Cricket 1913

June 14, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 307 Overseas Cricket. IN D IA . The. annual report o f the Madras United C .C ., the j crack native club o f the Southern Presidency, has just I reached me. I regret to note that arrears o f subscriptions j are high— it is a trouble I can sympathise with ! T'ue j club has receipts amounting to 17,500 rupees, and dis- | bursed 5,923 in “ refreshments.” Cricket is a thirsty game, even in E n g la n d ; much more so under the torrid j heat o f India. S till, I note on the other s id e : “ Billiards, Tennis, Refreshments, Dasara Collection,” j with a total o f 13,728 rupees against it, and presume that) the 5,923 was not, therefore, quite what would appear at first sight. The club played 25 matches, won 16, and lost only one. B. Subramaniam won the batting prize for the seventh year in succession. H e totalled 1,566 runs in 26 innings, 9 not out, average 9 2 .11. C . K . Krishnaswamy, who came second, made 511 in 12 com­ pleted innings, average 42.58. O f the others who played pretty frequently there were four with averages between 28 and 24, two at 18, and one at 16. C. R . Ganapaty was well ahead in the bowling. H e took 121 wickets at under 9 runs each. C E Y L O N . There is some opposition to the projected New South Wales cricket visit to the island next Christmas. Certain people in Ceylon seem to imagine that nothing short o f a fu ll Australian team can hope to extend their chosen side. Well, i f they get three Waddys, two o f the Minnetts, H az­ litt, and Bardsley, it’s a rubber plantation to a row o f potatoes that Ceylon ’s best won’t give them “ what fo r ” to any extent worth how ling a b o u t! Go ahead with the scheme, Ceylon Sportsman; you know something about crick et; the cavillers’ ignorance would fill a big book ! Among recent feats o f merit in the island’s cricket I note Manuel Fernando’s 106* for St. Benedict’s v. Empire, the next highest score in the game being only 24 ; W . E . L a B rooy’s 7 wickets fo r 12 (B .Y .M .A .C .C . v. Bray- brooke); T . K elaa rt’s 7 for 27 (Colts v. M a la y ); the stand o f 57 for the last wicket, more than doubling the score, by M . H . Grant-Peterkin (48*), and D . L . Cameron (32) fo r Dimbula v. Sinhalese Sports C lu b ; R . S. W ijesinghe’s 33 and 63 (in a total o f 8r for 3) for Sinhalese S .C . v. D im bu la; C . H . K ilm ister’s 6 for 21 (5 clean bowled, 1 c and b) for Municipal Officers v. Police O fficers; S. Somasunderam’s 10 for 50 (two inn­ ings) fo r T am il Union v. St. Benedict’ s ; and F . J. Siedle’s 70 for Sports Club v. M alay C .C . Only one century in a fortnight— slow' going for Ceylon, this ! The first copy o f the Ceylon Cricketers’ Almanack for 1913 sent me apparently fell a prey to the rapacity o f some cricket enthusiast in the P .O . ; but my friend Foenander has now forwarded another copy, and I hasten to say something about it. The first and second issues were good ; this is, I think, even better. The portraits are excellent, and there is a lot o f interesting matter in it. The five cricketers o f the year dealt with are A . L . G ib­ son, F . J. Siedle, E . J. Melder, D . Joseph, and J. C. Johnson. T h a t they earned their places is evident. Gibson averaged 44 in what we styled first-class matches during the year (I am not sure that this distinction is worth maintenance; it is a trifle invidious to draw the line thus between one chib match and another), Melder 28, Johnson 27, and Siedle 22, while Joseph took 39 wickets at under 12 each, Siedle 41 at 14, and Gibson 36 at 17. T h e keeping a record for all matches would present difficulties innumerable; but if it could be done it would be more satisfactory, I think. Fifty-threej matches were ranked as first-class, and in these nine centuries were registered, 40 more being made in other games. ------------- U N IT E D S T A T E S . The card o f the New York Veterans’ C .C . for 1913 shows nearly a hundred matches, the club running four teams, Veteran Team A , Richmond County, Manor F ield , and a mixed X I. Among the games listed I note A ll Staten Island v. Montreal Athletic Association, A ll New York v. Australian Team , N .Y . and N .J . Cricket Asso­ ciation v. Met. D ist. Cricket League, N .Y . Veterans v. Philadelphia Veterans, New York Veterans v. P h ila ­ delphia Colts, and two matches in Bermuda in August. On May 24 the Penn Charter School o f Philadelphia put out the Frankford H igh School X I. for the grand total o f 3 ! “ Penn Charter bowled an exceedingly fine gam e,” says the report. “ Only for P . Aspen and H . Rubin, who scored one run apiece, and the extra, F ran k ­ ford H .S . would have been completely blanked .” H averford College (X I.1) beat an A ll-Scholastic Team (X IV .) in an innings, W . O. Brinton taking 10 for 31. Rain interfered with cricket in New Y o rk on both the 17th and 24th May. On the earlier date N .Y . Veterans (1 3 5 ; A. Hoskings 45*, J. S. Bretz 30) beat F . A . J. M ichalouski’s X I . (60; Camacho 29) in the only game plaved. -----------— C A N A D A . A new club has been formed at Yorkton (Sask.), where , for two years past there has been no cricket. Good luck to it ! G alt and Dovercourt met on May 24, and the former won by. 8 wickets. No one reached double figures in 1Dovercourt’s first (23); but in the second “ they showed j the advantage o f their fam iliarity with the ground.” 1 T h ey scored 72. The match, by the way, was played at Galt, so that the fam iliarity must have been acquired during the very brief first innings ! Guelph beat B rant­ ford at Guelph by an innings and 5 runs. “ T h e batting o f S. R . Saunders, who w ill captain the A ll Ontario team against the Australians, was the featu re.” But how many he made is not stated, let alone how he made them ! | Oh, these Canadian reporters ! On M ay 17 D . M. Grant made too for Albion v. Victoria (B .C .). Cowichan and O ak Bay played a game in which one man reached double figures, the former’s \ innings totalling 64, with extras ir , and no player more than 9. A t Vancouver E . S. Bullen made 88*, and R . J. Beecham 64 for Burrard v. Vancouver. N EW Z E A L A N D . Carisbrook B won the F irst Grade premiership in Dunedin, though only topping the Dunedin club by a j single point and Carisbrook A by two points, which indi­ cates a pretty good fight for first place. Grange totalled 11 points, but Opoho and Albion (4 each) seem to have been outclassed. This competition has been in existence ever since | 1877-8. Fo r ten years— 1896-7 to 1905-6— one or the ! other o f the two teams put in the field by Carisbrook wan I it each season. i Seven centuries were recorded in first-grade matches