely Portuguese club, and a very successful side it is. In general, my correspondent adds, fewr Americans play the game, except in P h ila ­ delphia. Most o f the players in the Eastern States are Britishers. There are many teams o f coloured men from the West Indies in New York and Boston; but that, of course, is not surprising, for cricket has a firm hold in the Caribbean. T he partnership o f 235 between W illiam Q u aife and Septimus K inneir is not the largest in which these two batsmen have been concerned together. They put on 327 v. Lancashire at Edgbaston in 1901 ; they have also made together 204 v. Worcestershire at Worcester in 1909, 199 v. Surrey at the Oval in 1900, and 165 v. Hants at Birmingham in 1898. This is not a complete lis t ; probably there are a dozen or so instances between 100 and 150. I t is stated that J. W . H . T . Douglas w ill in all likelihood captain the M .C .C . team to South A frica. Barnes is mentioned among the professionals likely to be j chosen; but I don’t think there is any great probability o f the Staffordshire man’s making the trip. I n parallel columns o f the first page o f the Athletic News, Ph ilip Mead’s first-class centuries are given, and it is stated that W illiam Q uaife is “ probably the hero of j over 50 centuries in first-class cricket.” H e is. And he has made another since. Time to reckon them up ! But why this thusness? What has W illiam o f Warwickshire done that he should have less honour than Ph ilip o f Hampshire ? F or a man to desert his profession at 38 to become a paid cricketer seems a risky proceeding; but that is what W. Hyman, o f Bath and Somerset, erstwhile a school­ master, has done. H e w ill play regularly for the county this season. H ym a n once made 359* in 100 minutes, aided and abetted by D r. E . M. Grace, who kept on bowling although 32 sixes were hit off him— w7hich must surely be a record for a bowler in one innings 1 “ W isd e n S earch C o m p e t it io n ! — Gloucestershire v. Sussex. Name the previous occasion in which three or more batsmen made the same number o f runs in both their innings. Prize— a duck’s egg. I f more than one com­ petitor sends in a correct answer, the prize w ill be boiled hard and divided. The Editor o f C r ic k e t , owing to his uncanny memory for cricket records, is barred from competing. ” T h a n k s , C .I.S .W . ! The compliment is undeserved, I fear. 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