Cricket 1913

300 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 14, 1913. Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. A noteworthy feature of the century list is the number of first-class players appearing therein, all of them taking a busman’s holiday, evidently. Philip Mead (but his effort really belongs to the week before), A lbert Relf, J. W . Hearne, Percy Perrin, J. W . H. T. Douglas, Goatly, and Abel are all included. Felsted School on Wednesday (June 4) had a rare fight with W itham . A. Macleod played a fine innings of 95 for the school, and the total was 199, the last 5 wickets falling for 25. G. A. R a b y took 6 for 80. Thanks to A. F. H. Round (46) and A. E. Brice (34) W itham had 90 up w ith only one wicket down. Five were down for 131, and two more fell quickly ; but E. Garland ( 45 ) g °t some help from E. C. Butler. Then two wickets fell in one over, and with one to go W itham needed 18. The batsman tried hard, but with 11 still wanted R. H. T. Rowley (4 for 44) bowled Giles, and the school won by 10 runs. J. G. Dixon (4 for 74) did better work than his figures show ; he was very steady and accurate. Cranleigh School seem to be bucking up well this season. T hey lost their early wickets cheaply against W hitgift on W ed­ nesday ; but then Brice-Sm ith (35) and Roberts (36) made a capital stand, the total reached 134, and the fine bowling of Maude (8 for 48) resulted in W hitgift’s dismissal for 96. This was at Croydon ; at Cranleigh the second elevens met. W hitgift slumped for 37. Cranleigh made over 200 for 7, and declared, F. N. Corben scoring 87, L. V. Cocks 53*, and C. C. Covern- ton 40. The visitors lost 4 for 33 before time. St. Lawrence went down heavily to K ent C. and G., for whom Dutnall made 104, and C. K. Douglass 45 (total 285). St. Lawrence previously had made only 86, H ickmott taking 6 for 13. Going in again, they did better— 71 for one ; Murrin 41*. On Thursday the Canterbury club’s A team beat Chartham Asylum b y 186 for 9 to 169. A. Davies (48) was top scorer for the winners ; A. Fagg (44) and D. Jordan (42) did best for the losers. J. R. Mason was in great all-round form on Saturday. For Blackheath v. Incogniti he hit up 130*, and then proceeded to take 5 for 13. His side won, of course— 327 to 107. Probably the hardest hit innings of the day— and there were plenty of hard hit ones— was E. G. R ead’s 154 for Heathfield v. Boston Park at Brentford. One hit went clean out of the ground, pitched in the road, and bounced into an orchard on the other side. This was a record hit for the ground. His innings also included 28 fours. Heathfield declared at 302 for 4, made in only two hours, but thanks to C. E. Saunders (77) Boston Park saved the game. Saunders, by the way, had been very much to the fore two days early, when he (115) and A. S. Ling (165*) put up a great stand for Boston Park v. M.C.C. Mignon and Walker Wain- wright were among the bowlers they had to face. For Eltham v. Arm y Ordnance Corps C. B. Grace scored 68 and took 5 for 48. The A.O.C. made 171 ; but Eltham rattled up runs quickly, and scored 222 for 8. W ith only one hour left 100 were wanted for victory, but these came in only just over half the time. E arly Birds declared at 221 for 6 (Ponting 64*, Tugwood 52, George 45, Pooley 39) v. Acton Town on Wednesday in last w eek; but they could not win, J. O. Jones (51*) and E. Shackle­ ford (49) making a good stand for the Town's third wicket, and 128 for 4 being the score a t the close. The A team of Acton Town beat Ealing St. M ary’s easily— 99 to 45. Lock (39 and 5 for 16) did capital all-round work. St. Lawrence beat St. George’s at Ramsgate by 27 runs. A . O. Snowden’s 55 for the winners was considerably the highest score of the match. Clinch bowled finely in St. George’s first — 6 for 37 ; and in their second Murrin sent down 6 overs for a single and 3 wickets. Scores, St. Lawrence 144 ; St. George’s 117 and 36 for 4. Bank of England made 163 (H. C. Michell 67*) v. Hornsey at Roehampton. Hornsey, though left with only 9° minutes to bat, went for the runs, and scored fast, A. E. Turberville making 41, H. J. Wenyon 34, and W. J. Wrightson 30* ; a t the finish they were equal, with four men to go. Lloyd’s wonders why they did not finish the game. B ut did you ever hear of the Bank of England giving anything away ? G. R. S. Love had 4 for 30 for the losers. Witham A could not send their full strength to Castle Park, and were unable to make anything like a match of it with Col- f Chester and East Essex. They were all out for 57. J. L. Meadow- croft, arriving late, was put on to bowl at once, and took 5 for 6 ! Then he made 61 (retired), he and J. D. Ward (59) adding 123 in partnership. Dr. S. H. Daukes made 31, and the total was -226. Old Whitgiftians had quite an exciting game w ith Catford. E. Brotherton (27) was top scorer in the visitors’ innings, which totalled 133 ; G. A. Ellis made 23 early in the O .W .’s innings ; but thereafter wickets fell fast before R. T. G. French, and 8 were down for 94. W. B. Bannerman (39*) played a really fine game, defending stubbornly, yet giving loose balls full punish­ ment, and W. H. Barley (13*) rendered him capital aid at this juncture. The pair were unparted, and just on the stroke of time the winning hit was made. A t Battersea White House scored at a great pace, and declared at 264 for 9. A. Jeacocke hit twenty-six 4's in his 142 ; but he has played many better innin gs; he was missed early, and made a number of dangerous strokes. W. S. W atts (46) and P. Burke (38) were the other chief contributors. Batter­ sea, who seem rather under a cloud but will surely buck up before long, could only make 153— F. Ward 43, W. J. Croft 22. Over 400 runs were totalled in just above 4 hours. A t Bellingham White House II. made 209— J. Shuter (the old Surrey skipper or one of his sons ?) 84, A. Medway 33, A. Ware 32 ; Battersea II. could only raise 46. E. C. Rowe, who took half-a-dozen wickets, bowled well for the winners. A. Macleod was again principal scorer for Felsted School (v. the Masters) on Saturday. He made 66, he and the captain, C. H. S. Haygarth (27) putting up 45 for the first wicket. There was a slump after this ; but H. S. Ord Bell chipped in with a useful 22, and V. S. Woodiwiss made 42 in good style. Total, 189. F. W. Stocks, the old Denstone, Oxford, and Leicestershire man, had 5 for 70. The Masters could only make 148— C. B. Joyner 48, Stocks 26, G. J. Hornsby-Wright 24, J. F. Mont­ gomery 23. A. B. Cumming (5 for 49) finished off the innings by doing the hat trick. If his victims were really masters, and not second X I. men pressed in to fill vacancies, he Ought to have had a long impot. for i t ! Beulah visited Esher, and despite a good effort b y J. C. F. Mathiesen (63* of a total of 109) were beaten b y 5 wickets and 8 runs. E. Grove (54*) and A. L. Goodall (31) batted capitally for Esher <Village. When Beulah visit Esher again they ought to do better. The Green is a peculiar ground. Noth­ ing is a boundary hit unless hit over a wall or a house, as the case may be ; and a ball bouncing back from a wall to a smart fieldsman often upsets the batsman’s calculations. The second team played and easily beat Old Lewisians (135 for 5 to 41). A. Baxter (49*) and W. Starbuck (42) did well, Starbuck forcing the game skilfully. B arrett did most damage with the ball, taking 6 wickets very cheaply. A. J. W hyte and T. J. Balkwill were in great form for Forest Hill v. National Provincial Bank. The home team made 300 for 4, and declared, the two batsmen mentioned reaching three figures ; but they could ,not win. P. M. Hayward (63*) saved the game for the bank, who were 120 for 9 at the close. G. C. Hast took 5 for 21. Lauderdale (247) were all over Fulham (96) on Thursday. | F. Shepherd scored 85 and T. Sales 45 for the winners, and C. Lewin had 7 for 30. On Saturday they did equally well in opposition to National Bank of India— 160 for 9 (H. Saunders 33, T. Sales 30) to 44. A. E. W icks took 5 for 13. The Old Olavians beat Upper Sydenham (54 and 123 for 6) j by 71 runs. Such a result did not look likely at one time, for { alter the visitors’ collapse (W. S. F ox was top scorer with 10), j the O.O.’s also found the ball beating the bat, and seven wickets I had gone down before the winning hit was made, the ultimate