Cricket 1913

June 28, 1913. CRICKET : A WEEKDY RECORD OF THE GAME. 347 Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. The portrait appearing hereunder is that of South West Ham's capital all-round player, Edwin H. Mitchell, who was bom on September 14, 1891. Though he learned a good deal of his cricket while at the Leeds Training College, preparing for the scholastic profession, Mitchell is, as one of his comrades says, “ absolutely one of our own, and, like several of us, he picked up the rudiments of the game while scoring for the club.” He had one season in the second XI. before going to Leeds. When he came back there was no question of Second XI. for him. He stepped at once into an assured place in the first. Six feet or so in height, he has a long reach, and plays good length bowling with ease, skill, and grace. The club has seldom, if ever, had a more stylish batsman. He plays himself in with some care but without undue delay, and when set has a great scoring stroke between point and cover which earns him lots of runs. He is also clever on the leg side. He bowls a good length ball, varying pace and break in disconcerting fashion, and gets lots of wickets. His work in the field is excellent. Rather retiring in disposition, he is yet popular with his comrades, who recognise in him a genuine cricketer and a good fellow. Mr. E. H. M ITCHELL (S o u th -W e st Ham C.C.). Will secretaries please note that it would be a great conveni­ ence to the Editor if they could get their news to him by Tuesday at latest ? Last week there was quite a pile of postcards and letters which, arriving after the first post on Wednesday, were too late for inclusion. Among them was one from the Bishop's Stortford Hon. Sec., referred to particularly because one of his club’s players did all­ round work v. Southgate Gas Co. on the 14th, which cannot be passed unmentioned. Flux (107* and 7 for 33) was the man, and his side won by 322 for 6, dec., to 106. Guy’s Hospital ran up a biggish score (325) on Wednesday, the 18th, against Hampstead, who were beaten by 150 runs. For the winners L. H. Dixon (100), A. F. Rook (78), and G. Andrew (53) all scored freely ; R. S. Everitt (47) was Hamp­ stead’s top scorer. On the same day there was big scoring on the charming Folkestone ground, a photograph of which appeared in these pages two or three weeks ago. (Credit for that photograph, by the way, should have been given to Mr. Allen Hunter, jun., of Philadelphia, another of whose efforts appeared in “ Pavilion Gossip ” a little earlier). St. Lawrence ran up 357 for 6, dec. A. Latter 107, H. C. McNeile 70, R. R. Egerton 66*. Folkestone replied with 260 for 4, H. R. Morres 107, A. C. Edwards 58*, G. D. Katianakis 51. Thus the day's play produced 617 runs for 10 wickets. There was no sensational bowling analysis. Felsted School had a good win over Essex C. & G. Dixon i (4 for 21), Cumming, Rowley, and Haygarth got rid of the | visitors for 102 ; then Haygarth (50) and Macleod, Haygarth Iand Wace, and Haygarth and Dixon (38) made a succession of useful stands which resulted in the runs being hit off with only 12 wickets down. The total was taken to 205 for 7 before the close. Our North Staffordshire correspondent was among the late birds last week. There is not room to give his notes in extenso here ; but something may be said about outstanding perform­ ances. The chief of these was the defeat of the strong Stoke side by Silverdale, the only club in the League which dispenses with professional aid. C. F. Rushton (5 for 22) and E. Groom (4 for 47) were the chief factors in the narrow win by 3 runs, for besides bowling so well they added a few eminently useful notches when, at the fall of the ninth wicket. Stoke looked to have the match won. Mills (51) and A. Hollowood (41) put up three figures for the first wicket of Burslem v. Knypersley ; but 8 were down for 115, after which Evans Cook (40) and H. Cotton added 40 for the ninth. Sedgwick had 7 for 81. W. Pointon (5 for 39) bowled well for Burslem, who won by 48 runs. E. G. Baxter (54 in a total of 119 for Longton v. Tunstall) and Morgan (56 and 5 for 45, Tunstall v. Longton) distinguished themselves in a game won easily by Tunstall. Crewe Alexandra lost again, to Fenton 134 (H. Dearing 40), although A. G. Taylor (6 for 33) bowled well for the losers, and Fielder, the Hants colt, hit up 37 and made four slip catches. F. R. Heath (102*, includ­ ing sixteen 4’s, a really fine innings), H. Eardley (5 for 32, hitting the sticks each time), and Barnes (4 for 25) gave Porthill Park an.easy victory over Leek. For Stone v. Norton, E. J. Johnson had a remarkable bowling analysis, 7 for 9, which reads like Barnes at his best. His side won hands down. 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