Cricket 1913

J une 7, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 273 Royal Navy v. Army. Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. Played at Lord’s on June 3 and 4. The Army had a very strong side out, and gained a big advantage on the first day’s play. Captain G. H. S. Fowke (Leicestershire) batted 150 minutes for his 113, and hit fifteen 4’s. He lost Robinson and Turner, either of whom was likely enough to make a century, e a rly ; but Baird helped him to add 68 and Wilson 72. The Navy had 60 for 1 on the board, but 6 were down for 103. Then Major H. B. Fawcus, who has cap­ tained the Orange Free State in Currie Cup cricket, was put on again. He took a wicket with his first ball, another with his second, and two more with his fourth and fifth. Thus the innings came to a sharp conclusion. Captain F. J. C. Wyatt, who has also played for the Free State as well as for Hampshire, did well, too. The Navy followed on, and made 14 without loss. Nobody did very much for the Navy in the second innings, and the Army won on the second afternoon bv 10 wickets. A r m y . First Innings. Capt. G. H. S. Fowke, b Sinclair ... 113 Lieut. D. C. Robinson, c Aber­ crombie, b Leach ... ... o Major A. J. Turner, c Cantrell, b Leach ... ... ... ... o Capt. H. H. C. Baird, c Leach, b Cantrell ............................. 23 Capt. F. T. D. Wilson, c Boyd, b Leach ... ... ... ... 29 Major E. L. Challenor, b Aber­ crombie ... ... ... 21 Capt. T. C. Spring, not out ... 26 S eco nd I nn in gs : — Turner, not out, 6 wkt.), 20. Capt. H. W. M. Yates, c Aber­ crombie, b Sinclair Major H. B. Fawcus, c and b Abercrombic ... Capt. F. J. C. W yatt, b Aber­ crombie Lieut. A. G. Cowie, lbw, b Cantrell B. 21, l.b. 4, w. 1 Total ................ Yates, not out, 6 ; byes, 8— Total (110 First Innings. N avy . Second Innings. Lieut. G. C. Harrison, c Challenor, b Fawcus 9 lbw, b Wyatt .;. . i7 Asst.-Paymaster M. Conde-Williams, c W il­ son, b W yatt .......................................... 30 c Challenor, b Braid . 21 Comm. J. B. Sparks, c Robinson, b W yatt 13 st Robinson, b Fawcus 4 Asst.-Paymaster E. B. Elstob, b W yatt ... 8 st Robinson, b Baird • 14 Capt. A. S. Cantrell, b Wilson ................ 3 c Baird, b W yatt ................ 28 Lieut. C. H. Abercrombie, b Fawcus 15 lbw, b Cowie ... 1 Lieut. W. R. R. Leach, c Yates, b W yatt 1 c Challenor, b W yatt 12 Lieut. J. L. Boyd, not o u t............................. 10 c Challenor, b Fawcus 9 Eng.-Lieut. J. M. Murray, b Fawcus 0 b Fawcus ............................ . 29 Lieut. E. W. Sinclair, b Fawcus ................ 0 c and b Fawcus . 19 Capt. A. C. Barnby, b Fawcus 0 not out ............................ 1 B. 12, l.b. 2 ............................. 14 B. 8, l.b. 6, n.b. 2 .. . 16 Total ............................. 103 Total ... . 171 N a v y B o w ler s ’ A n a lysis . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. 11 2 61 3 — — — — 15-3 5 34 2 1 0 4 0 18 4 42 3 1*1 0 8 0 5 0 26 0 — — — — 19 3 56 2 — — — — 1 0 10 0 — — — — in the first innings. RMY B owlers ’ A nalysis . O. M. R. W. 0. M. R. W. 9 ’5 3 4 5 17-1 7 21 4 6 3 24 4 12 4 21 I 12 2 25 4 20 3 68 3 9 1 28 1 — — — — 1 0 1 0 15 3 45 2 Leach Cantrell Abercrombie Boyd Sinclair Williams Fawcus Cowie Wyatt ................ Wilson ................ Baird............................. Cowie delivered two no-balls in the second innings. Umpires : Butt and Atfield. -- ■ ■ - — ------------------------- ' Play with a straight bat, sonnie, In the game of life, or at school; You m ay have hard luck, You m ay make a duck, B ut stick to the golden rule— P la y S tra ig h t ! ” D. L. A. Jephson. Among late cards received is that of the H o n g K o n g a n d S h a n g h a i B a n k , which has an inscription in Chinese characters on its front. I refrain from any attempt to indicate what that .nscription means ; my almost unlimited ignorance includes Chinese. Mr. W. N. Hansell (31, Lombard Street, E.C.) is the Hon. Sec. The club’s ground is at New Beckenham. Two elevens are run. Among the opponents of the f.rst arc L.C. and W. Bank II., Derrick Wanderers, London Joint Stock Bank, Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Mercantile Bank of India, Consolidated Gold Fields, Chingford, Cyphers, Mr. C. G. Swainson’s Ealing X I., National Bank of India, Bank of England, Sanderstead, Upper Sydenham, Mercantile Bank of India, and Private Banks II. Another late arrival is the card of the M e lro se C.C. (Hon. Sec., Mr. S. H. Mason, 16, Union Road, Tufnell Park, N.). The club's ground is at Manor Farm ; and it numbers among its opponents Derwent House, Oakley, St. Margaret’s, Coldfall, Avenue, South Tottenham, St. John’s (Hampstead), Rahere, St. James’ (Holloway), Bowes Park Congregational, St. George's, and Stanley Rovers. In the match at Farnham on May 27, during which the portrait group given above was taken the Surrey C. and G. scored 301 for 8 (Blacklidge 60, Mason 50), and Farnliam made only 36 and 84. Freeman had 7 wickets for 6 in Farnham’s first. On Wednesday at the Oval the C. and G. found better opposi­ tion in G uy’s Hospital, but won a good game by 57 runs— 270 to 213. Spring (55), A. M. Latham (47), L. S. Wells (33), G. L. Betham (28), and Peach (26) for the club, A. B. Bond (69), A. A. F. Rook (46), and A. C. Hancock (36) for Guy’s, were chief scorers. There was some big scoring in the match between Folkestone (386 and 150 for 5) and Shorncliffe Garrison (527) at Folkestone on Monday and Tuesday in last week. Col. Sir E. Bradford, who used to play for Hants, made 251 for the Garrison, and Major G ray 76 ; for Folkestone the Hon. J. S. R. Tufton (Kent) scored 118, and Capt. W. G. M. Sarel (Kent and Surrey) 77 and 79*. Not quite so big, but sizeable, was the scoring in Gentlemen of Worcestershire (309 and 170) v. Incogniti (360 and 82 for four) at Worcester on Wednesday and Thursday. B. P. Dobson’s faultless 104* for the visitors was the only century ; but F. A. W. How (68* and 20), W. H. Taylor (52 and 45), J. W. C. Turner (47 and 36) all did well for the home team, and there were eleven individual innings exceeding 35 in the game, which was drawn. Two Trojan scores reached me too late for comment last week. On the 23rd the Trojans ran up 318 for 8, dec., v. Tich- borne Park, M. T. Smith (136) and H. A. Haigh Smith (67) doing the bulk of the rungetting. Tichborne Park replied with 174, Scott Murray carrying his bat through for 71. Maurice Read played, but only scored 4. He took three wickets. One the 24th the Trojans dismissed Ordnance Survey for 122 (F. Elford 41), and made 253 for 9 (M. T. Smith, 82, H. E. Copp 41*, H. A. Haigh Smith 40). Haigh Smith took 5 wickets. St. Lawrence scored well and evenly a t Canterbury v. Royal Marine Depot on Wednesday in last week. H. S. Hatfeild’s 51 was highest; but the Rev. A. H. Taylor (44), Lieut. C. E. A. Terry (34), C. E. Harris (30*), J. Trueman (26), and A. Browns- combe (24) all contributed usefully to the total of 284 for 8. 1 The Marines made 123, L. Creery (6) and H. S. Hatfeild (4) dividing their wickets. " When Mr. A. Mynn and Dearman played their first single • wicket match, which I saw in 1838 (the only match I ever saw 1 played for money, and th at was /100 a side), a great portion of Mr. Mynn’s runs were got by cover-point hits, though he lifted two balls apparently into some adjoining county."— From Echoes from Old Cricket Fields , by the late F. Gale. A t Richmond on Wednesday Hampstead Nomads declared at 239 for 8, G. B. Heath's 105* being a long way the highest score. It looked safe enough ; but Richmond went,for the runs, and actually scored 280 in n o m inutes! This was chiefly due to a fine stand between C. Russell and S. De Saram (the latter a member of the well-known Ceylonese family), each of whom made a century.