Cricket 1913

J u l y 5, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 383 UN ITED STATES. H . C. Hobday, for Schenectady v. Sons o f St. George at Schenectady on June 7, took 4 wickets with 4 con­ secutive balls, and 5 with 6 balls. For Carribeans (Boston) v. Britannic, on June 14, Bonito scored 56* and took 6 wickets for 27. Britannic is a newly-formed club. The Carribean players are all West Indians. On the same day New York Veterans (193 for 7) beat Haverford College (182). Archie Brown made 108 for the winners, F . C . T aylo r 4 5 ; W . C. Brinton secured 78 for H averford. In H a lifa x Cup matches at Philadelphia, Merion (281— L . Lee 97, H . G. Pearce 49) had a hollow victory over F ran kford (93— J. Dixon 27). Pearce took 6 wickets for the winners. Germantown (259— C. M. Graham 71, H . S. Harned 51) beat Philadelphia (157— H . R . Cart­ wright 46, J. Graham 3 4 ; these two made a very plucky stand for the ninth wicketf). J. W . Muir had 5 wickets for P h ilad elph ia; for Germantown, P . H . C lark (6) and W. P . O ’N eill (4) shared the wickets. On M ay 31 and June 2 Gordon F . Bottomley carried his bat right through the innings for .Moorestown v. Ph ila­ delphia, scoring 107 o f a total o f 227. The next highest score was only 23. Philadelphia were dismissed for 159, Boddington taking 5 wickets for 61, and A . C. Wood 5 j for 85. On June 7 Philadelphia (189— Allen Hunter, jun., 4 1, W . Graham 32) beat F rankford (86) easily, j W. W . Justice taking 5 for 29 and H . W . Middleton 4 for 27 for the w inners; and Merion (103 for 6— J. L. Evans 40) defeated Moorestown (70— H . A . Furness 28), H. G. Pearce {7 for 35) again doing fine work with the j ball. Pearce is really fast, and a rare hard worker. In Philadelphia Cup matches bowlers have had the best o f the deal so far, wickets in the Quaker C ity having suffered from ra in ; and among analyses worth noting have been E . M. Mann’s 5 for 14 (Germantown B v. j Merion B ), and 7 for 27 (Germantown C v. German- j town B ), L . Thom as’s 7 for 54 (Merion B v. German- ! town B), J. B . Clement’s 9 for 50 (Merion B v. Ger­ mantown C ), and A . H . Haines’s 7 for 66 (Germantown C v. Merion B). One doubts whether many people in England could 1 identify the “ Copper Coun try,” U .S .A ., which has had for the past seven or eight years a cricket league o f its own. It is the northernmost part o f the State o f Michigan, a peninsula washed by the waters o f Lake Superior. Six clubs form the Copper Country League this season— Kearsarge, Mohawk, Painesdale, Quincy and Mesnard, Tamarack, and Wolverine. Tw o cups are played for, and Wolverine won both in-ic>i2. J. Davies averaged 24.40 for them, and took 74 wickets at under 4 ' each. There were eight clubs last y e a r ; but South Kearsarge and Calumet and Hecta have dropped out. Tt is scarcely to be expected that the standard o f play in this remote region should be very high ; but the fact that there are so many clubs and an organised competition is no little to the credit o f the Copper Country cricketers, whose “ Schedule o f Games ” lies before me as I write. (a tennis devotee) is taking a season o ff; Percy Goodman has made up his mind to retire, it would seem; J. M. K idney has gone to British G u ian a ; S. M. Worme has dropped out in regrettable circumstances; and the rest have left; as so many West Indians leave, for the States or Canada. The Wanderers have lost A . D . Ince and C . S. Batson, both gone to C an ad a; F . E . \\ . G. Austin, now in England, may not be. back till the season is well on its way ; George Challenor w ill be absent in Canada for a time. But the Wanderers are better off than their old rivals. The Spartans, too, w ill have practically the same eleven as in 1912-13. 13 AT I IS; g . B o w lin g . nns. .N.o. R. A. H.S. O. R. VV. A . t> I 2a 33 -*8 77 •• 17 50 2 25 ‘OO 3 O 10.1 33 ’oo /9 •• 11 51 1 51-00 7 O 146 20-85 73 •• 7 18 1 18-oo 8 O 141 17-62 78 .. 38 107 8 i 3’37 5 O .•>« 11-6o 43 • 14 26 3 8-66 5 2 115 38-33 67* •• 29 82 11 7-45 4 2 18 9*00 14* .. 13 36 2 18-oo 9 O I .*57 17-44 41 ... 53 207 14 14-74 6 I 64 12-80 22* .. • 39 102 8 12-75 8 O 117 14-62 41 ... 106 241 19 12-68 8 O 148 18-50 72 .. 20 60 8 7-50 7 2 103 20-60 42 .. 141 278 37 7*51 9 O 1-0 16-66 36 ... 30 30 xo 3*oo SO U T H A F R I C A . The follow ing were the averages o f the team which toured Rhodesia in April :— Bird, W. J. Cradock. T. T. De Gersigny, P. Frames, A. S. Halliwell, E. A. ... Howden. J. W. Leech, 1 ). S. Ling. VV. V. Perring. J. B. Redick, A. W. Platt. C...................... Taiuiy, J. H. Tapscott. L. E. There are two or three genuine curiosities here. F ive men made highest scores o f between 70 and 80, four o f between 40 and 50. Everybody bowled, and everybody got at least one wicket. 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