Cricket 1913

J une 21, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 325 Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. C. E. Honeyball, of the G.W.R., is a left-hand bowler of no small ability, still quite young. In the railway team he plays side by side with his father, F. K. Honeyball ; but he does not confine his cricket to the G.W.R. games, and in all matches last year he took as many as 176 wickets. He and A. Grugeon, also a left-hander, are the mainstays of the Castle Bar team’s Mr. C. E. HONEYBALL (Great W estern Railway C.C.). attack, and week by week reap a sheaf of wickets. If Honeyball could only curb a certain natural impetuosity he would make a lot of runs too, for there are the makings of a good batsman in him ; he has strokes and he uses them. He plays hockey with skill and vigour too, and in that very difficult position, outside left, has not many equals West 1 .oikIon way. On the Saturday before last— but the report arrived too late for inclusion last week—Caterham put up 284 for 4 v. Lancing Old Boys, W. C. Morgan and A. Julxus each making a century. Then E. A. Bennett (5 for 33) and R. A. Russell (4 for 25) bowled so effectively that the opposition was put out for 65. For Bacup v. Church on the nth , Kermode, who came from New South Wales to qualify for Lancashire, took all ten wickets for 20 runs (Bacup v. Church). Parkin (Durham) had 8 for 24 for Church. Kermode is said to be spending his last season in this country. University College School went to Cambridge on June 7 to meet Leys School. Batting first, they made 135, Espir top scorer with 30. Leys replied with 153 (Pickup 47), and won by 18 after a close fight. Going in again, the visitors made 92 for 6, Greenish showing good form for 32*. The best bowling analyses were Shelley’s 6 for 54 for Leys and Mayer’s 5 for 51 for U.C.S. On Wednesday, June 11, U.C.S. beat King’s College School at Neasden by n o runs. They made 200 for 4 in quick time— Espir 65*, Andrews 56*, Johnson 33—and then declared. Marshall (34) and Stanbury (33) gave the other side a good start; but after that there was a slump. No one could do anything with Johnson, who had 7 for 15. Following on, K.C.S. could only make 54 for 6. This time Revell did the damage, taking all 6 at a cost of only 26 runs. St. Lawrence A (188 for 5— A. Davies 73*) beat Folkestone A (134— Brady 48) at Canterbury on Thursday. Davies not only played a fine innings but had a good afternoon with the ball— 7 for 27. On the same day Lauderdale and Shepherd’s Bush drew, the former making 257 for 9, the latter 159 for 5. H. F. Britton played a faultless innings of 114* for Lauderdale. In a two-day match (June 11 and 12) at Old Buckenham Hall, between Mr. Lionel Robinson’s XI. and the Incogniti nearly 1,000 runs were scored, the home side (which included A. C. MacLaren, S. J. Pegler, B. J. T. Bosanquet, B. D. Bannon, E. J. Fulcher, and C. Robson) making 256 and 333 for 9, dec., the Incogniti 231 and 151. Pegler (55 and 126) and Fulcher (97 and 57) made a lot of runs for the winners ; G. McGrath’s 75 in the first innings was top score for the Incogs. Fulcher had 7 wickets in the last innings of the game. MacLaren bowled and took 3 wickets. Pegler had 4, R. O. Schwarz (for the visitors) 5. On June 12 Sheplierd’s Bush and Lauderdale drew at the Bush— the visitors, 257 for 9, dec., the home side 159 for 5. H. F. Britton scored a fine 114* for Lauderdale. Small scoring often goes with exciting cricket. An instance of this is afforded by Acton Town's match with Turnham Green, on June 12. S. Dean (20) was the only double-figurist in Actons’ innings of 64, J. Willson (5 for 25) and W. Ransom (5 for 27) bowling well. But the Town looked winners all over when 6 for 23 was the Green’s total. Here G. Allen (25*) joined W. Ransom (32) ani they were not parted until they had added 50, and had won the game for their side. The eventual total was 81. Dean took 4 of the first 6 wickets, and had only 29 knocked off him—most of them later on, when Allen and Ransom were together. On Wednesday Sutton (235 for 7— D. D. Napper 61, W. P. Gann 54, J. S. Brocklesby 46) beat Hampton Wick (214—W. Farquharson 50, W. H. Eastland 42, G. O. Forrester 40). An error by the scorers had a curious result in the match at Newport between the home side and Gloucester City on Thursday, The visitors made 159 (Paish 47*, T. A. Truman 34). Diver, who was missed time after time, hit 70* for Newport, Silverlock making 42, and what was supposed to be the winning hit was made close on time (seven o'clock) with 8 wickets down. Later it was discovered that the total was 159, not 160. Continuing their week, begun on Saturday, Grove Park met M.C.C. on Monday, June 9. The home side had the help of E. C. Kirk, who hit 79 (sixteen 4’s) in an hour, and they won by 186 to 114. On Tuesday G. Ball played great all-round cricket. He took 6 for 39 v. Ealing Park (127) and then contributed a superb chanceless forcing innings of 123 (twenty-five 4’s !) to his side’s total of 300. G. Tatham (67) also played well. H. Hawkins (55, including ten 4’s) was the chief batsman of Wed­ nesday’s game v. Clapham, but Ball again did fine work with the ball (5 for 24), though G. Clegg (5 for 15) was even more deadly. Grove Park 171—Clapham 42. On Friday G. Clegg had to retire hurt after making 65 v. Mr. J. H. Bance’s XI. This was a narrower victory, by 16 runs only— 181 to 165. W. G. has played an innings at last! But it was not, as reported by a Sunday paper which other scribes copied, v. Old Charlton. It was against the other Charlton side, Charlton Park, who made 244 (Sargeant 95) in not very quick time. Eltham scored 177 for 2 in reply. The G.O.M. shaped quite in his old form, and made 60. Hedderwick scored 87. There was quite a big crowd at Stradey Park, where Llanelly, losing the toss, had the unexpected pleasure of batting first v. Plymouth Merthyr. The Merthyr captain wished later on that he hadn’t done i t ! Two Llanelly wickets fell cheaply ; but then Vogler came in and hit hard. He reached his 50 inside half-an- hour, and about that time lost the company of Hugh Howell, who had made 46. At 227 for 4 the home side’s innings was declared. Vogler’s 121* included three 6’s and fourteen 4’s. A collection on the ground for him resulted in a substantial sum. He and E. Gee thereafter put out the Merthyr side for 91 ; but Gee (6 for 28) was much the more deadly of the pair, the South Africans 4_costing 62.