Cricket 1913

276 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME J u n e 7 , 19 13 . St. Luke's, Woodside, beat St. Luke’s Junior A thletic by 12 runs— 58 to 46— on a queer pitch. Thornton made 22 for^the winners, and S. J. Cook took 7 for 19. A t Crouch End Old Olavians drew with North London,.who perhaps deferred the closure a little too long, though 235 in 160 m inutes was not a bad rate of scoring. W. Geoffrey (74) and A. R. Samuels (62) batted well. The Old Olavians had 80 minutes left, and to get the runs in th at time was out of the question. They made 134 for 4, W. J. Williams (44*) and M. Pearon (32*) being chief scorers. W . D. and H. O. W ills v. Lambert and Butler at Leyton on Saturday, and an invitation to attend and take lunch sent me — and I never received it ! (I could not have gone anyway, but th at’s another matter.) The Bristol people batted first, and J. Quinn and C. Beere put up 46 for the first wicket. Quinn, a left-hander, batted particularly well for 35 and he and A. Field made another good stand. A t lunch the score was 119 for 3 ; continuing afterwards Field was not out until lie had made a brilliant 83, including a 6, a 5, and thirteen 4's. Smith (38), Caldicott (36), and Henson (32) all helped, and the total was 272. In such an innings Margett’s (6 for 94) and Jones (5 for 65) must be reckoned to have had good analyses. Lambert and B utler’s were at sea with the bowling of the brothers Field, and could only make 108. E. P . Fish scored 21*, and F. E. Hooke and S. E. Thorpe 12 each. R iver Plate House, who seem scarcely up to last year’s excel­ lent form, went under by 65 runs (113 to 178) to Oxshott. R. D. Lambert (48), J. A. E. Hickson (44), and A. W. Simmons (28) were chief scorers for the winners ; W. M. Phillips (26), L. J. Hard­ wick (24), and P. L ’h. Boitel-Gill (22) for the losers. Buckeridge was absent, I note. E. O. Drubble took 4 for 31 and Hardwick 4 for 36 for R .P.H . ; J. Sherlock bowled well for Oxshott. Greville had a real field day— all three matches won ! The first team beat Old Bancroftians by 17 (130 to 113). Gordon Riach, the Ealing Rugger man (34), and young Thornton, whose promise was alluded to last week (26), batted best. A. V. Cooper scored 54 for the Old Bancroftians. It quite spoilt his average, i which had previously been 197 ; he had only once been out. | Now he drops to 125*50, and will hardly see 197 again this season. Gordon Jannings had 5 for 49 for the winners. The A team defeated Northwood II. by 29 in a match of small scores. Greville made 76 and 108 for 9 (A. M. Dunn 20* and 28*), Northwood 47. R. D. Prichard bowled magnificently for the winners— 7 for 13. He hit the off stump six times with balls breaking in from outside the leg peg. The B team beat St. Botolph by 16 (60 to 44). The captain, H. D. Rogers, ! and Eric Foxshall made most of the few runs scored for the winners, and J. Downer (5 for 24) and C. T. Marchment (4 for ■ 17) shared the wickets except for one man run out. Dr. Holton won the toss for South W est Ham v. Lessness | Park, and was kind enough to put L. P. in. They were too magnanimous to take advantage of the courtesy, and, after j having 45 up for 2, collapsed for 78 (E. Upton 26, A. E. Turner I 21). E. Mitchell took 6 for 26, and thereafter played a fine innings of 72, D. Mackinnon making 95, Dr. F. W. P. Holton 34, and J. S. Cossington 24*— total, 279 for 6. In Sussex cricket A. M. Harrison, of Worthing, was again very much to the fore. Another century came from his bat— 109* in a cotal of 242 for 3, dec., v. Clifton (Brighton). Clifton lost 7 wickets for 91. No one but Harrison reached 40 in the match. Eastbourne (222, Captain A. B. Skinner 77) heavily defeated Hailsham (84). Bainton took 8 of the losers’ wickets. For H ayward’s Heath v. St. Peter's (Brighton) young Maurice Tate had 8 for 23. Going in against the poor total of 65. Hayward’s Heath lost 6 for 50. B u t the tail played up, and the score ultimately reached 132. Sussex Martlets beat Eastbourne College in an innings. In the College's first E. H. Smith had 7 for 29. Major G. Knowles scored 76*, the Rev. H. R. Browne 72, and W . F. Willcocks 54 for the Martlets, who, after having 8 down for 97, totalled 284 in the end. Browne's 72 were made in 49 minutes, and Willcock's hit his 54 in 21. While Major Knowles and J! M. Makalua were together the former gave what appeared to be an easy chance to mid-on, and the latter, taking it for granted his partner would have to go, walked up the pitch, and had his wicket put down by the bowler 1 L. W. Bridges made 92* for the Grange, Crowborougli v. Uckfield Agricultural College, following a score of 135* on the Wednesday before. For Langton Green v. Crowborough E. Bishop took 6 wickets for 8. Stanmore were at home to Pinner on Saturday, and won by 32 runs. E. Wells' 67 bulked largely in their innings of 169, as did G. S. Lee’s 61 in Pinner’s 137. Nobody else made more than 25 in the game. W. A. Barnes had 5 wickets for the winners. Ilford on their own ground defeated Buckhurst Hill 1 17 for 6 to 136. W. P. D ay’s 30 was top score for the losers. For Ilford F. J. Birch made 44, S. Genders 36*, and H. E. Reynolds 36 . Capital and Counties Bank (132) beat Anglo-Russian Sports’ Club (103). Litton played a capital innings of 63 for the Bank. Their second X I. met L.C. & W. Bank’s fourth, and won by 77 runs — 58 and 101 for 8, dec. (Read 19 and 42) to 47 and 35 (Oldham 16 and 11). It is not often that two batsmen top-score for their sides in each innings. Melrose won their first victory of the season, beating South ! Tottenham by 67 to 49. Wr. Mason (18) was their top scorer, j and as he also took 7 for 17 he did fine work all round. He is the youngest member of the side, too. While Mason was in a ball from Copley glanced from his hip on to his elbow, and thence into the wicket-keeper's hands. An appeal was made, and the umpire gave it out. On being interrogated, he said th at the ball hit Mason’s wrist, in which case the decision was wrong ; and the South Tottenham captain agreed that the batsman should resume, though some of his team dissented. There was another incident while South Tottenham were batting. Copley was given out l.b.w., but stayed to argue the case, contending that one could not be l.b.w. to a left-hander bowling round the wicket. He had to go, however. H. Clayden did a smart bit of fielding for Melrose. Observing that Lee was backing up well, he fielded the ball at deep mid-011, and threw down his wicket before he could get back to his crease. On Wednesday last London Scottish turned up three men short to play University College School, and were beaten by 22 runs. L. Espir (24) and B. de R. Mayer (23) for the School made the only scores over 20 in a game of few runs. F. R. Connell had 6 for 29 for the losers. Another Wednesday match was that in which Stanmore (208 for 7— T. Cook 67, J. M. Darbyshire 37, E. Ridout 26*. W\ , J. Newberry 24) beat Melrose, Watford (92— J. S. Blower 22, 1 E. Field 21). On the same day Ipswich and East Suffolk (207 for 67, beat Royal Horse Artillery (83) very easily. F. L. Titchmarsh, who is doing more in the bowling than in the batting line this season, took 7 for 30; F. D. Birdscored59*,0. Mortimer made 51 ,and J.R . Cornell 34*. On Saturday they played and beat Colchester and East Essex. J. Forrest (40), P. P. Cornell (36), O. Mortimer (29), W. Catchpole (24), and T. W. E. Wilson (23) all made substantial contributions to their total of 199. C. M. Stedman (39) and E. G. Alderwick (29) were the chief scorers for Colchester (123.) 1 E. S. Missen’s 5 for 32 for the losers was the best bit of bowling in I the match. For 1 . and E. S. second E. G. Penstone made 71 v. I Framlingham College, he and E. S. Stearn (44) sending up 119 before a wicket fell. The College just escaped defeat, 139 for 9 to 195. Parson’s Green met Laude-dale, twelve xa side, on May 29. If only eleven had been played. Parson’s Green must almost certainly have won. As it was, after making 213 (J. S. Higgs 38. C. E. Harrod 54, R. R. Coates 38), they got down ten Lauderdale wickets for 98. H. R. Ellis took 7 for 62 ; Harrod had 3 for 31. His bowling was very good and steady— only 31 runs were made from 17 overs. On Saturday another draw was rather against Parson’s Green. Richmond Town at home made 201 for 7 (R. Cook 58) in rather slow style. The visitors replied with 132 for 6. F. D. Heath, who made 50, was very finely caught by Shah in the country.